2011-01-20 Eugene Weekly

9 MB·English

by  Eugene Weekly

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ADVENTURE
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OUTLET
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ENERGY SUCKERS provides a credible and well-reasoned
Hundreds of new apartment units have evaluation of the shooter’s motives.
recently been constructed all over the UO Had it been a conservative legislator
campus neighborhood but neither solar taking the bullet we’d probably have never
water heating nor thermal heat pumps are heard boo from these folks.
being incorporated. This is not to mention Jerry Ritter
the huge energy sucking coliseum and Springfi eld
new athlete worshiping palaces of Nike
University. St. Vincent de Paul seems to STIGMATIZED GROUP
be the only entity in Eugene or Springfi eld I just wanted to thank you for the
that is actually incorporating real green wonderful and positive coverage (1/6) of
solutions like solar water heating and pit bulls and their owners and rescuers.
heat pump technology in their new retail/ Pit bull owners are a highly stigmatized
housing complexes. group. Even though informal surveys
It is ironic that an entity that helps more show that middle-class white females or
poor people than any other and has the married couples are the most common
least resources to spend on infrastructure owners and rescuers of pit bulls, many
is setting the standard for building green people still associate pit bulls with crime,
in “green Eugene.” Does the university, poverty and drugs, and often speak in
EWEB, city, county and state need to be xenophobic or racist terms about pit bull
shamed into actually living up to their owners.
green rhetoric? It regretfully appears so. I can identify with all of the women
Perhaps a little shaming will convince profi led in your article. Some of the
them to implement real green building portions of their interviews could have
practices before it is too late. come straight out of my own mouth.
Shannon Wilson It almost felt like I was the one being pit bull is reframed as a normal, friendly, IRRATIONAL FEARS
Eugene interviewed! I started out hating pit bulls family dog, it will no longer be desirable I loved Camilla Mortensen’s piece (1/6)
like everyone else. Then I had an abused to the thugs and druggies who seek out that profi led pit bull owners. Through
LEFTIST BLAME GAME pit bull dumped on me. I soon fell in love and create vicious dogs — which also has personal accounts, she defended and
Kudos to Joseph Lieberman (News with pit bulls. Now I am deeply involved the effect of creating a safer community acquitted a much-maligned breed of
Briefs, 1/13) for the best analysis of the in education, training and rescue. where pit bulls are raised with the love wonderful dogs.
tragic Arizona shootings I’ve seen. I greatly appreciate this article because and care that any dog needs and deserves. For me, Mortensen was preaching
The far left got its butt kicked in it encourages people to rescue and adopt It really made my day to read such a to the choir. My grandchildren have
November, and its agenda is being rejected pit bulls, and it “normalizes” the pit bull by responsible, educational article. Thanks raised, loved and been companioned by
in America. Like spoiled children, the showing the dogs with normal, respectable again, from a Texan who happened to be pit bulls for nearly 20 years. They are
leftists are using this tragedy to lash out owners. Normalization and humanization in Eugene this week. intelligent, affectionate pets that do not
and vent their frustrations in a blame game of the pit bull is essential if we are to put a Jennifer Thomas deserve the irrational fear and bad press
targeting just about anyone who doesn’t stop to the rampant abuse and neglect that www.happypitbull.com that has been created around them. These
agree with them. Lieberman instead this type of dog experiences. When the www.stopbsl.com wonderful animals were raised and bred
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BY KATIE MEEHAN
Raising similar explanation. “I would hope that nothing like press conference.” But I think it’s time to speak truth
this would happen in Oregon,” he said. “This kind of to power.
behavior isn’t part of Oregon’s culture.” What meaning could ever emerge from such
Arizona Really? I was an undergraduate at the violence and loss? On one level, this was
UO when the shootings at Thurston a story of a deeply disturbed individual,
High School rocked our community to motivated by anti-government feelings,
Believing in a better world its core. I remember the hateful anti- punishing citizens who happened to be,
gay rhetoric that backed Measure as Sheriff Dupnik said, “in the wrong
9. We all witnessed the racist and place at the wrong time.”
A anti-government testimonies of the But on another level, this story
s news of the recent tragic shooting in Arizona
Woodburn bank bombers. Just last reveals the profound refusal to
ricocheted across the nation, I recalled the fi rst
month, someone started a fi re at peacefully accept difference. Consider
time I met Rep. Gabrielle Giffords — in a different
a mosque in Corvallis, in apparent this political map: Arizona is not “out
Tucson parking lot, during her run for offi ce in 2006.
retaliation to the Pioneer Courthouse there.” It’s right here. From health care
Carne asada crackled on the grill; people laughed and
Square bomb threat. The Beaver State to immigration, from the ideal role of
traded gossip; my friend’s band howled country tunes
is not immune to divisive politics, planned government to the institution of marriage,
from a makeshift stage. Gabby shook hands, thanked
acts of violence, or refusal to accept social political fault-lines run deep within our
volunteers, listened intently to people who tugged at
difference. national bedrock. We suffer from the same lack
her sleeve. When a cover of “El Guero Canelo” — a local
The polarization of political discourse, in my of jobs, the same deteriorating education system, the
anthem — was played, she dragged her staffers onto
opinion, pivots on questions of social difference: same uncertain futures.
the dance fl oor. Her feet had no rhythm, but she was
how we codify it, where we allow it, how we police Now, more than ever, we need an American culture
fearless.
it. These issues reach beyond the saguaro-studded that respects difference — and that starts here, in
Since then — and particularly since that Saturday
deserts of the Southwest. “It is not only about the Eugene. For 2011, try fi nding points of unexpected
— “Arizona” has become synonymous with political
difference of opinion,” remarked Rep. Raul Grijalva, a convergence and agreement between divisive issues.
division and violence. After seven years and a
congressman from Arizona’s 7th District, “but how we Attend a public lecture or event on a controversial
doctorate from the University of Arizona, I left Tucson
handle difference. There needs to be an acceptance of topic. Learn to think critically and argue peacefully.
last summer for greener pastures in Oregon — my
divergent views and how we act like a community. The Volunteer with a local organization that promotes
home state. At the new faculty orientation, people
state of Arizona is the bellwether state as the creator peaceful understandings of social difference. Do a
raised their eyebrows when I listed my schooling.
of much of the division across the nation.” little soul-searching.
“Oh, Arizona,” one person sighed, “Why are they so
Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik To the victims of this tragedy, their loved ones, and
backward?”
put it even more bluntly. “We have become the Mecca the people of the Old Pueblo, our Oregon hearts are
While I can’t blame them — Arizona is ground zero for
for prejudice and bigotry,” he told a evening press with you. In these dark days, I reach back to another
border confl ict, anti-gay and anti-immigrant legislation,
conference. “Because I think it’s the vitriolic rhetoric Saturday, to a different parking lot in Tucson — where
foreclosures and dire fi scal circumstances — I fi nd this
that we hear, day in and day out, from people in the under a starlit night Gabby Giffords danced in cowboy
conceptual distance even more troubling. Following
radio business and some people in the TV business … boots, asking us to believe in a world where hate gives
this tragedy, our Oregon congressional delegate chose
this has not become the nice United States of America way to hope. I’ll see you there.
to draw lines between “us” and “them.” Rep. Kurt
that most of us have grown up in. And I think it’s time
Schrader described Arizona as “a little more whacked
that we do a little soul-searching.” Some, like Sen. Katie Meehan is a professor of geography at the University of Oregon. She
out than other states.” Rep. Peter DeFazio offered a
John Kyl, think “the sheriff’s words have no place at a can be reached at [email protected]
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as companions/pets for rational, socially rehabilitated. In spite of the terrible abuse
responsible owners. they suffered, these dogs have proven
At the risk of exposing another type themselves loving gentle companions to
of irrational fear, I would suggest that the those who have adopted them. Their story
roots of the pit bulls’ unfair image are not shows this breed is capable of exhibiting
unlike those irrational fears expressed excellent temperament under extreme
by vocal anti-gun folks. My fi rearm was circumstances. It also reinforces the fact
designed and built to protect me and my that all dogs not matter what the breed,
family from those who do us bodily harm. are domestic animals that rely on people
It is only as dangerous and deadly as to breed, raise and handle them in a
I cause it to be. It has no infl uence over responsible manner.
me. It is inanimate and will not function As a human society that has
without direct action on my part. domesticated the Canine, we all share the
I would challenge EW to acknowledge responsibility to ensure they interact with
that, just as the pit bull is an innocent, others in a safe manner no matter the breed.
harmless companion — unless taught and Claire Syrett
directed otherwise by its owner — the Eugene
fi rearm is a harmless tool unless misused
or negligently managed by its owner. SOME DIVERSITY
Those who would ban the ownership of W. Shane Kiser’s utopian vision (Letters,
either promote irrational fear within our 1/6) that Eugene residents “synchronize”
society. around “diversity” is pretty limited: “We
Stephen Roberts do that on Ducks’ day or for that matter the
Eugene whole year round ... If we can agree on the
Ducks, then why not our celebrations and
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Eugene and these clowns want to stop it. things. I will say though, that despite all
Ralph Wombat the dirty looks and muttered insults I’ve
Eugene received, I’ve also seen a lot of discrete Earth Friendly
smiles and “thumbs ups” from OSU alums
1 Place, 3 Days Only
GREAT EXPECTATIONS who live here but have to hide their sports
I remember when success was beating loyalties. I guess it’s news to some, but not explore
the Beavers and the Huskies. And then everyone worships at the House of Knight.
success became having a winning season. Chuck Kleinhans SHOP GOOD EARTH
And then it became going to a bowl Eugene
Architectural Seminar Series
game. Then it was winning a bowl game. 250
Then it was getting to the Rose Bowl. FOREST CARBON SINK
Then it was fi nishing in the top 25. Then I cannot understand the accounting
it was fi nishing in the top 10. Then it was system by which burning wood is counted sustainable
getting to a BCS Bowl game. Now it is as a way to reduce global warming. exhibits Friday 7:30pm
winning the national championship. When plants die, photosynthesis
Every time our expectations were raised stops. When a forest is cut and the plant
homes
there were Monday morning quarterbacks material is burned or decays, carbon
gardens
on every corner ripping Brooks or begins to be returned to the atmosphere.
Bellotti apart for their decisions when Rapid deforestation has contributed to the food
those expectations weren’t met. I want to increase of CO2 in the atmosphere over 2 go
apologize to Chip and staff in advance the past 200 years. It’s probably 20 to 30
arts
for the criticism they are already getting percent of the human contribution to the
recycle
from all those experts in our fair city who increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.
living
are clearly much better college football When a forest is replanted after logging,
coaches than they will ever be. CO2 removal from the atmosphere by
Kevin O’Brien regrowth of the forest is rapid, then
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but the quantity that has been removed
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LOST DOGS REDEEMED remains in the regrown forest, not in the
As the owner of a sweet loving pit bull atmosphere. Thus, existence of a living
FRI 5pm-9pm
I am deeply saddened when I hear stories forest is a carbon sink. Cutting down that
SAT 10am–8pm
about dogs that have killed or harmed forest releases the stored carbon back to the
SUN 10am–5pm
people or other animals. These are real atmosphere.
Fairgrounds
tragedies but the fact is any dog with the Burning wood increases global warming
Eugene
physical ability to maim or kill can be a by increasing the carbon dioxide released
threat — Dobermans, Rottweilers, chows to the atmosphere. This is true whether we
are all breeds that have records similar to burn whole logs or limbs and small trees. If
pit bulls when it comes to vicious attacks. we didn’t remove these, they would become FREE
But rather than refute misleading fertilizer and soil conditioner for the next
statistics about which dogs are the most generation of trees. If we remove them, we
violent I want to draw attention to the story will have unhealthy, stunted forests, or no Admission
of the abused and neglected pit bulls kept forests. If all you care about is where your
canned food donations
for dog fi ghting by former NFL player next million dollars is coming from, you
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Alice
END THE RAMPAGES It’s not often that one party enacts
in My thoughts on the tragedy in what it fantasizes but rarely admits.
Tucson: The “prevention” of violence is Bill Moyers, speaking of the Bush
what we as a society should really focus administration, once said: “We are in
on. I don’t believe ordinary citizens need the fi ght of our lives.” Well, he hadn’t
guns for protection like the Wild West envisioned that literally, had he?
days; however, guns aren’t the problem. If Republicans escape this round
Wonderland Take away the guns and you still have of outrage, let us remember Jan. 8 as
angry, rageful people. America’s Kristallnacht, when one
We need to begin listening to our party decided it had the right stuff to
children on a daily basis from infancy start shooting.
on, before they grow up violent. You Tom Erwin
may say that is impossible. I say not Veneta
only would it benefi t us to know what
our children are feeling inside, but more UNACCEPTABLE CUTS
importantly the children would benefi t No one wants new taxes but there is a
from being heard by compassionate time when we must pay if Oregon is to
people trained to listen to them. be a desirable place to live. An income
A BEAUTIFUL,
My solution to violence begins with tax, we all know, is the fairest tax and
the children. Please read my article at it is desperately needed now if we are to
CRAZY http://dock.net/woodchip/endtoviolence. educate our young people, including my
htm you will fi nd my well thought-out grandchildren.
plan that could be implemented with Schools now have cuts in physical
ADVENTURE!
the support of everyone of us to end education when we have increasing
rampages like the one by Jared Loughner obesity, cuts in school days, classes with
in Tucson. more than 40 children, teachers buying
Karen Fenton school supplies, little counseling when
Marcola kids need help. This is today! Further
The wild, madcap characters
cuts! This is unacceptable!
from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice
THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES Ruth Duemler
in Wonderland” come alive
Whether she likes it or not, Sarah Palin Eugene
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is now associated with mass murder.
brings the strangest English
Like a dog with cans tied to its tail, Palin BAD YEAR FOR MEAT
Tea Party in History to the
cannot go anywhere, anymore, without 2010 was not a good year for the meat,
stage. The ‘Always Late’
the disruptive clank of her history behind dairy, and egg industries. In January,
White Rabbit, dancing Tea
her. As such, she seems a microcosm ABC News provided extensive coverage
Table, the court of the Queen
of that larger paradigm her party and of cow abuse by the dairy industry. The
of Hearts, a crazy croquet
its cheering fans have created for all BP oil spill in April called attention to
game and a lobster quadrille
of us: politics as veiled threats, fi nally an even larger Gulf “dead zone” caused
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pretty tough fi ghting propaganda when River. A month later, a U.N. report urged
the propagandists change the rules of a global shift towards a vegan diet to
engagement. Tougher still when a rigged reduce world hunger and climate change.
political system welcomes propaganda In June, FDA asked factory farms to
with opened, multi-tendriled arms, as stop routine use of antibiotics that lead
ours does since the Supreme Court’s to drug-resistant bacterial infections in
plus Jessica Lang’s Citizens United ruling. humans. August witnessed the largest
Solo in Nine Parts Our mammoth mass media feeds the ever recall of more than half billion eggs
Palin mindset to all and sundry in its 24/7 harboring salmonella.
news cycle. Palin maintained her website Finally, President Obama signed into
and Toni Pimble’s gun-sighting of Rep. Giffords until after law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act to
Giffords had been gunned down. But replace fatty animal products and other
Red Pony
now she’s sorry. Sure. But I’ll wager she junk foods in school lunches and vending
checked her bank accounts before she felt machines. According to the School
bad. Nutrition Association, 65 percent of
Republicans have predictably already U.S. schools now offer vegetarian lunch
gone on the attack: Lamar Alexander options.
claiming foul for the audacity of For a New Year’s resolution, we should
horrifi ed citizens to point the fi nger at the all consider following suit. I found a
presumptive provocateur. But Alexander great website at www.LiveVegan.org with
gives the lie to his sincerity when he recipes and tons of other useful info.
craftily omits mention of the evidence Elijah Hennison
Palin so swiftly removed. Eugene
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have to plea for their school. The School ballot to prevent mass teacher layoffs, On Jan. 15 the Environmental Protection
Board has not applied the same closure tests packed classrooms and four-day school Agency recommended that utilities
and criteria to Fox Hollow as it has applied weeks. nationwide test drinking water for
to neighborhood schools. Some critics have If both measures are on the ballot, “what hexavalent chromium.
long charged that targeting poorer and would that mean for the chances for either or Karl Morgenstern, EWEB’s drinking
browner neighborhood schools for budget both passing?” Russell wondered. water source protection coordinator, says,
cut closures while exempting richer and Timing the school construction measure “We test for total chromium, which includes
whiter alternative schools is discrimination. with the district’s budget cuts could also chromium-6, and have not had any detections
The board now appears to be targeting complicate the bond measure’s passage. above lab reporting limits in raw water.”
the Parker neighborhood school to make “Why are we asking for money to build He adds, “We have had a few detections
room for the French alternative school. Two schools when we are closing schools?” in some tributaries, Camp and Cedar Creeks,
4J MULLS board members suggested a less disruptive asked Pamela Gutierrez, a Crest Elementary but only 5 to 10 percent of the time.”
and costly option of not closing a parent. The utility says it has never detected
CUTS, EQUITY, neighborhood school for the French school Two board members and Russell spoke chromium in its finished water or in the
pending a proposed reevaluation of 4J favorably of the city tax effort for schools. distribution system.
CITY TAX alternative schools next year. Russell said he was “encouraged” that EWEB begins enhanced monitoring for
But other board members did not voice the Eugene City Council voted unanimously the contaminant this week and will send
The Eugene 4J School District at a Jan. support for officially adding that option. “I last week to study a city income tax to help samples to a lab in California capable of
12 board meeting increased its estimate of guess that we are not going to do that,” fund the school district. “I think they need to detecting minute levels of chromium.
budget cuts, backed away from closing a Board Chairman Craig Smith said. be thinking about something that would be Chromium-6 has not been a regulated
diverse neighborhood school and supported Moving Fox Hollow to Parker may able to get $10 million for this district,” contaminant, but the EPA says, that “the
a city effort to help fund local schools. apparently save almost no money, as it Russell said. science behind chromium-6 is evolving,”
After hearing new numbers from would require a new large parking lot and “I think that it’s important that we’re and the agency is reviewing its health
Governor-elect John Kitzhaber, 4J drop-off area because almost all the French open to this conversation they’re having at effects.
Superintendent George Russell revised his school parents drive their kids to school, the city,” board member Jennifer Geller said. The EPA has previously foundhexavalent
$22 million estimate of cuts to $26 million. according to 4J staff. Board chairman Smith said of the city tax chromium “likely to be carcinogenic to
“The $26 million is a more realistic target,” But school administrators said they effort for schools, “I’m hopeful that humans.” Previous studies have shown
Russell said. support closing neighborhood schools even something will come of it.” — Alan Pittman inhaling it causes lung cancer. In 2009,
At the meeting a majority of school board if no money is saved, arguing that coping National Toxicology Program scientists
members and district staff appeared to with staffing cuts is easier on kids and CHROMIUM-6 reported that their two-year study on
oppose closing Adams elementary, one of administrators in a larger school. Even if drinking water “clearly demonstrates” that
the brownest and poorest schools in the closing smaller schools saves no money, “it GETS TESTED the contaminant causes cancer. Rodents in
district, to give the building to the would still be a wise idea,” said Peter the study developed malignant tumors in
Charlemagne French immersion elementary, Tromba, head of a 4J administrators group. LOCALLY their small intestines and mouths from
one of the whitest and richest schools in the District staff argued for a May school drinking water containing several different
district. construction bond measure of about $130 Chromium-6, aka hexavalent chromium amounts of hexavalent chromium.
“I wouldn’t support closing Adams,” said million. They argued the timing would: — it’s the nasty cancer-causing stuff that In Coos County, a controversial chromite
board member Anne Marie Levis, a French leverage $15 million in federal construction led to a $333 million lawsuit against mine under construction has caused fears
immersion parent. funding; allow the district to claim it wasn’t Pacific Gas and Electric in California for that the contaminant could be released into
“I still do recommend moving the raising taxes because of an expiring previous contaminating a town’s drinking water and the groundwater.
Charlemagne school to the Parker site,” school construction levy; and prevent layoffs to the award-winning film Erin Brockovich. Although chromium occurs naturally in
Russell said. of 4J construction staff. After the advocacy organization the earth, it can also get into water through
But a board majority opposed officially But if the two measures divided and Environmental Working Group’s chlorine, a common disinfectant in Oregon
taking the option of closing Adams off the confused voters, a May bond vote to build December report showing that hexavalent water systems, which can chemically
table, forcing Adams parents to go to more new schools could cause the district to lose chromium is in the water of 31 of 35 U.S. transform the benign trivalent chromium
late night meetings to defend their school. $10 million dollars or more in operating cities, including Bend, the carcinogen into the carcinogenic chromium-6.
Fox Hollow parents apparently won’t funding from a proposed city tax on the May became an issue again. — Camilla Mortensen
ANGELA DAVIS AT “We hope to provide a safe, welcoming space for women and allies who historically
have been marginalized to express their voices, experiences, and/or artistic talents,” reads
WOMEN OF COLOR CONFAB
a statement from the organizers. “Participants will attend workshops ranging from
meditation to soul collage making to mural art, giving them the tools necessary to
Angela Davis, Yellow Rage and Favianna Rodriguez are keynote speakers at the
continue their healing and expression as resolutions throughout the year. The emphasis of
eighth annual Women of Color Conference from 8 am to 6 pm Friday and Saturday, Jan.
this conference is healing and educating around social and political inequalities of women
21-22, in Gerlinger Lounge and the LLC Performance Hall at UO. The event is free and
and on establishing ways to continue advocacy and progress through workshops, guided
open to the public.
facilitations, lectures and film screenings.”
The theme of the conference, sponsored by the ASUO Women’s Center, is “Our New
Angela Davis is perhaps best known for her role in the Black Panthers in the 1960s,
Year’s Resolution: Ending Oppression Through Expression!”
being on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List and founding Critical Resistance, an organization
working to abolish the prison-industrial complex.
Today she is a political educator who incorporates feminism, African-American
studies, critical theory, Marxism, prisoner rights and social consciousness into her
publications and lectures. She will speak at 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 22, in Columbia 150.
Doors open at 6 pm and her talk will be free for conference participants. For others,
admission is $5 for students, $7 general.
Davis will also speak at 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 21, at Willamette University’s Smith
Auditorium in Salem. See http://wkly.ws/10r for a complete two-week list of WU events
surrounding MLK Day.
Yellow rage is a spoken poetry duo “pulling powerful words from their political
ideologies, person life philosophies and unique experiences as Asian-American women.”
Favianna Rodriguez is an artist-entrepreneur who has helped foster a resurgence in
political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Reader as a “leading
visionary artist and change maker,” Rodriguez is known for her cultural media projects
dealing with social issues such as war, immigration and globalization as well as for her
leadership in establishing innovative institutions.
For more information, visit http://pages.uoregon.edu/women or email Andrea
Valderrama at [email protected]
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TOXICS BOARD
MEMBERS
APPOINTED
The Eugene City Council recently made
appointments to the Eugene Toxics Board,
which makes policy governing the city’s
hazardous material reporting program.
David Beede was appointed to Position 1,
an industry position, and Randy Prince to
Position 6, an environmental advocacy
position. Beede applied to serve to represent
the interests of the business community that
files annual reports under the Toxics Right-
to-Know Program. “As this program is
governed by the City Charter and local
industry is required to participate, David
hopes to ease the burden of this program on
industry as much as possible,” according to a
statement from Jo Eppli, city community
relations and reporting analyst.
Prince is active in Eugene neighborhoods
and currently serves as co-chair of the
Neighborhood Leaders Council. He is an
environmental advocate and he was active in
Citizens for Public Accountability, the group
that worked to create the Toxics Board.
“Randy applied to serve on the Toxics Board
because he sees it as a good opportunity to
use his knowledge of industry and practical
concerns for safety to satisfy both parties in in the Tillamook Room at ODF complete list with times and dates at www. Hall, 8th & Oak. Free. He will also speak in
potentially adversarial situations, as well as headquarters in Salem. A final round of eugenesustainability.org Portland Jan. 28. For more information, call
use his skills as a dispute-resolver or interviews with the finalists, and the • State Sen. Lee Beyer and Rep. Phil Progressive Voices at 484-9167.
preventer,” says Eppli. “Randy will work to selection of a state forester are scheduled Barnhart are hosting district gatherings at • A town hall forum on corporate
ensure the law is still effective.” the next day, Jan. 26. Questions for the 10 am Wednesday, Jan. 26, at Aunt Dings control and the Citizens United case is
The city ordinance establishing the board candidates can be emailed in advance to Family Restaurant in Walterville; at 7:30 being held at 6 pm Wednesday, Jan. 26, at
calls for a balance of industry and [email protected] am Thursday, Jan. 27, at Randy’s Main Harris Hall in the County Building
environmental advocates. More information • At the Good Earth Home Show Street Coffee in Brownsville; and at 7:30 downtown. Sponsored by Move to Amend
on the board can be found at http://wkly. Friday through Sunday, Jan. 21-23, the am Friday, Jan. 28, at Creswell Coffee and others in organizing a democracy
ws/10e Neighborhood Leaders Council Committee Company in Creswell. Contact rep. movement in Eugene. More information at
on Sustainability will be sponsoring a [email protected] or call 607-9207. [email protected] or (404)
ACTIVIST ALERT series of talks and workshops on how all of • Veteran foreign correspondent Reese 290-2309.
us and our neighborhoods can be more Erlich returns to Oregon with a new book, • Last Thursday Beer Social with the
• Oregonians will have an opportunity sustainable. Subjects include the topics of Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Many Rivers Group of the Sierra Club
to meet with finalists as the Oregon Board raising urban chickens, preserving picked Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire, will be from 7 to 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 27,
of Forestry prepares to select a new state foods, Victory Gardens, compost basics, and the award-winning reporter will speak at the Tiki Room at Eugene City Brewery,
forester. A public forum with the finalists “Green Living — Getting Children at 1 pm Thursday, Jan. 27, at LCC Building 844 Olive St. Contact sally.nunn@oregon.
is scheduled to begin at 12:45 pm Jan. 25 Involved” and many more. Please see the 17, Room 309, and again at 7 pm in Harris sierraclub.org
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THE REV. YAO FENG SHAKYA
LANE AREA SPRAY SCHEDULE
Scott Hill was born in Boise and grew up in Renton, Wash. He
got into trouble, was expelled from seventh grade when his
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parents divorced, and joined his mom in Alaska at age 14, after Company Springfield Operations
his father died. He dropped out of high school, moved to (998-7502; 746-2511) will ground
spray using Milestone VM, Accord
Arizona on his own at 17, and fell into addiction, homelessness
Conc., and Oust XP herbicides plus
and crime. He followed a friend to Salem, then, still homeless, surfactants and crop oil within 10
moved to Eugene 17 years ago. Two years later, he met Rhonda feet of domestic water supplies and
fish streams near Mohawk River,
Martinez, who changed his life and became his wife. Together,
Log, Seeley, Cartwright, Parsons,
they took up drawing, began making comic books and traveled
Small, and McGowan Creeks starting
to comic book shows from Seattle to San Diego. “I was checking as early as Jan. 17 (Notice No. 2011-
into religions,” he says. “I had messed up so much, and 771-00068). ODF Springfield 726-
3588. Weyco would normally not
Buddhism seemed accepting.” He studied Buddhism online and
spray until Jan. 27, but has asked for
took up the meditative practice of Zen painting. In 2006, he a waiver of the 15-day waiting period
was ordained as a priest in the Zen Buddhist order of Hsu Yun from ODF.
• Near Florence and Mapleton:
and given the name Yao Feng Shakya. Calling himself the Sad
Lane countywide ground spraying by
Monk, he posted his paintings online and found admirers Davidson Industries on Popo
worldwide hoping to purchase them. “I teach Zen Buddhism, Properties (268-4422) with Garlon
3A herbicide and R-11 adjuvant
taking the ‘ism’ out of it,” says Yao, who has 35 students. “It’s
starting Jan. 16 (No. 2011-781-
about loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity.” Learn
00042).
about his artwork and his weekly Zen painting class at “Zen
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paintings” on Facebook. ers: 342-8332, www.forestlanddwellers.org
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• The court decision this week against Commissioners Rob Handy and Pete
Sorenson was based on the judge’s highly technical and subjective 44-page
analysis of the county board’s very complex decision-making process, and we hope
the ruling is tossed out on appeal. The judge admitted that quorum rules were
never violated, but then went way beyond Oregon law to speculate on how decisions
were made. His ruling sets a precedent that will make local government
deliberations much more cumbersome. The Legislature tried to bring clarity to this
process in 1991 with HB 2461 that, had it passed, would have made it a violation for
elected officials to talk to each other about practically any business coming before
the group. The Register-Guard editorialized against it Feb. 5, 1991 saying the bill
would impose “extreme requirements,” and quoted commission chairman Jack
Roberts saying, “If we can’t talk to each other the rest of the time, we can’t do
anything.” Former commissioner Bill Dwyer was in the Legislature at the time and
co-sponsored the bill. Ironically, the R-G is now editorializing against these one-on-
one discussions. And let’s not forget that the purpose of these “violations of the
public trust” was to improve the public’s access to county services. So much for
good intentions.
But a bigger issue than public process is involved here. Do Seneca and other
timber industries really care about our open meetings law? Or is this purely a
business move, investing big bucks to bankrupt their political enemies and keep
them from getting reelected? Here’s one business scenario to ponder: The Lane
County Commission becomes even more conservative and anti-government and
votes to support the Association of O&C Counties’ proposal to sell off millions of
acres of public land to private timber companies for a pittance. Oregon counties are
desperate for cash. Lane County has the most O&C lands and therefore the most
clout in Congress to make it happen. Wait 10 years until the market improves and
literally billions in profits can be made through clear-cutting. Spending a few
hundred thousand now to trash environment-minded commissioners is a solid
investment, and if the timber barons can get their legal fees back in a lawsuit, all
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County Commissioners has gotten a little more conservative. In an editorial Jan.
15 that read just like a recent news story (or wait, did the news story read like an & fun!
editorial?) the R-G tweaked Handy and Sorenson for, gasp, wanting to delay a vote
on appointing Undersheriff Tom Turner as the interim replacement for departing
Sheriff Russ Burger. The sheriff is one of the most powerful elected officials in Lane
County and the two commissioners wanted more public notice and a review of
applications. Handy and Sorenson just can’t win when it comes to the R-G. When
the daily rag was creating a stink over the recent attempt to protect drinking water,
it criticized the commissioners for not having enough public input. What gives, explore
R-G? Now that the commission’s gone a little more conservative, you guys don’t
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we can recall in recent years. The turnout was strong at MLK events around Lane
County and MLK observances continue this week with the Women of Color
Conference at UO and other events (see News Briefs). King’s legacy is particularly
poignant this year in part because of the dramatic and tragic bloodshed in Tucson, sustainable
Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a bright light shining in a dark and
exhibits
tumultuous time, as was King. Both serve as reminders of what can be accomplished
with courage and dedication, and how far we still have to go in the pursuit of peace
and justice. Peace and justice require that we stop turning to violence to solve homes
conflicts, both around the world and here at home. gardens
King ended his “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech April 3, 1968, the day
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before he was assassinated, with, I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me
to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I 2 go
may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people,
arts
will get to the Promised Land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about
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anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of
the Lord. living
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Retraining the Humans by tragedy” to install bike boxes at intersections after a fatal
“right-hook” accident.
After federal bureaucrats put up “unbelievable”
A top bike planner offers lessons, inspiration for Eugene
opposition to endorsing bike innovations in their offi cial
manual, Birk said she formed Cities for Cycling to push for
M
ia Birk, one of the nation’s leading bike planners, the city had backed off a new bike parking code to make reforms.
spoke to a packed room in Eugene last week as the code voluntary. “I am just screaming,” she says of her Even Dallas, Texas, now wants bike facilities, she said.
part of her book tour for Joyride: Pedaling Toward meeting with the responsible planning director. Birk was wary when the city hired her as a consultant, but
a Healthier Planet. A city commissioner backs her in disbelief that the school businesses there offered, “how can we help you; do you need
Birk’s Portland fi rm Alta Planning is one of the consultants district has opposed bike parking for kids, and the City some of our property; can we give you some money?”
on a new Eugene bike plan now under way. “It’s not just the Council overrules the Planning Commission, according to Biking is good for business, according to Birk. She
story of me or Alta, it’s the story of our whole country,” she Birk. points to her study showing 1,500 jobs from Portland’s $100
said of her book to a standing-room-only crowd of more than But then she has to fi ght hard to get the city bureaucracy million bike industry; a study showing the local economy
100 at the Oregon Electric Station. to include the required bike parking in a City Hall remodel, saves $1 billion a year by driving less; research showing the
Birk, in a skirt and with her biker legs in tall boots, she said. “It’s not enough to add a plan a code, you have to importance of biking to attracting a “creative class” vital for
fl ashed an embarrassing slide of herself as a “chubster” teen retrain every human.” city economies; and a recent Maryland study showing that
in Texas during her talk. “We would drive across to the street Birk said the city later had a waiting list of 200 businesses bike projects create twice as many jobs as road projects.
to the grocery store,” she said of her auto-centric upbringing. wanting to remove a parking space for a 20-bike, on-street As for Birk’s book Joyride, she’s sharing the profi ts
“I was overweight and pretty depressed.” parking corral. with bike advocacy groups. Other books have talked about
Birk described how she got hooked on biking and Birk said her daughter’s school now has 50 percent the environmental, livability and health benefi ts of biking,
lost weight in graduate school studying international biking and walking. Biking offers a “win, win solution for but Birk’s book, written with the help of bike author Joe
transportation and energy issues and wound up in Portland our complex environmental, livability and health problems,” Kurmaskie, shows what it’s like to actually make change
as the city’s bike coordinator from 1993 to 1999. When she said. happen in the trenches.
she started, Portland was being sued by bike advocates for Citywide, Portland counts have shown bike ridership She chronicles the citizen ravings at public meetings and
violating the state bike bill requiring bike lanes. “Bureaucratic grow from 1 percent to 8 percent, with some neighborhoods back-room obstinance of entrenched bureaucrats that must
staff were exclusively trained in moving people and goods by reaching 28 percent, she said, noting the importance of be overcome for cities to evolve. Birk pulls few punches and
provides a rare, look at how local government really works.
She provides some forceful arguments such as, “the
Birk chronicles the citizen ravings at public meetings and back-room obstinance
burden of safety must be squarely placed on the more
of entrenched bureaucrats that must be overcome for cities to evolve. dangerous vehicle operator.” And she takes on a vocal
“fringe” of vehicular cycling advocates who oppose bike
lanes as somehow less safe than bravely “taking” a car lane
cars,” she said. “The media routinely slammed our efforts” to documenting biking success. with their bikes. She says that approach will leave the 60
increase biking. Portland helped spur success with a fun encouragement percent who would consider biking if they felt safer in their
Birk loaded a bike cart with her slides and made suburban program, Birk said. “It was like come over here, this is where cars, and “retain cycling as an elite sport of a privileged
presentations to recruit more people to her cause. She often the party is.” group of adrenaline junkies.”
felt like an “alien,” she said. “They would feel for their car After adding bridge bike lanes, “we’ve got an entire four- Eugene’s UO-fueled bike commute rate is almost double
keys.” At each meeting, “Eighteen or 19 would run for their lane bridge in bike and pedestrian traffi c.” With increased that in larger Portland, but Birk and her book still offer a lot
cars, but two or three would stay and talk to me,” she said. cycling and improvements, “safety is improving radically,” of inspiration and lessons for here.
“That’s actually pretty good.” Birk said. Bike projects cost a tiny fraction of city road Where Eugene’s bike bureaucrats have often appeared
When the city quickly re-striped a four-lane road over a projects, “there is no better bang for the buck.” meek, Birk was a hard-driving go-getter not afraid to be
weekend to dedicate a lane for bikes, “businesses kind of Cities like Portland and Eugene have some of the highest a “pain in the tush” to her bureaucratic colleagues. At one
went into shock,” she said. But in the end, the businesses bike commuting rates in the U.S., Birk said. “But on the point, she wrote she “surreptitiously” distributed hundreds
calmed down, she said. “Sometimes it’s better to ask for international scale we are not that good,” she said. “We’ve of complaint cards to local bike shops to push the city into
forgiveness” than permission, Birk said. “Life goes on, just scratched the surface of what we can become.” action.
change is hard and people freak out, but it’s working.” One key may be more separate cycle tracks to protect Eugene volunteers have struggled for years to close
Birk tells of the determination of Portland’s bike facility bikes from car traffi c like a recent downtown project in streets for a major bike event in Eugene, but Birk and her
planners. One colleague cornered an ODOT staffer in a Vancouver, B.C., she said. colleagues jumped onboard, helping create, subsidize and
bathroom to get him to sign a vital permit for Portland’s “At some point we’re going to have to grapple with the remove obstacles for the Portland Bridge Pedal and Sunday
fl oating riverfront bike path, she said. cost of driving being heavily subsidized,” she said, noting Parkways events that have brought tens of thousands of
An Oregonian editorial ridiculed the fl oating path as a the carrot and stick approach in Europe. “The stick is making riders, even closing lanes on a towering I-5 bridge to cars.
waste that no one will use. But the paper soon admitted it it really hard to drive and expensive.” Where Eugene planners balk at removing car lanes or
was wrong about what’s now one of the city’s most popular Birk said a key to her success in Portland was the backing parking spaces to make safe space for bikes, Portland has
attractions, according to Birk. of the city’s traffi c engineer. “Without him,” she said, the often charged ahead.
Birk said she helped the city grow from 70 bikeway miles successes “wouldn’t have been possible.” Where Eugene’s city manager system of government has
to 300 in 15 years. Determination also helped. Birk said she hired a often left entrenched, car-oriented bureaucrats in charge,
In 1996 she toured 18 European cities on a grant to learn private contractor to install colored bike lanes when a city Portland has responsive elected offi cials with real power to
cutting-edge bike design. But when she returned, she found maintenance manager balked. The city was also “spurred hire and back up innovators for quick change. ew
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