Organizers say rain won’t dampen Rose Festival
PORTLAND (AP) — From auto racing
to a duck derby, from spectacular parades
to colorful hot air balloons, the Portland
Post' Festival, the annual June celebration
in Oregon's largest city, begins this week
Despite the forecast of a wet start for
the festivities, officials were expecting l
million people to participate in or
observe the 73 festival-sanctioned events
"The funny thing is that the rain really
does not hove a dramatic negative impact
on attendance, and 1 think that says
something about the spirit of Oregoni
ans." festival spokeswoman Marie Dodds
said
A fireworks display is planned, weath
er permitting, for Friday night over the
festival center on the downtown Portland
waterfront.
The center, which features a carnival,
three entertainment stages and the Made
in Oregon Pavilion, operates Friday
through June 13. Festival officials and
police have succeeded in reducing the
unruly behavior that has sometimes
marred the carnival
"We've been really pleased with the
stops to improve the festival center."
Dodds said "What we wanted to do is
turn it into a place where the people
c ould go with their young children, a real
family place."
Butler Amusement, the California
hosed company hired to provide the car
nival rides sinc e 1900. will do so again
The c ompany is moving its headqunrlers
to Beaverton
The Starlight Parade winds through
downtown Portland .Saturday night, with
01 units s< hoduled to panic ipate
On June 12. 500.000 people are expect
ed to line the streets for the Grand Floral
Parade With 104 units, it is the second
largest all-floral parade in the nation
Only the Tournament of Roses Parade in
Pasadena. Calif . is bigger
Ahmad Rashad. NBC sport sc aster and
former University of Oregon footlrall star.
and his wife. Phylicia. who played Bill
Coaby’s attorney wife on the Cosby Show,
will serve as grand marshals
"Among My Souvenirs” is the theme of
the parade It will be televised to a poten
tial audience of 10 million households.
The Junior Rose Parade, featuring hun
dreds of youngsters from throughout the
region, is sot for Wednesday
The number of visiting ships from the
Navy. Coast Guard and Canadian Navy
has been reduced to nine this year, down
from a record 21 last year Only two U S
Navv ships will be on hand.
Dodds said the Navy cutback is due to
budget constraints and the fact that many
vessels are committed to the relief effort
in .Somalia.
A U S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge
will bo the 10th ship tying up at the
downtown waterfront The ships begin
arriving Tuesday.
A newly sanctioned event is the Pay
D«ss Celebrity Golf Classic, scheduled for
Friday and Saturday
Thirty hot air balloons are to lift off
daily June 18 through Juno 20 in Tigard
On June 10. 30,000 rubber ducks will
be dropped in the Willamette River for
the De Paul Ducky Derby.
The Budweiser-C.l Joe's Indy-car race
wraps up the June portion of the festival
on June 27. with preliminary events
scheduled the preceding Friday and Sat
urday.
As an experiment, the Festival Airshow
at Hillsboro Airport has been moved back
to July 16-18. The move was made, Dodds
said, so the "Snow Birds." the Canadian
armed forces precision flying team, could
take part. Attendance at the uirshow last
year totaled 122,000.
Other events include the Oregon Truck
Driving Championships Saturday and
Sunday. Dragon Boat Races June 12. the
Oregon Open bowling tournament June
21-26 and the Cascade Run Off road race
June 27.
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SALEM (AP) — The Oregon
House voted Thursday to
toughen penalties for using an
automobile to kill someone.
Slate law now allows for a
five-year revocation of driving
privilege* of people convicted
of intentionally using a motor
vehicle to commit murder"o?
manslaughter.
Hut if the people convicted
an* incarcerated during that
period, they would he eligible
to have their driver's license
reinstated after release from
prison.
The bill. HB 2479. [Missed on
a 50-9 vote and says offenders
could not souk to hove their
driver'* licenses reinstated (or
at least 10 years after being
released on parole or placed
on probation.
Rep Bob Tiernan, R-Lako
Oswego, said the measure is a
result of the 1992 killing of a
Ijikn Oswego student who was
intentionally run over.
"I have a very difficult
time... that when somebody
uses an automobile to inten
tionally kill somebody that the
very first thing you're going to
do when they get out of prison
is to give them their driver's
license back." he said.
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