Week of 7/4/11 - 7/10/11
* Eastmoreland July 4th parade
* Volunteer at Oregon Foodbank Waterfront Blues Festival
* Umpteenth Annual Fritz Family Legal Fireworks Extravaganza in the street outside my home, made marginally more interesting (though perhaps not more enjoyable) this year by making frozen nonfat yogurt instead of regular high-fat ice cream
* Phone call with Representative Mary Nolan
* Phone call with Bill Gallagher, KATU News
* Phone call with Beth Slovic, the Oregonian
* Amalia Alarcon de Morris, Director of the Office of Neighborhood Involvement
* Bill Leissner, constituent, regarding Last Thursday
* Carmen Merlo, Director of Portland Office of Emergency Management (POEM), and Ellen Osoinach, City Attorney's office, regarding POEM code changes
* Southeast Uplift Board meeting
* Out on City business instead of attending the Wednesday morning City Council session - participating in a day-long meeting of Safer PDX project leaders, seeking to reduce contacts between police and people experiencing mental illnesses
* Weekly meeting with Office of Human Relations staff
* Phone call with Corey Pein, Willamette Week, regarding cellular facilities
* Meeting with Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) staff to discuss Sam Jackson Road
* Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) leaders
* NE Coalition of Neighbors (NECN) Executive Committee meeting, which (surprise!) was a public hearing on Last Thursday
* Anna Kanwit, Bureau of Human Resources, and Jerrel Gaddis
* Darryl Turner (President of the Portland Police Association), Lisa Turley (Director of the Bureau of Emergency Communications), Assistant Police Chief Larry O'Dea, Anna Kanwit (Deputy Director of the Bureau of Human Resources), and other City staff members re: CAD
* Hanif Fazal, Open Meadow's "Step Up" Program Director, re: Office of Equity
* Arbor Lodge Park Pesticides-free park cleanup
* Mississippi Street Fair and grand opening of new ZoomCare facility
* International District Festival - present awards and help with clean up
* Parkrose Barn Bash
Dinners with family: Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.
