Two years after the Columbia Pool was closed indefinitely, the state legislature passed two budget bills that secured $15 million in lottery bond funding for the proposed North Portland Aquatic Center.
Two years after the Columbia Pool was closed indefinitely, the state legislature passed two budget bills that secured $15 million in lottery bond funding for the proposed North Portland Aquatic Center.
Both the Oregon House and Senate approved June 19’s designation as a commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S. On that date in 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Tex. received word that they were free notably, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed.