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World Forestry Center. / 45.510635; -122.717895. The World Forestry Center is a nonprofit educational institution in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located near the Oregon Zoo in Washington Park, the organization was established in 1964 [citation needed] as the Western Forestry Center, with the actual building opening in 1971.
Arrested. 970+ [1] Starting in May 2020, protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 participants. [2]
Another documentary short, Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Railroad, was shot in Portland in 1897. Since then, numerous major motion pictures have been shot in the state, including F.W. Murnau 's City Girl (1930), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Animal House (1978), Stand by Me (1986), Free Willy (1993), and Wild (2014).
Chalk writing on a sidewalk in southeast Portland during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak started in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019.
The Grotto (Portland, Oregon) / 45.5533; -122.5734. The National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, popularly known as The Grotto, is a Catholic outdoor altar and sanctuary located in the Madison South district of Portland, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1924, the sanctuary covers 62 acres (25 ha), [2] set both at the foot of, and atop ...
LMS. Website. www .kptv .com. KPTV (channel 12) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Vancouver, Washington –licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KPDX (channel 49). Both stations share studios on NW Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton, while KPTV's ...
Providence Park, a 25,218, seat open-air stadium which is the home of the Timbers, is the largest non-auto sports venue in Portland. [1] [2] The Moda Center, formerly the Rose Garden, is second with 19,980 seats for basketball games and slightly less for hockey match-ups. [3] Portland International Raceway in Hayden Meadows has the largest ...
United States. Location. Viewed from the southwest in 2011. Greyhound Lines operated a bus station and terminal in Portland, Oregon 's Old Town Chinatown, until 2019. The building was closed to the public, [1] and as of fall 2020 was slated to operate as a temporarily homeless shelter. [2]