City Cast Portland
🚑 A vote to fix slow Portland ambulances
July 24, 2024 · — Rachel Monahan
Good morning! ☀️ Who’s enjoying this Pacific Northwest summer and our week of sweater weather? ✋ Grab your favorite hoodie for the morning, at least while it lasts. Next week’s looking warmer 🪭
What's CITY Talking About?
Vote on Proposed Ambulance Fix
On Thursday, Multnomah County commissioners are scheduled to vote on a possible fix to slow ambulance response times. The proposal would make it possible to send out more ambulances by changing the existing staffing requirements — to one paramedic and (in place of a second paramedic) an EMT, who has less training. It’s not clear the proposal has the necessary support to pass. [Willamette Week]
Local Democrat Calls for Biden To Resign Now
Similar to some local Republicans, Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a first-term Democrat in a tight reelection race, is saying President Biden should resign now. “My job is to represent everyone in southwest Washington, and most of them do not have confidence in the President’s fitness to serve,” she wrote. [Oregonian]
Thousands Warned of Possible HIV, Hepatitis Exposure
On the midweek news roundup, a doctor working in Providence and Legacy hospitals failed to follow proper procedures to ensure patients weren’t exposed to infectious blood-borne diseases. Some 2,400 Portland-area patients were to receive letters warning them. [City Cast Portland 🎧]
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What To Do
Wednesday, July 24
- 🎵 Music on Main: Garcia Birthday Band | 5 -7 p.m. | Free | Downtown
- 🏊 Duckworth Summer Wednesdays | 6 - 9 p.m. | Free | Duckworth Dock (Eastbank Esplanade)
Thursday, July 25
- 📽️ ‘Little Mermaid’ | 7:30 p.m. | Free | Wilshire Park
- 🎵 French Cassettes | 8:00 p.m. | $19.12 | Mississippi Studios
Friday, July 26
- 👟 Sneaker Week PDX (K.I.C - Off Festival) | Various Times (through Sunday) | $38.04+ | Pioneer Courthouse Square
- 🎭 JAW New Play Festival | Various Times (through Sunday) | Free | Portland Center Stage
- 🇨🇳 Dress Han: Nights of Hanfu Fashion (traditional Chinese fashion) | 7 - 9 p.m. (through Saturday) | $45 | Lan Su Chinese Garden
- 📽️ ‘Ferdinand’ | 7:30 p.m. | Free | Mt. Scott Park
- 🎄💡 3rd Annual Christmas in July Lighted Kayak Parade | 9:30 - 10:30 p.m. (boat launch at 9 p.m.) | Free | Horseshoe Lake (Woodland, Wash.)
One correction before I go: Yesterday, I misstated the call signal for my favorite local jazz station! 🥰 It was KMHD marching with OPB at the Portland Pride parade! 🎵 My apologies, and I recommend a listen!
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