A day's respite...back to the grind

The weather at the Ice Cream Social last night was gorgeous, and we want to give a shout out to the jazz band parents who stopped by our table to voice their opposition to Senate Bill 5 as well as Pat Walden who manned the table and brought in parents by the bucketload. Also nice to hear from a fellow union man who stopped by to cheer us on and mentioned that he'd gotten 120 signatures by taking a petition to his kid's track meet the past weekend (speaking of which, read on to see how you can get your very own petition - yes, a teaser, take that.)

Tuesday was a bit of a day off from collecting signatures, but Wednesday is right back at things as we'll see the Glendale crowd at O'Charley's and hopefully see the choir parents outside Matthews at PHS for the choir concert (apparently we should show up a little sooner as the students' call time is 6:30 meaning that there are a lot of parents who are there before that 6:30 time - lesson learned). If the weather's dry, we'll be at the corner of Matthews to catch 'em as they cross over to the school. If it's raining, though, we'll be inside keeping our petitions dry.

Thursday, then we're trying to get over to Heritage Hill to do a quick signing on the sidewalk.

Friday, then we'll be at the Blue Goose to hang with the Sharonville (and maybe Stewart and Evendale) folks.

We're still working toward a district-wide event at Summit Park on May 21. We're looking for a Glendale resident who's friendly to the campaign and would be willing to talk to the park board about making that reservation for us, though. If you know of a such a person, can you make the initial contact and then pass their info along to your humble webmaster, Lonnie Dusch, at the paceforkids@gmail.com email? I have a contact or two, but I'd take a more solid one.

We also have - big news - enough petitions that we can start handing those out to anyone who's a trained circulator (or who wants to be one and is willing to listen to one of us talk to you for about ten minutes) and is willing to pledge to get fifty signatures. We're including that last part to make sure we get our good union money's worth out of the petitions that we've had printed up. You can take the petitions to your kid's baseball game, your bunko night (does anybody play bunko anymore?), your pilates class, your family reunion, or just around your neighborhood like I am this weekend.

Give a holler in the comments or to the paceforkids@gmail.com email if you're interested in having your very own petition to help the campaign.