We have some fabulous music lined up for friday night.  We hope you can join us.

Springcreek Coffeehouse:  Julia Mc Carl

Ohana Hawaiian Restaurant: Alopaki Morals

City Hall:  Johnson Creek Brass

First State Bank Building:    Will Scrivens

Cha Cha Cha:  John Haverley and Marydith Grant

Big Kahuna’s BBQ: Hula Dancing

Are you a poet?  Do you like to listen to poetry? If you answered yes to either one of these questions we have the perfect thing for you!  Tom Hogan, the Director of the Milwaukie poetry series for the Ledding Library. He is organizing an opportunity for you to read your poetry, or that of some of the great poets of our time. The format is an Open mic from 6-7 PM inside St. Johns Episcopal church on Jefferson Street. If you are not interested in reading, you are always welcome to join in by just listening.  We would love to have you come by and join us.  If you would like to read or want more information, please call Tom at 503-819-8367. Thank you and hope to see you there!!

This event will be located inside of St. Johns Episcopal Church on Jefferson Street.

The City of Milwaukie and Art Mob will be holding it’s dedication celebration of the sculpture garden from 4-5 p.m. during our event.  These folks have put an enormous amount of work into this project.  Please come and celebrate all of the completion of this project.  We are anxious to see the final result.  If you will be joining us for the pumpkin decorating party, please join us after 5 p.m. when the dedication celebration has commenced.

We are delighted to let you know that we have a few more artists that will be joining us this friday evening.

Eleven O’49 Studio and Gallery

Art Exhibit:  Out of Color, Out of Chemistry

Cha Cha Cha

Art Exhibit: Oscar Flores-Fiol

Bernard’s Garage

Art Exhibit: NorthWest Jewelers

Please stop by and see what they have created for you to enjoy.

The Portland Waldorf School’s Nancy Pierce will be joining us again.  We are absolutely delighted !!!  The only thing that would make it better would be you.  We would love to have you join us for our very first pumpkin decorating party in the driveway at City Hall.  We will be providing the pumpkins and the paint all you need to do is provide the creativity.  Nancy will be on hand to lend her assistance and help nurture your creativity.   What will you create?  We can hardly wait to see !!

Please join us at 8 Bit Cafe for the next installation of Author’s Corner.  For those of you not yet familiar with Scott Lazenby we have included a bit of information to bring you up to speed.

Scott Lazenby is the author of Playing With Fire. The city management novel was serialized on the web site of Governing magazine and is required reading at several universities. It has so far sold around 4,000 copies. Lazenby’s role model as a writer is the late Michael Crichton, who covered different genres but always with good stories. Following that example, Lazenby has written several other novels in the science fiction, young adult, and Christian fiction genres. He is working on The Hunter, a detective thriller, as well as a modern answer to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

In his day job, Scott Lazenby has been city manager of Sandy, Oregon since 1992. He has a bachelors degree in physics from Reed College, a masters in public policy & management from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a PhD in public administration & policy from Portland State University. He has been married to Sandy for 33 years; they spend their free time cycling, skiing, and sailing in the Pacific Northwest.

We are pleased to present the events list for the October event.

1.  Springcreek Coffeehouse

Art Exhibit:  Nick Curteman

Live Music

2.  North Main (next to Make One yarn shop)

Downtown Business Showcase

3.  North Main (between Ohana Hawaiian Cafe and Rice Thai)

Art Exhibit: North Clackamas Arts Guild

4.  Ohana Hawaiian Cafe

Live Music:  Alopaki Morals

5.  Windhorse Coffee and Tea

Art Exhibit:  Rob Ramage

6.  Envision Tile and Design

Art Exhibit: Sidnie and Indie Tatom

7.  Milwaukie Masonic Lodge

Event:  Art Market

8.  Bagetta Studios

Art Exhibit: National Parks Poster Art

9. City Hall

Art Exhibit: Nicholas R. Lewis

Event: Pumpkin Decorating Party

Live Music

10.  Wine:30

Art Exhibit: Davis Graveyard

11.  First State Bank Building

Artisan’s Boutique

Live Music

12.  Main Street Soda Fountain

Art Exhibit: Fred Varnell

Event: $1.00 Ice Cream Cones

13.  Things From Another World

Event: Come by and get a FREE comic,   plus learn how to play  Magic: The Gathering from the Pros of TFAW!

14.  NW Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons

Art Exhibit: Dr. Mike Hill

15.  Cha Cha Cha

Event: “Dia De los Muertos” Exhibit

16. St. John’s Episcopal Church

Art Exhibit: Patricia Gallagher

Event: Poetry Reading

17.  Happy Baskets

Art Exhibit: Kelly Ricciardi

18.  Big Kahuna’s BBQ

Event:  Hula Dancing

19. 8-Bit Cafe

Authors Corner: Scott Lazenby

20. Bank of the West

Event: Free Root Beer Floats

Everyone had a wonderful time on Friday evening in beautiful downtown Milwaukie.  There was no shortage of activities to participate in, or entertainment to enjoy.  Many thanks to all of the wonderful business owners who are instrumental in making sure that this event is one of the premiere events in downtown.  All we can say for now is hold on the events listing is being compiled as we speak and I am telling you there are plenty of surprises in-store for you.  We will post the events list as soon as we have it finalized.  We can hardly wait to share it with you.