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Parade Camp Makes Point
Steve Alcorn
(left) and
Charles
Johnson, part o f
a group o f
homeless and
formerly home­
less community
members, pitch
tents along the
Grand Floral
Parade route,
downtown, to
raise aware­
ness about
laws that
criminalize
camping.
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A public camp-out designed to Parade route for the 24 hours that
“W hat kind o f m essage is the
raise aw are n ess ab o u t the the city allows camping in the city. city sending?" asks long tim e
criminalization of homelessness in
Each year, the city permits pitch­ hom eless advocate Leo Rhodes.
Portland and across the nation, was ing tents along the Grand Floral "They are saying it is okay to
set up Friday at Southwest Fourth Parade route. Every other day of the cam p for recreation, but if you are
Avenue and Washington, down­ year camping is criminalized, caus­ one of the thousands o f people in
town.
ing houseless people to seek shel­ Portland w ithout housing or shel­
P articipants from the group ter in doorways, under bridges and ter you will be fined and harassed
“Right 2 Survive” set up tents along in bushes, in hope of surviving the for erecting a structure for sur­
the Rose Festival’s Grand Floral rain and cold without shelter.
vival."
High School Senior Crowned
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Kate Sinnott, a senior at Central Catholic High
School, was crowned queen of the 2012 Portland Rose
Festival Saturday to officially leadoff the festival’s
largest single day spectator event, the Spirit Mount
Casino Grand Floral Parade.
The Queen’s Coronation presented by Pacific Power
warmed up the house at the Veterans Memorial Coli­
seum before the 4.2 mile parade started with its array
of amazing floats, beautiful costumes and fancy horses.
It was the 100th edition of the Rose Festival’s all-floral
parade.
Sinnott is from southeast Portland, the daughter of
Bill and Kathy Sinnott. She is a peer mediator at Central
Catholic, a member of her school ’ s junior varsity tennis
team, and newspaper. She plans a future career in
design.