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| Name Your Brick This Holiday Season
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Join the nearly 74,000 brick owners that have helped to build the Square. Named bricks make great gifts and include gift wrapping, a frameable certificate, and a map of your brick's location upon installation! Proceeds of each sale go to support free community programming in our City’s Living Room. Click here to give a brick today!
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| Visit the IKEA Toy Shop!
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This holiday season, visit the IKEA Toy Shop at Pioneer Courthouse Square! December 6-18, explore a winter wonderland with a selection of wooden and soft toys for your gift shopping convenience. Plus, for every toy you buy, IKEA is donating $1 to support children’s play and development programs around the world through its Let’s Play for Change campaign. The IKEA Toy Shop is heated and accepts credit/debit cards only.
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| Holiday Performances at the Square
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Throughout the month of December, the Square will host fun and festive holiday performances by local school groups, choirs, dance troupes, and more like Montavilla Guitar Studio, The Vernon Choir, and The Flute Alliance. All performances are free to attend and will take place under the big tent next to Portland’s 75ft Douglas fir that shines bright. Click
here for a full list of events. If your group would like to participate, there are still spots available! Email ashley@thesquarepdx.org.
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| Holidays on the Mall with Portland Mall Management, Inc.
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Portland Mall Management, Inc. will bring Holidays on the Mall to downtown all month long starting today with a sugar cookie giveaway at 12:00pm! Watch for free performances, sweet treat giveaways, and events popping up on SW 5th and 6th Avenues and SW Yamhill and Morrison Streets. Click here for dates and full details!
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| Buy A Light
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Pioneer Courthouse Square has partnered with four of Portland's charitable organizations this holiday season in the hopes of spreading some light throughout our community. During this season of giving, Buy A Light on the 75ft Douglas-fir tree that shines bright in our City’s Living Room.
For a donation of $5 you too can light up a life to benefit The National Alliance on Mental Illness, the American Cancer Society, Trillium Family Services, and the American Heart Association. Purchase a symbolic light for a loved one or yourself, give as a gift, or in honor of someone special. Your contribution will help these organizations provide vital services for our community in the coming year. To Buy A Light today, click here.
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| The 32nd Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony Presented by SmartPark
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The day after Thanksgiving, more than 15,000 Portlanders gathered in the heart of downtown to celebrate the annual
Tree Lighting of the spectacular 75ft Douglas-fir provided by Stimson Lumber Company. This beloved community tradition spilled out into the streets and featured a sing-a-long with Thomas Lauderdale and members of Pink Martini, the NW Community Gospel Choir, Tracey Harris Woods and the Pacific Youth Choir! Mayor Hales and Santa ceremoniously lit the Tree adorned in over 14,000 multi-colored lights as the crowd looked on in awe. In addition, event attendees were given the opportunity to text in and win one of 33 named bricks in celebration of Pioneer Courthouse Square upcoming 33rd year. There will be another chance to text to win a brick at the upcoming Tuba Christmas Concert Presented by SmartPark.
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| Parks Replacement Bond Renovations
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In 2014, the Portland community voted to support the Parks Replacement Bond, a measure to issue up to $68 million in general obligation bonds. The money from the bond will pay for the capital costs of repairs and improvements to existing park facilities. Bond outreach identified strong community support for prioritizing restoration of Pioneer Courthouse Square, the much loved City’s “living room”. The 2014 Parks Replacement Bond includes a not-to-exceed allocation of $10 million for all phases and costs associated with the renovation project at the Square.
Information about the upcoming Parks Replacement Bond renovations, including project background, overview, and schedule, can be found here.
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