Great agenda, excellent cause (Editorial)

The expanding effort to help the Hudson farm family of Berlin, Md. through some perilous — financial and emotional — times continues this coming Saturday, Feb. 18. at the Queen Anne’s County 4-H Park.
This is not a sit-down-and-eat-then-go-home kind of deal.
It’s an afternoon and evening gig of family fun and fellowship — and, of course, a lot of good food.
It starts at 3 p.m., so there has to be a lot on “the menu.”
The Hudsons, as is widely known, are being sued by the Waterkeeper Alliance for what Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s troupe of high-paid lawyers allege to be a violation of environmental law.
It wasn’t, state officials have confirmed, but the alliance — and its legal go-fers, otherwise known as the students at the University of Maryland School of Law — are undeterred.
Saturday’s benefit, and others which have preceded it, have been arranged and promoted and supported by the farm community, both here and across the country, to swell a legal defense fund for the family.
On Saturday, for $25 — $15 for the kids — you can fill up on local food and products, enjoy live and silent auctions, a 50-50 raffle and a cash bar for beer and wine.
Think chicken, beef, pork, ham and biscuits, cheese, deserts and ice cream.
Think auction items like NASCAR skybox tickets for the Monster Mile in Dover, Del., a diamond necklace, two nights at the Hilton, a weeklong stay at Ocean City, Md., a plane ride for two over your farm or home or business, seed corn, farm toys ... even a golf package for a foursome at this newspaper’s annual scholarship benefit tournament in August.
Think the most recent entry into the auction sweepstakes: From Atlantic Tractor, the use of a 335-horsepower 8335R tractor, equipped with a lot of bells and whistles for 100 hours — a value estimated at $6,000.
Think friends and neighboring farmers and lots of time for fellowship.
And think that every dollar you spend will go to help the Hudsons beat a real bad rap.
See you there!