Just spoke with someone who was in court all day. The hearing went until after 5 PM and the neighborhood was still presenting it's case.
The hearing will continue tomorrow morning with a break at 11 as the Judge has something else on her schedule and then will re-convene at 1 PM tomorrow afternoon.
Apparently the neighborhood's attorney called some of the Drainage District as witnesses. The neighborhood still has witnesses who need to testify and then the Drainage District will present it's case.
Stay tuned. If I get any specifics tonight about today's testimony I will post them...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Slight update - sorry
The hearing started about 10:15 and was mostly about legalities, scope of the hearing, and opening arguments by both sides. At noon - the judge said time for a lunch break and the hearing was to continue at 1 PM.
What had happened by noon was that the first witness for the neighborhood was about half way through his testimony. So he had to finish and then be subjected to cross examination.
The heat was on in the courtroom but with the windows open making some of us feel headachy !
I was one of those and was among the many who left at the lunch break. We figured the hearing had little chance of finishing today unless things moved more quickly after the lunch break and I don't know how late Portland hearings can or do go on in the afternoon.
As soon as someone who stays gets back to me - I will post any updates.
Side note - even if you enjoy technical legal arguing - this was not enjoyable... and I am a legal junkie...
What had happened by noon was that the first witness for the neighborhood was about half way through his testimony. So he had to finish and then be subjected to cross examination.
The heat was on in the courtroom but with the windows open making some of us feel headachy !
I was one of those and was among the many who left at the lunch break. We figured the hearing had little chance of finishing today unless things moved more quickly after the lunch break and I don't know how late Portland hearings can or do go on in the afternoon.
As soon as someone who stays gets back to me - I will post any updates.
Side note - even if you enjoy technical legal arguing - this was not enjoyable... and I am a legal junkie...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Judge and courtroom announcement
We are before Judge Alicia Fuchs at 9:00 a.m. in courtroom 324.
That's tomorrow - October 3
See you there - but if you can't make it check back here as I will post something as soon as I get home from the hearing
That's tomorrow - October 3
See you there - but if you can't make it check back here as I will post something as soon as I get home from the hearing
Monday, October 01, 2007
Plan ahead
We in this neighborhood do more than fight for trees or go to court in order to report on the legalities. [But I am a legal/politikal junkie at heart so I find it sort of fun : - )]
Most of us do other things...and I'll put a blatant ad here for myself!
I take pictures. I sell my pictures too. And I am part of an art group that has a show at the end of October..on the 28th. Pictures I have taken of the trees and flowers along our levee will be on display at this show.
CELEBRATION OF ART
October 28th, 9 am to 3 pm
Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane
Portland Oregon
The magic begins as you enter our Main Exhibit Hall. Live music by well known recording artists and performers will greet your ears, and a coffee house featuring fresh treats will tantalize your palate as you listen to the musical stylings of Stephanie Schneiderman (of Dirty Martini fame), George Fendel, jazz pianist, and Justin Jude, recently named "Oregon's Best Singer/Songwriter 2007!"
Stroll from exhibit to exhibit to experience a unique show that blends the best elements of a gallery opening with an artist colony tour -- with a coffee house of a forgotten age tossed in. Celebrating their second year as a collective, ORA artists invite the public to discover their new work. Although the artists are Jewish , Judaic and secular works are available for purchase.
Members of ORA are: Rosana Berdichevsky, collage and multi-media; Lynn Dorman, photography; Leslie Elder water colors, Robin Esterkin, water color,acrylic and mixed media; Laurie Fendel, fabric construction; Diane Fredgant, silk painting; Sara Harwin, fabric construction, acrylic painting and serigraph prints; Julie Hockley, hand-cast precious metal jewelry and ritual objects; Esther Liberman, handmade bead work; Sharon Segal, acrylic and mixed media paintings and cards; Eddy Shuldman, fused glass; and Sabina Wohlfeiler, water color paintings.
You don't need to be Jewish to come look, schmooze with the artists, nosh a little, and buy art that speaks to you. Best of all, admission is free!
If you want to see some of our work go to the full ORA website HERE
or for the ORA blog go HERE
Most of us do other things...and I'll put a blatant ad here for myself!
I take pictures. I sell my pictures too. And I am part of an art group that has a show at the end of October..on the 28th. Pictures I have taken of the trees and flowers along our levee will be on display at this show.
CELEBRATION OF ART
October 28th, 9 am to 3 pm
Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane
Portland Oregon
The magic begins as you enter our Main Exhibit Hall. Live music by well known recording artists and performers will greet your ears, and a coffee house featuring fresh treats will tantalize your palate as you listen to the musical stylings of Stephanie Schneiderman (of Dirty Martini fame), George Fendel, jazz pianist, and Justin Jude, recently named "Oregon's Best Singer/Songwriter 2007!"
Stroll from exhibit to exhibit to experience a unique show that blends the best elements of a gallery opening with an artist colony tour -- with a coffee house of a forgotten age tossed in. Celebrating their second year as a collective, ORA artists invite the public to discover their new work. Although the artists are Jewish , Judaic and secular works are available for purchase.
Members of ORA are: Rosana Berdichevsky, collage and multi-media; Lynn Dorman, photography; Leslie Elder water colors, Robin Esterkin, water color,acrylic and mixed media; Laurie Fendel, fabric construction; Diane Fredgant, silk painting; Sara Harwin, fabric construction, acrylic painting and serigraph prints; Julie Hockley, hand-cast precious metal jewelry and ritual objects; Esther Liberman, handmade bead work; Sharon Segal, acrylic and mixed media paintings and cards; Eddy Shuldman, fused glass; and Sabina Wohlfeiler, water color paintings.
You don't need to be Jewish to come look, schmooze with the artists, nosh a little, and buy art that speaks to you. Best of all, admission is free!
If you want to see some of our work go to the full ORA website HERE
or for the ORA blog go HERE
Not the levee - but relevant
I'm cross posting this from another of my blogs as it is relevant...
http://lynnsrants.blogspot.com/2007/10/science-not-from-this-administration.html
We are expected to believe this government and it's entities when they tell us what their "science" is...well here is an op-ed piece about how this administration deals with "science."
Another in the long line of "my way " - even about science - you know the area we used to say the USA was good at.
Well apparently science is not good anymore if it conflicts with a corporate bottom line!!
From an op-ed in the L.A. Times ...
As a Developmental Psychologist who advocates "real" science and breast feeding for optimal development in infants - this is sickening!
Don't children count anymore? Rhetorical question - of course they don't...they don't vote!
http://lynnsrants.blogspot.com/2007/10/science-not-from-this-administration.html
We are expected to believe this government and it's entities when they tell us what their "science" is...well here is an op-ed piece about how this administration deals with "science."
Another in the long line of "my way " - even about science - you know the area we used to say the USA was good at.
Well apparently science is not good anymore if it conflicts with a corporate bottom line!!
From an op-ed in the L.A. Times ...
What science the Bush administration chooses to stifle or promote seems to be a matter of politics and economics. According to a recent story in the Washington Post, the multibillion-dollar baby formula industry pressured the Department of Health and Human Services to weaken a 2004 public-service campaign promoting breast-feeding -- and it worked, even though the science supported the other side.
Numerous studies suggest that breast milk protects infants from developing certain illnesses and that formula-feeding increases their health risks.
The ad campaign was designed to drive home that point. Now the health of millions of infants is at risk because mothers don't have the scientific knowledge the ads would have conveyed to make an informed choice between breast- or formula-feeding.
According to the Post, a recent report by an agency within the Health and Human Services Department makes the same point as the canceled ads but has also been downplayed by the government because of pressure from the formula industry.
Full article http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-orent30sep30,1,5921620.story
As a Developmental Psychologist who advocates "real" science and breast feeding for optimal development in infants - this is sickening!
Don't children count anymore? Rhetorical question - of course they don't...they don't vote!
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