Hoopfest cont.

"When the last games are over around 4 PM on Sunday, Ben and I meet our crews and we begin the task of tearing down everything that we had built on Friday night. The baskets structures, pads, tables, and chairs all get put back in storage for next year. All the tape on the streets is removed. And Riverfront Park is left as clean as we found it. By 10 pm, people are driving on the streets of downtown Spokane where 7 hours earlier there were hundreds of thousands of people of all ages enjoying street basketball on a sunny weekend in June in Downtown Spokane. Hoopfest is a big economic boost for Spokane and Hoopfest donates a portion of what it makes to a number of non profit organizations including Washington Special Olympics. Hoopfest would not happen without the thousands of volunteers. Craig, Tom, Chris, Ben, Patti and I are all proud to be a part of this great event."