Got a call back from the Website Mistress for the NACHS page...... indeed there WILL be vendors, I was told - and many, and good ones, I was assured.

I told her some were curious as there wasn't any vendor app on the event webpage. She told me that they don't append the app to the event page and that every year she's having to turn away like 25 or more vendor requests. They give 'first right of refusal' to the participating vendors from each successively previous year, thus end up having to decline others.
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