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Old 07-25-2015, 08:44 PM   #41
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Hey Alf, I'd like to read that. Do you have a link? I read the welcome to town article and things looked promising there. Raz
Hi: P. Raz... I did a Google search for Winfield Alabama. From there I found the newspaper then some videos and voila a short article. Just a little sleuthing!!!
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Old 07-25-2015, 09:05 PM   #42
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C'mon Alf, give us a link!
I did a similar search and found a TV news video on the startup. Didn't watch it, didn't see links to other articles.
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:42 AM   #43
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C'mon Alf, give us a link!
I did a similar search and found a TV news video on the startup. Didn't watch it, didn't see links to other articles.
Hi: Glenn Baglo... You're a ret'd. newspaper man?
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Old 07-26-2015, 05:25 AM   #44
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Here's why they went south: Frozen Pipes Send Company South of the Border | 680 CJOB - Winnipeg's News & Information Leader
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Old 07-26-2015, 05:33 AM   #45
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And more conjecture from the ClassB Forum: GWV/Sterling RV shuttered... - Page 4 - Class B Forums
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Old 07-26-2015, 08:09 AM   #46
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And more conjecture from the ClassB Forum: GWV/Sterling RV shuttered... - Page 4 - Class B Forums
Sounds like some real scamp bashing going on over there I guess that will change when there $80.000 dollar rigs will be worth less than a $20.000 scamp in 10 years just my thought
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Old 07-26-2015, 09:16 AM   #47
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Sounds like some real scamp bashing going on over there I guess that will change when there $80.000 dollar rigs will be worth less than a $20.000 scamp in 10 years just my thought
Soooosh! They are listening in! Would hate for them to discover they can own a leak free trailer for 23 years and put thousands of nights camping use on it and have it still worth what was paid for it, if not more! We have to many people looking for them now pushing the prices up.
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Hi: Glenn Baglo... You're a ret'd. newspaper man?
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Key word being retired!

Here you go Glenn from Youtube the news report of the plant closing.
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Old 07-26-2015, 09:36 AM   #49
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Thanks u'all.
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I read through their FB page before it was taken down. There was a "family" issue having to do with the children and my impression was that their equal to Child Protective Services may have been involved but can't say that for sure. It read like they were not going to be able to take the children involved out of the country and to Alabama. The postings seemed creepy to me, airing personal laundry on a business page, maybe not the place.

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Cathy a google of news events in Winfield Alabama area at the time seems to me to indicate there was a family issue but I suspect it was a concern for their safety & that of their children. I suspect as Canadians they would have been a bit ratted with events taking place in the Winfield at the time as they have never lived with serious race related issues before and been scared off by recent KKK activities in the area.
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Old 07-26-2015, 09:46 AM   #51
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Sounds like some real scamp bashing going on over there I guess that will change when there $80.000 dollar rigs will be worth less than a $20.000 scamp in 10 years just my thought
I noticed that too. My jaw dropped But, it is a Class B forum. We do something very similar here to trailers other than our build type. It's human nature to love the one you're with and dislike everything else. Here on FiberglassRV, we just happen to be correct.
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:32 PM   #52
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Ahh, but don't we bash the stickies? :-)

Here's more gossip on the closure: Great West Closes Up Shop, Maybe??? - Sprinter-Forum
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Interesting reading in the links from Sheryl of comments by folks of our eggs. I didn't know our eggs were that shoddy
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Is Sterling RV back in busnisess?
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