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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 6 | September 15, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Union members celebrate Labor Day Photo courtesy of Eryn Byram A total of 375 children participated in this year’s Scavenger Hunt at Oaks Park. Sponsored by Labor’s Community Service Agency, youngsters from 1 to 18 use clues found in a “passport” to locate various unions at the Labor Day picnic (photo above right). When the kids locate the union, their passport gets stamped. Completed passports are returned to LCSA and the kids are eligible to win a bicycle. This year, 27 unions participated, including Bakers Locals 114 and 364 (above) and Machin- ists District Lodge W24 (right). LCSA issued special thank yous to the Northwest Oregon Labor Council and Oregon AFSCME for their part- nership; International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 8 for do- nating all the bikes used for raﬄe prizes; Oregon School Employees As- sociation for donating Fred Meyer gift cards for the older kids; Franz Bakery for donating cookies (and Bakers Local 364 for cooking them); and Hollywood Impress Printing for helping with signage and printing the passports. “LCSA is proud to bring this vital program to our union families,” said Executive Director Eryn Byram. “Since the Scavenger Hunt started ﬁve years ago, we have ed- ucated 1,900 children and parents on the union jobs in their every- day lives and recognize them as a vital part of the fabric of the com- munity.” Photo courtesy of Eryn Byram Despite smoke from wildfires burning throughout Oregon and Washington, thou- sands of union members and their families celebrated Labor Day with picnics, music, games, and rides. Lines were long at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, where a crowd estimated at 12,000 turned out for a picnic sponsored by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council. Other labor-sponsored gatherings were held in Springfield, Salem, and Ash- land, Oregon, and in Castle Rock, Washing- ton. Smoky air conditions forced the cancel- lation of a labor picnic in Bend, Oregon. Among the crowd in Portland was U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley; Gov. Kate Brown; Labor Com- missioner Brad Avakian; State Treasurer To- bias Read; Attorney General Ellen Rosen- blum; Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler; and a host of city and county commissioners, state legis- lators, and numerous candidates running for local and statewide offices.