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Highway 30 could get a new name honoring Oregon veterans
By KEVIN HARDEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
SALEM — Ore-
gon’s long stretch of U.S.
Highway 30, from Astoria
to the Idaho border, could
become the Oregon Vet-
erans Memorial Highway.
Senate Bill 790, intro-
duced Feb. 24 by state Sen.
Tim Knopp, R-Bend, would
rename Oregon’s 477-mile
section of the national
highway. On Wednesday,
March 3, the bill was
referred to the Senate Com-
mittee on Veterans and
Emergency Preparedness.
Retired U.S. Army Lt.
Col. Dick Tobiason of the
nonprofit Bend Heroes
Foundation is the driving
force behind SB 790. Tobi-
ason, who served two tours
during the Vietnam War as
an Army aviator, and his
one-man nonprofit opera-
tion led efforts on past leg-
islation to rename eight
Oregon highways to honor
veterans. His legislative
success rate is 100%.
“I’ve never lost a vote in
12 years doing these high-
ways,” Tobiason said.
It’s simple math, he said.
The Bend Heroes Founda-
tion raises all the money
needed to create 4-by-8-foot
signs to be posted along the
highway with the veterans
designation (probably more
than $10,000 for Highway
30). It pays Oregon’s
Department of Transpor-
tation to install them. Not
a dime of taxpayer funds
goes into the effort.
“Why would the Legis-
lature disapprove of this?”
Tobiason asked. “It doesn’t
cost them a cent.”
There are nearly 100
signs honoring veterans
installed on eight Oregon
highways stretching more
than 3,000 miles across
the state. Each designated
highway has between 10
and 18 signs, he said. That
means drivers could see
one veterans highway honor
sign every 65 miles.
U.S. Highway 30 extends
3,073 miles to Boston on
the East Coast. It is the only
major highway in Oregon
not designated to honor vet-
erans. It crosses 11 states
and is the nation’s third lon-
gest coast-to-coast highway.
Oregon’s section of the
highway that winds along
the Columbia River from
the Astoria-Megler Bridge
through Scappoose and
Portland before heading
east as part of Interstate 84,
is the beginning of Tobi-
ason’s plans for the road.
He’s working with veterans
groups and lawmakers in 10
other states to get the same
designation all the way to
Boston.
Tobiason’s Bend Heroes
Foundation has also asked
Congress to designate the
3,365-mile U.S. Highway
20, which begins at New-
port on the Oregon Coast
and heads east to Boston,
the National Medal of
Honor Highway. Oregon’s
section of Highway 20 is
already known as the Medal
of Honor Highway.
SB 790 is also kind of
an ending for Tobiason. He
has proposed similar bills
since 2008 and testified 14
times in favor of legislation.
When he’s finished with the
U.S. Highway 30 project,
just about every major
highway in the state will
honor veterans or service
men and women missing in
action.
Between World War I
(1914) and wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Per-
sian Gulf (1990 and 2003),
6,000 Oregon soldiers,
sailors (including Coast
Guard), Marines, merchant
seamen and airmen were
killed. During that same
time, about 15,000 Ore-
gonians were wounded in
combat and nearly 1,000
were prisoners. About 1,000
Alex Wittwer/The Observer
This sign for Interstate 84 near Hilgard Junction State Park on Thursday, March 4, 2021,
also shows this is the route for U.S. Highway 30. A new bill in the Oregon Senate would
designate the 477-mile-long road from Astoria to the Idaho border as the Oregon Veter-
ans Memorial Highway.
Oregonians remain missing
in action from all of the
conflicts.
Oregon highways Tobi-
ason and the foundation
have designated include:
• U.S. Highway 395,
from California to Wash-
ington, is the World War
I Veterans Memorial
Highway.
• Interstate 5, from Cal-
ifornia to Washington,
is known as the Korean
War Veterans Memorial
Highway and the Purple
Heart Trail.
• A section of I-5 from
Albany to Salem is the
Atomic Veterans Memorial
Highway.
• U.S. Highway 101,
from Washington to Cali-
fornia, is the Persian Gulf,
Afghanistan and Iraq Vet-
erans Memorial Highway.
• A section of U.S.
Highway 26, from the
Highway 101 intersection
to Idaho, is the POW/MIA
Memorial Highway.
Tobiason already is
planning his Eastern
Oregon trip later this year
when U.S. Highway 30
is officially designed the
Oregon Veterans Memo-
rial Highway. He’s been
to nearly every highway
sign dedication ceremony,
racking up more than 5,000
miles on his vehicle.
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break is coming back to
the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry, and
the museum pulling out a
crowd pleaser to welcome
people back.
The family-friendly sci-
ence museum in Southeast
Portland said “Dinosaurs
Revealed” will be its fea-
tured exhibit this spring.
OMSI also is planning
an exhibit about the vac-
cines against COVID-19,
museum spokesperson John
Farmer said, but it wanted
to provide families an
escape from the pandemic.
“Let’s just have some fun
for crying out loud,” Farmer
said. “And what could be
more fun than giant dino-
saurs roaring through the
halls of OMSI?”
The “Dinosaurs
Revealed” exhibit will
debut to the general public
on March 20, opening a day
earlier for museum mem-
bers. It will be on view
through Sept. 6 — as long
as the museum stays open
this year.
The museum shut
its doors March 14,
2020, becoming one of
the first large attrac-
tions in Oregon to close
as COVID-19 began cir-
culating throughout the
region. It reopened in June
and remained open until
November, when state offi-
cials once again issued
tighter lockdowns on public
gatherings.
OMSI on Feb. 18 par-
tially reopened its Natural
Science Hall, Kendall Plan-
etarium presentations and
the USS Blueback Subma-
rine to a limited number of
guests at a time. The muse-
um’s other attractions have
so far remained closed this
winter, though Farmer said
the theater could reopen
soon.
Day camps will con-
tinue for summer 2021, and
are already over 75% full,
OMSI said. All overnight
camps have been canceled
for the year.
Several other Port-
land area museums
remain closed as spring
approaches, though at least
one other destination plans
to reopen. The Oregon His-
torical Society announced
it will reopen March 6, but
will only be open for lim-
ited hours on the week-
ends. However, the museum
will host special hours for
Oregon schools’ spring
break, opening from noon
to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday,
March 23-28.
As per state regulations,
OMSI will limit the number
of people allowed into the
museum at a time. Mult-
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state’s “high risk” category,
which means museums
can only operate at 25%
capacity. If the county is
reduced to “moderate” or
“lower risk,” museums will
be allowed to operate at
50% capacity.
The museum will
manage crowds by selling
timed-entry tickets online
in advance. Tickets are
available at tickets.omsi.
edu.
Farmer said the high
risk protocol means about
120 people per hour
would be allowed into the
museum, making for an
intimate experience in the
7,000-square-foot exhibit
hall that will house “Dino-
saurs Revealed.”
OMSI will require all
visitors and staff to wear
face masks and will ask vis-
itors from different parties
to maintain 6 feet of dis-
tance. Parties visiting the
museum together are now
limited to no more than
six people. Staff will be on
hand to enforce the rules
and regularly clean all fre-
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“The cool thing about
this exhibit is it is classic
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