"What a wonderful idea."

We've been getting a lot of encouragement and well wishes for the merger. Beautiful greeting cards, emails, verbal kudos, and congratulatory notes attached to generous donations. Here is my favourite so far:

I heartily approve of what you are doing. I'm sending a cheque for $50 to get started, and a VOID cheque authorizing a monthly deduction of $10.00. Hope this helps.

Don't get too pumped up, though: I was born in 1917, so if you do the math you know the monthly contribution will come to an end - but I hope not for a while yet.

Jack