At Portland’s Lone Fir graves, a long-awaited apology is finally heard

By Winston Szeto (OPB)
April 5, 2026 2:06 p.m. Updated: April 10, 2026 6:21 p.m.

At a ceremony honoring ancestors and marking the start of memorial construction at Lone Fir Cemetery’s Block 14, Multnomah County’s chair and commissioners read their apology on site for the first time after initially delivering it at a board meeting last June.