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Rose Festival Time
Downtown
The Portland Rose Festival begins
three weekends of fun at downtown’s
Tom McCall Waterfront Park, when
CityFair opens Friday for a three-day
Memorial Day weekend.
CityFair features classical and new
carnival rides, local beer, live exotic
animals, a wide variety of shopping,
special attractions and a customized
fireworks show on opening night.
Funtastic Show's midway will have
a brand new ride, never seen in Port­
land before. MegaDrop will take thrill
seekers up to 131 feet in the sky and
then drop with the force of negative
5Gs before the riders suddenly and
softly come to rest.
A line-up of musical entertainment
will take place during CityFair on the
ReZone OneMain Financial Stage with
national artists and local favorites.
Most events inside the RoZone are
included with admission into CityFair.
Upcoming popular attractions dur­
ing Rose Festival will include the Port­
land General Electric/SOLVE Star­
light Parade, on Saturday, June 2 at
8:30 p.m. Downtown streets will give
way to a funky, eclectic night for the
whole family.
The Fred Meyer Junior Rose Festi­
val Parade is Wednesday, June 6 at 1
p.m. in the Hollywood District, begin­
ning at Northeast 52nd and Sandy
Boulevard and proceeding west on
Sandy.
The Spirit Mountain Casino Grand
Floral Parade is the crown jewel of the
annual Rose Festival, scheduled for
Saturday, June 9, starting at 9 a.m.
from Memorial Coliseum in the Rose
Quarter and proceeding downtown via
Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Bou­
levard.
The Queen's Coronation presented
by Pacific Power takes place prior to
the Grand Floral Parade at 8:30 a.m.
at Memorial Coliseum.
For a full schedule of the many
Rose F estiv al a c tiv itie s , v isit
rosefestival.org.
Portland’s downtown water­
front turns into CityFair
during the annual Rose
Festival. The signature event
returns on Friday for a three-
day Memorial weekend
opening, providing classical
and new carnival rides, local
beer, live exotic animals, a
wide variety o f shopping,
special attractions and a
customized fireworks show
on opening night.
Native American Mascots Banned
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The Banks High
Schoolscore
board is shown
on the wall o f
their gym.
(AP photo)
Board imposes
tough restrictions
Eight Oregon high schools will have to
retire their Native Am erican m ascots after
the Board of Education voted Thursday to
prohibit them , giving the state some o f the
nation's toughest restrictions on Native
Am erican m ascots, nicknam es and logos.
The 5-1 vote follow ed m onths o f pas­
sionate and em otional debate about toler­
ance and tradition.
The schools have five years to com ply
with the order or risk losing their state
funding. Another seven high schools iden­
tified as the W arriors will be allow ed to
keep their nickname, but will have to change
m ascots or graphics that depict Native
Am ericans. An unknown num ber o f el­
em entary and m iddle schools also will be
affected.
The ban doesn't apply to colleges, but
none in Oregon have N ative Am erican
m ascots after Southern Oregon U niver­
sity and C hem eketa C om m unity C ollege
dropped them.
Since the 1970s, more than 600high school
and college teams across the country have
done away with their Native American nick­
names, including 20 in Oregon.
C ritics say Indian m ascots are racist,
contending they reinforce stereotypes and
prom ote bullying o f Native students. Sup-
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