Many of you know me as the president of the Mississauga Classic Car Club, the hosts of the former Classics on the Square and now Classic and Rods Review Show held at the Paramount Fine Food Centre. We started out at Celebration Square but costs killed any chance of meeting our goal of raising money for charity.

We operated, or tried to operate, our one day car show at Celebration Square, but costs, bureaucratic hoops, bylaws and other insane demands drove us away. Such things as operating fees, additional janitorial staff, police, police cars, private security, supervisors, stage technicians, clean up after the show and other items too numerous to list, placed the Club in debt each year between $10,000 and $15,000, which ate up our generous sponsor donations, entrance fees and any other income.

The GTA is now in the throws of Raptor Mania, which in itself is outstanding, and if the Leafs, Toronto FC (both owned by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment) or Jays were to ascend to this level the mania would be equal. It has been announced that for the remaining run Celebration Square will be Jurassic Park West. Awesome!

So who is paying for this event? Who is paying the police, private security, additional janitorial staff, the overtime for stage technicians, supervisors and clean up crews?