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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Bring back the chairs promoter, owner appeal</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Patrons are seen leaving the venue with chairs after some performers did not perform.</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Following the theft of more than 850 chairs from the Constant Spring Golf Club after the failed Foundation Music Showcase concert last Saturday, owners of the chairs, Kingston Hireage and show promoter, Errol 'Errol Wonder' Bailey, are making an appeal for them to be returned.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The chairs were taken from the venue by patrons disgusted that the main act, Peabo Bryson, and others did not perform. The patrons sat waiting for almost an hour before noticing that the stage lights were turned off and the band had removed their equipment from the stage. No announcement was made informing the patrons that the show had ended.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We are not vexed with the people because I know that they were angry at not getting their money's worth," Kingston Hireage owner Wally Grant told the Observer yesterday. "We are asking them to call us and we will pick them (the chairs) up, or they can bring them in. We will not be pressing charges against anybody."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Grant valued the stolen chairs at $941,600.
"We brought them in from Italy at a cost of $1,100 each. They are of better quality than some of the chairs which are sold locally," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Bailey, who promoted the controversial concert, also beseeched the disgruntled patrons to return the stolen chairs.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I am appealing to all those patrons who took chairs... in the name of entertainment and in the name of the future of this event, we are asking you please return the chairs," Bailey said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Grant pointed out that company policy dictates that whoever rents equipment is responsible for them until they are returned to the company or picked up by Kingston Hireage staff. A deposit is also required before the furniture is allowed to leave the premises of Kingston Hireage, which is based at Waltham Park Road.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We took a $10,000 deposit because normally a person would lose 10 or 15 chairs. We never expected this massive loss," Grant explained.<P class=StoryText align=justify>He said he had been contacted by Bailey to work out a compensation package.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I spoke to the promoter today and he said he was willing to pay for the chairs but he didn't have all the money," Grant said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Bailey later confirmed Grant's claim.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The police are also on the look-out for persons who have the stolen chairs, in their possession. The chairs are engraved with the logo KH.
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Patrons are seen leaving the venue with chairs after some performers did not perform.</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Following the theft of more than 850 chairs from the Constant Spring Golf Club after the failed Foundation Music Showcase concert last Saturday, owners of the chairs, Kingston Hireage and show promoter, Errol 'Errol Wonder' Bailey, are making an appeal for them to be returned.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The chairs were taken from the venue by patrons disgusted that the main act, Peabo Bryson, and others did not perform. The patrons sat waiting for almost an hour before noticing that the stage lights were turned off and the band had removed their equipment from the stage. No announcement was made informing the patrons that the show had ended.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We are not vexed with the people because I know that they were angry at not getting their money's worth," Kingston Hireage owner Wally Grant told the Observer yesterday. "We are asking them to call us and we will pick them (the chairs) up, or they can bring them in. We will not be pressing charges against anybody."<P class=StoryText align=justify>Grant valued the stolen chairs at $941,600."We brought them in from Italy at a cost of $1,100 each. They are of better quality than some of the chairs which are sold locally," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Bailey, who promoted the controversial concert, also beseeched the disgruntled patrons to return the stolen chairs.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I am appealing to all those patrons who took chairs... in the name of entertainment and in the name of the future of this event, we are asking you please return the chairs," Bailey said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Grant pointed out that company policy dictates that whoever rents equipment is responsible for them until they are returned to the company or picked up by Kingston Hireage staff. A deposit is also required before the furniture is allowed to leave the premises of Kingston Hireage, which is based at Waltham Park Road.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"We took a $10,000 deposit because normally a person would lose 10 or 15 chairs. We never expected this massive loss," Grant explained.<P class=StoryText align=justify>He said he had been contacted by Bailey to work out a compensation package.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I spoke to the promoter today and he said he was willing to pay for the chairs but he didn't have all the money," Grant said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Bailey later confirmed Grant's claim.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The police are also on the look-out for persons who have the stolen chairs, in their possession. The chairs are engraved with the logo KH.
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