Greetings,

Today is the last day that you can vote in the contest. Must vote by 10:00 PM PDT, Sat, May 31, 2008
We are BEHIND by 46 votes.

I am working locally with the Willamette Farm and Food coalition (www.lanefood.org)
and the Lane County Farmers market, OSU extension and various interested citizens.

http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/2281-Year-Round-Home-for-the-Lane-Co

This is a critical day for us, we are in a contest to win $10,000 in seed money to bring forth
the planning and design for a year round farmers market here in Eugene.

We are currently 46 votes BEHIND, every vote is crucial.

All the money from the contest will be donated to the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition
to bring the discussion forward.

May 31 is the last day to make a bold step toward supporting local farms and ensuring food security in Lane County!
Local activist Erin Ely has submitted the idea of starting a year-round farmer's market in Eugene to www.ideablob.com.

The winning idea gets $10,000. The money will be directly donated to the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition (www.lanefood.org) to bring the project forward.

This is an expansion of our existing Farmers market, not an either or choice. Please consider this, we are not taking anything away, we are adding to it.

Erin submitted this idea once before and lost by a handful of votes. A real heartbreaker!

We are currently BEHIND by 50 votes due to a major voting surge by the current first place idea yesterday!

We are up against massive internet networking so we need you to share this with your friends who are supportive of our efforts.

****If you voted anytime before May 22, 2008 you will need to vote again now****

http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/2281-Year-Round-Home-for-the-Lane-Co

Holly said: "It takes only three minutes to vote and it is very easy to get off their list after the voting is done. I did not get any spam as result of signing up either--only invitations to vote for the next month's ideas."

All 8 ideas are listed on the home page under the "May Showdown" on the right hand side of the page.

This is the link directly to our contest idea:
http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/2281-Year-Round-Home-for-the-Lane-Co

Please log on to www.ideablob.com and vote today for this idea on the home page:

"Year Round Home for the Lane County Farmers Market"

If you voted anytime before May 22, 2008 you will need to vote again now.

******Anyone in the world, over the age of 18 can vote in this contest****

The contest ends on May 31st; 10:00 PM PST.

This will take 3 to 5 minutes of your time.

1. Register on the http://ideablob.com/login site by creating a username, password and
email address. This takes about 3-4 minutes. (You do NOT have to give your phone number,
or physical address, and they will not spam you with advertising.)

If you already registered and voted before in Feb, when we were in the contest the first time, you will not need to re-register but you do need your username and password to get in and vote again. You need to vote again, this is a new contest.

2. Once you have registered, Ideablob.com will send an email with a link that you must click on
to confirm your registration.

3. Now you get to vote, which takes all of 30 seconds. Go to:

http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/2281-Year-Round-Home-for-the-Lane-Co

*****If you have problems registering or voting*****
Contact Erin: ideablob@elyorganics.com or 541-913-6836

We will need 1000s of votes to win, please share this with 5 to 10 or more of your friends!!!

Thank you for your support!