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Community Outreach Response Team

John Hankemeier

Downtown Team – CORT from EPD PIO on Vimeo.

I put this video together in 2016 this time of the Community Outreach Response Team, which was a fairly new program at that time. Definitely my favorite part of working in the public information office is getting to see officers interact with the community first-hand and having the opportunity to capture it in video or photos.

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500 Miles From Galveston TX

John Hankemeier

These here are a few photos from our June trip from Galveston Texas to Cozumel Mexico, Georgetown Grand Cayman, and Falmouth Jamaica. Missing are the pictures that I took with the disposable waterproof camera from when we went snorkeling. They aren’t any good. They do however have sentimental value and are hidden away in the archives of the desktop, including over half that have what appear to be a finger over the lens. Not a good snorkeler, which translates to the quality of photos that were taken while snorkeling/drowning.

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The Year of the Rupture: The First 100 Days

John Hankemeier

DAY 1 The Year of the Rupture. It started on February 12, 2017, at the Willamalane sports complex in Springfield, Oregon. The basketball game that day was scheduled for 5 p.m. Warmed up on the treadmill. All was good, only slight limitations from a meniscus sprain sustained three weeks prior. Nothing major except the coming signs of age. I’m 37. Not old, but the best basketball years are long behind me, and the bumping and sprinting next to the 20-something-year-old competition is an abrupt reminder. The next reminder was one of pain. Minutes after the game started, I felt a … Continue reading The Year of the Rupture: The First 100 Days

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Cape Disappointment/ Fort Stevens

John Hankemeier

Cape Disappointment

“The coast in the neighbourhood of Clarks Mountain is sliping off & falling into the Ocean in immence masses; fifty or a hundred Acres at a time give way and a great proportion in an instant precipitated into the Ocean.    these hills and mountains are principally composed of a yellow clay; there sliping off or spliting assunder at this time is no doubt caused by the incessant rains which have fallen within the last two months.”  – Meriwether Lewis, January 10, 1806 (Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

A sign at the bottom of the hill where this picture was taken at Cape Disappointment Washington mentions the resemblance that it has to William Clark’s journal description during the Corps of Discovery’s stay in Oregon. The hill is now a significant distance in yards from the ocean, but in 1806, before erosion, it would have been situated next to the ocean with the waves crashing against it.

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