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Scouts visit the Fish team
Mar 11, 2016 at 11:29 AM
This morning, we were honored to have Girl Scout Maddie and Boy Scouts Austin and David visit the Fish team.
March 11, 2016
This morning, we were honored to have Girl Scout Maddie and Boy Scouts Austin and David visit the Fish team.
Maddie sold us delicious Girl Scout cookies, and Austin and David earned “Citizenship in the Community” merit badges for speaking with Nick about important community issues.
Thanks for joining us!
Children's Clean Water Festival
Mar 14, 2016 at 11:57 AM
Last Tuesday, the Portland Water Bureau took part in an extraordinary event called the Children’s Clean Water Festival.
March 14, 2016
Last Tuesday, the Portland Water Bureau took part in an extraordinary event called the Children’s Clean Water Festival.
The Children’s Clean Water Festival is an annual one-day environmental education event that brings fourth and fifth grade students, from around the Portland Metro area, to learn about water and how it relates to our world.
This year, more than 1,500 children from over than 20 schools attended the Water Festival.
The Festival provided interactive water-focused classroom presentations, exhibits, and stage shows reinforced by STEM, Common Core, and Next Generation Science. Staff from the Water Bureau also taught classes on topics such as groundwater, how to build a water main, and water testing.
To learn more about this event, visit www.cleanwaterfestival.org and read more about it on the Bureau’s Water Blog.
Contemporary Native Photographers
Mar 14, 2016 at 3:16 PM
The Portland Art Museum has a beautiful exhibition featuring a blend of modern Native American photographs with older, idealized photographs of Native Americans called, Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Will Wilson.
March 14, 2016
The Portland Art Museum has a beautiful exhibition featuring a blend of modern Native American photographs with older, idealized photographs of Native Americans called, Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Will Wilson.
Talented Native American photographers, Jackson, Red Star, and Wilson, provide a modern and contemporary interpretation of Native Americans through photography. Edward Sheriff Curtis’ photographs are also featured, from his stunning publication, The North American Indian.
His publication includes over 1,500 photos of more than 80 Native American tribes, taken from 1907-1930. Curtis, a non-Native, believed in highlighting and preserving Native cultures through photos. His work received both praise and criticism, as many photos were romanticized representations of Native culture.
The exhibit is a response to the dialogue surrounding Curtis’ controversial photos. It showcases Native American photographs alongside Curtis’ photographs, providing a unique look into non-Native and Native perspectives of the portrayal of Native Americans in photography.
Check out the Portland Art Museum's website for more information.
Photo courtesy of Portland Art Museum.
Fix A Leak Week
Mar 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM
This week is Fix A Leak Week, a national awareness week organized by the EPA to encourage people to find and fix water leaks.
March 14, 2016
This week is Fix A Leak Week, a national awareness week organized by the EPA to encourage people to find and fix water leaks.
The Portland Water Bureau provides free Water Audit Kits to Portlanders. The kits simply explain how to locate and fix leaks, helps you save money and water. Kits include a bag to measure shower and faucet flow rate, toilet leak detection tablets, a drip gauge to measure leak rate and instructions for use.
Identifying and fixing leaks can be done with the whole family. Check out these games and activities for children.
Check out the Water Bureau’s website for more information.