We/ve lost Craig Salins, chair of Washington Public Campaigns

[eridani]

He was also working on Move to Amend, and didn't show for a meeting with Frank Chopp, so the others at the meeting went to his house and found him dead. Thought to be a heart attack at this time. I'll post when I hear about memorials.

Meanwhile, anyone up for adopting a couple of kitties?

Craig Salins had two wonderful cats, Buddy and Abby, and we're trying to find a good home for them. I used to feed them when he was out of town and they are very sweet. I don't have any pictures, but Buddy is mostly an orange tabby with white markings (male) and Abby is a beautiful calico (female). They are 7-8 years old and are brother and sister so we don't want to have to separate them if possible. They are indoor/outdoor cats and well behaved although they were used to being spoiled by Craig.

Please let me know if you are interested in taking in his cats and giving them a good home. I would take them in a heartbeat if I didn't already have 3 cats. Also, please feel free to forward to other choirs or groups you belong to, e.g. Phinney Chorus, Labor Chorus, etc.

Thank you so much,

Emily Leslie
[e-mail]
206-789-6967 (H)

[gopiscrap]

1. He wonderful to work with....

a leader for our community, town and state...Rest in Peace Craig! Mike Collier

[eridani]

2. Memorial scheduled for October 3, 2012

Craig will be memorialized at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle, 98103 on Wednesday, October 3rd in the evening from 7-9 PM. Seattle Peace Chorus will sing and we hope Wash Clean will have a short presentation. This will be an open house with light appetizers and desserts. Please feel free to bring your favorite dishes to share. If you have any questions about food, please
contact Julie Johnson at [e-mail].

There will be an open mike to use to share favorite stories about Craig. We expect that this will be an uplifting and affirming evening, despite our sadness at his loss.

Dennis and Sue Pool
Steve Salins
Dan Salins

[wrotironjohn]

3. Craig Showed Me The Way Into Activism!

Craig Salins was my mentor into the heady world of activism. He taught me to enjoy and relish standing up for justice, and blossoming thereby into dizzying self-respect. In this world of deceit and coercion, such an evolvement is truly soul-satisfying! You have served humanity well, Craig Salins, and humanity(and cats)truly miss you. Incarnate back with us as soon as you can! There is a very big warm hole that your early departure has left us with. We are already waiting anxiously for it to be filled somehow, but most who would try to fill it would only rattle around in it and make noise. Your calm and confident manner inspired us to stand up, smile, demonstrate, denounce, and then wipe the floor with those crooked weasels! You were not there to see it, but my day as a Complaint Resolution Committee action leader with Seattle Consumer Action Network was one of my proudest, and you WERE THERE in spirit, Craig! I faced down George Plattis in Bellevue and made him refund money given him for a car he had bought(cheaply) and then tried to re-sell after the St. Helens volcano dust had made junk of its engine! But you also taught us to be fair and magnanimous! Where there is confusion, bring clarity and peace. In victory, be noble and kind. Your gentle dressing-down of Bernard Haldane and Co. (a vocational consulting firm the name of which I felt more like the name for an insecticide!) is a case in point. The way you charmingly requested of the CEO an affirmation that he had actually charged a client good money who seriously wanted guidance in re-directing his professional focus as it were, only to say to him, "I think you should consider astronaut training!" As the very dignified CEO squirmed like a Cornish game hen on a spit, Craig simply smiled, as he very often did, and just said to us, "I really like this guy!" I really liked Craig, and I really miss him. John B. Rodgers, Seattle

[eridani]

4. Videotape of memorial now on YouTube

http://www.facebook.com/l/WAQFCy6B4/