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Post-Parade, two more notes
A couple of things I forgot to mention:
While we were waiting in the staging area for the parade to start, a group of adults, teens and children walked by handing out pamphlets to everyone - they even gave one to Sebastian! The pamphlets were about Falun Gong. The front part was basically spiritual advertisement, and the last page-and-a-half was a political plea about the repression they're experiencing at the hands of the Chinese government.
Also, this apparently may be the last Autumnfest. Apparently the city has stopped funding it, and they even stopped maintainence on the Social Ocean park. Many mom & pop businesses which used to donate to the Autumnfest have gone out of business, and most of the remainder can't afford to contribute.
So once again, I've discovered something fun only to find that it is on the cusp of vanishing forever!
While we were waiting in the staging area for the parade to start, a group of adults, teens and children walked by handing out pamphlets to everyone - they even gave one to Sebastian! The pamphlets were about Falun Gong. The front part was basically spiritual advertisement, and the last page-and-a-half was a political plea about the repression they're experiencing at the hands of the Chinese government.
Also, this apparently may be the last Autumnfest. Apparently the city has stopped funding it, and they even stopped maintainence on the Social Ocean park. Many mom & pop businesses which used to donate to the Autumnfest have gone out of business, and most of the remainder can't afford to contribute.
So once again, I've discovered something fun only to find that it is on the cusp of vanishing forever!