May 25, 2016
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A group of children from Vanport are depicted in an archives photo courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society.
Remembering Vanport
Weekend of events begin with proclamation
A proclamation by Mayor
Hales and the City Council to re-
member the lood that destroyed
Vanport, the lives lost and the
people who survived, kicks off a
Memorial Day weekend of events
for the irst Vanport Mosaic Festi-
val, honoring the 68th anniversary
of the tragedy.
The nation’s largest public
housing project, Oregon’s second
largest city and home to a large
African American community,
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Not enough ballots left to change outcome
ENTERTAINMENT
F OOD
and again on Monday, May 30
at 3 p.m. at Irvington Covenant
Church.
The Vanport Mosaic Festival is
a 4-day celebration commemorat-
ing the Vanport Flood held at var-
ious venues in north and northeast
Portland.
Free screenings of the ilm Lost
City, Living Memories: Vanport
Through the Voice of its Residents
Sanchez Wins Close Race
Arts &
C ALENDAR
O BITUARIES
C LASSIFIEDS
was destroyed on May 30, 1948
in a matter of few hours. 18,500
people were left homeless; oficial
records say 15 people lost their
lives, but some survivors believe
the death toll was much higher.
Wednesday’s proclamation will
be shared again at the opening of
the ilm Lost City, Living Mem-
ories: Vanport Through the Voic-
es of its Residents on Saturday,
May 28 at 6.30 p.m. at Vancou-
ver Avenue First Baptist Church;
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Tawna Sanchez, an executive
at the Native American Youth and
Family Center in northeast Port-
land, has won an extremely close
nominating contest for state repre-
sentative in House District 43.
Sanchez has what looks like an
insurmountable lead of 111 votes
over Roberta Phillip-Robbins, an
African American who served as
a youth and gang violence pre-
vention specialist for Multnomah
County, with too few ballots re-
maining to be counted to make a
difference in the Democratic Pri-
mary race, according to a Portland
Observer analysis of the vote and
igures showing the outcome is
outside the threshold triggering an
automatic recount.
On Monday, the Multnomah
County Elections Division report-
Tawna Sanchez
Roberta Phillip-Robbins
ed that Sanchez has 9,322 votes to
9,199 votes for Phillip-Robbins.
With just 1,200 ballots left to be
counted countywide, and only a
fraction of those returns expected
to be designated for District 43
which had 8 percent of the county-
wide vote, there does not appear to
enough ballots to change the out-
come of the race.
The oficial certiication of the
election won’t be made until June
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