Jump Into the Daily Dumpster – May 2016

Memorial Day Parade cancelled due to weather… Deering Oaks Ravine splash pool opens with a newly repainted and textured ravine floor… The Hanging Gardens is first Arabic newspaper in Maine… School Board approves Xavier Botana from Indiana as the next superintendent…  Portland Protectors introduce their Bee Safe yard signs at the March Against Monsanto… City eliminates Assistant Bike-Ped Coordinator position and celebrates National Bike to Work Day in Monument Square… West End resident Mel May makes headlines by capturing city workers mixing trash with recyclables… Portland Public Schools named Confucius Classroom and will expand Mandarin classes at Deering and Casco Bay high schools… Christine McHale and out of town guests from the Midwest, Rod and Greg, are the first to sit on the patio at Becky’s this Spring… ServiceWorks volunteers Ron and Ryan turn over the soil for soon to be installed pollinator gardens on York St… Mayor Ethan Strimling rappels down One City Center… Congress Square Redesign Project selected to receive $25,000 NEA Our Town grant… Portland High wins grant to start a steel drum band… Emily Cain and entourage enjoy lunch at Little Tap House before the Democratic State Convention…  Circus Maine performs for Worker Appreciation Day… Portland’s newest alt paper WTF hits shelves… India Street patient David Jon Timm collects over 2100 petition signatures calling on the Council to save the clinic… City switches to organic herbicides over chemical Roundup on downtown streets and sidewalks… Raymond Reid starts Wednesday morning Tai Chi Chih/Qigong classes in Congress Square Park… March to save India Street Clinic starts at Lincoln Park former site of Occupy Maine… Spring arrives as Portland Little League starts their 2016 season…