Along with the 23 backers who have raised $1,455 for the No Second Railroad Bridge over Idaho's Largest Lake! crowdfunding campaign, supporting the WIRT lawsuit against a state permit for BNSF's proposed, parallel, fossil fuels facilitating, rail bridges across Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek, WIRT offers our hearty thanks to Bev Bassett, Shelley Brock, Sharon Cousins, Larry Evans, Kristen Owenreay, Steve Thompson, Barbara and Richard Wells, Rusty West, and Sandy Wikum, who each contributed $25 to $100, and together $450, between November 5 and 17.  We can't wait to publicly share big case news with you!

Thanks to Bill Beck, David Brookbank, Bob Loftus, Ben Rall, and an anonymous contributor, who each donated $15 to $25 during the last week, and helped us reach our initial, $1,000, threshold goal, at which CrowdJustice coverts pledges into payments.  As we respond to significant filings since October 29, and await the results of a November 7, scheduling hearing, WIRT activists are grateful for regional community support of our petition for judicial review, challenging a state agency permit that facilitates expanded, railroad industry pollution and endangerment of not only Lake Pend Oreille, Sand Creek, north Idaho, and their residents, but all Northwest, rail-side environments and communities.  Please continue to pitch in!

Thanks to an anonymous, $500 contributor and to 350Sandpoint organizer Jean Gerth and Sandpoint #No2ndBridge and WIRT activist Denise Dombrowski, who respectively contributed $50 and $40 via the CrowdJustice fundraising page, and to Joan Temple of Seattle, for her $30 mailed donation, all supporting the WIRT petition for judicial review of the Idaho Department of Lands encroachment permit for BNSF's four proposed, railroad, and temporary work bridges over Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek in north Idaho. WE STILL NEED HELP reaching our $1,000 threshold goal, when we start receiving funds directly applied to $1,500 in attorney fees due by Friday, November 2, and our ultimate target of $15,000, which would likely cover the entire cost of this litigation. Please share this CrowdJustice fundraising campaign with your network, as WIRT anticipates big, breaking news about this case in the next few days!

Thanks to Judy Butler, Nicholas Cloke, Bob Greene, John Kemmick, David Perk, and Nancy Shimeall, who together contributed $325 to this #No2ndBridge legal effort, via the CrowdJustice and WIRT websites!  Your generous donations protect Idaho’s greatest asset, Lake Pend Oreille and its 43 percent of Columbia River basin water, from fossil fuels and hazardous materials pollution, derailments, and spills facilitated by this lawsuit-challenged, Idaho permit for BNSF’s Sandpoint Junction Connector project.  Other Northwest and continent-wide activists, please join this giving campaign!

Thanks to Penny Gideon, Sue Koller, Ellen Roskovich, Christine Sugg, and Sandpoint Farmers’ Market WIRT outreach table visitors, who have together contributed $1100 toward the $4,656 WIRT expenses of this lawsuit between July 20, when we first filed our notice of appeal and petition for judicial review of IDL’s encroachment permit for BNSF’s Sandpoint Junction Connector project, and October 23, when we launched this No Second Railroad Bridge over Idaho’s Largest Lake! crowdfunding campaign on CrowdJustice! We also offer our gratitude to core WIRT activist and tar sands megaload protester extraordinaire Herb Goodwin, for donating the first $25 in CrowdJustice pledges! By October 31, WIRT still needs to raise for our attorney $1500, a huge amount (along with an initial $3500) for low-income, volunteer, grassroots activists.