[FCARC] TMRA Hamfest Cancelled

[Craig Szczublewski]

All

Please see the following release from the Toledo Mobile Radio Association
Executive Committee regarding The ARRL Conference and Hamfest.





There is a great deal of concern and hype over the Coronavirus in Ohio. It
has prompted TMRA to act upon these decisions.



*COLUMBUS — Ohio. Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday said he plans to issue an
executive order barring public participation in sporting events and other
large gatherings (Tuesdays news conference defines large gathering as 100
or more), and that a closure of K-12 schools could happen soon as the state
continues to battle with a coronavirus outbreak.*

*The governor’s allusion to even more drastic virus mitigation steps coming
in the near future came as officials announced a 53-year old male from
Stark County has tested positive for coronavirus, marking the fourth case
in Ohio and the first case officials consider to be “community
spread.”* *Community
spread cases are cases where the afflicted individual did not become sick
as a result of traveling.*



TMRA at this time is cancelling the March 14th Great Lakes Conference along
with the March 15th Hamfest in order to further protect our regular
attendees and vendors.



At the present time TMRA has had several conference presenters and vendors
cancel out on our event.  We at TMRA do not want to put on an event that
you will not get your monies worth or not get the presenters that
were promised.



All those that pre-purchased tickets (for any portion of our events) will
be fully refunded over the upcoming week.  We look forward to your
participation at future events!





Regards

Bradley Ruhberg / WB8RG

TMRA Information Officer

tmrainformation at gmail.com

-- 
Craig Szczublewski