7/22 Pacific

Today we have our big brainstorming Tower meeting. We have invited Prov Execs, our marketing team, an outsourced PR firm, and some other people from the community to help us "Think Big". We are not making any decisions today, but it just to help get our wheels turning and start planning ahead. We do know for sure that Tower events will begin with a blessing a week before the grand opening. Today I will be responsible for taking the notes on a big notepad for people to see.

After the meeting, Cheri is taking Shannon, myself and I believe Bri out to lunch for our work at the Run of the Mill. Then I will spend the rest of the afternoon working on my article from Camp Prov and try to get some work done on a display board for Shannon. My goodbye lunch is on Monday and its hard to believe my time here has almost come to a close.

Next Wednesday will be my last day and its hard to believe I will have completed close to 18 hours. I still have to write this article, do some work for Susan, fix up the rest of the Speakers Bureau stuff and gather the final info for the Community Benefit Report.

I will post notes later on how the Tower meeting went.

Hours: 9a-4p

7/21 Colby-Pacific

Wednesday I started my morning out very early on the Colby campus for the clinical ethics board meeting. This meeting happens twice a month and I was fortunate enough to sit in on the meeting with VP of spirituality and mission integration, Tim Serban, for Prov. It was great to be in the meeting because it was very similar to the biomedical ethics course I had just completed in the spring and extremely interesting to talk about real controversial ethical topics.

Then I came back to Pacific and we had our weekly staff meeting. We spent a lot of time reflecting on the festival from the weekend before--what we liked, didn't like, plan to do differently, etc. Then we spent a little while brainstorming for the Tower meeting we will be having Thurs.

Hours: 7a-4p

7/20 Pacific

Today I wentto Pacific rather than Prov PG because in the afternoon I went to Camp Prov with Cheri and King5. King 5 wanted to do a story on the camp and follow a family around there, so not only did I get to experience the camp, I got to experience what it was like working with an organization and how they help the news to get a good story. John Sharify and his videographer were both in tow--following a mom who had two kids at the camp with dwarfism and trekias.

Camp Prov is for disabled or (special needs) children who receive therapy throughout the year at the Prov Children's Center. The camp runs for about 6 weeks but each kid goes for a week on either the morning or afternoon shift.

I haven't seen so much joy and happiness in people as I saw that afternoon in a really long time. All of the people there were truly amazing and it will be a great story.

Hours: 9a-4p

7/19/10 ProvPG

Monday I got to come into work a little late because of working 20 hours at the Festival over the weekend. Monday I worked on small projects--like calling the winners of the drawing, printing out the Pulse and having it signed, meeting with Susan's daughter and getting a copy of a couple LSAT practice exams, ordering an invoice for the fishbowls, etc.

Hours: 11a-4p

Mill Creek Festival 7/17-7/18

Saturday Hours: 7:30a-6:30p, 11hrs
Sunday Hours: 10:00a-7:00p, 9hrs

20hrs total for MC Festival

At the festival, I was in charge of organizing all of the volunteers from Jackson High. On saturday am, we had to set everything up from game boards, display boards, tables, tents, etc. When the volunteers arrived, I had some blowing up balloons, some handing balloons out, some giving children temporary tattoos, and some rallying volunteers to try on the "drunk driving glasses".

Some students were more helpful than others, and one day a bouqet of balloons was found ditched under a rock. Besides that, the volunteers were extremely helpful.

There were two major games--a spinning wheel and a matching board game. Each had valuable info to the public about ProvPG and the New Medical Tower. There was also a booth for the organ ladies who did demonstrations all day long which consistently had a crowd.

We gave away water bottles (which were a huge hit) as well as Prov dog bandanas bc Prov sponsored the Pet Plaza. We also had giveaway bags w/ Prov info and hand sanitizer.

Overall the event was a big success, and we will be discussing at this wednesday's staff meeting how they can improve/change for next year.

7/15/10 Pacific

Began the morning with checking e-mail, went over a couple things with Cheri, trying to find an LSAT prep course online, reviewed the display board for the festival with the photos I took at Mill Creek and am now trying to start Julie Zarn's ED slide show for the speakers bureau.

Neck and back/head are hurting today and last night...hard to focus when my forehead is pounding.

Yesterday I got the schedule for the Mill Creek festival and I will be in charge of the volunteers. This involves volunteers at the Pet Plaza, blowing balloons, handing out balloons, and giving away the temporary tattoos. I have to be there 7:45am Sat until 6pm and about 10:30a Sun-6p

Hours: 9a-4p

7/14/10 Pacific

Staff meeting today--gave reflection. Meeting lasted 3 hours and was mostly Tower talk. Had presentation by Foundation.

Went to lunch w/ dad and had him edit the mission article for the post.

Spent the rest of the afternoon working on stuff for the festival! Busyyyy day. Still need to re-write Julie Zarn's bio and review David Renne's slide show presentation.

Hours: 8:30a-4p