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Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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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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11-24-2005, 10:26 PM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
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cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick Mystery solved
After spending a very nice day with just the 5 of us, we have had a very wild & crazy evening.
After dinner, the pies were cooling & Jim & I were getting my Ebay ready to send tomorrow when we heard tires squealing & spinning.. we look outside to see the handyman that has been doing work for our 92YO next door neighbor, Frank trying to pull out of our combined driveway.. he spins & swirls for a good 10 minutes until he decides he's not going to make it so he drives across my neighbors lawn into his next door neighbors driveway & tries to pull out of there.. The 2 door down neighbor hears the tires & comes out to hear the handyman yell "I think he's dead!" & then the hanyman backs down the neighbors driveway, back into next doors yard & then guns it up our driveway almost hitting our top driveway wall ( we have a double driveway, one in front of the house one shared with Frank behind the house) he finally gets enough traction & flies out of the driveway at unheard of speeds...
About 5 minutes later an ambulance & 2 police cars arrive & they are going to break down Frank's door.. Jim ran out & told them our other next door neighbor has a key & runs to get it.. The police did a quick search of the house but can't find Frank & surmise he is at someones house for Thanksgiving & leave.. ( all this took 2 minutes)The 2 door down neighbor mentioned that the handyman looked high...
This didn't sit well with Jim so he went outside & there are footprints leading to Franks garage door & into his small shed behind the house..
All evening this has bugged him... & we kept thinking if we should call the police back or not given the footprints to the shed.. & the handyman yelling "I think he's dead" & leaving without asking the neighbor to call the police or anything.. he simply took off.
What do you think? should we call the cops or wait to see if Frank comes back home tomorrow.. we hate to call the cops & sound like a Gladys Kravitz but Jim is also very concerned as he's known Frank since he was 2YO & he usually tells someone is he going to be away... I would hate to think he is in the shed or something worse... AARGH A few years ago Franks daughter took him to move in with her & he fought living with her so bad that she brought him back here to live & he should NOT be living alone & his daughter doesn't care so calling her is no use..
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11-24-2005, 10:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Wow, that's a situation. I would call, just to be safe. I mean, what if something is really wrong??? Better to be safe. Let us know what happens!
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11-24-2005, 10:37 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,742
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Call, my husband is a Police officer. They never mind coming out to make sure someone is ok. You will feel better too. Good luck and I hope everything is OK
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11-24-2005, 10:42 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
I agree with those guys. I'd feel much better calling.
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11-24-2005, 10:43 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Posts: 24,867
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
I would Call...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
Amy
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11-24-2005, 11:24 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Wow, that's scary. I would call.
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11-24-2005, 11:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,304
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
CALL!!!!!!!!!!
Get back to us and let us know whats going on.Hope everything is OK
Deb
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11-25-2005, 07:09 AM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 29,184
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Call!!! OMG, trust me on this. EMS is usually dispatched along with the police on these "welfare checks" and it's alot better to find out the person went to their sister's for a week and forgot to turn the lights off then to find them dead after a few days. Call!!
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11-25-2005, 09:52 AM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Mystery solved! Right after I logged off here I told Jim that I think we should call & just tell the police that we are concerned & if they would come back out do a more thorough search of the house ( garage, shed etc), he agreed. Jim was walking into the kitchen to grab the phone when we hear tires crunching on the snow.. It's Franks girlfriends daughter ( yes at 92YO he has a girlfriend [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]) she gets Frank out of the car & into the house they go...
i'm sure Frank is going to be PO'ed today when he sees all of the tire tracks on his lawn .. hopefully he'll believe/understand both neighbors that it was his handyman. Frank is VERY senile & obsessed about his lawn & most of the time thinks that anything that happens to his lawn MY kids did, if their ball goes in his yard, it's killing the grass.. he doesn't think that the gasoline he paints on his lawn ( yes I said paints GASOLINE) to kill the weeds did it... (Yes we live next door to a kook!)
i'm so glad he was safe & sound tho.. I know Jim would not be able to sleep last night until he knew Frank was okay.
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11-25-2005, 09:54 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Glad he was ok!
Amy
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11-25-2005, 10:06 AM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posts: 31,940
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Glad to hear Frank was ok!!!
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11-25-2005, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
I have been wondering about this!! I'm glad to hear things were okay!!
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11-25-2005, 10:08 AM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
Whew!
Glad it turned out OK!
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11-25-2005, 11:04 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
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Posts: 34,171
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
That's a relief
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11-25-2005, 12:19 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
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Posts: 12,286
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Re: cops on Thanksgiving~ need advice kinda quick
I am glad he is ok in the end.
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