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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1987)
Preparations underway for annual Eugene Celebration Events scheduled include a parade, an art show, bike races, musical entertainment, street performances and wine tasting By Sean Nelson (N ll»« KjmwiM University students wishing to pul behind them the rigors of registration and the r bureaucracy of Oregon Hall can find relief with the help of the Kugene Celebration. The Eugene Celebration is in its fifth year, and this year’s GRADUATE STUDENTS COME USE US (even when you're healthy) WE RE HERE TO SERVE YOU YOUR Student Health center - ext.4441 TROPICAL RN MOTTO LARGEST SELECTION OF FRESHWATER FISH IN EUGENE 30 years combined professional experience FISH • BIRDS SMALL ANIMALS • REPTILES AND MORE’ MILLERS (Between Potter & Harris) 1065 E. 20th 343-1262 louii’t nt u • UKuii* WWhk lt ti .-.—■■ ■■ "»i r...-■-". Vi R.u k RAINIER $389 + dcp. ENTER OUR GREAT BEER-LOGO MIRROR GIVEAWAY! (dentil* in store) TRY OUR DELI GREAT SUBS! (Sun Thun MI; Fri Nui V 12) events are scheduled from .Sept. 16 through Oct. 18. Most of the big events, however, are scheduled for three days begin ning Sept. 25th and running through the 27th, according to Ann Krenek of the Eugene Springfield Conference and Visitors Bureau The celebration is located in the area between Fifth and 10th avenues on Willamette Street and on Park Avenue. Krenek said. There is no entry fee for admission to the celebration itself, she added. Fees will be charged for some individual events and competitions. Krenek said. Over 30 separate events are scheduled for the celebration. Krenek said. They include five main stages with entertainment: The Michelob Fifth Avenue )azz Festival at Fifth Avenue and Oak Street, the Fountain Stage at Broadway and Willamette streets, the TCI Hull Center Plaza Stage between the Hilton Hotel and the Hult Center, the Henry Weinhard's Eighth Avenue Stage near Eighth Avenue and Willamette Street, and the WOW Hall Stage Groups appearing Friday evening at 6:30 will be: the Military Brass Quintet on the Eighth Avenue Stage. Willie Dee and Shakubuku on the Fifth Avenue Jazz Stage, and the Carl Woideck Quartet on the Hult Center Stage, according to Patricia Cusick of the Cultural Arts Information Center. FUo Photo A lone contestant in a tricycie race pedals to the cheers of a large crowd at the Eugene Celebration. The tricycle race is one among many events scheduled for the annual celebra tion that began Sept. 16 and continues through Oct. 18. Kythym and blues will be pro vided that same evening on the jazz Stage with The Allnighterz. Curtis Salgado. and the Blue Sky Fusion Band from Seattle. Don Latarski winds up the first evening of entertainment. Saturday will begin with big band sounds from Swingshift. jazz and blues by vocalist Con nie Doolan and Final Frontier; straight jazz from Klaus Koehm’s Uncouth Truth, the Dowd/Kammerer Quartet, and Meridian, a popular Eugene club band. On Sunday, the lx>ri Venturi Trio will be featured beginning at 1:30 p.m.. followed by the Mike Mellinger Quartet, and Touch Other events include a One-K and an Kight-K run. a bicycle race, bike tours, free events dur ing open house in the Hult Center, a faces and places photo contest, and a film and video festival contest. A parade is scheduled for Saturday morning at 9, Krenek said. “(The Parade is) Eugene's largest parade of the year,” ac cording to Katie Kemp, who is in charge of planning the celebration. "There are floats and a variety of bands." Kemp said. "In the past, (more) people have gathered for the parade than all of the other events of the celebration," Kemp said. "Last year according to our surveys there were over 160,000 people who watched the parade," she added. | ^^ Continued fronri Pjjjf 2 tB tivity blossomed. In 1066, Fern Ridge was visited by an estimated one million people, and in June 1967, 225.000 people alone descended upon its shore Over the years, solutions to the problem of increased recrea tional use have ranged from the expensive to the mundane. In 1966, a group calling itself. "The Future of Fern Ridge Committee.” arrived at some solutions intended to resolve the conflict. These included in creasing the Fugene Millrace flow from the Willamette River and then diverting It by pipe to the Amazon Slough, and building additional reservoirs on streams running into Fern Ridge to augment the summer capacity of Fern Ridge. "The problem is that there are simply more needs for the water than there is water in the reser voir during certain times of the year." the chairman of the group said at the time. But probably the most biz zarre idea came from the Eugene Water and Electric Board. With plans to build a nuclear plant in the area. EWEB offered the use of a 1,500- to 2.000-acre cooling pond as the means to take some of the pressure off Fern Ridge. According to a then-EWEB spokesman, the 80-degree cool ing pond would have been "completely safe from radioac tive contamination." Water would have come from reser voirs upstream and diverted through pipes. After recrea tional users had had their share, the water would have been sent downstream for crop irrigation And in the process. Fern Ridge would remain full the entire year. But to date none of solutions have bore any fruit. And talk still rests upon many of the same concerns. 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