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Goodbye, Lila May
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Goodbye, Lila May

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea
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Lila May Schow, who made the tutu into a Hood River fashion standard, died on Sept. 12, just weeks after her fifth birthday.

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Trail of Tutus

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea

Mark Hatfield Trailhead, east of Hood River, was the county’s busiest place on Saturday morning, with the Lila May Tutu Trot — “Help the Dancer Beat the Cancer” — a fun run and walk held to raise funds to help Lila May Schow and her family contend with costs connected to the four-year-old’s cancer treatments.

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Fastest tutus in the west

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea
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A determined Lila May Schow, 4, left, turns on the jets with her friends in the kids’ race at Lila May’’s Tutu Trot.

Tutu Trot turnout ‘humbling’
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Tutu Trot turnout ‘humbling’

  • Adam Lapierre
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There’s something oddly heartwarming about watching a crowd of grown men prance around in pink tutus. In many cases entire families, dogs included, waited patiently, and proudly, for the start of Saturday’s Lila May Tutu Trot, wreathed in flamboyancy usually reserved for 6-and-under ballerinas or Halloween costumes.

Join Lila May in her Pink Tutu Trot
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Join Lila May in her Pink Tutu Trot

  • Adam Lapierre
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In many ways, Lila May is a typical 3½-year-old. She’s feisty and energetic, she likes to bake cookies and play dress-up, watch Blazer games, cuddle with stuffed animals, dress in pink, dance like a ballerina with Teacher Nancy and has an absolutely darling smile.