Last week (October 9th 2005), was the annual Christopher Robinson Memorial AIDS Walk in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Harold, Dawn, & Michael T.
Despite the threat of rain, many turned out. And it didn't rain, after all.
I was thrilled that instead of just snacks & lunch, this year there was a breakfast... many bagels. And the band, M80, was quite entertaining.
Wow, I didn't even know this was going on. This explains the Osterhout being in such a dissarray outside with much of the parking being blocked off.
Posted by Tim Pintsch | Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:10AM
Tim: That was not caused by the AIDS Walk.
It was caused by the block party of some type that was being held on South Franklin that day, about a block south of the Osterhout Library. I saw this when I cut through to head off the AIDS Walk (to take photos head on), I cut through Midtown Village, near the Osterhout, and through the JCC parking lot to get to River Street. I saw the tents in the street (in the middle of the street), and that block party had nothing at all to do with the AIDS Walk. The AIDS Walk festivities were held in the middle of Public Square and none of the lanes on Public Square were blocked, except for about 10 minutes while the AIDS Walk proceeded in one lane on Public Square, and only one side of the Square (the side where Circles deli is).
The AIDS Walk was never on South Franklin Street at all.
The AIDS Walk proceeded from Public Square down South Main Street, across Ross Street, then north on River Street, then onto West Market Street, to North Franklin, up to West Union, over to North Main, and back to Public Square. The AIDS Walk only blocked one lane on every street as it passed through and the blocking was done by 2 police cars, one at front and one at back, and traffic was moving ahead of them, and behind them, fairly smoothly from what I saw. And the whole walk only took about 45 minutes altogether. (I know because I just looked at the raw videos on my hard drive that still have the date/time from my camera on them.) So each block was probably only blocked for about 10 minutes as the AIDS Walk passed through.
I believe the block party was an all afternoon (possibly all day) affair, which meant traffic could not pass through South Franklin Street between South Street & Northampton, for whatever entire time period the tents & people were blocking it with the block party.
Posted by Chloe | Tuesday 18 October 2005 4:53PM
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Wow, I didn't even know this was going on. This explains the Osterhout being in such a dissarray outside with much of the parking being blocked off.
Tim: That was not caused by the AIDS Walk.
