A third of Squamish was at Brennan Park to see the Olympic Torch.    Inspirational words were shared with the crowd by important officials.  Original phrases such as:
- “We’re all here because of you, Squamish!”
- “Go Canada Go!”
- “Are you ready to make some noise?”
- “These are *your* games!”
- “You can accomplish anything you set your mind to!”
- “This is the best crowd yet!”
and my favourite:
- “Thank you, mayor MacGregor.” (The mayor’s name is Greg Gardner. If only he had said, “Mayor McCheese“)
The generic Coca Cola stage show was about the weirdest bit of corporate propaganda I have ever witnessed, but the crowd’s red-white-and-red enthusiasm was for Canada, not Coke. The torch was brought in, the cauldron was lit, and important officials patted each other on the back for a while. There were some great performances by the Squamish Community, including G. Jogi Daduwalia and the Squamish Bhangra Crew, and the West Coast Lumberjack Show.
The evening ended with some really good fireworks, but for some reason I was thirsty for a cola-like beverage, so we called a friend on my Samsung phone, hopped in a Chevrolet, gassed up at the Petro Canada with my RBC VISA, then headed off to McDonalds.
OK, we didn’t do any of that stuff. We went to the Shady Tree and had beer and chicken wings.
