A group of civic minded Portlanders, called Concerned Citizens, played a key role in getting the Elk restored- especially the amazing Bill Hawkins.
Bill and Kit Hawkins are currently engaged with PBOT to assure the traffic lanes are designed in such a way that a bus has sufficient room to transit past the Elk without causing any damage. So far PBOT has been responsive in this regard.
Full disclosure: I am a member of the Concerned Citizens, but played no role relative to the Elk other than supporting various communications to the City.
I'll give you five-to-ten that some bloke with a mask and umbrella will tag the elk within a week of its installation.
Meanwhile, Abe Lincoln remains in purdah in a secret location--one supposes because he'd be further defaced if that were known. Teddy Roosevelt is also crated up...somewhere. Then there's the pioneer family...and don't even talk to us about the statue of the Oregonian publisher (even his own newspaper tried to get a Pulitzer Prize for attacking him, post-mortum).
The fact that only a laborious, bureaucratic, knuckle-gnawing process will restore these civic monuments speaks volumes about Portland's surrender to the umbrella-people. And its own lack of stones.
A group of civic minded Portlanders, called Concerned Citizens, played a key role in getting the Elk restored- especially the amazing Bill Hawkins.
Bill and Kit Hawkins are currently engaged with PBOT to assure the traffic lanes are designed in such a way that a bus has sufficient room to transit past the Elk without causing any damage. So far PBOT has been responsive in this regard.
Full disclosure: I am a member of the Concerned Citizens, but played no role relative to the Elk other than supporting various communications to the City.
I admit to ignorance. Has anyone ever been brought to justice for this vandalism?
I'll give you five-to-ten that some bloke with a mask and umbrella will tag the elk within a week of its installation.
Meanwhile, Abe Lincoln remains in purdah in a secret location--one supposes because he'd be further defaced if that were known. Teddy Roosevelt is also crated up...somewhere. Then there's the pioneer family...and don't even talk to us about the statue of the Oregonian publisher (even his own newspaper tried to get a Pulitzer Prize for attacking him, post-mortum).
The fact that only a laborious, bureaucratic, knuckle-gnawing process will restore these civic monuments speaks volumes about Portland's surrender to the umbrella-people. And its own lack of stones.