As the chair for the Neighborhood Party that we had on Sept 20, I was very happy with the turnout.  We were expecting only about 250-300 people to show up, but we must've had around 500-600.  It was a great thing my Colleague and had solicited enough donations of food and beverages to accomodate the amount of people that showed up.  I was so excited that it was a succes, since my colleagues Beverly and I, put so much effort into it.  This is definitely not the last time that this will happen.