It is gratifying to see this many people all together. Hundreds help for Thomas the Tank and the Christmas trains...Throughout the year, about 250-300 people come from not only Boone but all over central Iowa to help.

This is just a portion of the people who volunteer throughout the year. They are so sincere about (volunteering). When we ran the Polar Express, we needed 35 people for each train to be fully staffed. We had 14 trains and never had any trouble getting volunteers.

This really worked out well. I've never seen this many people at the end of the night.

We're looking for survival here. This is us we're talking about, we really need to turn this around. We need to let the rest of the world know about us. We've got to stand tall and talk about it.

We happen to be in a market that's full of change and full of pressure, and people are seeking answers. The challenges in health care are good for a firm like ours.

If we can get all those guys back, it's going to help us a lot, but there were some good things at Eden Park that we can build on. We competed well at set phase and shared possession with Auckland. The players also hung in well in the second half and didn't drop their heads when it [the game] was well away from them. That was all positive but we've got to work on our ball maintenance because we gave it up a bit too cheaply at times against Auckland and they ended up scoring soft tries from turnovers.