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Images from the 2009 Rose Festival!
The Rose Festival FREEZE meets D.B. Cooper at Waterfront Village!
(Click PLAY on the YouTube below to view.)
D.B. Cooper paid a visit to Waterfront Village on Friday night, only to discover something odd going on...
Reid Stady & the Portland Improv created a FREEZE, with 1,600 people holding frozen poses for seven minutes!
Then when Security sees D.B. the chase is on!
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See the Results for the 2009 Rose Festival!
June 8, 2009
After three parades (the Portland General Electric/SOLV Starlight Parade, Fred Meyer Junior Parade and KeyBank Grand Floral Parade), the Regence Grand Floral Walk, the Queen's Coronation presented by Pacific Power and MusicFest, the Rose Festival has numerous awards and results to share!
See the results of the 2009 Grand Floral Parade: LEARN MORE
See the Costume Contest winners of the 2009 Regence Grand Floral Walk: LEARN MORE
See the 2009 Rose Festival Queen, Rachel Seeman: LEARN MORE
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Message from the Rose Festival President
Robert Hansen
What a fantastic celebration-four spectacular weeks of Remembrance, Revelry, Roses... and Races! We began our planning last fall with an effort to sustain the festival that has celebrated this community for more than a century; we didn't know at the time we would find ways to enhance and expand that festival as never before. With the support of our corporate and nonprofit partners, including the City of Portland, we were able to offer people a place to play and a pledge to be positive in a time when our world really needed it.
As the President of the Rose Festival Foundation, you get a chance to have a completely new perspective on the festival. I had the opportunity to see everything in motion, from a spectator's and participant's point of view instead of an organizer's point of view. What great staff, directors, and volunteers we have at the festival! Thank you all for your hard work and dedication to the Portland Rose Festival Foundation.
What an incredible time we had! It all began with an opening weekend that I will remember forever: lighting the Portland Rose on the John Yeon building (the soon-to-be Rose Festival headquarters), spectacular fireworks, and a Memorial Day celebration that was the largest in the State of Oregon. We brought more fun and festivities to the City of Portland then ever before with three weekends of Waterfront Village activities!
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