Right after we saw (last week's) accident, we were both transported back to the events of two years ago. Then Bruce said to me 'we were spared for a reason.' We both know what it is.

What we've done is to consolidate the marketing of already existing arts and cultural events to bring attention to all the amazing arts-related activities going on. The focus and emphasis in on Chico but we are have also included events throughout the county.

It is tough right now with the field events. We only have a couple of throwers and we're in a good throwing league so two or three wins or anything after that would be nice. I think this team can do it.

When the field events do well, the track (runners) come right behind them.

When I log on, it pops up right away, so I check out the snowboarding and skiing events? Not so much.

Right now, we need to tear off the rear-view mirror and look forward to our final two events. The nice thing about Nordic is there's a lot of emotion in the race. We can still dig deep and rise above tonight's events to put together a strong performance for the win.