Thursday, July 19, 2007

like blue sunshine

Strange rainy Portland July weather, carrying with it many extra/1x gigs.

This week and for a few upcoming, we'll expand the crew to 6, split them up into dos quadrillas de tres. This is good thing, because it allows us to hire and train more people, more green jobs for low income people.

This is because we've got some sizable (for) us jobs, jobs in addition to our regular gigs (Hacienda CDC, Smith & Bybee Lakes, Crystal Springs/Eastmoreland, City of Portland Stormwater Management Facilities). We've got a 5day gig at Goat Island, part of our enduring partnership with SOLV's Team Up for Watershed Health program. And, we've got a couple weeks installing erosion control fencing (a new skills for us, and I got to use a trencher - and 4wheel en la camion verde!Yeah!) and some detailed invasives removal for Ortiz & Associates. Very nice.

It's good that we're growing, but that also means that we've got to deliver, which is always nerve racking (them words just don't look right).

We're also starting to cook up this funky restaurant technical assistance program, based on/a replication of the thimmakka bay area can of whoop ass...

-alan

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