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2015 St. Johns Bridge Photo A River for All:
Decisions coming in spring - Community Forums offer a
Contest Winner
In the De-
cember 25,
2015 issue of
the Review
we announced
the winner for
the 2015 St.
Johns Bridge
photo contest
as Paulette
Porter. Porter
said, “The St
Johns Bridge is
an icon. People
come from
everywhere to
photograph and
fi lm its beauty.
It’s been
pictured from
many angles,
during different
seasons, weath-
er and times of
the day. North
Portland is so
fortunate to
have it in our
neighborhood and the St Johns Review as a showcase to share each
unique perspective of our prize. Thank you to all who voted for my
shot of “Good Morning St. Johns.”
Well stated, and having said all that, the Review is happy to announce
that it will be having another contest for 2016.
We have already received photos and the fi rst two winners are on
this page and entered into the contest. If interested in joining the fun,
take your unique shot of the bridge and send it to: reviewnewspaper@
gmail.com. Send in at least 200 resolution, color (preferably) and in a
jpeg format. (A complete list of instructions and rules are on page 2.)
Good luck!
St Johns Review PO Box 83068 Port. OR 97238
#1-Jan. 15, 2016
REVIEW
begins its
113th year
By Gayla Patton
Owner/Editor
I
n 1904, with a population of
2,000, the city of St. Johns was
becoming large enough to war-
rant its own newspaper. And so,
The St. Johns Review began its
reign. Now, in 2016, the Review
has turned 113 years old and is the
oldest community newspaper in
Portland.
Over the years The Review has
515-840
Continued on Page 5
“REVIEW History”
voice in Superfund
Forum: Willamette River Super-
fund Community Forum:
Jan. 26, Tues., 7-9pm
St. Johns Community Center
8427 N. Central St.
Free - All are welcome.
Babysitting and snacks provided.
“…things that are not suscep-
tible to private ownership but
by their nature are the prop-
erty of the whole community,
the running waters, the air,
the wandering animals, the
public lands, the fi sheries, that
everybody has the right to use
them whether you are rich or
poor, humble or noble, black
or white. Every child has the
right to go down to their local
waterway pull out a fi sh and
come home and feed it to their
family with the security they’re
not poisoning somebody.”
~ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
L
ong awaited superfund de-
cisions are coming in late
March 2016 according
P hoto
of the
W eek
The contest is
back! Send in
your photos of the
St. Johns Bridge
to be entered into
the 2016 contest.
Winner receives
$100. See rules
on page 2.
The Masthead’s photo in this
issue (#1) was taken by Dave
Helgerson. It is a spectacu-
lar shot taken during the full
moon at Thanksgiving.
The Photo of the Week
(right, #1A) was taken by
Jackie Larson during our
recent snow event.
to EPA. The Proposed Plan will
select one of six cleanup options
described in the Feasibility Study.
The cleanup will address contam-
inated sediments in the 11 miles
of Willamette River adjacent to
north and northwest Portland. In
preparation, the Portland Harbor
Community Advisory Group is
organizing a series of community
forums starting in north Portland
on January 26. The forums will
present a panel consisting of Ad-
visory members, as well as reps
from EPA, the city, and Oregon
Health Authority. The options will
be presented and the panel will
take questions from residents with
the help of a facilitator. Since there
will be only 60 days of formal
public comment accepted after
the Proposed Plan, attendees will
be offered an opportunity to write
down feedback if they wish, that
the Advisory will turn in to EPA at
during the comment period.
The six cleanup options each
contain a mixture of treatments.
They range from: option A. “do
nothing” to the supposed “cadil-
lac” option G. that concentrates on
13 hotspots while leaving the ma-
jority of the river, 65%, in moni-
tored natural recovery, a treatment
that places sand on top of contam-
inated sediments to let bacteria
break down pollutants over time.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on
heavy metals, PCBs or other nas-
ty pollutants common to the lower
Willamette thanks to years of in-
dustrial dumping. EPA admits that
sand isn’t likely to stay in place
‘A River for All”
Continued on Page 8