Charitable Brownfield Cleanup Drives Community-Wide Benefits
By Mark Underhill, R.G., R.B.P.
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In the steep mountains of the Oregon Coast Range between the fertile Willamette
Valley and the sandy beaches of the Pacific Ocean, lies the former town of
Nashville, Ore.
It was near here that Carol Adams and her late husband, Bill Brown, founded the
Coastal Range Food Bank, a charitable organization that serves the needs of
communities struck hard by the struggling and economically depressed logging
industry, chiefly central eastern Lincoln County and the northwest portion of
Benton County. According to the Oregon State University Extension Services’ report, “Poverty and Food Assistance in Oregon,” published in November 2003, the eastern portion of Lincoln County ranked among
the most impoverished areas of the state with 50 percent or more
of the population below poverty level, as determined by the income guideline for federal food programs.
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