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Pop singer Britney Spears performed at the fair in 1999. [3] In 2012, singer/actress Miranda Cosgrove headlined the entertainment. [5] Due to the planned attendance of the Blue Angels at the Oregon International Air Show, the fair overlapped with the air show in 2013 creating traffic issues with the air show held across Cornell Road at the Hillsboro Airport. [6]
Other venues included the Hotel Oregon in McMinnville and the Withycombe Theatre in Corvallis, among others. [4] Through May 2008 the company had put on nine productions. [2] In September 2008, Bag & Baggage became the resident theater company at the Venetian Theatre in Downtown Hillsboro. [5] They opened their new season with Steel Magnolias.
Hillsboro (/ ˈ h ɪ l z b ər oʊ / ⓘ HILZ-burr-oh) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. [7] Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, locally known as the Silicon Forest.
The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the earth science museum is in the Portland metropolitan area. Opened in 1997, the museum's collections date to the 1930s with the museum housed in a home built ...
The key event of the Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show produced by the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society. This show has been held annually since 1955 and now occupies 181,000 square feet (16,800 m 2) of the Tucson Convention Center. Many museums and universities, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Sorbonne ...
Shute Park is a municipal park in the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, United States.Acquired in 1906, the 13-acre (53,000 m 2) park is the oldest park in the city.Located at southeast Tenth and Maple streets along Tualatin Valley Highway, Shute Park includes an aquatic center, a branch of the Hillsboro Public Library, and a community center.
The Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the 23rd largest in the United States, [14] has a population of 2,226,009 (2010 Census). Of them, 1,789,580 live in Oregon (46.7% of the state's population) while the remaining 436,429 live in Washington (6.7% of state's population).
Plans for an arts and culture center in Hillsboro were made in the city's Hillsboro 2020 Vision. [3] This community plan was finalized in 2000 and designed to improve the livability of the city located in the Portland metropolitan area. [3] Hillsboro purchased the property from the church for $1.325 million in November 2000. [1] [4]