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Good Morning, we hope this email finds you all safe and healthy.
As we approach this weekend, we know we were all looking forward to this year's Midwest Penturners Gathering – The Largest and Longest Running Pen Making symposium. We wanted to reach out to all of you to let you know what's been going on since we had to cancel. Even though we are not able to physically get together this year, the show will go on. We realize that to have a great show we need great vendors and demonstrators. Many of the demos that were scheduled for this year already committed to coming out next year. And they are all spectacular. Things never demoed before. And also, it is with great excitement, that the vendors feel the same way. We expect to see them all back next year with their great products and knowledge. Thank you to all of them. And a special thank you to our sponsors - GluBoost, Jet, and the IAP. Their support is fantastic.
Now the good news:
As for next year – we are excited to tell you we had already found a new location to house the growing needs of this event – The Marriott in Hoffman Estates. Located just 15 minutes from last year's site it is located right off I-90 one of the main highways in Chicago. They offered us more space (about double the space we were in) and a great deal on room rates (only $99 a night). Marriott was very good to us through this situation and we thank them. The staff at the Schaumburg location was fantastic. What does more space mean? More vendors, more demos, more hands-on activities and most importantly more room to socialize with friends. We are looking forward to a great time there next year. And we have a few more ideas that we were planning for this year to make next year even better. And we are happy to announce most of you seem to be looking forward to it also. We already have about 200 already to be in the new place – and we won't open official registration until October. We thank you for rolling over your registration.
With many staying in the safety of their own homes and shopping online, we have been trying to bring a little of the MPG to each of you by posting on the MPG Facebook page. Please check it out. Over the past 2 weeks we have been featuring our vendors and demonstrators, as well as our sponsors, on our Facebook page to let everyone know who they are and what they have to offer.
Our thoughts.... in the spirit of MPG 2020, since we cannot get together, we can at least let you know who was planning on coming out.
We sincerely appreciate all of you and what you all do for the pen making community.
Until we can all get together again, we wish you good health and safety.
Be Safe!
The MPG Committee / Penmakers International NFP
