Happy Cinco de Mayo, Oregon.
From Portland’s packed patios to small-town gatherings across Southern and Eastern Oregon, today carries a familiar energy. Tables fill early, conversations stretch longer, and the rhythm of the evening feels a little more alive than usual. Like New Year’s Eve or St. Patrick’s Day, it is a date people recognize without needing a reminder, a day that brings people together across communities of every size.
But Cinco de Mayo did not begin as a social tradition. It began as a moment that could have easily been forgotten if it had gone differently…