May 20, 2009
Page A2
Early Call for Rose Festival Celebration
Waterfront
Village opens
for Memorial
Day weekend
For the first time ever. Water
front Village opens Friday for the
Memorial Day weekend. The new
three-w eekend format offers a
whole extra weekend of Rose Fes
tival fun.
N estled betw een P ortland's
downtown business district and
the W illam ette R iver at Tom
McCall Waterfront Park, the Wa
terfront Village provides a park
load of whimsical kids adventures,
hysterical vaudevillian acts, fes
tive bands, and thousands of smil
ing families each day.
Event hours are 11 a.m. to 11
p.m. daily, except Friday, May 22
when gates open at 5 p.m. Also
Friday, at approximately at 9:45
p.m. on the waterfront, the Rose
Festival Fireworks Spectacular will
light up the evening sky.
O th er m ajor R ose F estiv al
For the first time ever, Waterfront Village at Tom McCall Park, downtown, will open for the Memorial Day weekend
on Friday. The early opening will give Portlanders three weekends to take in the rides, booths and music during the
annual Rose Festival.
Resources for Businesses
P o rtla n d
S ta te
U niversity’s Business O ut
reach Program helps small
b u s in e s s e s ,
in c lu d in g ,
e m e rg in g , m in o rity and
w om en-ow ned b u sinesses,
achieve their potential while
providing opportunities for
learning.
With a full-tim e staff and
undergraduate business stu
dents, the program provides
an array o f co nsulting se r
vices, including in-depth mar
ket research, business plan
d e v e lo p m e n t, in te r a c tiv e
workshops, one-on-one busi
ness consultation, and more.
Not only do entrepreneurs
discover their own strengths
and p o te n tia ls, so do the
PSU students.
Projects range from book
keeping to m arketing a new
product.
To learn more about get
ting involved with the PSU
Business Outreach Program,
email bop@ sba.pdx.edu or
call 503-72540820.
BUSES RETURN TO
events include the Starlight Pa
rade, downtown on Saturday, May
30 at 8:30 p.m. The Junior Parade
is on Wednesday, June 3 at 1 p.m.
in the Hollywood District, start
ing at 52nd and Sandy Boulevard.
The Grand Floral Parade is Sat
urday, June 6 at 10 a.m., starting
from the Memorial Coliseum to
downtown Portland.
Highlights include a fantastic
lineup of 15 beautiful floats, in
cluding Reser's Beauty and the
Beast and an offering from St.
Mary's Academy, celebrating 150
years of educating local young
women; 112 horses, carrying rid
ers, pulling w agons and even
dancing; more music than ever,
in c lu d in g 19 great m arching
bands; the most special entries in
recent history, giving everyone
something to cheer about!
The drum line and dancers from
Portland's Self Enhancement,' Inc.
will share their pride and passion
as they lead the parade.
The Q ueen C oronation pre
cedes the Grand Floral parade,
beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Coli
seum.
Poisoned Soldiers Get Hearing
Lawmaker
calls for
compensation
by J ake T homas
T he P ortland O bserver
Larry Roberta, a former O r
egon guardsm an, remembers
a strange yellow substance
staining the sand and c o n
crete as he stood guard over
KBR w orkers who were re
constructing a w ater plant in
southern Iraq.
The substance blew onto
his chicken patty at meal times
and into his face during the
day.
Now he can barely walk to
his mailbox without needing
to puff on an inhaler, and has
to take painkillers every single
day.
R oberta w as one o f h u n
dreds o f mem bers of the O r
egon and Indiana N ational
G uards who were exposed to
sodium dichrom ate, a cancer-
causing chem ical, while they
guarded KBR (a H aliburton
subsidiary) w orkers in 2003.
A num ber o f these soldiers
have become extremely ill.
L a st w e e k th e O re g o n
House Rule Com m ittee heard
emotional testimony concern
ing House Bill 3480, which
would set aside $20,000 for
O regon guardsm en who d e
velop cancer from their expo
sure to this chem ical.
Rep. Chip Shields, D-Port-
land, who sponsored the bill,
acknow ledged at the hearing
that the amount of money was
small, but the bill shines light
of the failure of KBR and the
country to look after these
soldiers.
“Passing this bill is a very
m odest recognition of their
p a in an d s a c r if ic e ,” sa id
Shields, who added that docu
ments from a law suit against
KBR and a congressional in
vestigation leave “virtually no
doubt” that the company was
aware that soldiers were be
ing exposed to these chem i
cals.
S cott A shby, another O r
eg o n g u a rd sm a n , c h o c k e d
back tears as he recalled be
ing told by the m ilitary that
the substance w a sn ’t a big
deal w hile he w atch ed his
comrades fall ill.
“ I stand her today to ask
for help," he said.
The bill passed the com m it
tee and is now b e fo re the
H o u se W ays an d M e a n s
Committee.
Neil Kelly Scholarship Winners
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5TH AND 6TH AVENUES
DOWNTOWN
MAY 24
T he w in n e rs are A q to s
Five outstanding high school
seniors - all residents of north G irim a o f J e ffe rs o n H igh
and northeast Portland - were School, Amy Marsha of Grant
awarded Neil Kelly Memorial High School, Shantel Monk of
S c h o la rsh ip s F riday at the De La Salle North C atholic
A lbina Rotary F oundation’s H igh S ch o o l, and S hreen a
scholarship awards luncheon. Narend and Shawn Spears of
H ig h
S c h o o l.
E ach stu d e n t re c e iv e d a B e n so n
$1,000 annual college scholar Q uanisha Anderson of Jesuit
ship, which will renew annually High School.
Each o f the students was
for three more years, following
them as they pursue their un selected for their strong aca
dem ic sk ills, but also o u t
dergraduate studies.
s ta n d in g se rv ic e to th e ir
school, family and community.
T he sch o larsh ip program
was started 12 years ago to
encourage higher education
in north and northeast Port
la n d and a lso h o n o r th e
memory of Neil Kelly, who
started Neil Kelly Co. in the
Albina community in 1947 and
spent decades in community
service, with particular em
phasis on education.
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