Maybe TrekFest 2011 Isn't Safe After All...

I feel like I'm playing with a TrekFest 2011 yoyo these days.  First I learned that TrekFest wasn't going to happen this summer because they needed to raise $10,000 by the end of April.  Then I learned the Riverside Casino was offering a $3,000 matching grant and that other fund-raising efforts were being initiated.  Then I learned that Mindbridge Foundation was donating an additional $5,000 to the cause.  Then the Gazette announced that TrekFest was saved.

Except, maybe not quite yet:

TrekFest organizers said they are “extremely close” to collecting enough funds to make the event a reality this year. “We’re really close,” said Ken McCracken, president of the Riverside Area Community Club, which puts on the annual event...

McCracken said RACC has received “a lot of promises,” but they have to wait for checks to clear and the money to come through before they can officially say TrekFest is a go. “I’d say we’re at least 75 percent there,” he said.

McCracken said RACC leadership will announce their decision on TrekFest on April 21.

If I were a betting man, I'd say that TrekFest is a go.  Then again, I play Powerball often and I almost never win anything, so there you go.