Pride In The Park was Maple Valley’s pride event, and Saga participated in it, running a booth there, providing activities, and little goodies for the eventies.

But what was it like for Saga, a school club, to run a booth there?

Well Cora Ray, one of Saga’s members put it best: “Sure it wasn’t perfect, but not everything’s perfect, sometimes flaws are what makes things fun.”

But with how hectic it was running a booth, how successful were they?

Well Ember Camp, Saga’s president defined success as: “Finding something meaningful that we could do at Pride In The Park, or that at least leaves people with an experience.”

While Peter Mutisya, Saga’s vice-president defined success as: “Do what we did last year, considering what last year was … (because) they were able to do all of this, considering all the drama that was happening, all the discourse and lack of a board that they had, if we couldn’t do that then I feel like it is a failure on us, so success for me wasn’t even like going above and beyond, it was just meeting that benchline that they set before, cause we had ample conditions to do a lot greater, and I think we did do a lot greater, so success for me wasn’t a specified number of bracelets that we made, or people that we talked too, it was more of getting out there and doing what we did last year.”

Camp considered Saga “Very successful, I think our activities brought a lot of attention … we gave out flags, we gave out little figures that people could paint, and most popularly we had bracelet making, which I feel people used to express themselves, I made a bracelet for my partner and a lot of people made bracelets for each other, for themselves, for their kids, it was very successful in that way.”

Although Camp, and Mutisya thought the club’s preparation could be improved, with Camp stating: “I feel like it was definitely cobbled together, it was over a long period of time, but I feel like not a lot was necessarily done in that time, it all kinda came together on the day, instead of being prepared beforehand.”

Additionally, Mutisya wanted to add:  “I’m happy to have these people, and even happier to see how mature they are as there were these two people holding up protester signs, and to some degree hateful messages on their signs … all our students recognize[d] it, have a disdain for it, but still compose[d] themselves, and allowed it not to agitate them, I’m happy to see that maturity in our students.”