This weekend my wife and I and our energetic lab, Daisy, tried out the new segment of the Olympia Woodland Trail. This is a conversion of an old railroad grade that parallels I-5 between Eastside Street and Dayton St. (Phase II, now in design and permitting, will extend from Dayton, across Fones Rd., to the Chehalis Western Trail in Lacey.) There's a paved, 10' wide path the whole way and, for most of the way, a 4' gravel path. It's very green and cool, passing through woods and following Indian Creek for part of the way. Just the thing for a hot summer morning (or a drizzly summer day).

Park at the trailhead on Eastside, just south of its bridge over I-5, across the street from the Eastside St. trailhead to Watershed Park. There are covered picnic tables, benches, a drinking fountain, and restrooms.

Join a bunch of us for beer, conversation, and lots of laughs as we discuss things from the blog, life events, politics, cops, etc.

I'm setting the times tentatively, some folks have kids/partners to put to bed and I'm sure that not everyone is going to close the place down. Hope to see lots of you there.

Norm

Natural Learning, Olympia Freeschool’s Quarterly Publication now has a brand new look and a brand new addition, a progressive directory, known as:

Radical Caring: The Progressive Directory Dedicated to Encouraging, Networking and Remembering Activists and Communities Nationwide www.RadicalCaring.org

Next Volunteer Meeting: Potluck and we'll provide Free Pizza from Vic's and Fundraiser Raffles!

Date: Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 – 7pm-8pm

Location: Olympia Freeschool Building, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501 (located in downtown Olympia across from Olympia Supply Hardware Store). We will be raffling off a Gift Certificate to Traditions Café and World Folk Art. We have many positions for volunteers and we offer stipends, awards, delicious snacks and stress-free enjoyable meetings to our volunteers! Join us!

Print Out our flyers here:

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Our last get together went pretty well. By the time I left no blood had been spilled, nobody wired a bomb into my ignition and everything was...pleasant.

Are we thinking that we need another one of these? Is there a possibility of doing this on a weekend night instead of a weeknight? Let's get some discussion and input going here folks.

Rainy Monday morning.

I noticed that the City is now looking at Safeway for a possible site for the new City Hall. What happened to the Co-op taking over that space? The article in the Daily O didn't say anything about it.

• Capital High School Football Preview
• road construction
• the dogs of summer vacation
• Eco-Logical Living
• May You Have True Peace

Portland's paucity of potties downtown spurs a political pig fight

We need 'em here in Oly too. Gives new meaning to the statement "We need places to go.".

Olympia Workers Association

There will be an IWW meeting this Thursday at 5pm at Bread and Roses (1009 4th Ave E).

Lots of exciting things going on with the union, with a few shops in town that may go union before we know it. This meeting will be very important and the next few months will be crucial for the IWW.

[From Olympia Workers Association]