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Since the 20th anniversary issue in May, we’ve been allocating space each month for a look back at selected photographic images and actual pages from 20 years’ worth of Mid-county Memo newspapers.
This month, presented on this and the following pages, are previously published photographs by Mid-county Memo Publisher Tim Curran. Curran took over Memo photography duties in 2000 from Executive Editor Rich Riegel.

Artie Johnson, matriarch of the Parkrose Business Association, was profiled in February 2002. On their virtually daily walks through the Argay neighborhood in Mid-county, Clare and Sharon Mershon pick up litter. What began as routine two-mile walk for exercise has become a serious litter patrol. The Mershons pick up hundreds of pounds of litter every year. In addition to beautifying the neighborhood, for which they won a Mid-county Memo Community Award this year, they donate money collected from the returnable bottles they pick up to the Parkrose High School Bronco Boosters scholarship fund.

A skateboard demonstration was part of the Parkrose Community Fair annually held at Parkrose High School and Community Center in this photo from the 2001 event. The Parkrose Community Fair got its start as a student art fair in 1999; it has since become a community-wide event with live entertainment, food, games, merchant displays, music, dance and art.
In June 2002 members of the New York City Fire Department came to Portland to be part of the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade. While they were in Portland, their firefighter colleagues at Portland Fire Bureau Station No. 43 in Mid-county hosted many of the New York firefighters. To assist the firefighters after Sept. 11, 2001, a contingent from Station No. 43 went to New York immediately after 9/11. This photo was taken during a reception held in downtown Portland honoring the New York firefighters. Pictured second from the left is Lieutenant Dennis O’Grady from PFB Station No. 43 with, from the left, Kevin Rooney, Eric Mora and John Hartel, Engine Company No. 306 FDNY.

From our front-page story in January 2005 titled “Cancer doesn’t scare Gateway businesswoman,” we featured Darleen Wilson, seated, former owner of The Colour Authority Salon and Spa, along with daughter and current Colour Authority owner, Denise Mahoney.

MEMO PHOTOS: TIM CURRAN
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