Just three weeks ago, it looked like the end of the road for the Portland Jazz Festival.
As the event’s organizers explained, a major sponsor had pulled out, leaving them with no choice but to pull the plug on the five-year-old event, which had attracted so much favorable attention — not to mention tourist dollars — to the City of Roses.
Unless they received a “miracle” infusion of $100,000, they said, the festival — including all events scheduled for this February — was a thing of the past.
Well, it appears that miracle has occurred, thanks to P-town’s newest commissioner, Nick Fish, and his longtime ally, former mayoral candidate and travel agency owner, Sho Dozono.
And best of all, as Fish points out with justifiable pride, “It didn’t take a penny of public money to make it happen.”
As the event’s organizers explained, a major sponsor had pulled out, leaving them with no choice but to pull the plug on the five-year-old event, which had attracted so much favorable attention — not to mention tourist dollars — to the City of Roses.
Unless they received a “miracle” infusion of $100,000, they said, the festival — including all events scheduled for this February — was a thing of the past.
Well, it appears that miracle has occurred, thanks to P-town’s newest commissioner, Nick Fish, and his longtime ally, former mayoral candidate and travel agency owner, Sho Dozono.
And best of all, as Fish points out with justifiable pride, “It didn’t take a penny of public money to make it happen.”
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