FIRST FRIDAY in JUNE is on the 6th from 5pm - LATE.

Highlights For June 6th:
• LEMON DAYS Summer Sidewalk Sale

• The Artists Gallery presents, Marilyn Turley, watercolorist and esteemed gallery member, demostrating watercolor painting techniques. Marilyn will provide instruction to guests wishing to paint a greeting card. Come paint with the artist and take home an original work of art.

• Listen to our First Friday Radio spot on MIXX 96. (Or listen to it here!)

Thank you MIXX 96.

Participating Locations:
Abstractions Gallery, Archibald Sisters, Artist's Gallery, Bella Boutique,
Blue Heron Candle Co., Blue Lotus Cafe, Bonaventure, Caffe Vita, Childhood's End Gallery, Darby's Cafe, einmaleins, 510 Interiors, Home Body Eco-Luxe Living, Hot Toddy, Reflections Gallery, Room 30, Studio Four18, Sweet Life, The Black Front Gallery, Wind up Here.

Contact us, if you'd like to participate, or have questions about events and locations. 

For more info, go to:

Everyday Olympia

See you downtown,

mathias

einmaleins

This weekend will be the great LEMON DAY extravaganza in town.

Downtowns biggest sale of the year. Dozens of stores will participate and discount their great fare to rock-bottom prices. How can you afford to not be there. Well, we won't pay you to shop but with some of the deals you're getting it'll feel almost as if we would.

Check out www.everydayolympia.com for more details.

I've been working away on the Friends of the Waterfront website, adding stuff about how the owners of the million dollar condos Triway wants to build would be excused from paying property taxes for ten years, etc. But personally, I'm most interested in thinking about exactly what images politicians, and people on the Planning Commission and the rest of us use in deciding what the city will look like for years and years.

I'm pretty much done with commenting on Triway's images for the website. Now I'm starting to make my own versions, roughing out what the city might look like instead of having high rises down there. It's interesting — maybe we should have a virtual redevelopment contest... above-ground Moxlie Creek in Photoshop, etc.

Here's a start

Advocates for the houseless-homeless-mobil homeless (rv-car campers) continue their grassroots efforts in Lacey and Olympia, as evidenced by recent Olympian and olyblog reports.

• Olympia council to discuss RV parking rules tonight Eugene, Ore., tells how it successfully controlled problem
• Lacey ban on tent city challenged
• "We all have a part..."

For Immediate Release: June 3, 2008
Contact: Janine Gates, President, SPEECH, 360-791-7736

Community Forum, "Envision Downtown Olympia"

A public forum on Downtown Olympia's future will be held on Thursday, June 19, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 1224 Legion Way SE.

The forum, "Envision Downtown Olympia," is sponsored by the non-profit organization South Puget Environmental Education Clearinghouse (SPEECH) with support from the Community Sustaining Fund. The public is invited to envision different perspectives on what we, as a community, want for downtown Olympia. The forum will also address the Urban Waterfront Rezone proposal submitted to the city by Triway Enterprises.

Forum speakers include Rich Hoey, Water Resources Director at City of Olympia Public Works, who will give a presentation on predicted sea-level rise in downtown Olympia; Barbara Gooding, former director of the Washington State Department of Community Development and former City of Olympia planning commissioner, who will offer a brief history of Olympia's current downtown zoning issues; Steve Cooper, downtown property owner; and Bob Jacobs, former mayor of Olympia and member of Friends of the Waterfront. Eve Johnson, former president of the League of Women Voters, will be the moderator.

Audience members will actively participate in the visioning and discussion.

SPEECH can be reached at (360) 528-9158, speech.greenpages@gmail.com or www.oly-wa.us/greenpages.

Free Mechele: A positive place to share in the journey of bringing Mechele Linehan home, is run by friends and family of the former Olympian and wife and mother. Besides updates the site allows supporters to donate assistance to the Linehan family. Merchandise, including shirts and buttons, is also available for sale.

I listened to my intuition and went from the party to the Olympia Food Coop. I browsed the aisles until I realized it wasn't chipotle I was after. It was connection. I would leave only footprints and take only photos. After the photo ops with these local celebrities I headed home.

Quitty!

and Lisa Smith of Enterprise for Equity! She let me know that they've moved the Summer Intensive Training schedule up. Instead of waiting until August I only have to wait two weeks!

Wait a minute! Quitty and Equity?! What a quincidence!

... It was just another damn dog smoking a cigarette.

But even so, after the gridlines vanished, and the little twinkly dots started to regroup, my magical buzz started to fade as I realized ...