Hello friends and fellow White Stadium supporters!
I know we are all very busy so have tried to keep you out of the small updates and in on the bigger ones. So, here are some bigger ones!
Playing offense: You may have seen that fellow neighbor/BPS parent Dot Fennell and I have started to play "offense" in organizing some press conferences with fellow supporters who have been speaking up about our support of the stadium rebuild. Huge thanks to everyone who has participated on those calls. It has resulted in some better coverage in the media about the community support that does exist. A recent survey from Emerson actually reported that 53% of people are in support of the stadium (with another 26% undecided and only 22% opposed)
Press conference tomorrow: We're hosting another press conference tomorrow afternoon, featuring dozens of BPS students who are willing and excited to speak up about their support of the stadium as well. We are hoping for a great media showing. If you know a member of the media who might like to attend, have them send me an email at beth@bethsantos.com and I can forward along the meeting link.
Next week is the big week: The trial addressing ENC's lawsuit kicks off on March 18 at 9am at the Suffolk County Courthouse. We expect this to be the biggest day by far, though 7 days have been blocked for court proceedings. If you can make it, we would love for you to come and show your support! We anticipate many t-shirt wearing opposers in the audience (they all wore t-shirts when we were at the hearing) and having a proper showing of supporters will be so important. Media is not allowed inside as I understand, but members of the public can attend the proceedings inside. And you can talk to media outside :)
If you can find yourself with some free time at 9am on Tuesday March 18, we hope you can come and show your support of this important rebuild -- for our students, our community and the future of Boston. Time to kick things up a notch, everyone!
Thanks for your ongoing support and wishing you a great rest of your week.
Beth and Dot