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Monday, May 4, 1992 MEMO: To Dick Morgan & Adrian Stansfield From Michael Robert brief recap of events On Sunday, May 3, 1992, at about 10:00 am, I arrived at Hendricks Park and witnessed the shooting of a commercial. Miller's Beer Distributors were filming a commercial. Jay Zink was the representative from the local Mill- er's Distributors. There were 12 - 15 people on the site and a Jeep "Rene- gade" and cameras inside the Rhododendron Garden near the intersection of Summit Ave., Birch Ln and Floral Hill Drive. They had the Jeep inside the garden on a gravel path and were filming the commercial with models, beer, etc. I asked them to leave the garden and they refused, saying they had the per- mission of Carol Brewster (of Cultural Services). I told them that I knew Carol Brewster would not give them permission and they insisted otherwise. I asked them again to leave and they refused. At that time I told them I would call the police to ask them to leave; they still refused and as I walked to the office, I heard them saying to quickly take some more shots before the police arrived. I notified the police and when asked, I said I would be willing to sign criminal trespass charges. The police arrive in about 20 minutes and the entire filming crew, Jeep and models had relocated to the Shelter parking lot. The officer asked if there were damages. Since there were not visible damages, I did not file charges, and the officer asked if they could finish shooting in the parking lot, which they did. On Monday morning, May 4, I was able to contact Carol Brewster. Carol told me that in no way did she give them permission to make a commercial of put a vehicle in the Rhododendron Garden. Although she had spoken to someone from Miller's about the possibility of filming a commercial at some time in some park, she did not give permission and would not. Later on Monday morning, I was able to talk to Dick Morgan and Carol and Dick talked to Carol also, and ultimately Carol contacted the president of the Miller's Distributors. They reached an agreement to not use any of the film- ing which was shot at Hendricks Park and Carol told me that she was about to send a letter to Miller's stating that they would not use the footage. In my opinion, this was an unfortunate incident, but I am pleased with the resolution; it would indeed be more unfortunate if this commercial were used on TV. The showing of this commercial on TV could easily have undone all the efforts we have made during the past decade to end vehicles, drinking and underage partying in the Rhododendron Garden.