| Bellingham
Volunteering Trip
April 21 - 24, 2010 Just a quick, full, productive, action-packed trip to have several working meetings with four organizations, do some manual labor, attend a career fair and see as many friends as I could squeeze into four days, sunup to sundown. |
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| April 21 | |||||
| Light rail
parking fiasco half way to LAX.
A beautiful day & flight in. Until we got to landing and below the (ugh!) clouds & rain. |
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| From BLI, via Irene to Dr. Fuhrmeister and WECU. It's already hectic. | 2-6 pm working meeting meeting (action plan, flowchart) with Irene, Joy, Mike re: Whatcom Re-Entry Coalition pilot project (furniture) and Joy Institute. | 6:30 to see Frank, Beth, Mitch who so graciously offered me their extra bedroom for 3 nights. | |||
| April 22 | |||||
| 9:00 Colophone
Cafe mtg. w/ John B. re: Chuckanut Ridge distribution of media CD
9:30 Colophone Cafe mtg. w/ Irene, Joy, Adam 11:00 Village Books lunch mtg. w/ Irene, Joy 1:15 career fair at Western Washington University 2:00 Responsible Development fund-raising CD meeting with John B, MaryAnn, Jon S |
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3:45 Boundary Bay Brewery BBQ, collaborate with Jon S about continued organized opposition to Chuckanut Ridge. |
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4:15 Don Kirchner award at Boundary Bay Brewery beer garden w/ Irene, Karen for his books, writings and speaking about Whatcom Re-Entry Coalition Also received my own certificate of Appreciation from Whatcom Re-Entry Coalition |
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| 5:30 Downtown
Bellingham walkabout before going to a radio performance.
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| The burned out Whatcom Middle School |  |
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Ref.:
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-110509-whatcomschoolfire,0,5530416.story |
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| 7:30 Attend the Chuckanut Radio Hour at the Leopold Ballroom where Beth was singing with her group during intermissions | |||||
| April 23 | |||||
| 8:45 Bayside Grill for breakfast with Lionel, Heidi | |||||
| 10:00 Amy's Place to discuss grant opportunities research & writing. Then workshop training for Cameron & Heidi for website with June & Wendy from BWyse. |  |
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| 3:30 Back to the Bayside Grill for e-mailing & phone calls. |  |
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| 5:30 Back to Amy's Place to observe the Friday night activities at the new center that we setup during Christmas week 2009. |  |
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| Visit Kurt & Janet to say hello. I'm pooped. | |||||
| April 24 | |||||
| Return flight at 7:00 after a short night's sleep. Uneventful & a nice day to be flying. |  |
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| Car parking at Crenshaw station turned out to be free and not towed. Yippie. | |||||
