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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1983)
Running Pre’s Trail & Beyond The Second Annual Spring Fling Fun Run will start at 9:30 am, Sun day, April 24, at the KASH/KSND Studios, 1600 Day Island Road in the Alton Baker Park area about one-half mile up the KASH Road to wards Springfield from the Ken Nielson Rose Gardens. The event is sponosred by the local nonprofit, tax-exempt running promotions group—DZI Running Team, Inc. The Spring Fling Run includes a 10K (6.2) mile road race, as well as a two-mile fun run on the bike paths along the scenic Willamette River. The course has been certified and the runs sanctioned by the Athletic Con gress. Prizes will be given to the top men and women finishers, as well as special prizes for middle and final place finishers. A number of local merchants have donated prizes for the finishers as well as for post-race drawings eligible to all entrants. En try fee is $6.50 for those pre-regis tered before April 17, and $8.00 on the day of the race. Merchants’ cou pons and T-shirts will be available on day of race registration. The Spring Fling Fun Run is open to all fun runners, recreational joggers and serious road racers. Parking is available in the general area. On Saturday, April 23, 1983, the (J of O Business School Alumni will stage a 10,000 meter “Rainbow” run. A late entry fee of $6 is payable in check, cash or money order. Race is to start at 9 am in front of Gilbert Hall (located just east of 13th & Kin caid) and will include a flat and fast, but challenging route including a run along Fairmount Loop. Luminary alumni will include Art Boileau, Canadian National Mararthon Champion, a CBA Alumnus; Paul Geis, U of O Sub 4 miler, and Ros coe Divine, U of O, All American 6-miler and also a CBA Alumnus. Prizes will be awarded for male and female winners and there will be an all-entrant drawing. Fitness Through Pleasure is the ti tle of a new Rodale Press book, au thored by Porter Shimer, editor of Executive Fitness Newsletter. Like another recent book reviewed by Pre’s Trail & Beyond, Fitness Through Pleasure offers suggestions and self help which will not only help an individual toward ‘well be ing of body and mind," but as the book’s foreword suggests is a first step in a personal preventive pro gram. With hospital beds going at an average of $500 per day, who can af ford not to look at self help? Author Porter Shimer not only gives suggestions as how to shuck bad habits (such as alcohol, food cravings, smoking) but also tells why and how exercise doesn’t have to be hard (or a bore); how to acquire a taste for healthful foods; how to relax and avoid stress; and details on how fitness fights disease. Part IV of the book offers a number of ques tions and answers which have ap peared in Executive Fitness, the popular newsletter which goes to thousands of persons all over the world each week for a nominal sum. Running is dealt with indirectly ex cept for the Q&A sections which in clude a chart showing calories burn ed while running. The book contains a more positive stance towards vitamin suplements including some good information about Vitamin C. Next week, we’ll preview the "Footrace to Stop the Arms Race," and go into some views on running by Dr. Glasser, the world famous behaviorist, who recently held a seminar on depression during an all day event at the Eugene (Hilton) conference center. —Jack Craig (Jack Craig is now into his 7th year of daily running, mostly on Pre's Trail in Eugene-Springfield. He runs (or tries to) about one hour each day and from six to seven miles daily. He also operates a running guide service and has written articles for running magazines. Persons in terested in his guide-coaching ser vice, telephone 686-0812 for ap pointment. FREE DENTAL EXAM with this ad Thomas Kopriva, D.D.S 340 West 10th Avenue _ 484-9175 GARBACIO'S garbage & recycling service 726-5175 Long Distance Phone Savings Available NOWII — BOTH BUSINESS & RESIDENTIAL — Call for details: 687-1461 343-5286 Garden Site Selection and Soil Preparation With all the sunshine that we have been having recently, I’ve been thinking about putting in a new garden. When I look for a garden site I evaluate potential sites using the following criteria: sun exposure, slope, soil type, and convenience. I want a garden that has a gentle slope to the south with no trees to block the sun. The soil should be workable but this is the one fac tor that is easily modified. If all the following are met, I judge the site on the basis of convenience. Is it close to water? Can animals be kept out? How easily can water be obtained? If it’s an exceptional site, I can trade off some criteria against another. If the sun is blocked part of the day. I’ll plant shade tolerant plants in that area. Most herbs need full sun to develop. If the drainage is not that good, a raised bed will help. The soil, as long as it is not contaminated, can be modified. Sawdust and straw can turn the nastiest clay into a workable soil. Beware of planting next to the foundations of houses. The ground may be full of lead from the paints used. This would only be a problem with older houses because leaded paints have been removed from the marketplace. All herbs like a well made soil, contrary to a popular belief that herbs want to grow on a gravel slope. They will grow anywhere, but the better soils will yield a healthier plant with more usable leaf, stem and root. Some herbs like Rosemary and French Tarragon thrive in raised beds, while annuals like basil seem to grow fine on the flat. I fortify the soil with soft or collodial phosphate. This has a faster release than rock powders and will also last in the soil for years. Most soils are acidic in high rainfall areas and would benefit from an application of dolomite lime. Nitrogen is sup plied by cottonseed meal, blood meal or fish emulsion. The fish emulsion has a quick release but the meals are cheaper and longer lasting. I find that our soils don’t seem to need a specific fix for potas sium. We pick up potassium with the nitrogen sources. All amendments should be worked into the soil. Clay soils should not be worked until they dry. A good rule of thumb is to drop a lump of soil from waist height—if it shatters then the soil is dry enough to work with out causing damage to the soil structure. Local sources for organic amendments are the Down to Earth store on W. 11th, or Lane Co. Feed and Seed at 5th and Charnelton. Any gardening questions can be addressed to Sweetwater Nursery, c/o John Karlik, 83036 N. Weiss, Creswell, OR 97426. I will try to answer questions in future articles. —John Karlik STARS, STARS, STARS The skies of Eugene and Springfield have now been recorded on a glow-in-the dark star map. They are available for 87 from Larry Deckman or Sloan Heer mance at 2406 Lawrence St. in Eugene. Call 343-7166. Book Review: The Parsifal Mosaic By Robert Ludlum, Random House, Inc., New York, Random House, Limited, Canada, Bantam Books, Inc. (paperback), 1982, 630 pages, J15.95. (Currently on sale for JI 1.95 at Marketplace Books, paperback J4.50, located in the Fifth Street Market, Eugene.) In his latest novel, Ludlum once again demonstrates his mastery of the espionage novel. Ludlum writes with an economical style, wasting few words, which results in a fast-paced adventure filled with spies and counter spies, agents and double agents, and behind it all a mysterious figure known as Parsifal. Parsifal is a shadowy figure with the power to bring the U.S. to its knees, and if his demands are not met, the power to plunge the world into the holocaust of nuclear war. The one man who can identify Parsifal, ex-agent Michael Havelock, has been labelled psychotic by his superiors and marked for death before his obsession with a dead woman destroys their fragile spy net work. Havelock can prove his sanity only if he can find Jenna Karas, the woman he loved and yet, believing she’d betrayed him, ordered her ex ecution, even witnessed it. Now he is convinced that he has seen her alive, must find her and convince her that he still loves her. The reader is compelled to follow Havelock through Ludlum’s carefully orchestrated maze as he searches for Jenna, always headed for the inevitable clash with parsifal, whose influence reaches even into the White House. The book is gripping, believable, and chilling because of it. It is perfect reading for a rain drenched spring weekend. —Kenneth N. Harris Tuesday 26 Fairs/ Festivals Full Moon Medhatton, the full moon is a time for humanity as a door is opened when more light is available for our planet. Group meditation, Amazon Community Center, 2700 Hilyard, 8 pm. 689-7761. Meetings Committee In Solidarity with the Central American People meets to discuss current events in Central America and a planned fundraising for Medical Aid for El Sal vador, 7:30 pm 2880 Mill St, Eugene. 485-1755. Speakers Antique Seminars featuring Gwen Znerold, noted collector, author, apprais er and lecturer on antiques. Topics this week. Needlecraft and Folk Art. $20, 344-4813. Film Photographer for National Geographic to present slide show. Rich Cooke offers a sensitive look at the country of Ladakh, Free, 7:30 pm. EMU ballroom on U of O campus. Sponsored by U of O Out door Program, 686-4365. Mary Wigman: When Fire Dances Be tween Two Poles. Part of National Dance Week, 7 pm, 150 Geology, UO. Sports / Recreation Amazon Community Stamp Club meets between 4 and 5 pm at 2700 Hilyard. Students in grades 1-12 are invited to join. More information, 687-5373. Etc. Bookmobile service includes: Parkview Terrace, 3rd & High, 9:15-10:15 am; Ya Po-Ah Terrace, 350 Pearl, 10:30-11:30 am; Edgewood Shopping Center, 40th & Donald, 2-5:30 pm. Art Open drawing figure studies. See 4/21 listing. Macedonian Bridal Costumes, a lecture on the UO Natural History Museum Ex hibit. Social customs, symbolism and pro cess of manufacture will be covered. 7:30 pm, at the Museum, UO. Concert Music Folksinger Judy Gorman-Jacobs at 7:30 pm in Gerlinger Lounge, U of O. Pre sented by Students for a Nuclear Free Future, Women’s Referral and the EMU Cultural Forum. Ms. Gorman-Jacobs per forms traditional and original music of labor, peace, environmental and women’s movement. $3 at door and $2.50 students. TV/Video Cable 11 (Community Access) presents: Seeds of Peace, televised anthology of Peace Art in Eugene, song, poetry, story, dance, painting, 6 pm; Winds of Change, Andrew Elliott, ND, discusses naturo pathic and homeopathic remedies and Cascade Health Exchange, a local effort to provide health care to low-income peo ple, 7:00; Nicola Studio One, 7:30; Deci sion: America, analysis of the European nuclear weapons deployment decision, 8:00; Unique Woman, Mickey Black, creative sewer and expert on stitchless sewing, 8:30; Potluck, 9:30. Workshops / Classes Self Development, introductory class in meditation, discussion of diet and lifestyle practices conducive to greater mental health and physical harmony, 7 pm at 1802 Lawrence St. 345-0042. Contact Shyam/Vidura. My Relationship with My Child, and See ing I to I. A workshop for parents, focus ing on parents’ goals, expectations, feel ings. At Westmoreland Community Cen ter, 1545 W 22nd, 7-9 pm. Phone 687-5316. $2.50/individual, $4/couple. TV/Video Cable 11 (Community Access) presents: Oregon Work, a documentary produced for KEZI by Sharon Genasci, deals with unemployment caused by small business closures, 6 pm; Cracker Barrel, 6:30; Nguzo Saba, 7 principles of blackness, 7 pm; La Voz Hispanica, 7:30; Is God a Dream?, part 2, 8:00; Metamorphosis, 8:30; Nuclear Questions, 9:00; Dave on the Fly, 9:30.
