McIntire Park
McIntire Park is a park in Charlottesville, VA which has apparently become a favorite hangout of Christian Weston Chandler during 2009. It features a chalkboard wall where visitors can leave whatever messages (or drawings of your favorite hedgehog hero!) as they see fit. Every April, the annual Dogwood Festival is held at the park, featuring a fireworks display.
The park is currently at the center of a local controversy, due to plans to reallocate part of the area to a new YMCA facility and a parkway. In the summer of 2009 Chris joined the effort to save the park, presumably out of his insatiable need for attention rather than any particular concern for the public good.
On 22 July 2009, local NBC affiliate WVIR ran a story on the 6 o'clock news about the controversy surrounding the park. During an interview with a representative of the McIntire Preservation Community, Chris managed to walk into the shot making sure to carefully hold up his Sonichu medallion to make sure people would know who he is.
At some point prior to 14 August 2009, Chris created a two-foot-wide sign featuring Sonichu, Rosechu, and their children with giant wads of babbling text, intended to express support for the park. The youngsters are holding extremely tiny signs that read "SAVE MCINTIRE PARK," which would be impossible to read from more than six feet away, rendering the sign largely useless.
The sign would be seen in a video where Chris used his artwork to refute the claims of CChanSonichuCWC. On 17 August Chris brought the sign with him to a Charlottesville city council meeting, and was recognized for his effort. Chris began to ramble until the city council told him to pipe down, earning the envy of millions.
It is possible, that since Chris is like a sponge to mass media, that he thinks that he will be seen as a "hero" if he succeeds at saving McIntire, due to various pieces of media using this trope as a plot point.
