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^ortíanó (Dbsettier Page 4 December 10.2014 Aesthetic lighting gives the new Tilikum Crossing ‘Bridge of the People’ a dramatic look. O ’Neill Electric Inc., a minority-owned company, installed the lighting and electrical components as part of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project's Public Art Program. The new span over the Willamette River south of the Marquam Bridge will be reserved for light-rail and streetcar trains, buses, bicycles and pedestrians, but no private cars, when it opens in September. Growth with a Justice Lens c o n t i n u e d f r o m fron t TriMet created the innovative award-winning program back in 2000 when it was getting ready to build the Interstate MAX Yellow Line project in north Portland. The com m unity had concerns that past projects didn’t provide enough lo cal opportunities. TriMet delivered $36 million in contracts for that project; $62 million for the MAX Green Line, and now topping $170 million for the Portland-Milwaukie project. “Inclusive contracting is part of how we do business, and our prime contractors embrace that same vi sion to make sure DBE firms have a shot at these contracts,” said TriMet E xecutive D irector o f C apital Projects Dan Blocher. Dr. T. Allen Bethel, an African American pastor from northeast Portland and amember of the TriMet board of directors, announced that Daryle Low of Hoffman Construc tion was selected for the agency’s 2014 DBE Champion of the Year Award. Bethel noted that Low, who is a project m anager for Hoffman “has helped strengthen the ca pacity of small businesses and achieved more than 30 percent DBE participation while building G eneral C ontractor capacity for a DBE firm.” Prim e C ontractor Stacy and Witbeck was selected for TriM et’s DBE Champion of the Y ear Organi zation Award. Bethel said the company ’ s commitment to inclusive contracting is “part of its DNA. They ’ ve consistently identified new opportunities for small firms and have mentored and helped build capacities of these firms.” Stacy and Witbeck has achieved more than 22 percent DBE participation on the light rail project. Bethel himself was the first re cipient of TriM et’s DBE Champion of the Year Award due to his unwa vering commitment to DBE advance ment as a community activist and TriMet board member. O fficials said the P ortland- Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project is on time and on budget. The 7.3- mile segment with 10 transit sta tions is the region’s sixth MAX construction project and will im prove transit in a corridor that ex tends from the terminus of the MAX Green and Yellow lines at Portland State University in downtown Port land to South Waterfront, south east Portland, Milwaukie and north Clackamas County. Tilikum Crossing, the first of its kind multi-modal bridge in the U.S., will carry light rail and streetcar trains, buses, bicyclists and pedes trians, but no private vehicles. Participants at the DBE ceremony were able to get a glimpse of the new aesthetic lighting for the bridge from windows outside OMSI as some of the first tests o f the lights were made. Created by artists Douglas Hollis and the late Anna Valentina Murch, the lighting system is designed to change colors according to data streamed from a U.S. Geological Service river m onitor near the Morrison Bridge. The lighting ef fects will change based on the river’s speed, height and water tempera ture. The lights are scheduled to be permanently activated in Septem ber for the bridge’s grand opening. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SPINACOLUMN An ongoing series of questions and answers about Americas natural healing profession Part 27. Chiropractic VS Migraines: Saying goodbye to the most menacing of headaches : C an a n y th in g be done for migraines? I’ve had them for ist 20 years and I sincerely can’t take it much longer. A : I had a p atien t once ask Z i the same question. Her concern, however, was that Chiropractic might hurt. After becoming a patient, she began to make progress. Slowly but surely the nauseating effects of the migraine were leaving her. One day, relaxed and without pain, she said to me “I can’t believe that I waited 20 2 Dr. Billy R. Flowers years for this!” That’s one comment I’ll never forget! The story had a happy, but isn’t it sad that it had such an unfortunate beginning. So many suffer for so long with their pain. They literally waste years of their lives, waiting, thinking that it is just a temporary condition. Life itself is a temporary condition. We are all here for only a while. Why waste one precious moment, let alone years suffering need lessly? Find your freedom through good health N O W ... naturally. Find your freed o m th ro u g h C hiropractic...and make each day count. Isn’t it time you stepped up to safe, effective Chiropractic? Flowers' Chiropractic Office 2124 NE Hancock, Portland Oregon 97212 P h o n e: (5 0 3 ) 287-5504
