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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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04-26-2006, 10:19 PM
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Tinkerbell's Aunt
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: McHenry IL
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Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Last night was an amazing night! Forgive me for bragging, but I'm so proud I'm about to burst.
Some background. A year ago my DS19 (Sean) ran for the position of student representative to the board of trustees at the community college he attends. This was so out of character for him. He did it because a faculty member suggested it and told him he could get a reserved parking spot if he won (doesn't that sound like a 19 YO). Sean had never been involved in student government before - not in grade school, jr high or high school. Of course he won (he is a lucky kid and the campaign materials he put together highlighted his great sense of humor)!
It's been an incredible year! He's had the opportunity to get to know many administrators and faculty members, attended conferences in Chicago, Springfield and Seattle, learned to fill out expense reports, helped lobby state legislators, testified before a state senate committee, led fundraising efforts at the college for Katrina relief, and many more things too numerous to mention. He has grown and matured so much. (By the way, besides the parking place the position included a scholarship that paid for 12 hours of his tution each semester.)
Back to last night. It was his last board meeting and I went to observe. He gave his monthly presentation and did a wonderful job. Then the board president called him up and talked about how much they had enjoyed having him on the board. The board had passed a resolution with all of the whereases and therefores that a formal proclamation includes and had it printed and framed. They presented it to him and read it for the record. Then they took pictures with all of the board members and the president of the college, and then.........................the board, all of the administrators and the faculty members present gave him a standing ovation! The tears started flowing [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zcry.gif[/img] I was so proud!
Some things make being a parent worth all of the hard work!
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04-26-2006, 10:32 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Philadelphia sub- burbs
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
What a wonderful son you must have. Congratulations to you for raising him to be such a terrific young man.
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04-26-2006, 10:44 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Congrats! What a wonderful thing he did for his school he deserves the Standing Ovation! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]
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04-26-2006, 11:41 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Illinois
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
I was getting teary eyed just reading your post. How wonderful! Congrats to him and to those who helped in raising such a wonderful man.
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04-27-2006, 12:02 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Michigan
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]
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04-27-2006, 02:48 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: London, UK
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
What a wondeful opportunity he had and how fantastic that it turned out to be great for him.
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04-27-2006, 07:06 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
How wonderful for Sean [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]
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04-27-2006, 07:10 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] Congrats to you both!!!!!
Jennifer
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04-27-2006, 07:31 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Mississippi
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Oh, that must have been so wonderful for you! and for him. I have tears in my eyes just reading it. So happy for you.
Necie
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04-27-2006, 07:32 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
[b]Congrats!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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04-27-2006, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Congratulations to your son and to you Mom for being such a great Mom and example of how we should be responsible before him.
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04-27-2006, 09:04 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: the Burbs outside of Philadelphia
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Posts: 12,093
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Congrats to both you and Sean!!!! Parenting is very hard most of the time and you should brag about the good parts every opportunity you get.
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04-27-2006, 09:16 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Congrats to both of you! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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04-27-2006, 09:56 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,176
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] Congratulations!!!!!
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04-27-2006, 10:01 AM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
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Re: Sometimes being a parent is GREAT!
Congrats!!!!
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