Hannah over at Greener Living reports:

Evan and I started to walk down around 3, got there at about 3:30 thanks to Evan's crazy fast walking pace, got some sorbet because it was weirdly hot/cold outside. The parade didn't start until 4:30 and it took just under an hour to reach us at the end of its route. The cool thing was, however, that people came down the street with wheel-barrows full of free sidewalk chalk. How cool is that?

While Joshua over at For all the people writes:

I wasn't able to be at arts walk when it officially started, but I was able to peep some pre-browsing/walking/chatting/hanging/catchinguping with several friends. I love how olympia just brings people together. I see someone I know almost everytime I am downtown.

Give your reports below, but don't forget to show Hannah and Joshua some comment love as well.

Today, Saturday, April 26, 2008, Employees from DSHS (HRSA) and from local financial institutions (banks and credit unions) raised over $22,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters during Bowl for Kids Sake events.

DSHS employees raised $13,425 and the Financial employees raised $8,600.

When available, I'll post the exact totals and award winners, but I just wanted to pass along an immediate thanks for this great effort on the part of people in our community.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provides mentoring services to children in Thurston and Lewis Counties.

Hello Everybody! Here I am up in Tacoma representing Olympia Smash ICE, a group affiliated with Tacoma Smash ICE. Today is the concluding Rally after a week of action against the ICE detention center here in Tacoma.

I'll be your freindly Live Blogger giving you a point for point run down of the events of the day.

BUT FIRST! a little background on ICE and the detention center and previous actions against it:

Snapped some shots yesterday. Not unlike these:

More on my Flickr site.

Also, some of my more polished pics are on display at the Christian Science Reading Room near the corner of 4th and Washington. Come have a look and say hello, if you're downtown before the procession.

How well do you know Olympia? Here's the game: Each Saturday I post a picture from somewhere around Olympia and people try to figure out its location. The first person who gets it correct gets to be the first person who correctly got the location *yay!*.