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By John McDonald
We did it!
I am writing this on Sunday, November 1, 2009, the day we passed the 20,000
Galileo Moments (GMs) mark. My congratulations go out to to Sid and every
volunteer from our Center, the Centre of the Universe and NRC as well as UVic
who contributed to this achievement. When National President, David Lane was
here last month he commented that there were easy GMs and hard ones. Most of
ours were the hard earned kind. It mattered to all of us that those who stopped
at our displays, attended one of the night sky viewing events or the many
sidewalk astronomy opportunities were able to really interact and take away more
than the card or Starfinder we offered. I think we gave a good many of them a
significant peek into the wonder of the sky and we let them know how welcome
they were to join in sharing our passion for it.
The actual moment when we passed of the 20,000 mark occurred sometime today at a
spectacular concert by the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Tania Miller, her
orchestra and the Women of the Victoria Choral Society did a marvellous
performance of The Planets by Gustav Holst with the most stunning visuals I have
ever seen by Dr. José Francisco Salgado from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. A
very big thank you to Jim Hesser who played a key role in making this happen.
We could never have done this without Sid's drive and vision, and as Sid will be
sure to add it would not have happened without you volunteers either.
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