One of the crowd pleasers during the annual Old Mining Town Days (OMTD) is the car show – which was located at the Granby Ballpark.
C.L. Tanner, with the car show, addressed the Granby City Council Tuesday during the regular scheduled meeting at Granby City Hall on a matter about a burnout at the annual event.
“Someone came in and said, ‘they are getting ready to have the burnout contest’ and I said, ‘not here they are not’,” Tanner told the council. “‘Oh yeah, they changed it, they are having it here.’ When the girl left this flyer, I said, ‘you check with the city’ and she told me ‘yes, the mayor pro tem, the chief of police and city attorney all said it was fine.’
“That ended my objection because they OK’d it, it was somewhere it wasn’t going to bother us. We had a 1911 Model T – the most immaculate car that I have ever seen before in my life – it is valued to more than $50,000. (The owner was) a participant in one of our car shows. He was parked on the lot to where they were getting ready to do this burnout. As soon as they heard burnout, he (the owner of the Model T) loaded his car. He did not want anything happen to his car…”
The burnout was later held after the car show on the ballfield property.
After some discussion, council member RL Arnall made a motion.
“I will make the motion that we will not have any burnouts (during OMTD),” said Arnall.
Council member Bill Cooper seconded the motion. On a roll call vote, Cooper, Arnall, and George Kelly voted for no burnout during OMTD, while Granby mayor pro-tem Carol Sparnicht voted for the burnout.
“I think that it draws in the crowd. I think that it would be something to help with the revenue for our city,” Sparnicht said for the reason she voted for it. “I think that we should have that during OMTD, but I do agree with C.L. Tanner. I think that we should not have it on the same day or the same location. He does want it separate from his car show and I understand that and I respect that. I do think that it brings in revenue.”
In other news, the council approved to purchase a pump for the water department.
“They needed a water pump to put in the holes when they are digging them out and the one they have right now doesn’t suffice,” said Granby Mayor Paul Ferguson, who is on leave from Afghanistan with the Army Reserves. “They need something to move thousands of gallons where that was only minute amounts.”
The council decided to purchase it from Northern Tool and Equipment for $2,899.99.
