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Lane County Spray Schedule

Spray Schedule

Seneca Jones Timber (541-689-1011) has notified on multiple units in Lane and Douglas counties. Avel Salgado of Oregon Forest Management Services, Springfield, (541-520-5941) will spot spray two units near Weiss Road just south of Hamm Road: 4.4 acres and 74.7 acres. Poison mixture is triclopyr with acid, amine, choline and ester, and additives Conquer, Hi-Light Blue and MSO Concentrate. Start date Sept. 9. Seneca forester is Ted Reiss (541-607-7299). Oregon Department of Forestry forester is Jay Morey in Roseburg (541-440-3412). Notification # 2016-730-10319. Continue reading →

Gary Johnson and the Free Market

A conversation with the Libertarian presidential candidate

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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is, for some Lane County voters, a possible alternative to Bernie Sanders. But while Johnson told EW during a recent phone call that he believes climate change is man-made, he also believes a free market economy is part of the fix. “I do believe that climate change is occurring,” the affable former governor of New Mexico Johnson says, and that it’s human caused.  Continue reading →

Local coffee spot, Perk Coffee and Espresso has moved locations to join Shadowfox

Biz Beat

• Local coffee spot, Perk Coffee and Espresso, formerly on Willamette Street, has moved locations to join Shadowfox at 76 W Broadway. The new and improved space, now offering beer and wine, will be host to open mic nights, creative art gatherings, and First Friday events, Shadowfox tells EW. Shadowfox received a loan from the Art and Business Fund and the City of Eugene, which the art gallery says allowed it to improve the space and move in Perk. Continue reading →

I wanted to volunteer at the hospital, but they said I was too young

Happening People
Serena Orsinger

  At age 15, Serena Orsinger has spent 10 years in French immersion classrooms, from kindergarten at Fox Hollow/Charlemagne through middle school at Roosevelt, to South Eugene’s International High School. She’s front row center in the photo. As a freshman last year, she was looking for a way to get involved in the community beyond school. “I wanted to volunteer at the hospital,” she says, “but they said I was too young.”  Continue reading →

A Queen for the Books

The 2016 SLUG queen talks bar clowns, books and baby dolls

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Do you remember what your favorite color was when you were a kid? Winter Peterson remembers hers: multicolor. “I saw that on a container of glitter when I was a kid and thought it was one color,” she says. “But no – it was all colors.” Since then, her worldview hasn’t gotten any less colorful. Peterson calls herself a “recreational, loud, gaudy person,” and she can often be seen around Eugene in drag or even a clown costume. “People don’t expect to see clowns out at the bars,” she says. Continue reading →

County Calls a Temporary Halt to Controversial Changes to Petition Process

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The Lane County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on Aug. 30 to call a six-month halt on its efforts to change its initiative petition process, Commissioner Pete Sorenson tells EW.  The initiative petition process allows the public to collect signatures and get measures on the ballots, such as efforts to ban aerial sprays of pesticides or genetically modified crops — two issues that local group Community Rights Lane County has been working on. Continue reading →

Springfield Students go to Nepal

Students will hike the first stages of the Everest Trek and visit the U.S. Embassy

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A3 students headed to Nepal include: Ethan Varner, Satysha Whitworth, Zia Lasky, Katie Hibbard, Morning Glory Ritchie, Maia Mendelssohn and Mason Wingert. Not present Jesus Hewitt. Photo Courtesey Ed Mendelssohn.

Students from the Academy of Arts and Academics (A3), a public high school in Springfield, will head to Nepal in October to volunteer, hike the first stages of the Everest Trek and visit the U.S. Embassy. Mike Fisher, the school’s director and a former volunteer with the Peace Corps, and Ed Mendelssohn, the school’s managing director, say they started planning the trip last winter after a visit to the Tacoma School of the Arts.  Continue reading →

Burnt Berners fired-up over corporate tax measure

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Some Bernie Sanders supporters wept as they watched Hillary Clinton snag her party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer. Months of hard grassroots toil erased. Millions of dreams squashed. Many diehard Berners balk at the notion of another Clinton presidency. And of course Trump is a non-starter. The quadrennial scrum for the Oval Office has devolved into a dog and pony show of oligarchic proportions. Continue reading →

Lane County Area Spray Schedule 9-1-16

Spray Schedule

• The Kester family (541-520-0131) has engaged JR Helicoptors of Yakima, Washington, (509-452-3300) to spray 40.4 acres with a mixture of glyphosate, Polaris SP, SFM Extra and surfactant. Located near Hawley Creek and 1/2 mile north of Cottage Grove-Lorane highway. Starts Sept. 15 and ends Nov. 15. Notification # 2016-781-10253.  Contact Oregon Department of Forestry Brian Peterson (541-935-2283). Continue reading →