Looked like a thin turnout at the sign up (I think that was due to the other sign up locations) Lots of people at the raffle.

Which Clean-up are you talkin about? I ran the sign ups at Washroad and we had over 450 sign ups from 9-11 .And we had to shut it down to haul 5 f-250 longbeds full of trash to the dumpster.And when i talked to Vicki she had over 650 sign ups by 9am---------------Tomsbrother

How was it?

Gosh, tough to answer. I mean, what's the right word? Or words?

Or was it just enough to see the constant grins from each of the cleanup crew for the rest of the weekend?

I'd find myself smiling... almost constantly. So did everyone else.

Awesome. Fun. Exciting. Uplifting. "Cleansing." hehe

All of those things.

The turnout was good... spreading out the signups thinned out the main area in th morning but not by much. TomsBrother is right... by 9:30 we already had over 600 at the main staging area. We don't have a count yet... don't know how soon we will (I haven't unpacked a thing yet) but we were guessing and judging by the number of leftover t-shirts the count was at least as high as last year, maybe even higher.

The crowds for the drawing seemed easier to get through, making us think the turnout for the raffle was smaller than last year... until a BLM rep reminded me that they expanded the area by quite a bit and removed the debris that had intefered with the crowd last year.

The kiddie area was a huge hit. Goody bags for the kids, the bounce houses (two), and the hand-made safety signs were all terrific. Cathi Begin was tireless and was like the Pied Piper of Glamis with all those adoring children tagging after her

The raffle was all over by a record-breaking 1:30 but next year it may go longer... there are a ton of sponsors wanting to get involved in any way they can. It's great to see them stepping up... the offers were mind-boggling. I don't want to let out too much information too early, but next year's top raffle prize will knock your socks off!

And of course, we've already come up with some improvements for next year and one of the entries for "Most Unusual Item" will make a dandy trophy for the top spot

Congratulations to Glamis and those who loved her extra special this weekend!

Vicki

Vicki did you get a chance to tally up the Olds Hill sign ups?

There were tons of people there at that time but didn't seem like many were helping

I have to say that my whole family had a GREAT time. I "volunteered" their services, and from the littlest, right on up to the "old fart" (me) we worked hard, and hopefully made the smallest of dents in removing some of the acne off of Mother G's beautiful face. I got to experience it both from helping at the sign up booth, to helping the small nieces and nephews pick up trash.

If you've never volunteered, I highly recommend you make that commitment next year. It's all about spending just a few hours taking care of the place that gives us so many days of pure enjoyment over the year.

I saw only two negatives...the first is the fact that this effort is even necessary...and the second is that on Sunday morning at the base of olds, it was hard to tell that we (all of those that picked up trash at olds) had even been there less than 24 hours earlier...

Vicki....Put me on your list for next year...

Well, hopefully there won't be a wedding at the same time next year, so we can enjoy the whole shebang...maybe even get us some "tee shirts"...

Vicki...

How about we have large signs announcing the clean-up a few weeks in advance at all the access points?

I'm sure that we can get the BLM and the other groups to support this.


And next time, maybe we need a passel of kids to circle thru the crowd at Olds to pass out trash bags.

Oh, and let's start getting a bi-lingual team together to announce to our Southern speaking duners.