Thanks are owed to many for Rally's success

I continue to recover from the weekend. All the rented and borrowed materials are back where they came from, and life returns to some sense of normalcy.

An event like the Rally for Social Justice takes many peoples' contributions to ensure the "show" can go on. Over the next several days, we'll be publicly thanking contributers and volunteers. I start today with several key volunteers whose last minute contributions ensured the show would go on. Without their time & talent, we might still be sitting in the field off Ballard Street.

My thanks go to Chuck, Pat, & Andrew for their help on Saturday and before:

• To Chuck for his invaluable prep work including soliciting donations & purchasing needed supplies & obtaining the Rally t-shirts; for his strong & tall assistance raising and striking the tents; and for his assistance in parking cars.



• To Pat for his financial contributions, for flying down from the Big Apple in order to attend & help out; for raising & striking tents; for assisting in the parking lot; and for ensuring good order & discipline.



• To Andrew for wrestling with nearly a ton of weights; for spending more than 12-hours helping with tents & car parking when, as a young teenager, he might have rather been doing nearly anything else; and for keeping me company.

Gentlemen, thank you.

Here's a picture of Andrew, late in the afternoon; I think he's flagging in a 747.
And here is Pat, along with me and the baby. I'd like to note the baby did not help much at all.
Somehow, Chuck avoided the photographer. I'm not sure how he managed that.

More thanks -- and photographs from the Rally day -- are forthcoming.