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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1981)
These midget monsters — called "Beastie Creatures' — are the clay work of Richard Watt, one of more than 50 local craftspeople whose art is on sale at the Seventh Annual EMU Christmas Crafts Faire The 50 craftspeople featured at this year's faire were selected at a judging in November Hand-made crafts include pottery, wood crafts sketches, paintings, photos, woven items and hand-sewn clothes Besides brows ing through the faire and Christmas shopping, festivities include refreshments and live music The Faire will be open from 10 a m to 4 p.m in room 167 EMU through today Photo by Bob Baker Be a 9 ood ne« \ghbor ,«end he\P sPen do\'ars By MARIAN GREEN Of th* Emerald The West University Neigh borhood needs help spending the more than $87,000 it has for developing and improving parks in that area The money for “nodal" developments, which are ' areas where people naturally congregate or places that could be made more conducive to congregation," is part of the WUN's $750,000 neighborhood improvement grant, says Marshall Landman, WUN grant administrator "All it's going to take is for a student to say 'this is what I'd like to have, and we'll take the ball from there," Landman says By taking the ball, Landman means checking existing zoning ordinances and determining protect feasibility Landman says because the WUN has "very little" park and open space for its 200 acres, the neighborhood group would like to develop only in the areas re sidents — especially students — express interest in. Landman says Landman says students make up 65 percent of the 6,500 West University neighbors yet aren't involved actively in the neigh borhood decision-making "The West University Neigh borhood needs to be more representative of the student population." he says "Even if a student is only here for three months, he or she is still a neighbor " Basketball or volleyball courts, gardens planter boxes benches, bike racks and trash cans are some of the items Landman says would be "no problem to fund " A typical nodal development is the bus shelter across from the bookstore on 13th Avenue Landman says Cooperative projects with local businesses and agencies West University Neighborhood Fmerald graphic also may be undertaken he says In tact, the WUN worked with the Lane Transit District, which had offered to put two bus shelters in the neighborhood The neighborhood offered to erect three additional shelters if LTD would add one more LTD agreed "We are now going to have six shelters,' he says The group may offer nodal developments to other agencies in exchange for maintenance of the developments because the grant funds can be used only for "bricks and mortar he says Students are West University Neighbors it they live within the area bounded by 11th Avenue on the north, 19th Avenue on the south Willamette Street on the west and Kincaid Street on the east The WUN will take sugges tions until Dec 31 "If we don't spend the money within the next year, the city will take it back," he says Student neighbors may call Landman at 687-5366 or can drop by the neighborhood center at 1458 Ferry St Public service jobs available, says dean By RICH BURR Of the Emerald Despite budget cuts by the Reagan Administration, public service jobs will still be in suf ficient supply, says Bryan Downes, associate dean of the University's community service and public affairs school Downes says he sees the budget cuts as a re-allocation of resources Public services will not go away they will just be circumscribed “Job possibilities are still good because government and public service is a S3 trillion service," Downes says 'Op portunities will still be there but some will be packaged differ ently." 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