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P ortland O bserver
Cheryl Roberts leads a team o f volunteers in organizing this year's Good in the Hood festival, which
culminates June 22-24 with a community celebration at Lillis-Albina Park next door to Harriet
Tubman School in north Portland, a new location for the festival’s 20th anniversary.
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S ummer F un G uide S? s
Changing Course
Good in the Hood sets table with new location
by L ee
P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
The 20th anniversary o f this
year’s Good in the Hood festival is
changing course, while retaining the
spirit that has made it a popular
event celebrating the diversity of
neighborhoods in north and north
east Portland.
The June festival is returning to
its original, abbreviated name, us
ing Hood instead of the more recent
Neighborhood, and will culminate
with a weekend celebration at a new
location at Lillis-Albina Park at North
Russell Street and Flint Avenue,
next door to Harriet Tubman School.
A kick-off for Good in the Hood
is coming on Thursday, June 14
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. atMcMenamin
Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd
Ave. The night will feature live music
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C alendar
pensing useful information about
programs and activities. There will
also be a community marketplace,
featuring unique items for sale by
local entrepreneurs.
A kidspace will include puppet
shows, games, a three-point bas
ketball shootoff, and bike helmets
for $5 courtesy of Legacy Health
Systems. There will be food for sale
by multiple vendors, and a beer and
wine garden by McMenamins.
And two full days of free enter
tainment will return by the likes of
Patrick Lamb, Soul Vaccination,
Ocean 503, Kirk Green, Klyntel,
Ayron Jones & the Way, Black Staxx,
Melao de Cuba and, from Seattle,
the Goody Bagg Band.
By tradition there is also a Good
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Man and Child behind Robberies
O pinion
C lassifieds
by Shirley Nanette, Paul Knauls Sr.
as M.C., and Michael Morris as D.J.
The main celebration will begin
with a Good Neighbor Night at Lillis-
Albina Park on Friday, June 22, from
6p.m .to9:30p.m . with live music by
the Andy Stokes Band and Nekked
Bonz. The festival will then gather
full steam for entertainment and fun
at Lillis-Albina on Saturday, June 23
from noon to 9 p.m., and Sunday,
June 24, from noon to 7 p.m.
Good in the Hood originally
started at Holy Redeemer School
and then migrated to King School
Park. The new location offers more
space and less conflict with resi
dential properties, says Cheryl Rob
erts, festival organizer.
Once again there will be an infor
mation village, where public and
private organizations will be dis-
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Police are investigating two week
end robberies, where small busi
nesses in north and northeast Port
land were held up by an adult man
and an approximate 10-year-old
child.
On Friday, the older male, in his
late teens or early 20s, grabbed a
worker at the Pepper Box food cart
on Martin Luther King Jr. Boule
vard., as the child took money from
the cash register.
The next day, police responded
to a similar robbery at The Meadow,
a specialty shop on North Missis
sippi Street. The older male once
again grabbed a store clerk from
behind the counter, while the young
boy looted the cashbox.
The adult is described as an Af-
rican American male, 20-30 years
old, medium build wearing all black
clothes. The youth is described as
as African American of approximate
10 to 11 years of age, no taller than
4 feet, 8 inches, wearing a brown
shirt and jeans.
Anyone with information about
the robberies should contact De
tective Mike Smith at 503-823-0871.