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<DIV><FONT size=4>Saturday was a warm, but not overly hot day in the
Berryessa area...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>It looked to me that the vendors area was full and bustling
compared to the last few years when there was empty space in that field.
On the other hand, there seemed to be a lot fewer people in the
bandstand/nonprofits area in the field just uphill from the community
center... And the bandstand seemed to have holes in its afternoon program
(e.g., the folk duo and rock band usually performing in the afternoon were
absent this year).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Caroline and Warner did set up; Cameron came by after
noon; Jim Stauffer came by in midafternoon and did take-down with Warner
and deposited the tabling equipment and supplies at Warner's house.
Caroline came by and retrieved those items (except plants) today (Sunday
afternoon). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>We received donations for one box of seeds, a painted
rock and buttons (probably less than $20 total -- which is low
for this event; usually we "sell" lots of buttons). Caroline or
Tian mentioned that someone has bumper stickers, but those were not evident
in the tabling supplies received. Both the plants and painted rocks drew
attention to our tabling. We distributed literature over the day; again,
probably a much smaller amount than usual for this event.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jim and I ran into a complaint from one of the event
organizers when we had almost completed our take-down at about 4:30 pm. We
were told that the GPSCC had signed a "contract" that we were supposed to stay
up until 5 pm. His point also was the event organizers did not want
traffic adjacent to the area to be seeing take-downs or an empty field before 5
pm so observers would not think the event had finished before 5
pm. (We ran into this complaint last year also when I closed down
with Caroline's help around 4 pm -- at that time, I didn't care because of
suffering from heat exhaustion from much hotter temperatures). Jim and I
hung around an extra twenty minutes (after 10 minutes of vociferous
conversation) until 5 pm with everything set next to the canopy and the canopy
half down. I would like to see the document. If that is the
agreement for participating in the event, whoever signs off on it needs to
provide those instructions to tablers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>This was the second year in a row that I did the whole
day. I think this event is worth doing... particularly next year when
(hopefully) we will have statewide candidates for Governor, etc.
(BTW: Anyone going to run for the AD23 seat including Berryessa?)
But... I am not sure I am going to be willing to do the whole day again; we need
more volunteers for tabling at all events!!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>So... I have the starter plants; a reasonable
variety. I think our next tabling event is Juneteenth in downtown San
Jose. If folks are going to do other tabling before then and want plants,
contact me to arrange a pick-up day and time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Warner</FONT></DIV>
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