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There's finally an EPA proposal to clean up the Willamette River's toxic bead. But... "It also leaves roughly 85 percent of the nearly 2,200-acre, 10 mile site untouched. The superfund stretches, roughly, from the Fremont Bridge to the Columbia River."
ICYMI, "Portland might have found a site for its next homeless camp. The problem? It's contaminated."
Make sure you check out this week's entertaining feature story on Will Vinton, Portland's claymation king:
Vinton's biggest success wouldn't come from movies, but commercials for dried fruit. In 1986, Will Vinton Studios debuted an advertisement for the California Raisins Advisory Board featuring singing, dancing raisins voiced by former Jimi Hendrix drummer Buddy Miles. The California Raisins (crooning a version of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine") immediately became a national phenomenon, as well as the subject of multiple animated claymation TV specials, a conventional cel animated TV show, four albums, and merchandising of every conceivable type. But dancing raisins weren't the only advertising mascot of Vinton's to take off. Around the same time, the Noid—a kind of pizza-destroying donkey man—became the face of Domino's Pizza, and was meant to personify customers who were "an-noid" by the failure of pizza companies who couldn't deliver their product within 30 minutes.
About 13 miles north of Sisters, "a wind-driven wildfire is burning about 2,100 acres and threatening about 1,200 homes in a central Oregon subdivision, prompting officials to put residents on an evacuation notice."
A 23-year-old Portland man wandered away from a boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and fell into an acidic hot spring. Terrible. "They were able to recover a few personal effects," park spokeswoman Charissa Reid told the AP. "There were no remains left to recover."
Drama with Oregon Health & Science University and its police department:
... Instead, the combination hospital, medical school and clinic operator in Southwest Portland is locked in strife with its newest employee union, which represents OHSU police officers. Union leaders say the administration is engaging in illegal whistleblower retaliation as well as union-busting.
In late April, the OHSU Police Association inked its first contract, nearly a year after being recognized as the officers’ union at OHSU. Since then, its leaders have filed complaints with the state Employment Relations Board as well as the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, saying they are being punished for union activity and for blowing the whistle.
Crazy news out of Chicago: "In announcing a $15 million lawsuit over his shooting two years ago by Chicago police, Dominiq Greer told reporters Wednesday he'd never been accused of a violent offense in his life. Moments later, he was arrested on a murder warrant."
And, finally, check out Lebron James last night:
[Multiple angles] LeBron throws down absurd alley-oop pic.twitter.com/oLPgKxJMFU
— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) June 9, 2016