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The Spokesman-Review

SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 2004

Rotary breaks ground on park fountain

“This is going to be one of those things that brings ‘Wow!’ to the city,” West said.









by me, Kerry Burgess, posted publicly on the internet by me: November 20, 2016 8:41 pm

Stargate: The Movie (1994)

MYERS
(amazed)
He's right. It was in front of us the whole time.









From 8/15/1977 ( the so-called "Wow!" signal received at the Ohio State University Big Ear Observatory ) To 11/20/2016 ( ) is 14342 days

14342 = 7171 + 7171

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1985 ( premiere USA film "Cocoon" ) is 7171 days



From 11/22/1953 ( premiere USA TV series episode "You Are There"::"The Sailing of the Mayflower" ) To 12/10/2004 ( the government of the City of Spokane officially breaks ground for the Riverfront Park Fountain ) is 18646 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/20/2016 ( ) is 18646 days









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

Mayflower

From Wikipedia

Mayflower was an English square-rigged merchant sailing ship, active from before 1609 until 1622.

notable in that she [sic] transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.

After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts on 21 November [O.S. 11 November] 1620. The Pilgrims, often conflated with the Puritans (who sought to reform and purify the Church of England from within), sought separation from the church and prayed privately. They believed that the church's resistance to reform and its Roman Catholic past left it beyond redemption. Starting in 1608, a group of English families departed England for the Netherlands, where they could worship [ superstition ; mass-hysteria ; psychological-defense caused by your cowardly terror of mortality ] freely.









The Spokesman-Review

SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 2004

Rotary breaks ground on park fountain

By Hilary Kraus

The seed was planted nearly 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until Friday that city and Rotary Club officials broke ground on the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park.

Beneath an intermittent drizzle, the group gathered on a three-quarter-acre site that will be transformed into a $1.25 million interactive water fountain and plaza. It is scheduled to open in late May 2005, in time for the Northwest district Rotary conference.

Project designer Bob Perron was among those who watched as the first holes were dug into the cold, wet ground by Mayor Jim West, Dan Cadagan, Rotary Foundation project committee chairman, and other dignitaries. Perron, designer of Riverfront Park, had the vision of an elaborate entrance fountain in 1975.”There was not enough money in the budget then,” Perron said.

Perron, a resident of Portland and architect of that city’s Salmon Street Spring, said the idea resurfaced about 2½ years ago. The Rotary Club wanted to make a major contribution to the city.

The fountain and plaza are being funded by a public-private partnership between the Spokane Park Board and the Downtown Spokane Rotary Club 21. The fundraising has reached 96 percent of the needed amount, thanks to 415 donors, including 31 who each gave more than $5,000.

“This is by far the most significant project we have ever taken on,” Nancy Kennedy, Club 21 president said during the formal ceremony.

The fountain and plaza will bring a radically different look to the entrance of the park. It will cover an area from the Spokane River to Spokane Falls Boulevard on the south border and from the carousel to the “Christmas tree” on the west edge.

Harold Balazs, commissioned as the sculptor, has designed a work that will tell the story of the Spokane Falls and its relationship to native people.

“We were interested in a fountain that reflected in the history of the community,” said Perron, who has worked with Balazs on other architectural projects.

But unlike Perron’s original idea – sculptured children holding hands in water – the flat-deck Rotary Fountain will be run by computer and will be constantly changing. It will have about 140 water jets, sprays, misters, ground hugging fog and other features. It will stand on five stainless columns that are 24 feet high.

The fountain will be open for anyone who wants to play in the water, and will operate from 6 a.m. until midnight from mid-spring to mid-fall, temperature permitting. The fountain may be operated in winter with the mist creating ice formations.

Annual maintenance is estimated between $20,000 and $25,000, Cadagan said. Power alone would cost about $12,000 a year.

Perron said most of the construction is underground piping, which can be done in winter.

“This is going to be one of those things that brings ‘Wow!’ to the city,” West said.









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)

Identification (literature)

From Wikipedia

Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.









Stargate (1994)

(from internet transcript)

CATHERINE
It's your Stargate. Come, Jackson.

[She moves away. After another moment, Daniel follows.]

COMPUTER VOICE
Personnel, report to command center.

INT CONTROL ROOM

[Myers, Daniel, and Catherine enter the control room.]

MYERS
Monitors up.

WOMAN
Monitors are up.

MYERS
Mitch, you want to bring up the details on the center monitor, please.

MITCH
Yep. I've got details...on.

[He punches a few keys. A computer monitor shows an image of the Stargate with seven blank boxes to the right. It reads "idle".]

[The Stargate spins around. Shore has now joined the others in the room. On one screen close up images of all the constellation glyphs can be seen. Daniel notices one glyph in particular, the "pyramid" with a circle above it.]

DANIEL
Hold it!

[They stop the Stargate spinning.]

DANIEL
Wait. Do you have a...um...sorry.

[He looks around, spotting a marker in Mitch's pocket and grabbing it.]

MITCH
Hey, hey, hey, don't...!

[Daniel has already begun drawing his little stick figures on the actual monitor screen.]

DANIEL
Two figures on either side, praying beside a pyramid with the sun directly above it.

MYERS
(amazed)
He's right. It was in front of us the whole time.

[Catherine reaches for a phone and dials an extension.]

CATHERINE
(into phone)
General West, Jackson has identified the seventh symbol.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:53 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 05/22/2026