On behalf of the Seattle Statue of Liberty Plaza Project, we wanted to thank the West Seattle Herald and its staff for the unfailing support you all have given us over the course of this project. When this renewed effort started, Tim St. Clair wrote a fine piece on the desire of our citizens to see this plaza completed. Since then, Matthew Miller has written several articles about the ups and downs of the project as it progressed; his reporting has been both accurate and extremely helpful in putting our fund-raising efforts over the top.

No effort succeeds at this level without a lot of support from the business community. Many of them were willing to take our brochures and brick-order information and distribute them to their customers in November and December of 2007. The West Seattle Herald gave us very generous ad space during that period to list these public-spirited businesses, and we know a lot of people ordered their bricks through that mechanism. Again, many of them would not have become aware of this effort had it not been for all of you at West Seattle Herald.

We also appreciated your article on the Dedication Ceremony. Although we at (statue plaza committee) consider the project to be substantially "done," since that article came out many more people expressed an interest in having a brick in the plaza. Tim Gallagher, the superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation, has agreed to allow our Fiscal Sponsor, Urban Sparks, to begin a limited brick drive for a second, one time only, placement of inscribed bricks in the plaza next year. For those interested, a form and the prices can be found at www.sealady.org.

In a cynical and unsettling time in our country, we believe this project shows what average citizens still can do when they want to get together and do it badly enough. It also clearly shows the continuing power of the press to inform, and to support, that citizenry. Thank you all so much at the West Seattle Herald, and bless the spirit of Tim St. Clair. Let's hope a few people in city government can take their bureaucratic blinders off long enough to get that park named after him.

Bless you all, and thank you all so much.

Paul and Libby Carr

Co-Chairs,

Seattle Statue of

Liberty Plaza Project