Five miles west of downtown and near the city’s industrial core is Bethel-Danebo, a West Eugene community home to people who are afraid to let their children play outside or
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Arjorie Arberry-Baribeault believes pollution in west Eugene is the reason her daughter and her best friend’s son were diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma without any known family history of cancer.
She alleges it’s no coincidence that two kids with no blood relation growing up in west Eugene near the J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant would have the same diagnosis.
“I believe the pollution in west Eugene has something to do with my daughter getting sick,” she says. “I think it has something to do with my friend’s son getting sick.”
Arberry-Baribeault’s story is not an anomaly.