February 27, 2011

Uneventful and wet. Four or five people throughout the hour.

February 26, 2011

Four people at 5:00PM, eight at 6:00.

February 25, 2011
The temperature was freezing, with a gusty stiff breeze. Five people at the start, nine at the end, a few went and came. A couple with a double stroller passed: "You guys are awesome." More to the point, we were cold. When the clock chimed six, the signs went into the car, and no one hung around.

February 20, 2011
Eight people and one dog at tonight's vigil. Much discussion of a local issue: would it be a good thing for Corvallis to have food carts? would food carts help or hurt small restaurants?

February 19, 2011
Seven people in front of the courthouse at 5:00PM, eleven people at 6:00. At 5:45 everyone took a minute to look at the lovely sunset.
Early in the hour a woman with two young children stopped by to say, "Thanks for what you are doing. The older daughter, in the first grade, asked, "Why are you doing this?"

February 19, 2011

This blog is from the Corvallis courthouse peace vigil. The vigil has gathered on Fourth Street in Corvallis, in front of the Benton County Courthouse, every day since October 7, 2001, the day when the United States started the War on Terror by attacking Afghanistan.