Update: I added this picture of the balloons, ready and waiting, taken at 6am this morning.
Tonight (Friday): Special Festival of Trees events for rich people, and the Festival of Trees is now open. Here's the entire schedule of FoT.
Saturday morning: Festival of Trees Parade 11am
This year its starting at River and Ripley and going down River Drive to Pershing, and coming back on 2nd Street. Here's a somewhat unreadable map from QuadCityArts of the route and parking. I'm hoping to make it down there after grabbing a few hours of sleep. Maybe this year I actually will.
Saturday and Sunday: Great Train Expo at the QCCA Expo Center from10am-4pm. Seven bucks for adults, kids under 12 free.
Sunday and Monday I'll be out of town with various folks from the city council, levee commission, etc visiting Louisville, KY and Indianapolis, IN to see what they're doing with their riverfront and downtown areas. I plan to have many photos upon my return.
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Why doesn't the city look a little closer for ideas? The old warehouse in Dubuque that is now a natural history museum looked a lot like a building down on River Drive by JOD. Everyone I have talked to that went to the museum has gone back at least once.
Who is paying for this trip for you and other 'officials'? Didn't taxpayers already pay for a bus trip to Louisville already about a year ago? And lastly, how were you selected over other Davenporter's to make this trip to Kentucky and Indiana?
I was "selected" by signing up. Anyone could go, according to Malin's 10/28 Council Update, which is available on the city website.
I believe, and I'm not 100% sure on this, that the levee commission is paying for the bus. I'm paying for my own food and lodging.
Upon your return, please fill us in on who paid for the bus. If it was the Levee Commission, then that means the taxpayers paid for this adventure. Did you find out if these are the same places that the council visited about a year ago? Did non-employees have to sign any kind of release incase of accident or bus rollover? Regular employees would be covered under workmans comp, but citizens just along for the ride could sue for millions. Better hope nobody stubbed their toe.
Does being so negative bring you happiness?
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