Sculptor Chad Caswell and Kiwanis Club of the Columbia River Gorge member Terry Smoke pose in downtown Troutdale. Smoke enlisted Caswells help to craft a statue honoring American Medical Response lifeguards who have patrolled the Sandy River in Troutdale for 20 years. An American Medical Response ambulance is on standby at Glenn Otto Community Park during summer months. PMG File Photo: Matt DeBow
About one person died each year in this Troutdale section of the Sandy River before American Medical Response lifeguards started patrolling the river in 1999.
Sculptor Chad Caswell and Kiwanis Club of the Columbia River Gorge member Terry Smoke pose in downtown Troutdale. Smoke enlisted Caswells help to craft a statue honoring American Medical Response lifeguards who have patrolled the Sandy River in Troutdale for 20 years. An American Medical Response ambulance is on standby at Glenn Otto Community Park during summer months. PMG File Photo: Matt DeBow
PMG Photo: Matt DeBow
An American Medical Response ambulance is on standby at Glenn Otto Community Park during summer months.
PMG File Photo: Matt DeBow
About one person died each year in this Troutdale section of the Sandy River before American Medical Response lifeguards started patrolling the river in 1999.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the American Medical Response program to patrol the Sandy River, the Kiwanis Club of the Columbia River Gorge plans to erect a monument of lifeguards patrolling the water at the entrance to Troutdale's Glenn Otto Community Park.
The club will host an unveiling in the park at 4 p.m. Friday, June 21, of a miniature scale model of the bronze sculpture Chad Caswell will create: two statues, one of a male lifeguard and the other, a female lifeguard, standing on a large concrete base watching over and pointing at the river.
