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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1983)
This week we have the pleasure of several series of events that deserve some special attention. There will be a Support the Parks fundraising festival in Alton Baker Park all day April 10 to raise money in order to resume park maintenance services. All county parks have been closed since October, 1982, due to the budget crunch. The events schedule is as follows: DUNK TANK All day—try to dunk Lane County Officials! Entertainment Percy Hilo, 11 am Ensted Bros., 1 pm Mapenzi, 3 pm Road Runs 1K Fun Run, 8 am 5K Race, 8:15 10K Race, 9:00 $7.50, open to all. Bike Ride 21 Mile Loop, 10:30 am, $6 Canoe Challenge Olympic Canoe & Kayak Challenge 12 noon Springs, relays, noon Instruction, clinic, 1:30 pm 6K Race, 1:45 $4-$6 Other Events BMX Bike Race, 11 am (BMX Trail, Alton Baker) Dark Star Frisbee, noon Sailboat Regatta, Fern Ridge Nature Walks, 1 & 3 pm Free Track Clinic, 1-4 pm (with short classes, discussion, questions and answers) Refreshments available all day for purchase. It has been said, "Baroque dance has more in common with the 1970‘s sense Twyla Tharpe makes of ballet than with the thrust of classical ballet." Eugene will host the New York Baroque Ensemble and Concert Royal April 10-12. They will perform with live music and period costumes with recreated choreography. Their Hult Center perform ance (7:30 pm, April 10) Harlequins, Gods and Dancers includes music by Handel, Rameru and Lully. Tickets are $6.75-$8.75 from the Hult Center and EMU Main Desk. They will provide Master Classes in Music Performance and Ba roque Dance. They will also give a lecture/performance and final chamber music concert on April 12, 8 pm, Beall Hall. See our calendar for exact times and places. Also of note is the Festival of East European Peoples which starts April 10. See article this issue. And this week is Gay Pride Week. Special events in connection with this are listed in our calendar. SUBSCRIBE TO What’s Happening Have What's Happening mailed to you each week. 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STU’S BIKE SHOP 8th & Monroe • 344-2175 BUYING A NEW BIKE? with this ad—until April 14 WELL GIVE YOU $3 CASH JUST TO TEST RIDE OUR BIKES BEFORE YOU BUY. Applies to Adult Bikes at any Eugene Bike Shop CENTURION The Value Leader FUJI—Now with Quadra-Butted Frame Saturday 9 Workshops / Classes A one-day seminar on Radical Jus tice with John Alexander, co-editor of The Other Side magazine and Judy Alexander, co-founder of "Parenting for Justice." Bring a sack lunch. No childcare available. 9:30 am-4 pm, Shiloh Retreat and Study Center, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dex ter, Oregon. 937-2101. Free. Getting in Touch with Your Partner. Relationships can seem intense when the sun travels through Aries, so spend the day exploring the two getherness of breath, body work, and Being. Rohn Kessler, MS, and Ninah Bernstein, ACSW. 484-6104. 10 am, $30/couple. Body-image, Food and Fat, for women dealing with attitudes toward our bodies, our weight, food-intake and diet concepts. Affir mations, fantasy and other exer cises. 10 am-4 pm, bring lunch, LCC campus, Room 122/APE. 344-7696. Cost $7. The Oregon Repertory Theatre Youth Academy begins acting classes for ages 7-10, 11 am-noon, and ages 11-15, noon-1 pm. April 9-May 28. Fee $20. Pre-registration required, 688-4270 and 344-7331. Clogging Workshop with Skinner City doggers for ages 10-adult, April 9-30. Fee $20. Preregistration required, 688-4270 or 344-7331. Clinic on How to Fix a Bicycle Flat, EPR, 2370 Alder, 7 pm, $1. 342-1219. What’s Happening in the Sky April 7-April 13 Rain. Grey, drenching, and occasionally laden with rainbows, we've had an almost unceasing supply since the first of the year. If the heavens above us can be correlated with a state of mind, ours has been "under the weather" for what seems like months. Nonetheless, we should count our wet blessings. For example, while we've had 77 rainy days out of a possible 94 this year (as of April 4), and 30.72 inches of rain as contrasted with the normal 19, things could be much worse. Witness March 15, 1952, in Cilaos, La Reunion, an island town in the Indian Ocean. On that day alone, 73.62 inches of rain fell! And whereas March seemed awfully wet in Eugene (10.58 inches), compare that with July, 1861 in Cherrapunji, India, when 366.14 inches of clothes-clinging water dropped from the sky. Those figures might even scare the green out of a douglas-fir. Weather permitting, this week could present us with a major con stellational interaction in the northeast just after sunset. Between the great bear, Ursa Major (which contains the plow-shaped Big Dipper) and Bootes the Herdsman are found two stars called Canes Venatici, or the hunting dogs. (This constellation was devised in 1687 by Hevelius, a Polish astronomer, and is now a "regular” in the sky.) When looking at all three constellations together you can see Bootes driving the bear (or pushing the plow) with the aid of the hunting dogs. Once you recognize this interaction, the star patterns are both obvious and easy to remember. Venus continues to be brilliantly white in the west for three hours after sunset. It is fully seven times as bright as the brightest star in the sky, Sirius. Below Venus at sunset, we will have the best evening op portunity of 1983 this week and next to see the elusive planet Mercury. Look in the low northwest at sunset near the horizon for a steady point of bright and slightly yellow light. If you use binoculars, you should also be able to see dim red Mars just below Mercury on Friday, April 8th. Saturn rises these days an hour after sunset in the southeast and will be yellow and bright throughout the night hours, rivaling the brightest starr in appearance. It may be found directly over Spencer's Butte at about 1 am. Jupiter also rises in the southeast at approximate ly 11:30 pm and is the brilliant white "morning star" in the southwest as the Sun rises. This Week's Celestial Eye-Opener (taken from the book, The Wind and the Weather): "There are forty-four thousand electric storms that roll over the earth each day and spear it with nine million strokes of lightning every twenty-four hours.” —Larry Deckman Glow-in-the-dark maps of the Heavens over Eugene/Springfield are now locally available. Forget the rain outside as you look above your bed each night and see the stars shine! The map also makes a "glowing" birthday or holiday gift. They can be purchased for $7 from Larry Deckman or Sloan Heermance at 2406 Lawrence St. in Eugene. Call 343-7166. SALE of all Sekals in stock Save $25 to $60 with this coupon! Good through April 30th SBUU OWorks -- ’ienthW WEugene,Oregon97401 663 E. Thirteenth1 Eugene, Oregon 97401- 343-7086
