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Saturday Market is a bazaar extraordinaire, where unusual gifts can be purchased.
Market looks to relocate
When the Saturday Market first began in
1970, the founders asked Lane County for use
of its two fountain parks situated on either side
of Oak Street downtown at 8th Avenue.
‘‘The county said, 'no, but you can move
into the parking lot across the street,’ "
remembers Market Manager Howard Wade
Wade appears before the Eugene Down
town Commission this morning at 7:30 to
propose that the market relocate to those
parks on a trial basis. The trial period would
determine the extent of possible problems
such as discord with traffic on Oak Street and
7th Avenue. Wade says
If the commission approves the move, the
Lane County Parks and Open Spaces
department will consider renting the park
space to Saturday Market.
"We'd like to be in there by
Thanksgiving." Wade says, adding that the
parks offer more asthetics than a black-top lot
and are more obvious to Christmas shoppers
During the market's early years, the
parking lot was almost always filled
Booth space for such crafts as leather,
ceramic, and needle work was allocated by
lottery, Wade says. The bazaar's coordinators
limited the number of booths to 250 per
Saturday, turning down merchants and
vendors constantly because of space limitions.
More recently, 125 booths might display
wares for the Saturday event. And, "on that
parking lot, they look small," Wade says.
"This has been a real hard year, no doubt
about it." Last spring's arson attack on the
market's stage and advertising equipment
caused significant damage. Wade claims
The market has found itself on shaky
ground following a summer of excessively
rainy Saturdays coupled with a soggy
economy, he says. "We need something posi
tive."
Director shatters myth of aging
By Diana Wlnocur
Of tt>« Emerald
An old woman, seemingly In a
daze, sits at the back of the bus
Her face glows red from too
much rouge. She wears
mismatched clothing. Most
college students would look
away thinking her "senile."
But, according to Jean Bader,
director of the gerontology
department, the woman she
describes suffers only from the
effects of aging. Her mind is
normal because aging doesn't
cause senility. Bader says
Our society entertains many
misconceptions about the aged,
she says Beliefs that all elderly
people are sick and that geron
tology is the study of old-age
disease are common mis
conceptions, Bader says.
"People live In fear of an
illness and deterioration-filled
old age,” she says. Through
gerontology, researchers find
almost no characteristics
inherent in the aging process.
Aging by deterioration is "the
exception by a longshot."
Because "we see ourselves
from the inside out" the old
woman on the bus may be ig
norant of how others view her,
Bader says.
Her eyes may no longer
detect fine color differences, so
that she purchases red and
orange clothing, thinking they
match. And her distracted
manner could be the effect of
prescription drugs — the
average senior citizen takes
seven, usually prescribed by
various doctors, she adds.
People who are over 65 now
do not accurately represent the
aging process of future
generations, Bader says.
People born before 1917 are
more likely to age in declining
health for several reasons
Bader says many old people
have bought the stereotypes of
aging they grew up with. "It's a
self-fulfilling prophesy."
The biggest mistake students
make about gerontology is to
think it does not involve them,
Bader says
But another important con
sideration for students in
gerontology is employment.
Jobs jobs relating to geron
tology are relatively easy to find,
Bader says
In a recent Newsweek special
issue on jobs, working with the
aged was second on a list of
careers with the highest
expected growth. Some 80
percent of University geron
tology students find jobs direct
ly related to their field, Bader
says.
Student taxpayers should be
concerned that one-fourth of all
federal dollars is spent in some
age-related manner, she says.
As the post-World War II
"baby boom” moves into
middle- and old- age, fewer
taxpayers will be carrying the
burden of more retirees.
Gerontology majors study
much more than the physical
aspects of aging, Bader points
out. The interdisciplinary nature
of the program offers students
everything from the examining
of the philosophical aspects of
aging to designing bathrooms
with the arthritic in mind.
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