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.