Neighborfest 2008

[RecycleMichael]

I went to the first one of the season at Whiteside Park tonight. It was interesting. The Mayor and Councilor Bynum stayed the whole two hours and talked to everybody.

The schedule has been moved up an hour and now starts at 5pm rather than 6. It meant that the crowd came late with only 80 people there when the Mayor and councilors spoke. I counted 185 people overall plus another hundred for the three indoor t-ball camps.

The two singers were ok. The first sang a Hannah Montana tune. She was only six and pretty good, but wasn't as strong as the eleven year old who sang "Coal Miner's Daughter" from Loretta Lynn. She was the better of the two (I was one of the judges, probably part Randy Jackson and part Paula Abdul), but she was wearing sandals and sequinned jeans. I would have given her more points if she wore boots and dirty miner's clothes.

Public works, police, fire, Ozone alert, the M.e.t., BOK Center, EMSA, City Recycling, Get Fit, Mayor's office, and parks all had booths. There was also free pepsi and Borden's ice cream.

The next one is in two weeks at Clark Park in East Tulsa.

[OkieDiva]

You beat me to the punch, RM.

I went to Neighborfest for first-time ever. Took young son, who had a blast and hula-hooped like a maniac (gets it from his father?). Good to talk to elected officials in a relaxed format, to shoot the breeze with RM and other community leaders, to see public service agencies out in full force. Hate using such a bland word, but it was just NICE. In a world of fast, frenzied, thrilling, exhilirating, it was NICE... old-fashioned NICE. Maybe we need a little more NICE in this crazy world.  

[tulsacyclist]

I'll be trying to attend the one in Clark Park (never been there) here in a couple weeks.. if I remember. =]

[RecycleMichael]

It was a good neighborfest last night at Clark Park. Councilor Troyer and his wife were excellent hosts and the talent show was better.

Emcee Bob Hendrick got a couple of dozen high school kids to play "Simon Says" in front of the stage. Many of them were serious attention span deficient candidates (thank you MTV), so it was pretty funny.

The Mayor was there the whole time, even staying after everybody else was putting everything away. There were lots of east Tulsans who wanted to talk about issues important to them. I enjoyed talking to her and her new communications chief, John Durkee.

The next one is next Tuesday at Lagenheim Park at 47th and Harvard.