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At Our Table Portrait Project, on Travel PortlandPortland artist Eva Wrzesinski spent months visiting Blanchet House’s free café, drawing portraits of 22 guests while learning about their lives. The result is "At Our Table", a portrait exhibition that invites viewers to see people experiencing poverty, homelessness, addiction, and mental health challenges as unique individuals with stories worth hearing. The event offers an opportunity to view the portraits and interview Wrzesinski and participating café guests about their experiences. Each portrait includes excerpts from interviews that explore guests’ memories, relationships,…
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Tula-TuTula-Tu, the Oregon Zoo's elephant calf, is holding steady after a week and a half of emergency care for EEHV-1B, with antiviral medications, fluids and plasma transfusions.
Tula-Tu, the Oregon Zoo's elephant calf, is holding steady after a week and a half of emergency care for EEHV-1B, with antiviral medications, fluids and plasma transfusions. "Her white-cell counts are nearly back to normal and her viral load is trending down," said Dr. Carlos Sanchez, the zoo's director of animal health, who called her condition guarded but encouraging. She appears more alert and her appetite has improved. The same virus killed her older sister Lily in 2018.
News Notes · Today’s editionSources: KOIN.com, KTVZ, KATU, KPTV, OregonLive.com