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On October 18, 1873, the Oregon Pioneer Society was reorganized as the Oregon Pioneer Association (OPA). [1] The group continued to hold annual meetings each June, usually around the June 15 "Pioneer Day" holiday, [2] with stenographic reports of these meetings published in pamphlet form for the historical record. [1]
[1] Narcotics Anonymous uses a 12-step model developed for people with varied substance use disorders [2] and is the second-largest 12-step organization, [3] after 12-step pioneer Alcoholics Anonymous. As of May 2018 there were more than 70,000 NA meetings in 144 countries. [4]
The Portland Expo Center, officially the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, is a convention center located in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in the early 1920s as a livestock exhibition and auction facility, the center now hosts over 100 events a year, including green consumer shows, trade shows ...
The FPMT's international headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, United States. The central office has previously been located at: 2000-2005 Taos, New Mexico; 1989-2000 Soquel, California (Land of Medicine Buddha) 1984-1989 Pomaia, Italy (Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa) 1975-1984 Kathmandu, Nepal (Kopan Monastery)
On June 4, 1968, in Portland, Oregon, forty-six congregations and about eighty ministers met in a session to organize a separate denomination known as the Evangelical Church of North America (ECNA). Before the end of June 1968, laity and ministers from North Dakota and Montana , representing more than twenty additional congregations, had joined.
KPDX (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Vancouver, Washington, United States, serving the Portland, Oregon, area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is the only major commercial station in Portland that is licensed to the Washington side of the market. KPDX is owned by Gray Media alongside Fox affiliate KPTV (channel 12).
Emigrants marked their path on this juniper limb, found southeast of present-day Redmond, Oregon.The limb is now on display in the Deschutes County Museum. Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century.
The St. Johns Commercial Association petitioned the Portland Consolidated Railway Company to install a transfer-free line to St. Johns and to increase to a twenty-minute schedule in February 1905. [38] Just weeks later the streetcar manager wrote a letter to the association announcing a new through service line to Portland without transfer. [39]