Jump into the Dumpster – June 2017

City Council begins live streaming their meetings on Facebook Live… Protect Our Neighborhood Schools’ campaign lit encourages bullet voting to fix all four schools including Reiche… Local activist Wells Lyons starts Resistance Enterprises an apparel company selling tshirts with messages of dissent… Homeless Voices for Justice members sit out in Tommy’s Park for the 10th Annual Longest Day of Homelessness Summer Solstice Vigil… Riverside Golf Course locates the first of several bee hives on the course and plans to plant more than 150 pollinator friendly plants and trees… Catholic Charities Maine commemorates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees on World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th… Progressive Portland gets behind Portland Protectors and their push for a South Portland-style pesticide ordinance… York Street restaurant Outliers will not reopen and building is for sale for 1.4 million… Family owned department store Renys among those honored by Memic for workplace safety… Deering High begins search for new principal as Ira Waltz retires at the end of the school year… Reiche second graders don hairnets and tour Mercy Hospital’s kitchen at 144 State St… City Hall lit green in support of Paris Agreement… Farm Truck Juice starts a “Pay What You Can” coffee program… Cruise ship season begins with the Grandeur of the Seas and its 2,000 passengers… Old Port retailer Simply Scandinavian celebrates their 19th anniversary… Poll issued by Progressive Portland shows competing school bond questions have about equal support with 58% of Portland voters ready to vote yes for either…