The Agenda for Sunday!!!

MEET at the SQUIRELL HILL LIBRARY on the corner of FORBES and MURRAY Ave. at 5:45 AM on Sunday morning, APRIL 19, 2009.

More details about the day are as follows!!! :

• There will be a brief ceremony at 6 a.m. with a few speakers -- including Pittsburgh resident and Holocaust Survivor Herman Snyder and members of the South Sudanese and Rwandan communities -- before we get on the bus. Please arrive promptly at 5:45 a.m. so we can get this underway and then board the buses in a timely way.
  

• The Save Darfur Coalition and the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum are generously providing passes which admit to the Museum for all of our travelers! We expect to unload in Washington DC at the Holocaust Museum around, hopefully even a bit before, 11:30 a.m. We will be offered a ten minute introduction to the exhibits by a senior member of the guide staff. You do not have to tour the exhibit(s) but this is an excellent opportunity! You can leave belongings on the bus if desired. The buses will be locked and/or guarded.
  

• Lunch and touring will be from 11:30-1:10 p.m. Lunch is on your own. You can bring something on the bus or eat at the Museum Cafe or a few other places which may be close.
  

• At 1:10 pm we will gather at the Holocaust Museum to walk over as a group to Lafayette Park where the event will be held.
  It is a 20-30 minute walk.
  

• We will be bringing and holding destroyed village signs during the event.
  

• Save Darfur has asked if we would supply 7-10 volunteers for a few minutes before the event to get some cards signed.
  

• The Event will be over around 3:30 and we should be pulling out around 4 pm at the latest. The buses will leave from Lafayette Park. This should bring us back to Pittsburgh with a stop along the way for dinner around 10 p.m.
  

• Things to bring: Everyone needs to have a cell phone. Snacks, drinks, lunch if desired. We can provide some water bottles and maybe some snacks. We'll let you know. We will be creating a buddy system as in the past so we can keep track of one another.

• It is everyone's responsibility to be on time at every stage of the trip. Check the DC weather -- if it looks like rain, the event of course will still be held but you might want to bring an umbrella.
  

• The second of two buses is filling fast! If you have told me you or your group is traveling but have not yet turned in your money for the trip, please get on it! We don't want you to be disappointed by being unable to travel.
  

Next PDEC Meeting is Wednesday 4/15 at 5:30 at Sq. Hill library to work out last minute details.


Happy Holidays to all,
David Rosenberg