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Ask Dr. Neil (Nov. 2023)
Send your questions to AskDrNeil@yahoo.com. You will remain anonymous. Tired of being a maid to my family Dr. Neil, I am absolutely done. My whole family is a bunch of slobs who take me for granted. They leave their messes behind for me to clean up. The house is a sloppy mess, and the kitchen…
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150 Volunteers unrock Cathedral Park beach (Oct. 2023)
Volunteers removed a total 120 tons of concrete and riprap rock uncovering a new south beach at Cathedral Park. The event on Sept. 16 was due to the initiative of community member Casimira Tadewaldt who reached out to Human Access Project (HAP) expressing her desire to continue the work HAP started in 2021 when the…
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Ask Dr. Neil (Oct. 2023)
Dear Dr. Neil, How do I help a sibling who is a hoarder and sometimes goes through the garbage to retrieve items. Our dad was an alcoholic and emotionally unavailable. So was our mother. Concerned sister Dear Concerned, Hoarding behavior, as exhibited by your older brother, affects an estimated 2% to 6% of the population—about 5 to…
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St. Johns Parade is Set for May 13th, (April 2023)
The St. Johns Parade will return to the North Portland community on Saturday, May 13, 2023. The Parade committee rewrote and resubmitted the permits several times but is now pleased to announce the permits have finally been approved and the parade is on! Luckily, many residents stepped forward to fulfill the city requirement for 104…
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Community voice needed for emergency routes
By Donna Cohen and Sabina Blizzard In case of an emergency such as the subduction zone earthquake, the northernmost peninsula, St. Johns, Rivergate, and Cathedral Park, will be severed from the rest of Portland due to the collapse of four bridges over the railroad cut. Each of these bridges–at Columbia, Fessenden, Lombard and Willamette–is over…
