Portland, OR. GlamHer, Bradley Angle’s signature event, reached for the stars and celebrated galactic ideas at this year’s science fiction-inspired ball. Sold out two weeks in advance, the fundraiser hosted 460 guests at the Nines Hotel in downtown Portland. (Photo credit, Andie Petkus)
“This was our most successful GlamHer to date. We are simply overwhelmed by the generosity of this community. The funds raised will go directly to programs that support survivors of domestic violence, including LGBTQ specific services and support groups and culturally responsive services for survivors in Black/African American/African communities through the Healing Roots Program,” said Jackie Yerby, Executive Director.
Drag legend, Poison Waters, guided the electric crowd through an entertaining evening with performances and her entourage of Queens. Organizers raised over $220,000 for survivors of domestic violence at the May 22nd event . The most spirited live auction item was a Drag Queen Makeover by Poison Waters and the rare chance to perform in Super!Drag at the Darcelle XV Showplace alongside legendary Queen Darcelle.
Bradley Angle’s Red Dress PDX friends
460 guests attended fundraiser to support survivors of domestic violence
Notorious queens of Portland
From Bradley Angle:
Bradley Angle is grateful to have generous community sponsors support GlamHer and share its vision to create communities free from domestic violence and oppression where loving, compassionate and equitable relationships exist for all people.
Presenting Sponsor: Bishops Barbershop
Vernier Software & Technology
Sustaining Sponsors
BBSI
Fred Meyer
Pacific Power
Think Realty
USI
Wells Fargo
Our deepest appreciation goes out to our volunteers: the Bradley Angle Board of Directors, the creative GlamHer planning committee, and a team of 38 individuals who assisted before and during the event.
Please visit our GlamHer Photo Gallery: http://andiepetkus.zenfolio.com/p545229292 and to get all the latest information on our events follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bradleyanglepdx
For 2018 sponsorship information contact: [email protected] About Bradley Angle
Founded in1975, Bradley Angle is one of the first emergency shelters in the country and the first domestic violence shelter on the West Coast. The Portland-based organization provides culturally responsive community based support services to all survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Our vision is to build communities that are free from violence and oppression—where loving, compassionate and equitable relationships exist for all people. Bradley Angle programs include: emergency shelter and services, housing assistance, youth & family services, LGBTQ specific services and support groups, culturally responsive services for survivors in Black/African American/African communities through the Healing Roots Program, and an Economic Empowerment Program. The organization serves more than 800 adults and children a year. Visit www.bradleyangle.org for more information.
Oregon City, OR. If you’ve dreamed of getting up-close and personal with Willamette Falls, like those in this artist’s rendering, you won’t have wait much longer. After years of planning and countless rounds of public input, the Willamette Falls Legacy Project has released the final concept design for a riverwalk located on the Oregon City side of the Willamette.
Willamette Falls Legacy Project Foundation supporters gathered on May 31st to hear from a team of architects who explained that the riverwalk will feature promenades along the river and pathways lofting through the former industrial site on the southern banks of the Willamette, adjacent to downtown Oregon City.
Plans for the riverwalk incorporate a number of existing structures still standing on the site, leftover from a century of industry.
The Willamette Falls Legacy Project is a collaborative partnership between Oregon City, Clackamas County, Metro and the State of Oregon. Carlotta Colette, Metro Councilor for District 2 calls the Willamette Falls Legacy Project one of Oregon’s most important public space projects. “It will give Oregonians and visitors an up-close experience of one the most beautiful and significant places in the state—a place that the general public has not been able to access for 150 years.”
Willamette Falls is the second largest waterfall in North America by volume and an important cultural site for Native American tribes, who have gathered, fished and traded there for millennia.
In 1889, Willamette Falls was the location of the country’s first long-distance electrical transmission, when electricity generated at the falls was used to power a string of electrical lights 14 miles away in Portland.
Settlers in Oregon City used the falls to power a series of industrial facilities, including woolen, flour and paper mills. After the Blue Heron paper mill closed in 2011, Metro, Oregon City, Clackamas County and the State of Oregon formed the Willamette Falls Legacy Project to create a public riverwalk for people to view Willamette Falls. It will be built on a portion of the 22-acre site, and planners want to establish a public-private strategy to spur redevelopment of the entire site, which is privately owned by Falls Legacy LLC.
Since 2013, the Willamette Falls Legacy Project has collected the input of thousands of community members from across the state in public meetings, events and surveys, using this feedback to guide a process that culminated in the unveiling of riverwalk design.
Groundbreaking and the start of construction for the riverwalk is expected to begin in 2018. Construction of Phase I of the riverwalk is expected to be completed in 2022.
“This is a game-changer for our community. We are opening up a spectacular place to people, and when they come, it will mean new opportunities for our businesses and residents.” —Oregon City Mayor Dan Holladay
Beaverton, OR. Rose Festival Half Marathon hit the streets of Beaverton under cool but sunny skies. Starting and finishing at Southridge High School the route ran through southeast Beaverton neighborhoods and along the popular Fanno Creek Greenway Trail. (Photo credit, Tim Adams, Portland Rose Festival)
Winning his first half marathon, cross country runner Christopher Nussbaum coasted across the finish line in 1:21:32 almost three minutes ahead of second place finisher Eric Valdes.
The women’s race brought the excitement level up as the top three runners finished within seconds of each other.
New York student Ingrid Wells, in her first visit to Portland, won in 1:31:12, nineteen seconds ahead of second place Colleen Rocereto who came in just ahead of third place runner Amanda Gervasi by 9 seconds.
WINNERS – MEN
Christopher Nussbaum 1:21:32
Eric Valdes 1:24:25
David Hopper 1:28:32
WINNERS – WOMEN
Ingrid Wells 1:31:12
Colleen Rocereto 1:31:31
Amanda Gervasi 1:31:42
From The Rose Festival:
The Rose Festival, in partnership with the Portland Marathon, extends a big thank you to Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle and the great City of Beaverton, including the Beaverton Police, Beaverton School District, and Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation District for their tremendous support of this sunny Sunday morning race. The Rose Festival Half Marathon is also supported by Kuni Lexus of Portland, Crunch Fitness, The Oregonian, FOX12, Alpha Media, and Nike.
The Portland Rose Festival is one of the first signs of summer. People come from far and wide to revel in the variety of culturally rich events happening during the months of May and June. Whether you are craving cotton candy and a spin on the CityFair Ferris wheel, want to dance your cares away at a RoZone Concert, or bask in the sun as amazing, all-floral floats drift through downtown in the Grand Floral Parade, there is an event for festival lovers of any age.
Portland, OR. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) hosted its annual gala, where 500 donors joined together in support of increasing accessibility to science education throughout our region. The event on May 13th, was co-chaired by Gary Maffei, Marcus Lintner, Christopher Hall and Jill Hall. It honored David and Christine Vernier of Vernier Software & Technology. Gala attendees were treated to music by The Bylines and a rap written and rhymed by OMSI’s own Michael Wilson and a performance by broadway star, Shoshana Bean. (Photos by Eric DePangher for VEV Studios)
First Gentleman Dan Little, OMSI Trustee Sue Miller, and Governor Kate Brown.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, OMSI Teen and Google Science Fair Award Winner Anushka Naiknaware and Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle.
Portland’s own Shoshana Bean, who starred on Broadway in WICKED, donated one of over a dozen live auction packages.
Gala honorees Christine and David Vernier of Vernier Software and Technology have some fun with science.
Here’s a history of OMSI:
OMSI began with the exhibition of Oregon’s rich natural resources with the opening of the City Hall Museum in 1896. But with the Great Depression and World War II, it wasn’t until the mid-forties that support for the museum really began to grow. Businessman Ralph Lloyd hosted the temporary “Oregon Museum of Science and Industry” in his house on NE Hassalo Street, boasting the Northwest’s first public planetarium and its 20-minute trip to the stars.
With annual attendance swelling to over 25,000 in 1955 and the house scheduled for demolition, the City Council stepped forward to lease land in Washington Park to OMSI for the sum of one dollar per year. In the spirit of pioneer barn-raisings, over 400 volunteer union brick layers and hod carriers laid 102,000 bricks in one day, and on June 7, 1958, the dream of a dedicated, hands-on science museum became a reality.
By the mid-1980’s, OMSI’s popularity surpassed the size of its facility six times over and a new group of community leaders began a $32M campaign to build a state-of-the-art science center, culminating with a milestone donation from longtime supporter, Portland General Electric, of an 18.5-acre site that held a historic sawdust-fired power generation plant. On October 24, 1992, the new 219,000 square-foot facilities opened, adding the USS Blueback, the last non-nuclear powered submarine built by the U.S. Navy, just two years later.
Today, the museum serves over 1 million visitors at the museum and through off-site education programs. OMSI is ranked as one of the top science centers in the United States and has an international reputation for its innovative exhibits and educational programs.
Portland, OR. Over 550 community leaders gathered at the Portland Art Museum to support the Dougy Center which has the distinction of being named “The National Center for Grieving Children & Families.” Volunteers with clipboards in hand connected with attendees like Wei-Li Chong, from KinderCare Education and his wife Karen Chong. The 2017 Reflection Benefit & Auction was presented by KinderCare Education.
This year’s gala, on May 12th, raised the most money in Dougy Center history. The night included a silent auction showcasing a gallery of one-of-a-kind art designed by Dougy Center participating children, a performance of “Seasons of Love” by Portland’s Bridging Voices Chorus, and testimonials from Michele, Ryan, Georgia, and JJ Gray who participate in Dougy Center programs. The event, Co-Chaired by Tim and Jennifer O’Brien, raised over $860,000 for programs to support children, teens, young adults, and their families grieving a death or those living with a family member with an advanced serious illness. (Photo credit, Michael Schmitt Photography and Ilona LaRue of Studio Lumiere)
The record-breaking evening culminated with the announcement of the 20th annual Porsche Boxster Raffle winner, which for the second year in a row has completely sold out of all 2,000 tickets! Lucinda Leonnig, a past participant of The Dougy Center, was this year’s lucky winner with ticket #0722.
Bev Chappell, founder of The Dougy Center, and Brennan Wood, Executive Director of The Dougy Center
Tim and Jennifer O’Brien, event Co-Chairs, with their two sons, enjoying the Silent Auction
Reuben Broadfoot of Nike, Dougy Center’s Board of Directors Chairman, with his wife Mayumi
About The Dougy Center
The Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death can share their experiences. Locally, The Dougy Center serves over 500 children and 350 adult family members each month with peer support groups in Portland, Hillsboro and Canby. Through the National Center for Grieving Children & Families, The Dougy Center also provides information and training locally, nationally and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief. The Dougy Center does not charge for its support services, and relies solely on the generous donations of individuals, corporations and foundations.
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