It takes a lot of people to put on something like this, but we have 70 to 80 dedicated volunteers who are doing everything from assisting with parking to setting up and cleaning up. We are happy to do it because this is our gift to the community.

If you looked at a major earthen dam being designed during the same time frame as the 17th Street Canal was being designed, there would have been boards of consultants and rigorous outside peer review that probably would have detected and caught many problems that are coming to light with the 17th Street project.