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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1983)
M rs Shads © s,*20 A h ‘msed WHAT’S HAPPENING Arts, Events and Entertainment for Eugene / Springfield and Lane County WHATS HAPPENING is published each Thursday except for Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving), and Dec. 29 (Christmas/ New Years). EDITORS Elisabeth Lyman Lucia McKelvey Sonja Ungemach TYPESET ProtoType CAMERA WORK Production Dept. PRINTING Springfield News CIRCULATION 18,000 SUBSCRIPTIONS 311/6 months 320/1 year Sec form inside DISPLAY ADS Open rate $7/col. in. Discounts available Special full page rates Call 484-0519 CLASSIFIEDS See form inside Deadline: Thurs. 5 pm CALENDAR LISTINGS See form inside Deadline: Thurs. 5 pm MAILING ADDRESS P.O. Box 259 Eugene, OR 97440 TELEPHONE (503) 484-0519 0 A Apology Sorry, we printed some misin formation in our Sept. 22 issue, in an article entitled Congratula tions Woodpeckers. Community League Softball team Late for Dinner has only one champion ship to its credit—1982. Say Hey won in 1981, becoming the only team ever to win two titles. No team has ever won twice in a row, let alone three times! The Northwest Teller The Eugene Folklore Society publishes a monthly newsletter for professional, folk and educa tional storytellers, and for others who are interested in the contin uation of the art and craft of storytelling. If you would like to contribute articles, comments, or criticism, write to the North west Teller, Godfrey Warner, editor, P.O. Box 1645, Eugene, OR 97440 or call 484-0758. Educational Software The Ideal World of Educa tional Software; An Interactive Conference is an all-day confer ence primarily for educational software developers, authors and publishers, for those in volved in peripherals to educa tional software, and for educat ors directly involved with CAI. The agenda will focus on the present state of educational soft ware and the objectives neces sary to achieve the next genera tion of quality and applicability. This conference is sponsored by a group of software developers and publishers and the 4-J School District. Registration is limited. Send $15 or $25 (in cludes lunch) to: Software Con ference, c/o Eugene School Dist. 4-J, 200 N. Monroe, Eu gene, OR 97402. 687-3354 for more information. Justinian AB SYSPOSDON The most famous of the Byz antine Emperors, Justinian the Great, who ruled from 527-565 A.D., is the subject of a sym posium at the University, Oct. 6-8. This symposium (which is free) will examine the historical, artistic, political, legal, religious and economic aspects of the Byzantine Empire, whose capital was Constantinople, now Istam bul, Turkey. Concurrent with the symposium will be a photo exhibit of architecture and works of art from the Byzantine Period. Call 686-3663 or 686-4877 for information. Pro Bike ’83 Bicycle specialists, govern ment officials and club leaders will gather at the University, Oct. 8 through 10, for the Pro Bike '83 conference. There will be workshops on low-cost engin eering improvements, funding sources, legislative issues, park ing and more. Also featured will be slides of international bicycle trips, an Oregon coast bike trip, and displays of locally built bikes. Call 687-5298. We Have Mountain Bike Fenders 663 E. Thirteenth 0 -Willamette. — Gycle. oworks -=-**- enthW W£Ugene Oregon 97401 SEKM Eugene, Oregon 97401 - 343-7086 : W . CHANGE IS CHEAP! / . . . because we keep your words on disc* Cost effective for resumes, price lists, menus, brochures. 10% discount to non-profits & coops •for at least one year 485.) PRop ‘390 OOk Stra ‘eer Future Expo Contest The entry deadline for the Fu ture Expo’s Invent the Future: Lane County 2001 contest has been extended to Oct. 17. So there’s still time for elementary schools, grades K-5, to enter. As mentioned in our Sept. 22 issue, children are to create a table-top display depicting Lane County in the year 2001, using any media and any format. Not only is there an Apple He Computer for grand prize, but newly added prizes are a Franklin Ace 1000 system and a Texas Instrument 99 4/A computer with speech synthesizer. WISTEC is co sponsoring this contest and will display the exhibits for the entire Future Expo, Nov. 11-13. Edible Mushroom Trip Willamalane is offering an in door slide presentation on edible mushrooms, which will intro duce you to the basic skills needed to gather mushrooms safely. This is a prerequisite to the trip, which will explore the surrounding country and will in clude cooking and sampling. The classes, conducted by Paul Woolery, will be Oct. 11, 10 a.m.-12 or Oct. 13, at 7-9 p.m., both at the Willamalane Senior Center, “C” and Water Streets. The field trip will be Oct. 15 or 18 from 8-4 p.m., leaving from the Memorial Building at 765 N. “A” St. For Your Information Did you know WISTEC offers an entire afternoon of explora tion, games, and workshops for children six to ten years old during each of the football games? Check-in time is noon, $10 for members, $15 non members. A low-cost treatment program for depressed high school-age students and their families is now being offered by the Uni versity Psychology Clinic. Adol escents, fifteen to eighteen years, will be taught self-control tech niques which have been found to be helpful in controlling depres sion. Call Greg Clarke at 686-4954. The October Fest Antique fes tival begins Friday, Oct. 7th at 9 a.m. at the Springfield Mall (Marcola Exit). This runs through Sunday at 5 p.m. Hillcrest Vineyards is having their 20th Anniversary Harvest Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 8th. Join in the picking, crushing, and pressing—and there’s fun for children, too. Classes are beginning Oct. 7th at the Oregon Zen Priory on Un derstanding Soto Zen Morning Service Sutras. B. Dalton Supports Literacy Drive B. Dalton Bookseller will sponsor Oregon Literacy Day, Thursday, Oct. 13, in all of its Oregon locations. Twenty per cent of all designated register proceeds will be donated to Ore gon Literacy, Inc. In Eugene, the money will go directly to the Eugene-Springfield Literacy Council, 650 W. 12th, to assist with projected operational ex penses for the 1983-84 fiscal year. Storyteller Godfrey Warner will perform for literacy at the Eugene B. Dalton on the down town mall (194 W. Broadway, 683-6326) from 2-2:30 p.m. All ages are invited to enjoy this half-hour of imagination and adventure. Functional illiteracy plagues 21.5% of Oregon’s adult popu lation; 5000 live in Lane County. The Eugene-Springfield Literacy Council, with the help of volun teer tutors, works on a one-to one basis with those who want to learn to read and write. Many students are learning English as a second language. Lessons are free. If you like to read, you can teach another. Volunteers re ceive twelve hours of intensive training in the Laubach teaching method. Training workshops will be held October 21, 22, and 29 for teaching English As A Sec ond Language; and November 5, and 12 for Basic Training. A fee of $6 is charged to cover the cost of tutoring materials. Lessons are held at a mutually convenient time and place, often at the home of the student or teacher. Public meeting places are also available. Two hours per week is the minimum for success. For more information on the Eugene-Springfield Liter acy Council, and how you can teach another the joy of reading, please call 344-0051. Insight Body Works School. Touch For Health Weekend Workshop FREE INTRODUCTORY Evening Friday, October 14th 7-9 p.m. (limited apace: pleese cell for reservation) ' € October 15th & 16th 10-5 (enrollment limited to 18) W Robyn Barzilay Instructor & Director RM FMTEe’aNTMMRATIOIS plense cal! (503) 343-0000 Fee: 860.
