Last-minute ticket sales drove attendance upward to some 39,000 for the three-day 2009 Oregon Jamboree, the highest total attendance to date, according to an early estimate from Event Manager Peter LaPonte.
“It went really well from the operational point of view,” he said. Thunderstorm warnings were in effect, and event officials were watching those closely throughout the weekend, but those storms left Sweet Home alone as temperatures dropped from more than 100 earlier in the…