Photography: Looking Back at 35 Years of The Skanner News


blumenhauer_earl_300At right, Charles Williamson, 16, gets a hand from then-City Commissioner Earl Blumenauer in building a storage unit for Charles’ bedroom at the House of Umoja in 1991. Photo by John Klicker

 

 

 

 

 

boston_lou_300 The late Lou Boston, left, in front of City Hall, showing some of the repairs his firm will undertake on Sept. 22, 1995. Photo by Shelly Heilweil.

 

 

 

 

 

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 Then-President George H. W. Bush holds up a souvenir of his tour at Self Enhancement Inc., which he named one of the “1000 Points of Light” in the early 1990s. Photo by Dean Guernsey

 

 

 

 

census_300 Portland/Multnomah County Census 2000 Crew Leader Elijah Hasan talks with Pereace Woods in front of her home. Photo by Julie Keefe

 

 

 


 

luccetti_300 Educator Richard Luccetti looks on as Shakema Jones reads a book to LaTanya Neal at Albina Head Start in February, 1998. Photo by Julie Keefe

 

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The Rev. John Jackson, who inspired The Skanner News Publisher Bernie Foster to hold the first-ever Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast in 1986.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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