Len Anderson, KSKA – Anchorage

As soon as the doors of the Anchorage Baptist Temple opened before the service at noon today, a steady stream of people flowed through the two entrances.   KSKA’s Len Anderson collected a few of their reflections as they were in line.

RELATED STORIES FROM APRN:

• Dignitaries, Family Talk About Stevens (18 Aug 2010)
• Murkowski: “Ted was Alaska” (18 Aug 2010)
• Many Awarded Special Honors at Memorial Service (19 Aug 2010)

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The Stevens family encourages members of the public to pay their respects Tuesday night (8/18) by lining the motorcade route as space at the temple will be limited on Wednesday.

Programming notes: Stevens funeral coverage will repeat tonight at 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Fresh Air can be heard  tonight at 11:00 pm on KSKA, but will not air today at 3:00 pm. KSKA’s Hometown, Alaska on Ballot Measure 2 has been rescheduled for Thursday (8/19)  at 2:00 pm.

Some names on the list that you might recognize are:

• Vice President Joseph Biden
• U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, President Pro Tempore (D-HI)
• U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
• Howard Baker R-TN
• Mark Begich D-AK
• Don Young R-AK
• Sean Parnell, Alaska Governor
• Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor
• Frank Murkowski, former Alaska Governor
• Tony Knowles, former Alaska Governor
• Bill Sheffield, former Alaska Governor
• The Honorable Lu Wenxiang, Deputy Consul General of China in San Francisco
• The Honorable Jennifer Loten, Consul of Canada in Anchorage
• The Honorable Sung-kyo Oh, Consul of the Republic of Korea
• The Honorable Hideo Fujita, Consul of Japan in Anchorage

For a complete list of expected attendees, please read more.

Expected Speakers (not in order of speaking):

• Vice President Joeseph Biden
• U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, President Pro Tempore (D-HI)
• U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader (R-KY)
• U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Expected Attendees:

• Vice President Joseph Biden

Former Senators

• Howard Baker R-TN
• Norm Coleman R-MN
• Alfonse D’Amato R-NY
• Dennis DeConcini D-AZ
• Peter Domenici R-NM
• Nancy Kassebaum R-KS
• Mack Mattingly R-GA
• Larry Pressler D-SD
• John Sununu R-NH

Current Senators

• Mark Begich D-AK
• Bob Bennett R-UT
• Kit Bond R-MO
• Thad Cochran R-MS
• Chris Dodd D-CT
• Orrin Hatch R-UT
• Daniel Inouye D-HI
• Mitch McConnell R-KY
• Lisa Murkowski R-AK
• Pat Roberts R-KS
• Arlen Specter D-PA

Congressman

• Don Young R-AK
• Norm Dicks D-WA

Alaska Governors

• Sean Parnell
• Sarah Palin
• Frank Murkowski
• Tony Knowles
• Bill Sheffield

State House of Representatives

• Speaker Mike Chenault
• Bob Buch
• Harry Crawford
• Bryce Edgmon
• Anna Fairclough
• Max Gruenberg
• David Guttenberg
• Bob Herron
• Lindsey Holmes
• Kyle Johansen
• Craig Johnson
• Reggie Joule
• Scott Kawasaki
• Beth Kerttula
• Bob Lynn
• Charisse Millett
• Cathy Munoz
• Mark Neuman
• Pete Peterson
• Jay Ramras
• Woodie Salmon
• Bill Stoltz
• Bill Thomas
• Chris Tuck
• Tammie Wilson

State Senators

• Senate President Gary Stevens
• John Coghill
• Fred Dyson
• Dennis Egan
• Johnny Ellis
• Hollis French
• Lyman Hoffman
• Charlie Huggins
• Albert Kookesh
• Lesil McGuire
• Linda Menard
• Kevin Meyer
• Donny Olson
• Bert Stedman
• Joe Thomas
• Bill Wielechowski

Foreign Dignitaries and other Public Officials

• The Honorable Lu Wenxiang, Deputy Consul General of China in San Francisco
• The Honorable Zhang Hao, Vice Consul of China in San Francisco
• Princess Mahina Raputuki, Diplomat from Easter Island
• The Honorable Jennifer Loten, Consul of Canada in Anchorage
• The Honorable Sung-kyo Oh, Consul of the Republic of Korea
• The Honorable Hideo Fujita, Consul of Japan in Anchorage
• Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee
• Jack Potter, Postmaster General of the United States

Senior Generals representing every branch of the Armed Services.

Map courtesy of Google Maps (Click for an enlarged version): the red line indicates the route of the motorcade.

On Tuesday, August 17, the public may pay their respects to Ted Stevens at the All Saints Episcopal Church, which is located at 545 W. Eighth Ave.. It will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.

For the public that attends the visitation, the Linny Pacillo Parking Garage, at 517 W. Seventh Ave. will be open.

At 8:00 p.m., there will be a motorcade that will take Stevens’ body to the Anchorage Baptist Temple.

The motorcade will go west from the church on 8th Avenue to L Street, and will then take L Street, until it turns into Minnesota Boulevard, south to Benson Boulevard. Lastly, it will follow Benson until it turns into Northern Lights Boulevard to the Anchorage Baptist Temple.

People are encouraged to line the procession route in remembrance of the late senator.

The funeral service will be held on Wednesday, August 18, at the Anchorage Baptist Temple, located at 6401 E. Northern Lights Blvd. at 2 p.m..

There will be no parking, except limited disability parking, available at the temple. Shuttles will be available from the Tikahtnu Commons mall on Muldoon Road. Shuttle buses will begin running from the mall to the temple at noon.

The Stevens family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations and remembrances be sent to the North to the Future Foundation.

Photo and story by Len Anderson, KSKA – Anchorage

At about 9:30 this morning, the body of Senator Ted Stevens arrived at All
Saints Episcopal Church for a public visitation to begin at 10:00 a.m. and
continue until 8:00 this evening.

The cadence of the military honor guard slowly brought Steven’s body from
the hearse, past the over two dozen, black garbed family members and after a
brief prayer at the entrance, into the church.

The visitation line outside the church began forming before 9 o’clock.  At
the head of it, was Michael Monger, who drove up this morning from Soldotna.

After the public visitation ends at 8:00 p.m., a motorcade procession will take
the body of Senator Ted Stevens from All Saints Episcopal Church to the
Anchorage Baptist Temple for tomorrow’s service.

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Photo by Pat Yack, APTI – Anchorage

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Senator Stevens will also be lying in repose at All Saints Episcopal Church in downtown Anchorage. The family is inviting the public to pay their respects between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.  In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made to the North to The Future Foundation, which was established to honor Stevens’ career.

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• CDC: Childhood Obesity
• Federal campaign launched against childhood obesity: Let’s Move
• AAP: Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity
• Obesity Prevention and Control. State of Alaska
• Obesity in Alaska (PDF)
• Obesity Among American Indians and Alaska Natives (Dept of HSS) (PDF)
• KSKA Listener Survey: Alaska’s Children and Obesity

And don’t miss Line One host Dr. Thad Woodard on APRN’s statewide call-in Talk of Alaska. The conversation on “Childhood Obesity” continues Tuesday (May 18) at 10:00 a.m. on FM 91.1 and public radio stations statewide!

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Libby Casey, our Washington DC correspondent for APRN, took first place in Best Reporting on Crime or Courts for “Supreme Court Hears Weyrauch Case.” The judge in this category wrote: “Solid focus to a controversial incident that is surprisingly complex. Libby Casey puts an Alaska political corruption story into a national context, and gives listeners insights into how current court justices deliberate the vagaries of law. Libby Casey is a Nina Totenburg in the making.” Libby also took second place in “Best Government or Political Reporting” for “Begich Won’t Step Down.”

Annie Feidt of APRN took first place for “Best Arts Coverage” for “Aniak raises the curtain.” The judge in this category wrote: “Annie Feidt takes an unconventional approach to a conventional Alaska story about a small town’s holiday school play. Great character development and story structure come together through nice writing to convey a sense of community. Feidt quotes the school choir director saying the principal ‘creates great theater with kids.’ Feidt has done the same for radio listeners.” Annie also took third place for “Best Sports Reporting” for “Iditarod Rookies.”

Kristin Spack of KSKA took second place in the category of Best Ongoing Public Affairs Program for “Addressing Alaskans,” our series of broadcasts of public affairs presentations made at various events around the region. (First place in this category went to KMXT/Kodiak’s Jay Barrett for “The Alaska Fisheries Report,” which airs on APRN.)

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Alaskans are at the deepest trough of winter darkness, just five days to the bottom — Winter Solstice, Dec. 21. If you’re feeling the absence of light and seek some relief, listen as three experts discuss the latest on Seasonal Affective Disorder. Joining host Kathleen McCoy, psychiatrist Aron Wolf,  SAD lights vendor Joe Vergnetti, and a UAA Student Health & Counseling nurse practitioner Georgia DeKeyser Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 on Hometown, Alaska.

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Thank you so much for calling and writing to KSKA sharing your thoughts on the new program schedule. Our special Community Forum call-in with you on July 22nd went by so fast. Pat Yack, VP of APTI’s News and Public Media and I talked to 18 callers and read 10 of your emails with another 30 emails and web comments coming in after the show was over. As a follow up to our January 21st show, you gave us valuable feedback and wonderful comments about KSKA’s program changes to craft a schedule you helped create.

Your feedback on Community Forum on July 22 ranged from wanting to hear the loss of daylight after summer solstice, to inquiring about vintage programs, to encouraging better promotion of shows both on and off the air. We heard you ask that shows that were taken off to make room for the new shows be brought back. And, you asked us to explain the opportunities and limitations that are part of the process of making program changes.

Some of your requests were fairly easy to implement – like announcing the loss of daylight in our weather casts or giving more timely information in program promos. Others recommendations, such as moving Fresh Air back to 9:00a.m. is a bigger decision. Of the 58 responses to KSKA’s new program schedule, 13 requested Fresh Air return to 9:00 a.m. It was listener feedback and ongoing discussions in the community advisory council that prompted Fresh Air’s move. Incorporating your requests to find daily, news programming utilizing diverse resources played a big role in selecting Here and Now from BBC/WGBH – Boston at 9:00a.m. following Morning Edition. We also heard you ask that Fresh Air be given another opportunity to be heard other than during the day. In finalizing the March lineup, KSKA’s mission, identity, demands on operation and engineering resources, budget, network broadcast agreements and sustainability were also taken into consideration.

One of the great things about programming for radio is nothing is in stone. The opportunity to make bigger program changes will surface next year and, once again your comments will be used to make thoughtful programming decisions. We appreciate you sharing your passion for KSKA with us.

We heard from many of you. Here are some of your comments:

• Fresh Air: move it back to 9a.m. / keep it at 11p.m. / tell listeners they can hear it online
• Weather: include both the gain and loss of daylight
• Public Service Announcements: do more
• This American Life: move it from Saturdays at 10a.m. / keep it on Saturday at 10a.m
• Travel with Rick Steves: really like the show / not a fan of the show
• Calling All Pets: really miss it / glad it’s gone
• Consider repeating: Car Talk, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell me!
• Consider bringing back: Alternative Radio, Whad’Ya Know, Only a Game
• Consider adding: vintage shows, Democracy Now, National Press Club, Sylvia Rimm, Diane Rehm, a show for teens
• Reconsider: Friday’s music line up/ People’s Pharmacy / putting Marketplace and Tech Nation back to old times / so much medical programming
• Encounters: one hour block is great / one hour block is too much
• Hispanic programming: lose it / love it, listens with the family
• Soul to Soul: don’t ever take it away / not a fan of soul music
• BBC: loves the added BBC programs / now there’s too much BBC
• Alaska World Affairs Council Presents: enjoys it

Thank you for your input helping us make KSKA the best it can be.

Three of Alaska’s public broadcasters, including KTOO-Juneau, KUAC-Fairbanks and APTI-Anchorage (KSKA-FM, KAKM-TV and APRN) have been discussing emerging needs and pressures in public media and imaging better futures.

These wide-ranging discussions settled upon the view by late spring 2009 that nothing short of transformation is required for public broadcasting and its core values to survive and flourish in our communities in a transformed media environment.

This site presents what belongs in a new entity we propose to call Alaska Public Media.

This vision is distilled from dozens of hours of brainstorming and conversation, and is our shared proposal for how public media should evolve in our communities.

We invited you to visit: http://www.alaskapublicmedia.blogspot.com/ for additional details.

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RECORDED: April 17, 2009 at the Hilton Anchorage

AIRED ON KSKA: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

REPEATS: Wednesday, May 6 2009 at 9:00 p.m.

SPEAKER:

• Patrick Yack, Atwood Chair of Journalism at UAA and Vice President of News and Public Affairs at APTI – Anchorage
  

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Alaska World Affairs Council Presents is a public service partnership of the Alaska World Affairs Council and KSKA Public Radio. You can attend a variety of live AWAC speaking events in Anchorage. Check out the list of upcoming speakers and topics on the AWAC Events Calendar.

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All kinds of Gift Certificates to all kinds of places…..you will find it here!  Deals you won’t want to miss……

Tune in to KSKA, 91.1FM:

Saturday, May 15 from 9a.m. until Noon
&
Sunday, May 16 from 1p.m. until 4p.m.

Bid by phone on all kinds of certificates including those for use at your favorite restaurants, entertainment facilities, sporting events, home and auto repair shops, spas & salons, and much, much more.

Don’t miss the excitement and convenience of Bidding by phone at 907-550-8484 or 1-800-478-5256.

For their part in making this event possible we thank our major sponsor:

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All proceeds benefit public broadcasting right here in Alaska, helping us to provide quality programming that informs, educates, inspires, & connects Alaskans of all ages.

LIVE Auction: The Live auction happens on the RADIO

You are invited to tune into KSKA 91.1FM

Boards of 5 items will be described and featured for bidding. Listen, and when you hear an item you are interested in, stop and pick up the phone and call in your bid.  Each board will be presented for only 6 minutes.  So, be ready to act fast!

Each day of the KSKA Great Certificate Auction we will feature 22 boards each having 5 items.
The items numbered in the 1000’s will be presented on Saturday, May 15th.
(Click here for the May 15th list of items.)
The items numbered in the 2000’s will be presented on Sunday, May 16th.
(Click here for the May 16th list of items.)

WHEN:

Saturday: May 15, 2010 9am to Noon

Sunday: May16, 2010 1pm to 4pm

Listeners may bid on items by calling 550-8484 or 1-800-478-5256 during the broadcast.

WHERE:

On the radio at KSKA 91.1FM

Special item available to our viewers & participants!!!

Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska by author, fly fisher-woman extraordinaire & Alaska’s own Pudge KleinKauf.  This book is a unique combination of an adventure story, a great gift book with more than 100 color photographs, and a how-to-guide with fishing techniques, twenty of Alaska’s best flies, and much practical information for planning the fishing trip of a lifetime. As a winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award, Pudge’s first book was donated in supported of public broadcasting.  Call in and support this event and KSKA radio with a contribution of $35 or more & a special autographed copy of this book can be yours while supplies last. Thank you, Cecilia “Pudge” Kleinkauf, for being a friend to KAKM, KSKA, and APRN public broadcasting.

The 2010 Northern Lights Coupon Book

This popular local product is published annually right here in Anchorage and is full of outstanding 2 for 1 and high-dollar discounts at more than 200 restaurants in the South Central area.  From casual to fine dinning, cruises, museums, car rentals and more, yours to experience when you call in or come by and make a contribution of $50 or more to KSKA radio.  This is a great way to support the auction and Alaska public broadcasting.  Available now while supplies last at KAKM studio, 3877 University Drive. Our thanks to Jeff and Northern Lights Entertainment.

Bidding by Phone

When you hear an item announced on air that you would like to bid on, call us immediately:

• 550-8484 in Anchorage
• 1-800-478-5256 outside Anchorage, toll-free

We have a total of 10 phone bidders to take your call and bid with you. If you don’t get through, hang up and keep trying – many times bidders on the phone will drop out as prices rise, thus freeing a phone line for a new bidder.

NOTE: Your signal is slightly delayed from actual events in the studio – up to several seconds. Therefore, turn down your radio volume while on the phone and simply listen to and talk with your bidding operator. They will keep you informed of current bids.

Official Bidding Rules & Procedures

• Live bidding is done by phone.
• Five items will be presented on a board at one time.
• Each board will be up for bidding for 6 minutes. Any and all of the items on a given board can be bid upon by a single or multiple bidders.
• After 6 minutes the board will be closed
• The highest bidder on each item will be contacted as the successful bidder.
• Each item being offered will be described and the donor and value given.
• Listen to the announcers as they will continue to update the bidding information
• If you hear of an item on which you wish to bid, immediately dial 550-8484 (in Anchorage) or 1-800-478-5256 (outside Anchorage) to initiate bidding.
• The operator must take your name and phone number before you are allowed to bid.
• The operator will tell you the highest current bid.  Stay on the phone with the operator until you reach the highest bid you want to make.
• There are up to 9 other simultaneous phone bidders
• In the event of two identical bids, the Auctioneer reserves the right to determine which bid he or she considers first.
• If you are the highest bidder, a confirmation operator will call you within one hour of the item’s sale to give you instructions for picking up and paying for your item(s).
• The “Value” represents the donor’s estimated value of the item or the value recommended by the judges or research. This is not a “minimum” or “price” and is furnished only as a guide to prospective bidders.
• We recommend bidders listen for restrictions such as expiration dates or call the station with questions between 8:30am and 5pm the week the auction is scheduled.

Condition of Sale

• Proceeds from the KSKA Great Certificate Auction  will benefit Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc. (APTI), 3877 University Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508. APTI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit / charitable corporation and operates KAKM Public Television (Channel 7), KSKA Public Radio (FM 91.1) and the Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN).
• APTI assumes no risk, liability, or responsibility for the authenticity of the authorship of any property identified in the auction lists, website, or live radio presentation, (that is, the identity of the creator or the period , culture, source, or origin, as the case may be, with which the creation of any property is identified herein).
• All property is sold “as is” and APTI does not make any warranties or representations of any kind or nature with respect to the property, and in no event will be responsible for the correctness, nor deemed to have made any representation or warranty of description, genuineness, attribution, provenance, historical period, or condition of the property, and no statement in the catalog or made at the sale of in the bill of sale or invoice or in the script of elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty or representation or an assumption of liability.
• APTI makes no representations or warranties, expressed or implied, as to whether the purchaser acquires any reproduction rights in the property.
• APTI reserves the right to withdraw any property at any time before actual sale.
• APTI reserves the right to rearrange the item presentation schedule at any time before or during the live auction.

Removal of Property (Item Pickup)

• Successful bidders must arrange for payment and removal of purchases with 48 hours of their confirmed high bid unless other arrangements are made. APTI reserves the right to dispose of the property in any manner it deems appropriate if the successful bidder does not remove the property within the agreed upon period of time.
• Payments may be made by cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.
• Gift Certificates may be mailed at an additional fee & may be sent certified
• The purchaser shall be responsible for transporting his/her purchase unless mailing arrangements for Gift certificates are made.
• Items may be paid for and picked up at 3877 University Drive, Anchorage, during regular business hours between 9am and 5:30pm.

Thank You!

Tremendous thanks go out to all our supporters, bidders, donors, volunteers, staff and to our major sponsor the Alaska Center for Otolaryngology and to Country Garden Farms.

Please allow us to…

say thanks to all the supporters of this year’s event – listed below

Major Sponsor: The Alaska Center for Otolaryngology

Financial Supporters & In kind Support

• Country Garden Farms
• The Bagel Factory
• Dino Donuts
• Subway
• Northern Lights Entertainment
• The Mileposts
• Pudge Kleinkauf
• America North Printers
• Great Harvest Bread Co
• Raven’s Brew Coffee

Live Auction Hosts

• Announcers:  Bede Trantina, Connie Huff, Kristin Spack, Ed Ratliff, & Steve Lindbeck
• Phone Banks:  Service High School Navy JrROTC Cadets, Full Circle Farm, and the Anchorage Education Association
• Event Manager: Cindy Stophlet
• Auction Assistant: Marla Bell, Thomas Speckels

Additional Thanks

On behalf of APTI, my heartfelt appreciation & thanks to all our donors, staff, volunteers, and supporters for the ongoing commitment of time, talent, treasures, & energy!

- Cindy Stophlet, Events Manager

Contact Us

If you have questions about the auction, please feel free to contact us.

KSKA public radio
3877 University Dr  Anchorage AK 99508
907-550-8400 voice
907-550-8401 fax

Cindy Stophlet
Events Manager
907-550-8432 direct
cstophlet@alaskapublic.org

Live Auction Bidding
ONLY AVAILABLE DURING THE AUCTION
550-8484 for local callers in Anchorage
1-800-478-5256 for statewide callers outside Anchorage

Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) in 1957.

About half of all people with cancer are treated with radiation therapy, either alone or in combination with other types of cancer treatment.  Radiation therapy uses a certain type of energy (called ionizing radiation) to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.  This week on Line One, host Dr. Woodard welcomes Anchorage radiation oncologist, Dr. Berit Madson to take your questions on the use of radiation to treat cancer.

• National Cancer Institute: Radiation Therapy for Cancer
  
• MedlinePlus: Radiation Therapy
• RT Answers
• Anchorage Radiation Therapy Center

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HOST: Dr. Thad Woodard

GUESTS:

• Dr. Berit Madson, Anchorage radiation oncologist

LIVE BROADCAST: Mon, March 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

REPEAT BROADCAST: Mon, March 16, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

PARTICIPATE:

• Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-888-353-5752 (statewide) during the live broadcast
• Send e-mail to lineone@kska.org before, during or after the live broadcast (e-mails may be read on air)
• Post your comment or question below (comments may be read on air)

SUBSCRIBE:

• Get Line One: Your Health Connection updates automatically by e-mail, RSS or podcast.

DR. WOODARD’S FAVORITE HEALTH AND SCIENCE LINKS:

• Science Based Medicine
• Quackwatch
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Super Smart Health
• MedlinePlus

If she’s not planning for the Harvest of Wines or the Art Showcase Auction, if she’s not sitting at the front desk or heating up some home cooking for the next board meeting,  Pam Whitney is heading up the phone bank at KSKA’s Fall Membership Drive as it approaches the end. Community support is an integral part of KSKA’s success and dedicated volunteers like Pam, combined with supportive listeners like you have kept KSKA on the air for 30 years. Tomorrow is the last day of the Fall Membership Drive at KSKA and if you haven’t pledged yet, don’t delay, because your time is running out! The goal is 1300 members. The most recent update has put us just over 1100. Your pledge can help us reach our goal. You rely on us, and we rely on you. Help us reach our goal. Thanks for you support.

Click on thumbnails below for more photo from the pledge drive on flickr.com