SOLVED: The Mystery of the Baptism in the Willamette

By RUTH BROWN

On Monday, we asked readers to help us identify a gathering taking place in the Willamette River at Sellwood Riverfront Park last Friday at 4 pm.

Although many wrote in to tell us how stupid we were for not knowing about The Big Float event taking in the river that day (we did know and that wasn't it), the mystery was solved by reader Milly Wilder, who explained that it was a good ol' fashioned river bapitism for members of inner southeast's Door of Hope church :

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