COMMUNITY UPDATE
Police identify strangled woman
Eugene police are investigating a homicide in
connection with the body of u young woman
found Saturday on the bank of the Willamette
River across from Valley River Center
Two women and a young girl discovered the
body of Sharon Marie Hiller. 25. of 2345 ('. St.,
Springfield, about 4:15 p.m. Hiller's body was on
the south frank of the Willamette River 150 yards
east of the Greenway Bike Bridge, EPD spokes
man Tim Birr said
A largo area surrounding the body was cor
doned off Saturday evening white detectives from
EPD's Violent Crimes Unit processed the scene
An autopsy performed Sunday evening con
cluded that asphyxiation by strangulution was the
cause of death. Birr said there appeared to be an
attempt to cover up the body. Leaves and part of a
tree were covering the body.
No identification was found on Hiller's body
She was identified Sunday and police Inter
viewed several of Hiller's co-workers, family
members and friends that afternoon
Among those interviewed, Hiller was last seen
alive at about 2:30 a m. on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
Hiller was leaving the Great Alaska Bush Compa
ny, where she worked as a dancer. She was driv
ing a friend's car and was reportedly alone.
Police are asking for assistance in locating the
car. missing since Wednesday. It is a 1970 Chev
rolet Blazer, Oregon license plate number LRB
360, with a white roof, two-toned blue body and
damage to the right rear quarter panel Anyone
with information can call the Eugene police de
partment at 687-5121.
Environment event set
Students pursuing careers in environmental
technology may lie interested in attending the Or
egon Environmental Technology Association
Conference and Trade Exhibition Dec 2 and 3 at
the Eugene Hilton
The conference will feature speeches from
Grant Perrier, editor-in-chief of the Environmen
tal Business journal. Don Connors, co-founder
and hoard chairman of the Environmental Busi
ness Council, and Angus Duncan of the North
west Power Planning Council.
Trade exhibits displaying advanced research
technology and environmental applications will
lie on view throughout the conference.
The OETA is a non-profit industry organization
representing ail areas of environmental industry,
including analytical lab research, water treatment
and hazardous waste management
Bill Snyder, executive director of OE'IA, said
the event Is an important part of the association s
efforts to attract business to the burgeoning envi
ronmental Industry.
Snyder said the conference's theme "Oppor
tunities in the Now Environmental Economy"
reflects a myriad of business opportunillos avail
able In areas of scientific research and practical
application emerging from environmental con
corn
Snyder said he encourages students to attend
the conference, especially if they are considering
a career In environmental research or industries
"I think (students would) have a much more
clear understanding of what this industry Is all
about and the breadth of service areas within it,"
Snyder said
Students may attend the conference at a dis
counted foe of S50. which covers the cost of
meals.
Pacific to open branch
Pacific University Is opening a fifth-year teach
er certification program in tint Eugene area The
program will consist of one year of Intensive
study in teaching methods.
"Ours Is u professional program that leaches
how to touch." said Nancy Watt, director of
Teacher Education at Pacific University
The program, which Is independent of the Uni
versity of Oregon, is designed for people who al
ready have a bachelor's degree In a particular
field and would like to earn a teaching certificate
For example, someone who wants to become a
math toucher would first obtain a bachelor's do
gree in moth After passing a profir lom y exam in
that area, the person may earn a tear long certifi
cate through a fifth-year program like the one op
orated by Pacific
Watt said the program would not he able to ui
credit special education teachers, nor would it uc
cept physical education teachers, because there
am "just u ton of P F teachers already
Tuition for the program Is S'i.USO for the aca
domic year, which will run from January to I)e
cember.
Nuurly 30 percent of the applications received
for Pacific's teacher certification program were
from the Eugene area. Watt said The high per
centage aided in the decision to open a program
in Fugene.
The planning for the fifth-year program in Fu
gene was in progress for more than a year The
planning Involved talking to local school districts
to arrange opportunities (or student teaching and
selecting a site for the program, which has not yet
been decided
Walt said the program in Fugene, like the one
at Pacific's Forest Grove campus, will remain
small, with ubout 35 students per class going
through the program together
"Our program will never he huge." Watt salt!
"We're not set up to *h: a big. big program."
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Stories enrich life of
kids and volunteers
By Donna Gavin
Emerald Contributor
"Gather around children. I'm going to toll you a story '
Thai kind of invitation is extended daily in the Ku
gene/Springfleld area by volunteers from Talking Hooks, an
organization dedicated to enriching the lives of children
through books and storytelling.
Volunteers find their "special audience" In thn soup kitch
ens. homeless shelters and elementary schools and pro
schools In poorer neighborhoods.
“Most of the children we work wlih come from disadvan
taged. dysfunctional or disrupted homes They may Ire home
leas. in domestic crisis or living in transitional institutions,"
said Sue Hunt-Thompson, former teacher, mother and site
coordinator lor I ulkmg Hooks.
William Kaufman, author
of 157 published works und
UNICHh photographer in 70
countries, conceived Talking
Hooks In his opinion, Talk
ing Hooks Is not a service,
but a necessity, he said
jj'll we make children rich
er, we enrich so* ioty." Kiiuf
nian said. "The schools are
*If we make
children richer,
we enrich
society
William Kaufman,
. creator ot talking Hooks
going inrougn o (liltlcult time, wo have a society ol mobile
parents, one-parent families and families stressed from earn
ing their tiread People fighting for survival may not bo up to
sitting down and tolling stories to their children."
Kaufman recruited Rita Seligson. a young mother who or
ganized and still administers Talking Books
The organization learned l.'ugenes regional nooris from its
slow start in the old Albertson's store at tilth Avenue and
Hilyard Street in Kugeno nearly two years ugo "Tfie program
didn't dn well hei ause the need wasn't in that area," Seligson
said
Now about its volunteers take their stories to children at IS
sites in and around hugene They try to reach kids outside
the begene libfurs's district, where a library card can cost
S5U.
Members communicate through a newsletter Seligson
mail# along with a schedule showing where each member
will read or tell stories for M) minutes each month.
Seligson said a volunteer ( an read from a book and still he
animated, although a number of volunteers "jump" the fence
and go over to storytelling.
Inspiration for storytellers comas from Jeff Dofty, a chil
dren's librarian in Kugeno Dofty is a master storyteller who
demonstrates fiis art to new Talking Books volunteers at a
mandatory two hour orientation session,
"Wo care that we ore sending out good people The orienta
tion allows us to take a look at you, as well as you ul us."
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