COMMUNTIY UPDATE
Fire danger over; parks to re-open
The sudden arrival of fall rains has resulted
in the reopnning of Eugene's Spencer Butte.
Skinner Butte and Kidgelino Trail, effective at
ft a m. today. The three recreational aroas wore
ordered closed to the public by tho Eugene fire
marshall Oct. 5 because of dry conditions and
oxtromo fire danger.
Gift in store for skiers
Hoodoo Ski Bowl will offer free skiing this
year, from 9 to 10 a.m. daily to lot skiers sam
ple skiing conditions before purchasing lift
tickets.
This “Guaranteed Skiing" program will be
gin opening day of the 1991-92 season. Addi
tionally, Jioodoo is changing its operating
schedule,*and will be open Thursdays through
Sundays.
Hill announces resignation
Oregon state Senator Lurry Hill, D-Spring
fiold, announced Monday that he is resigning
from his legislative scat next month to take a
job with the Oregon Public Employees Union.
Hill, who has served in the Oregon Senate
for the last nine years, will leave his position
Nov. 1 to become the political director for the
employees union.
Thus far, two contenders, Springfield Mayor
Bill Mornsette and state Rep. Bill Dwyer, D
Springfield, have expressed interest in the po
sition. State law requires that the Lane County
Board of Commissioners uppoint another Dem
ocrat to the district 21 seat by Dec. 1.
Hearing planned for LTD rezoning
The secretary of state's office has scheduled
a public hearing on the rezoning of the Lane
Transit District Board for Friday, Oct. 25
Secretary of State Phil Keisling will speak at
10 a m. in the public meeting room at the LTD
headquarters, 3500 E. 17th, Eugene.
Lane Transit District Board members art! ap
pointed to four year terms by the governor and
must rosida in the district for which thoy
serve. District linos are redrawn every ton
years after tho census is taken to divide the
population into equal segments for the board
members to represent.
Officials approve toll system
The city of Portland recently adopted a plan
that city officials say will reduce traffic con
gestion and pollution by charging motorists a
fee.
Tho plan, titled "Portland Future Focus Stra
tegic Plan.” was approved by the city council
Oct. 17, but must first bo approved by the Ore
gon Legislature before it can be carried out.
Under the plan, regional tolls would lie tak
en from motorists on Portland's main traffic
arterials to encourage drivers to car pool dur
ing rush hour.
Also, the city plans to institute a vehi
clumilos traveled fee, which would require
that motorists pay for actual mites driven. Offi
cials suid that tho fee would, in effect, pay for
the water and air pollution that each driver
causes.
The revenues from the fees would go toward
road maintenance and other transit projects.
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“I cannot prove that my
mother, Diane Dixon Tempest,
or my grandmothers, Lettio
Romney Dixon and Kathryn
Blackett Tempest, along with
my aunts, contracted cancer
from nuclear fallout in Utah.
But 1 can't prove they didn't,"
she writes in "The Clan of One
Breasted Women.” an essay
that serves as the epilogue to
Refuge.
Williams herself has had two
biopsies for breast cancer, and
had u tumor removed from Ixi
tweun her ribs that was diag
nosed as "a borderline malig
nancy.”
Williams did not become
fully aware of her family's ex
posure to radiation until two
years after her mother's death,
when her father told her that
her recurring dreams about
flashes of light in the desert skv
weren't dreams they were
mushroom clouds
Before this realization, how
ever, she felt that something
might bo wrong It did not seem
logical to her, she said, that
three women in her family, not
related by bloixf, would all be
stricken with cancer within a
20-month period.
Even more unusual, she said
was that her family was Mor
mon, and Mormons traditional
ly have a low rate of cancer.
Since 1988, Williams has
participated in nuclear weap
ons protests in Nevada, "1 have
been arrested twice, and 1 will
continue to do so until nuclear
testing is stopped,” she said.
"It's about standing our ground
in llio places that wo love I
havo a broken heart, and this is
one small gesture for the Clan
of One-Breasted Women."
Williams said that protesting
nuclear testing brings her a
sense of power over what she
could not control the deaths
of (lie women in her family
The attempt to gain a sense of
power is seen in the beginning
of Refuge when, on the way to
visit an owl nest, she remarks
to a friend that site is not sure
she has ever felt rage Then she
finds tiiat where the nest lias
been leveled, somewhat to tile
amusement of nearby workers
Williams walked over to tin'
truck the men sat in, raised her
middle linger and said, "this is
from me and the owls
"in that situation, my only
sense of power was to flip oft
those men." she said "Now it's
civil disobedience "
As part of her work to end
nuclear testing, Williams will
visit the Soviet Union this
spring to meet with victims id
radiation exposure from the
Chernobyl nuclear site in that
country.
Williams said she has been
writing for as long us she can
remember, and began keeping a
regular journal in tier teen-age
years.
"It was a way of keeping a
dialogue with myself,” she
said.
Williams' previous works in
clude two children's books.
The Secret Language of Snow
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tographs
Williams said she h.is no cur
rent plans for another hook,
that when she writes a hook it
is in response to a question she
hus.
"For now. I just want to live
my life." she said. " My writing
comes out of my life, and now I
just want to heal "
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How Mr Ed was made to talk