He was the best and I hate to see it go away." Six clergymen went under bridge overpasses and through city parks to meet the homeless in an overnight visit that served as a spiritual kickoff to a $1.2 million fund-raising drive.
The decision: Use it as the kickoff.
"We see this as a kickoff to building a pro-choice presence in this state," said Jill Spangler, co-chair of the coalition.
The Republicans won Lady Liberty's hand for the traditional Labor Day kickoff of their presidential campaign, but the Democrats will try to steal their thunder with a visit to neighboring Ellis Island two days earlier.
Why did I lose that 1986 campaign?" the 60-year Republican told his kickoff rally in Spokane this spring. "There are many answers, but the most important can be reduced to a single, simple word: listening.
The 250 pieces to be auctioned, selected by a jury consisting of an artist, a dealer and a collector, are displayed at the kickoff reception the night before the auction, in the handsome museum built to exhibit and preserve Russell's work.
During a pre-season game in Rockford, Ill., the opening kickoff struck the rafters of the Metro Centre.
But trading was extremely quiet ahead of the kickoff of the Treasury's huge quarterly refunding operation.
Al Edwards got the first all by himself on a 91-yard kickoff runback.
"We expect to play it as scheduled, but we will take events in the Middle East into account right up to kickoff," says Greg Aiello, communications director for the National Football League.
One hundred political enthusiasts converged on Washington Wednesday for the kickoff of the Democrats' annual campaign summer camp.
The agreement, which involves five grocery chains and a produce distributor, represents only the kickoff of a national campaign to enlist grocers in the fight against pesticides, the environmentalists told a news conference.
Stray kickoff: MBA magazine sent around its initial issue with a cover story on the management of the Super Bowl Champ Chicago Bears, almost to the day the Bears were being knocked out of this year's play-offs.
The SuperSports game was scheduled to begin last week, but a flurry of court activity on a lawsuit filed by horse racing groups delayed its kickoff.
Also in Sunday's kickoff ceremonies, a red and yellow helium balloon took flight at Paris' Tuileries Gardens carrying a man dressed in a wig and period costume.
Since then, it has organized ever larger annual marches the day after Thanksgiving _ kickoff day of the holiday shopping season.