Portland in the News: Local Swimming Holes; Celebrating Black Jazz Elders; Rose Quarter’s Puzzling Grain Elevator | June 30, 2022

This summer’s Cathedral Park Jazz Festival will feature Portland’s black jazz and soul elders.

The Rose Quarter’s grain elevator has a puzzling history and an uncertain future.

And cool off this summer at these nearby swimming spots.

Here’s a roundup of the goings-on in Portland this week:

• The Skanner: Summer of Sound Celebrates Portland’s Black Jazz and Soul Legacy, Elders

• OPB: Free summer meals available for Oregon children amid changes to federal rules

• Portland Monthly: 19 Great Swimming Holes within 3 Hours of Portland

• Willamette Week: The Son of a Famed Developer Has Grand Ambitions for a Grain Elevator in the Rose Quarter

• Willamette Week: In a First for the Nation, Five Vietnamese American Candidates Are Bound for the Oregon Legislature

• Washington Post: What I love about my home in Portland, Ore. — Perspective by Novelist Michele Lerner

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