Preparations underway for annual Eugene Celebration
Events scheduled include a parade, an art show, bike races,
musical entertainment, street performances and wine tasting
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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.
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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.
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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.
"The concept is that they are
trying to work some way that
they can extend the season by
filling it a little bit earlier and
taking less water out of it for ir
rigation," Chapman said.
The controversy is not likely
to quietly disappear in the near
future either.
"I’ve seen some figures that
indicate Fern Ridge gets more
boating use than any other lake
in the state." Chapman said.
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