The field was built with the help of Nike, the City of Portland and Portland Public Schools, as well as local donors, Roosevelt alumni and the Southlake Church.
The Roosevelt High School football team hosted its first playoff game tonight on a new field of synthetic grass. The turf, which was laid this week, is cushioned by ground-up rubber from athletic shoes called Nike Grind.
Summit Projects, a leading interactive agency, today announced that Nike Golf has selected Summit to manage all digital marketing initiatives as the company’s global interactive agency of record. Summit will help Nike Golf with all online initiatives including strategic branding, digital marketing campaigns, search engine optimization (SEO), mobile and ongoing content development for NikeGolf.com worldwide.
A public opinion poll conducted over the weekend finds overwhelming opposition to Portland Public Schools’ budget-cutting plans.
District officials have suggested eliminating physical education in the lower grades as one way to help absorb a $19 million state budget cut. But a new survey has found that 86 percent of Portlanders oppose balancing the budget by cutting PE.