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. AUTHOR Continued from Page 1 “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 LETTER PERFECT Graphics . TYPESETTING • PASTEUP • LAYOUT • DESIGN • CONSULTATION • CAMERA • • TYPESETTING • PASTE UP • LAYOUT • DESIGN • CONSULTATION • CAMERA • • TYPESETTING • PASTE-UP • LAYOUT • DESIGN • CONSULTATION • CAMERA • SUITE 300 ERB MEMORIAL UNION 346-4381 y 00-5 Ml nnd Mugtr l ights ,nul St roots at Shining lot, her muster's thesis, I'iecvs of White Shell: A lotir noy Through Navujo Land. which won tin? 19H4 Southwest Hook Award; and Coyote's Cun yon, u ixiok of stories and pho 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. 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