Portlanders are not going to allow another year to go by without the famous Rose Festival. “The Rose Festival is back this year for the Rose City Reunion,” Portland Rose Festival CEO Jeff Curtis said in an emailed statement. “The Rose Festival is happy to be part of Portland’s comeback story, featuring all three of our parades starting with the CareOregon Starlight Parade. We’re honored to have CareOregon as a Premier Sponsor, joining a group of corporate leaders who recognize the value that the Rose Festival brings to the community.”
It has been two years without Portland rose festival traditional downtown parades, waterfront fair and other big events, which were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, good news arrives in the name of the springtime festival’s 2022 collector’s edition rose bush: ‘Rosy Reunion.’
The Portland Rose Festival has inspired the public to gather and celebrate against a backdrop of historic external forces for 115 years. The Rose Festival will return in a big way in 2022 for the Rose City Reunion. The annual collector’s edition rose is not only a decades-long custom, but a fundraiser for the nonprofit Portland Rose Festival Foundation.
Organizers announced Wednesday that CareOregon will become the new sponsor of the Rose Festival’s Starlight Parade on June 4. “The Rose Festival is back this year for the Rose City Reunion. The Rose Festival is happy to be part of Portland’s comeback story, featuring all three of our parades starting with the Care Oregon Starlight Parade. We’re honored to have CareOregon as a Premier Sponsor, joining a group of corporate leaders who recognize the value that the Rose Festival brings to the community.”
