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February 18, 2015 The Portland Observer Black Arts & History Month Page 15 Entertainment Trail Reopens after Repairs Four years of fencing and barriers have fallen away as Vancouver's popular Water- front Renaissance Trail has reopened to the public. When snowmelt and heavy rain drove the Columbia River to flood levels in 2011, two sections of the trail were lost. The city of Vancouver installed barricades and fencing for pub- lic safety, blocking off a long stretch of trail regularly used by walkers, runners, parents with strollers, seniors with dogs, and more. The structural damage and natural forces to be addressed were complex, as were the environmental regulatory re- quirements. To add to that, erosion continued to tear away the trail's foundation, raising further issues. Now -- 370 coniferous root wads, more than 2,500 trees and shrubs, 16,000 tons of rock, and numerous local, state and federal permits later -- the city has reopened the trail, marking a community and engineering success. An aerial view of Vancouver’s Waterfront Renaissance Trail as repairs near completion. Q A Dr. Billy R. Flowers Part 1. CHIROPRACTIC: For the best in natural healing, hearing is believing. : How did Chiropractic care come To relieve the patient’s pain and reposi- making sure that the spinal column is about? tion the vertebra, Dr. Palmer placed him in correct alignment, Chiropractors on a table and pushed down on his back, eliminate any possible interference, : Spinal manipulations have been performing a spinal manipulation or “ad- which would prevent the central ner- practiced for over 2,500 years. justment.” He performed this adjustment vous system from keeping the body Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” three days in a row. By the third day, not functioning the way nature, intended. advised: “look well to the spine for the To find out how Chiropractic might only had the patient’s back pain disap- cause of disease.” But modern Chiro- peared, his hearing reappeared. Today’s be able to help you or for answers to practic came of age back in 1895. In Chiropractors know that the central ner- any questions you might have about Davenport, Iowa, a patient came to Dr. vous system (housed within the body’s your health, please feel free to call us D.D. Palmer complaining of back pain. spinal column) provides the energy, at the phone number shown below. This patient had also been nearly deaf which governs all bodily functions. By since suffering a back injury 17 years earlier. Dr. Palmer noticed a bump on Flowers' Chiropractic Office the patient’s back, which he suspected 2124 NE Hancock, Portland Oregon 97212 • Phone: (503) 287-5504 was related to a dislocated vertebra.