"Western" Mass Team - Waltham
News has traveled fast among the Climate Summertistas and MAPS associates of our team's great success in Maynard. Not only did we have a great response going door to door, but at the Saturday Farmer's Market as well. (Pictures on Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/climatesummerphotos/WesternMassBerkshires#) We managed to get 136 signatures in just 3 hours!
We happened to be living with our wonderful hosts, Hasso and Bob, in Concord already by this point and were just visiting back to Maynard. Therefore, our friends with MaynardCAN (Climate Action Network), Tina and Mike, sent a note back with us to Hasso who is an active member of ConcordCAN. The note read: "Dear Hasso, MaynardCAN challenges ConcordCAN to see who can get more signatures for the Climate Summer students. Loser buys them ice cream."
In Concord, we canvassed outside of Debra's Natural Gourmet to see if we could replicate our luck. Hasso is a friend of Debra's and thought this may be the place to take on Tina's challenge. The spot was chosen strategically, and as one petition-signer noted: "You could stand out here all day - every person who walks in here is sympathetic to your cause!"
However, our canvassing in Concord proved to be less fruitful than it had in Maynard. Hasso took us out to ice cream at a nearby farm that night. Nothing like a little friendly competition among environmental advocates.
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