The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Posted on December 20 at 3:55 p.m.

First of all we would like to say thank you to the tremendous outpouring of support and prayers from the community. We are truely blessed to live here and one frustrating experience with the BEC will not deter the love and blessings we have recieved. We want to say thank you publically to Heather J. the Events Coordinetor and Travis T. the Kitchen manager at the BEC for their donated time and effort for us to have the reception there. The frustrating news that we learned the night before Caydens celebration (after everything was printed) felt a little like a bait and switch to us. We want the community to know that having to pay for space is not the problem. The problem is how does a business justify charging almost $1300.00 for two and a half hours when Applebees volunters set up the room the morning of, the food was donated by the wonderfull people at the Viking Cafe and everything was served on paper plates. The hard thing to us is that of the 500 guests at the celebration only 263 followed to the reception because some our guests found out we had to pay per person. We have paid the bill to be done with it and we are just living by the philosphy of what comes around goes around.

On Reception leads to misunderstanding

Posted on December 20 at 1:37 p.m.

Thanks Aaron for your honesty. We want to thank Heather J. Events Coordinetor, Travis T. Kitchen manager at the BEC for all their donated time and effort for us to have the reception there. As parents we want the community to know that having to pay for the place with donated food is not the problem. The problem is how does a business charge $1300.00 for a space for two and a half hours. We had 500 guests at the celebration and only 263 at the reception because our guests found out we had to pay per person, so needless to say we were unable to spend time with our family and friends to celebrate Caydens life. We are not understanding how the BEC did not make a profit off this, they had 6 staff members on at 6.15 an hour, that works out to be 92.28 that we payed for staff. My wonderful employees at Applebees set up the reception hall in the morning. You can't tell me between electricity, garbage removel, paper plates and plastic silverware that adds up to 1200.00. Remember the food was donated by our dearest friends. We don't care to speak with Tom from the BEC, but what comes around goes around.
Caydens Parents.

On Outpouring of support for Buruds comforting

Posted on December 14 at 12:10 a.m.

We would just like to take a brief second in this very hectic time in our lives to say thank you very very much! The people of Fergus Falls and the surrounding area have been so so wonderful to us and so supportive that we our overwhelmed with the love and sympathy. We truly are blessed to live in such a caring and compassionate community and feel your thoughts and prayers and it is helping us to work through this nightmare. We would like to extend our invitation to you to join us in the celebration of his life at the Life Church on Saturday at 1p.m. We love him and miss him so very very much! Words can't explain the graditide we have for all your support!

On Cayden Burud had a zest for life