October 02, 2002
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Festival of
Reuse on
Mississippi
Cade Campbell, 3, stretches to drop
a tennis ball Into one o f the many
recycled toys made by Scrap
volunteers for Saturday's outdoor
event. “It was ju st fantastic, ” said
Scrap employee Teri Thomas-
Peterson. “There were hundreds of
happy people." Scrap, a non-profit
business located at 3625 B N.
Mississippi, promotes the creative
reuse o f materials through the
resale o f usable fabric, office,
school and art supplies.
Q u a i s
oats ,
P hotos by D avid P lechl /
T he P ortland O bserver
Earl o f Earl and the Reggae All-Stars exercises his vocal talents from behind his drum set Saturday
during the Back to Scrap Festival on North Mississippi Avenue. The event featured performances
by local musicians, spoken word artists, a fashion show and a 20-foot scrap metal man. The
giant puppet, assembled and operated by neighborhood artists, danced and painted on wood to a
live musical accompaniment.
Ballot Measures Explained
Voters will have the opportu
nity to get first hand information
on all the statewide ballot mea
sures for the upcoming general
election at a ballot measure fair
Saturday, Oct. 5 at Portland State
University, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The fair, hosted by the O r
egon Progress Forum, will include
booths for all 12 m easures. R ep
resentatives from both sides o f
the issues will be available for
questioning. At noon, the pros
and cons o f each m easure will be
debated for the public. A panel
discussion w ith guest speakers
is also planned.
“I know the importance o f giv
ing voters as much information as
possible,” said Phil Keisling, Chair
man o f the Oregon Progress Fo
rum. “This is a great way to do
that.”
For those who cannot attend
the event, Multnomah Community
Television will rebroadcast the
ballot measure debate portion o f
the program on local public access
channels 21 and 11.
The 2002 Ballot Measure Fair
will be held at the PSU Smith M e
morial Center in the Vanport room
on the third floor.
held in grain elevators, with some
stalled in rail cars, trucks and
barges.
The port also handles the larg
est volume o f automobile imports
in the nation, but manufacturers
say their supply o f new cars is
enough to withstand some delays.
R ailroads and trucking com
panies also are affected, idling
som e ra ily a rd s and k eep in g
up to $ 7 0 0 .0 0 p e r m o n t h
o nly tw o d ays w o tth of w o ik?
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trucks o ff the road.
D el A lle n , p r e s id e n t o f
A riports Forw arding, a Portland
freight forw arding com pany that
routes container cargo across
the country, says the ripple e f
fect is huge.
“Certainly the carrier loss from
this will go on for m onths, for
truck and rail in addition to ship
ping,” A llen said.
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Airport to Curb Water Pollution
Portland International Airport
will receive $2.5 million for con
struction o f a de-icing containment
facility to keep chemicals from
polluting the nearby Columbia
Slough, a w aterw ay that runs
through north and northeast Port
land.
Federal money for the project
was announced Friday by Oregon
Senators Gordon Smith and Ron
W yden.
Currently, materials used to de
ice planes and runways at the air
port combine with storm water and
drain into the slough.
The new de-icing containment
facility will utilizeaholdingtank to
capture those materials before they
are released to the city o f Portland ’ s
sewer system or trucked to alterna
tive locations for treatment. De
icing materials will no longer run
off into the waterway.
Forum Addresses Airport Noise
A rea residents can learn about
a irp o rt o p e ra tio n s and noise
m anagem ent program s during a
public forum on Saturday, Oct.
19, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Port
land International A irport C on
ference Center.
Those in attendance cart talk
with staff from the airport ’ s noise
m anagem ent office about spe
cific areas o f concern and learn
more about opportunities for citi
zen involvem ent in reducing air
craft noise effects in the com m u
nity.
The airport is located at the end
o f the Red Max Line. The terminal
is wheelchair accessible and park
ing is available in the short-term
parking garage.
To RSVP for the program, or for
special n eeds, c o n ta c t A nne
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dock w o rk ers is co stin g the
N orthw est about $38 m illion a
day by choking o ff shipm ents o f
grain, electronics, clothing and
other products.
The Port o f Portland is the
largest wheat export center in
the nation. But m ost o f the crop
Is aw aiting shipm ent or is being
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