Guitar Pull

30 May 2009 Parkville, MO.- As I was walking around English Landing Mall I spied a group of men playing guitars, singing, and enjoying the weather. The music ranged from bluegrass, gospel, to folk. When I asked how often the met, they responded that they met every Saturday depending upon the weather. If you are interested in listening to good music or you would like to bring you instruments along to jam, Just come on down and sit a spell y’all. The session starts around noon and lasts until about four in the afternoon, or until they want to stop playing. Location is at Bentley Guitar Studio, 122 main Street, Parkville, Missouri 64152.

Vasto, charlatan that claims to be a journalist…

Once again Mark Vasto makes an attempt to make an organization and a pillar of the community look bad in the May 29th edition of the “Parkville Delusionary.” Really Mark you don’t do enough legwork for your stories, but I guess when you half ass your work all of your life it is hard to get out of the habit. I went to the sources named in the “Duly Noted” column of the “Delusionary” and managed to get the information that you apparently got from hearsay statements. So let’s set some things straight shall we.

1. The “ FLAIR” Fashion show was supposed to be for the benefit for Watercolors Fashion Boutique, to increase its customer base. They asked for Main Street sponsorship of the event, MPSA budgeted 600 dollars for the planning of the event, this money was not for Tom Hutsler; it was for the person that coordinated the activity on behalf of the MSPA. However the full budget was not used and actual cost was 500 dollars for administrative costs. The Event that was conceived to “support downtown Parkville” did not drop the Main Street Association. The Main Street Parkville Association dropped the “FLAIR” event. According to Carol Kuhns, president of the Main Street Association, Stated “Because of the planned activities that MSPA has committed to for our downtown business, we do not have the capacity to do an event like this on a monthly basis.”

2. It is true that the Power Plant Brewery is defunct, however the Power Plant Brewery is now the Power Plant Reception Facility, it is licensed and all documentation is available with the city and the state. Something that you, Mark, should be able to do, but since you haven’t the ethics to do such work, you just write about the information without confirming the information. The use of the Power Plant Reception facility was actually donated to the event by Tom Hutsler and Dave Williams for 100 dollars, 900 dollars less than the actual cost for the use of the facility. The Facility does have several events booked for the next three months; therefore the Power Plant Reception Facility is neither defunct nor vacant.

3. The reason that there was no agreement for clean up charges was that the Organizers for the “FLAIR” event were going to do the clean up themselves, which by the way they did not do. I should know as I was there cleaning up the day after the event. And the clean up did not cost 250 dollars, the actual cost was 160 dollars, but Vasto could have called Main Street Parkville Association to find this out.

Personally I believe that Mark Vasto is sooo blinded by his hatred and bias against those pillars in the Parkville community that he cannot bother to get the information that I was able to receive by asking politely and by asking the right questions. I now understand why Mark’s wife makes several times more money than he does; she is actually smarter than him.

The News according to Vasto…

I have read several issues of the local paper that I will now call the “The Parkville Delusionary,” I will comment upon the issues that caught my eye. The first issue I will deal with is the response from Vasto to a supposed “letter” to the editor about Tom Hutsler “stealing” Papers and intimidating people from allowing the paper to be available to the public in their venue. WHAT? I have seen the paper available to the public at businesses around town for sale and for free, I personally prefer not to read this trash, but it is necessary for me to do so I order to counter what is written by Vasto against those he has an agenda against. In respect to the First Amendment, the First Amendment does not prohibit citizens from suppressing freedom of speech; it prohibits the GOVERNMENT from suppressing free speech. I am thinking Mark Vasto needs to take a review class on the Constitution of the United States of America, or better yet get some psychiatric help for his paranoid schizophrenia with delusions of grandeur. I also think that the author of the letter is definitely an imaginary person, unlike me, that happens to be a REAL friend to John Kuhns.

Second, Vasto wrote about a WDAF news segment that featured Carol Kuhns discussing merchants leaving downtown Parkville for Zona Rosa. Carol is not a telescope salesperson, at least that is what she told me; she told me that she is a shop owner of a science toy store. In fact HMS Beagle is one the top rated science education stores in the region, which is a lot better than owning a newspaper that has less circulation than the Kansas City Kansan and is only good for lining pet cages. Unfortunately, I have heard rumors that a couple of pets exploded after looking at the paper they were pooping on.

Third, “The Word on the Street” article about the Bluegrass Block Party. This is the only event that is being done on Main Street this year. But when you are Mark Vasto, it is nice to think that you had some kind of influence on how events in Parkville are conducted. I have heard about how Vasto was in charge of Christmas on the River and was able to lose $19,000 dollars during the festival. Hey Mark while you are re-learning constitutional issues, you should take a course on running festivals that make a profit.

What does Vasto hope to achieve with his agenda against those that are Pillars of the Community? Who knows from a little man with a paper that supposedly represents a community that he does not even live in. I personally do not see anything in the “Delusionary” that has anything to offer this community that gives back to it, nor brings people to our fair city, nor does it increase our commerce. Vasto is nothing more than a carpetbagger with a printing press.

Of Note?

From the May 1st edition of the Parkville Paper that my puppy poops on, an article entitled "Of Note" an article that was written about the The last Friday event "Flair." the article claims the event was sponsored by the Parkville Chamber of Commerce and the Parkville pet cage liner. Unfortunately the paper got the sponsor wrong it was Main Street Parkville Association. But then that is what you get for "unbiased" reporting.

The "article" goes on to report that the event was a success, 300 people in attendence, and in an attempt to to critique the Power Plant, The author complained about "dysfunctional" Toilets. and the claim that the power plant was a "vacant" building was also untrue. when a building is being used it is not vacant. The use of the building for the event was donated by Tom Hutsler. The author of the article claims there was "no comment" from Hutsler about the "dysfunctional" toilets, the reason that there was no comment from Hutsler was that the "author" of the article never called to ask for a comment of the situation of the "dysfunctional" toilets. Nice to know that the "author" is thorough in gathering all the information in regards to the story for this section.

I asked Hutsler for a comment on the situation of the "dysfunctional" toilets and he responded that the reason for the "Dysfunctional" toilet in question was that toilet was stuffed full of things that were not meant to go down the toilet, according to the plumber that was brought in to repair the toilet in question. I seriously question the aptitude of the editor of the Parkville Paper that my dog poops on, if this the best he can do then I should begin to report on the activities that occur in my town I live in. At least I can be objective on what I report.

CaptCBleu