Today my family and I, and dozens of others converged on Champoeg State Park to celebrate Oregon’s 150th year of statehood. All the visitors shared in a cake made specially for this comemoration and which was shaped like the state of Oregon, with topographic features rendered in icing. I also learned that the initial event that severed the dependance of the settled population on the Hudson Bay Company(British) was a vote to establish a provisional govenment. This proposition carried by only two votes, but set the stage for eventual statehood.
Point taken! Every vote counts.
