03/07/2008 05:26. Four-week tour will visit 19 cities in Oregon/SW Washington

The Portland Trail Blazers will renew a summer tradition, embarking in early July on the first leg of a summer-long journey throughout Oregon and Southwestern Washington in a 2008 Kia Sedona to host free kids’ basketball clinics and visit with fans, broadcast affiliates and corporate partners.

The Trail Blazers “Make It Better” Statewide Summer Tour, presented by Kia Motors, will visit 19 communities throughout Oregon In 1970, one of my first assignments from Harry Glickman was ‘Put a radio network together!’ so I went and I begged people to come aboard,” remembered Schonely. “Every summer after – often by myself – I would visit each affiliate, spend the day with their sales people, call on clients, even play a... // Trailblazers.com