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Post by Brian on Aug 1, 2021 23:00:23 GMT -8
 Six of the ten regulars at the Montrose Peace Vigil on July 2, 2021.
Here I am again, starting another page on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board for strangers who happen to land on the homepage. This introductory thread goes back three years now and half of that time we've been living in a pandemic.
Montrose Peace Vigil started on the northwest corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue -- near the Vietnam War memorial -- in January 2006. We haven't missed a Friday between 5:30 and 7 p.m. since. The pandemic cut vigil attendance to seven weekly participants during the worst of Covid in January this year. Since then, our numbers have slowly rebounded to the historical average of a dozen.
Each week is unique. This department on the message board has monthly threads containing my vigil reports and Anni's photos along with posts by guests and some of our vigil regulars: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/board/2/montrose-peace-vigil-activities |
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Post by Brian on Sept 1, 2021 23:00:14 GMT -8
What a month August turned out to be. The war in Afghanistan ended completely, after we protested against the U.S. occupation for 16 of its 20 years. We started a half hour earlier every week because we were joined for the first half of the vigils by local Democratic activists opposing the recall of Governor Newsom, bolstering vigil attendance to levels we haven't seen since 2015. And one week, the police were summoned to the corner, sirens blaring, and they immediately put a man in handcuffs. You'll find brief reports, photos and a video on these two pages of the message board's Vigils in August 2021 thread: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/1254/vigils-august-2021?page=1montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/1254/vigils-august-2021?page=2 |
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Post by Brian on Oct 1, 2021 23:00:13 GMT -8
October 18, 2021 is the 13th anniversary of the Montrose Peace Vigil message board.
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Post by Oss Rae on Oct 4, 2021 16:31:32 GMT -8
October 18, 2021 is the 13th anniversary of the Montrose Peace Vigil message board. There's probably amazing history in the old posts--and memories. |
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Post by Brian on Nov 1, 2021 23:00:38 GMT -8
There's probably amazing history in the old posts--and memories. Right on, Oss Rae. This time of year I think about the Montrose Christmas Parade, of course, even though the parade was canceled in 2020 and again this year because of the pandemic. Montrose Peace Vigil entered our Peace Train every December from 2010 through 2019. Along with the memories, we still have reports, photos and videos on this message board for each of our loco motions down Honolulu Avenue, flanked by thousands of beautiful cheering people. Here's a link to the first page of the Peace Train's 10th annual thread -- the official 2019 parade video is cued up to our appearance on page 2: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/983/annual-peace-montrose-christmas-paradeNext year, we hope. |
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Post by Roberta on Nov 11, 2021 20:03:06 GMT -8
Hopefully all the regulars and not so regulars will show up again when the parade is on. That is the hard part for me, thinking that we won’t have a good turnout. ...This time of year I think about the Montrose Christmas Parade, of course, even though the parade was canceled in 2020 and again this year because of the pandemic. Montrose Peace Vigil entered our Peace Train every December from 2010 through 2019. Along with the memories, we still have reports, photos and videos on this message board for each of our loco motions down Honolulu Avenue, flanked by thousands of beautiful cheering people. Here's a link to the first page of the Peace Train's 10th annual thread -- the official 2019 parade video is cued up to our appearance on page 2: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/983/annual-peace-montrose-christmas-paradeNext year, we hope. |
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Post by Brian on Dec 24, 2021 0:00:36 GMT -8
 Did you notice that the ads are missing from the top and bottom of every page on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board?
As the message board's administrator, I received a notification from our host ProBoards on Thursday morning that somebody gave the board 50,000 ad-free page views. That was a nice surprise! ProBoards survives on the fractions of cents it gets from ads on all of the many forums it hosts, but it allows individual users to purchase ad-free page views for their message boards at a small cost. It took me only a couple of minutes to figure out that I had to activate the gift through my Admin account to remove the advertisements. Hope everybody enjoys the change like I do!
So far, the only way I can thank our anonymous benefactor -- identified as a Guest -- is right here. The gift will keep on giving for a long time: in the first 13 hours, just 47 of those 50,000 ad-free page views have been used.
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Post by Brian on Jan 2, 2022 0:00:23 GMT -8
We may never find out who gave the Montrose Peace Vigil message board those ad-free page views on December 23 -- or how a Guest was able to purchase them -- but the gift expired at midnight on the 31st, Greenwich Mean Time. Visitors viewed 577 ad-free pages in those eight days.
However, the ad-free experience will continue in 2022. I just bought a recurring subscription for $6 per month for all message board members and guests. I should have done this years ago. Let's see how many of the 50,000 page views are used in January.
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Post by anni on Mar 2, 2022 7:32:50 GMT -8
Visitors viewed 577 ad-free pages in eight days in December...Let's see how many of the 50,000 page views I bought are used in January.
The results are in for the last two months: Members and guests accumulated 3591 ad-free page views in January and even more in February, 3932. |
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Post by Brian on Apr 2, 2022 23:00:17 GMT -8
Montrose Peace Vigil as seen on March 18, 2022: |
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