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Herbert Medina, currently provost of the University of Portland, will be acting president as of July 1.
The announcement came June 2 from leaders of the North
Mass vaccinations part of effort to open schools The Oregon Convention Center is expected to be the site for mass vaccinations in the Portland area for the next six to nine months. (Courtesy Providence)
select Dr. Tom Jeanne, deputy state epidemiologist and a senior health adviser for Oregon Health Authority, and Colt Gill, director of the Oregon Department of Education, along with an interpreter for deaf viewers, gave a hopeful presentation on schools reopening Feb. 3. (Screen grab from the Oregon Health Authority) Nick Thompson • • •
Mass COVID-19 vaccinations are taking place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Appointments are required, and only certain groups are receiving the vaccines because of limited quantities.
Mass COVID-19 vaccinations are taking place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Appointments are required, and only certain groups are receiving the va
An Archbishop Blanchet pilgrimage route
Visit sites key for the founder of Oregon Catholicism, including those along his 1838 trek into the frontier French Canadian voyageurs transported two priest to the Oregon Country in 1838. 12/19/2020 2:45 PM
select Fr. Francis Blanchet trekked to Oregon in 1838 and became the region s first archbishop.
Archbishop Francois Norbert Blanchet, who came to Oregon as a middle-aged French Canadian missionary to establish Catholicism, arrived 182 years ago after an arduous trip.
Today, pilgrims can follow his intriguing journey more easily. Father Blanchet and his colleague Father Modeste Demers departed in canoes with a band of voyageurs from Lachine, Quebec, on May 3, 1838, and arrived at Fort Vancouver 4,500 miles later on Nov. 24 of the same year. In a way not dreamed of by the two 19th-century missionaries, modern motorists can make the journey with about 44 hours of driving. Or a