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Five Things: Drumming, Budgets, Nice Weather (Mostly)

Summer's finally here — despite a prediction of rain one evening this week.

Five Things appears Mondays on Alameda Patch and offers a window into what's happening on the Island in the week ahead. Look also for Patch's Weekend Things feature on Thursday. Send ideas for Five Things to janonpatch@gmail.com.

  1. If you see some oddly dressed people on High Street Monday, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the auditions for the upcoming being put on at .
  2. On Thursday the Alameda Museum hosts A.W. Pattiani. Historian and former AAPS President Paul Robertson speaks.
  3. Drumming is common to many cultures around the globe. Get in touch with your inner percussionist at the Alameda Library Thursday afternoon with the OneBEAT Community Drumming event.
  4. Meetings: It’s budget time for many local agencies, as agendas for this week confirm. The Public Utilities Board meets tonight (Monday) at the Alameda Municipal Power Service Center, 2000 Grand St. (at Clement Avenue), with the budget for the coming year the top agenda item. Alameda’s also gets together Monday, but there’s no agenda yet. The City Council meets Tuesday as the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Commission and Community Improvement Commission, with some fee and financial items on the agenda. Also, at Tuesday’s meeting the trustees will approve the year’s budget.
  5. More variable weather this week, summery warm today but rainy Tuesday evening, oddly enough. The long Fourth of July weekend is supposed to be pleasantly warm, if 80 degree is your idea of pleasant. That's about as high as I go before wilting (Irish blood...how I survived more than two years in Las Vegas I'll never know). 

Plan ahead: For those of you new to Alameda, you should know there’s a on Monday that is a unique opportunity to fully understand our city’s culture. Half the town's population, it seems, is in the parade, so it’s really the obligation of the rest of us to be the crowd. 

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