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Zoo celebrates 2011 attendance milestones, anticipates even brighter future
The Oregon Zoo will ring out 2011 in record fashion this weekend with the final nights of its best-attended ZooLights ever –– and then ring in 2012 with a celebratory day of free admission on Monday, Jan. 2.
Leftovers, schmeftovers! Throughout the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, Oregon Zoo animals will gobble their way through their very own Beast Feast, a cornucopia of enrichment activities and treats aimed at stimulating their minds and stomachs.
The Oregon Zoo will mark Veterans Day by offering free admission for military veterans and active military personnel, as well as family members who accompany them to the zoo. Families of deployed military personnel also will be given free admission.
Animals and visitors will receive treats during zoo’s Howloween celebration
Trick-or-treaters can fill their bags with goodies and learn about wildlife Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 during Howloween at the Oregon Zoo, presented by Sterling Savings Bank. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free with zoo admission.
The Glendoveer Golf Course and Fitness Trail is one of the most treasured and used community facilities in outer Northeast Portland. A facility assessment and business plan project is underway to figure out what needs to be done to prepare for a fair and competitive process to develop and award a new contract to operate the facility starting in 2013.
On June 20, the Hoyt Street Station Community Café will open its doors to Lloyd District residents and neighbors, serving healthy and delicious salads, sandwiches and soups with a focus on locally sourced ingredients. Named after the future nearby Portland Streetcar stop, the café is a joint collaboration between Metro’s Oregon Convention Center and its food and beverage service contractor, Aramark/Giacometti Partners, Ltd.
Using the very successful Bowling for Rhinos fundraiser as a model, the Portland Chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers is raising money for the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance in an effort to save the critically endangered Amur leopard. The chapter is now selling eye-catching bike jerseys collaboratively designed by a local company, Retro Image Apparel, and Oregon Zoo employee Philip Fensterer. These jerseys would retail for $70 locally but are available for a minimum $50 donation, payable by check (made out to Portland AAZK) or cash. Donations to this cause are tax-deductible.
California condors at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation laid 10 eggs this breeding season, the most in the program’s seven-year history. Seven of the 10 are fertile, including the heaviest egg in the history of the zoo's condor program: an 11½ ounce giant. The condors started laying eggs in late January and finished mid-March. The first eggs are expected to hatch before the end of the month. Two dozen healthy chicks have hatched at the center since the program began in 2003, and 17 Oregon Zoo-reared birds have gone out to field pens, with most released to the wild.
The Oregon Zoo is developing a new 20-year master plan and is inviting the public to an early preview. Members of the public are encouraged to drop in at one of two open houses and view conceptual drawings and initial designs, chat with designers and animal experts and provide feedback. The open houses, which are scheduled for Thursday, March 31, from 5 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, April 2, from 9 a.m. to noon, will also include a brief presentation and video (5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on March 31 and 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on April 2). Both events will take place in the Cascade Grill, lower floor, and they do not require zoo admission.
A new analysis of the fiscal and economic impacts generated by the venues under Metro’s management – the Oregon Convention Center, Portland Expo Center, Portland Center for the Performing Arts and Oregon Zoo – was released yesterday revealing good news for the Portland metropolitan region’s economy. In aggregate, throughout the agency’s 2010 fiscal year (FY), nearly 3.4 million people visited the four venues, catalyzing $680 million in direct and induced spending throughout the region.
Rex Burkholder represents District 5, which includes Northwest Portland, North Portland, Northeast Portland, downtown Portland, a portion of Southwest Portland and a portion of Southeast Portland.
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