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Jana Boag and board member Jeff Varner picture themselves winning a Victorian mirror at the Heritage Auction on October 18.

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Full steam ahead: Kenton neighborhood activist Pam Arden admires the handiwork on a 1920s-era Northern Pacific Railroad locomotive headlight. Arden also received Bosco-Milligan’s inaugural Preservation in Action Award for organizing the restoration of the Kenton Firehouse in North Portland.

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Pap Abellan (left) and Hap Leonard play it close to the vest during the evening’s silent auction.

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Slide Show: Blast from the Past

Posted May 19, 2009, 12:00pm

The Bosco-Milligan Foundation commemorated its twentieth anniversary by hosting the thirteenth annual Riches of a City Heritage Auction. Some 350 history buffs gathered at the Governor Hotel to mark the occasion and to snag a treasure trove of relics, such as an antique locomotive headlight, or lavish travel packages like a weeklong escape to Nantucket. The big-ticket prizes ushered in $70,000 for the foundation’s historic preservation programs.

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