"Don't cry because it is over. Smile because it happened."
--unknown

Dear Sonics: It's been a good forty years. We've stuck stuck together through good times and bad. Through two mascots. Even when you officially dropped the Super part of the the team name and just became the Sonics. We've loved you, really, and wish you didn't have to go. But since you do, we're throwing you a going-away party on Thursday May 11th, at noon at City Hall. Your fans and friends will be there to toast you and send you off in style. Thanks for the memories. They make us smile.

Seattle Sonics Going-Away party

Date: Thursday May 11th, noon-1PM
Location: City Hall Plaza (off 4th avenue)

Community leaders and concerned citizens will gather to wish the Sonics well in whatever future city they decide to call home and make clear to the City of Seattle and other elected officials that we have more pressing needs than bailing out the Sonics by spending $200 million to remodel Key Arena.

This won't be a typical rally--it will be a real live going-away party, with cake, toasts, songs, parting gifts, and MVP awards (for more valuable priorities!) We'll deliver going away cards to the City Council, and ask them to pass them along to the Sonics. And we'll deliver a petition being circulated to say no public subsidy for Key Arena. We expect to have 1,000 names by May 11th.

Contact: Rachael Myers: 206.618.2757 or Alice Woldt 206.625.9790 ext 13
Visit www.finethenleave.com to sign the petition, leave a note for the team, or participate in an unscientific opinion polls.