Personal note: I need a little help for my community. Since the State of California is morally and fiscally bankrupt, they have pulled the plug on the treasure of our town, the Bidwell Mansion, a true relic of the California Gold Rush and Western Expansion. A local citizen established group project to help save the Mansion from the state has been setup, and the local newspaper, The Chico Enterprise Record, will donate $1000 towards that fund if they get 3100 “likes” on their Facebook page.
They write:
Thanks, everyone. We are very close to our goal of 3,100 Facebook fans. If we reach it by March 31, we’ll double our $500 donation to the Save Bidwell Mansion fund and make it $1,000. Click “like” on this page up top and please tell your friends.
Since the online readership of WUWT far exceeds my local newspaper, this should be an easy task. If you have a Facebook account, please go here and “like” my local newspaper:
http://www.facebook.com/ChicoER
Here’s the status now:
We need 486 “likes”. This should be a cakewalk for the WUWT community.
Thanks for your consideration, Anthony
P.S. On the right sidebar you can also “like” WUWT’s Facebook page, but that’s a secondary consideration.
3114 now.
Well, their original target was about 500 in 5 days. It took WUWT about 4 hrs.
😉
3128. That was quick!
Anthony, we trust you and yours …
Well that didn’t take long!
The power of WUWT on display!
Bet that is the first time the Chico Enterprise Record got a “like” from the United Arab Emirates
Too late for the 3100 target, liked anyway, but there is a comment somewhere there about doubling the contribution if they get to 5000 likes?
Done
As always, I am over the top!
Used to love California. Pismo beach clams. Surfing in the morning north of San Diego, skiing in the afternoon. Gateway restaurant at Pumpkin Hollow Bridge. Happy Days.
Would be happy to help you on this Mr Watts but I’ve been assiduosly trying to stay away from Facebook. I was a techie going back to the late 60s, but this social media stuff scare the bejeebers out of me. To much info in the public domain that can come back and bite you.
EW-3;
Me too. Sorry.
Same here.
I have a twitter account, though, and I was one of the first in my country to have one, but I do not use it because I think it is useless for me. Facebook fails in the same basket.
My first ever “Like” click!
Done
Just made it 3200 likes
3,203
3206 from down under. 🙂
EW-3
Me too.
Although I only go back to the 70sas a techie I feel the same way about the social media and its custodians (if that’s the right word)
Done. And I also live in Yuba City so my family and I should really visit. We have been by a number of times, we should really stop in. Thank you Anthony for your community service.
From SandyInDerby on March 28, 2012 at 2:00 am:
In the late 1970’s I was assembling Radio Shack soldering-required electronics kits. One used a vacuum tube. While I had long tested 9-volts with my tongue, the innocent-looking similar-sized 48V battery made my vision flash white and nearly knocked me on my butt. All these years later, and vacuum tubes are still used for state of the art equipment.
Insane asylums and children have custodians. That’s the right word. ☺
Anthony, what a great building and setting. can we donate directly to the fund?
Done and posted to my FB page as well.
Done!
We visited lovely Bidwill House when we visited Chico in 2000. Wonderful history!
It’s funny what different people think is old. My local pub is over one hundred years older than this mansion and it isn’t even a listed building. Perspective is everything I suppose. Hopefully it’ll still be there in another hundred years.
Done with pleasure
No problem Anthony, thanks for all your efforts! I LIke.