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Oregon Daily THURSDAY, JUNE 22.1995 EUGENE. OREGON VOLUME 97. ISSUE 2 ■ GOOD MORNING LIBERTY. N Y (API — Eva-Noel Bevilacqua (jot the audience's full attention when she went to the podi um to read a graduation poem. The 35-year old woman dropped her gown — leav her leather boots — before reading “Love Is a Chal lenge" at a ceremony where she got her high school equivalency diplo ma. School officials let her finish the !hree-mmute reading. “It would have been a real pretty sight to see us wrestling with a-nude woman.” said Kevin Colpoys, superintendent of the Sullivan County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which held the graduation Friday. Most of the 250 people n the audience couldn't see below Bevilacqua’s shoul ders because of the lectern While Bevilacqua was reading her poem, a teacher walked up and draped the gown over her When she was done, she put the gown back on and walked to her seat amid scattered applause. Although Bevilacqua could be charged with mde cent exposure, no com plaint will be tiled, Colpoys said. NORTH POLE, Alaska (AP) — The jolty old elf is working on his Hawaiian tan. That's the line at Santa Claus House, where a red suited, white-bearded man nequm occupies Santa’s throne Good Santa help ts hard to find. Former Santa Con Miller retired his red suit Last summer's Santa became a safes clerk. The Santa from last Christmas made other plans this summer "I thought there was gomg to be; a real Santa Claus here." said shopper Tami DeMarcy, as disap pointed as her 3-year-old son Bryan to find Santa was stuffed Just about everyone asks after Santa "We just detour them to the rein deer,” clerk Angela Rickets said. With the shop's brochure promising “Christmas every day at Santa Claus House, because Santa lives there the year 'round," the search for a live Santa con tinues This week, the shop ran its second senes of ads in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner “Jolly 'stereotypical' Santa needed immediately for summer season." Citizens question Hyundai project PROJECTED IMPACTS ■ Jobs: Hyunda plans to employ 800 1,000 people tn skilled and semi-skilled jobs Compensation plans have not been final ized, but Hyundai is expected to provide wages and benefits comparable to those at similar factories ■ Utility needs: Hyundai officials expect Phase One of the project to require 30 megaw itts of elec tricity After expan sion, the plant could consume as much as 110 megawatts Water consumption is projected at 2.3 mil lion gallons per day, but eventually the plant could, consume 9.9 million gallons per day ■ Environmental: The plant is required to meet all federal, stale and local envi ronment laws, and will be periodically inspected by local authorities Hyundai has not decided which chemi cals will be used at the plant or what will be done with them. State officials are working on plans for dealing with any haz ardous waste spills Young Mala Wisher, one of several hundred lo meet on Monday to discuss the proposed Hyundai plant, isn t the only one who thinks the city gave too much Forums: Environmental economic impacts top list of concerns Miifcelene Edwards Eugene » iti/.ens deflated the proposed Hyundai semit undue tor plant tins week at two public forums exploring «nv ironmenta) and iH.onomii com «rnx Supporters and opponents of thi* fai torv met with scientists, politic liius. oily off’u oils and n Hyundai protec t manager to ask questions and make statements about the proposed project on Monday and Tuesday nights New information and affirma tions about tile project surfac ed in both tlie meetings Hong Sou Shyn. Hyundai pro lis t manager, made few promis e's about the plant it the Tuesday night forum but did sav a day < are Facllilt for employees would be provided Although ■ issues raised in either forum, the announcement drew cheers and applause from the audience Shyn told the mostly support tye audieiu e at the second forum that Hyundai will be a good r orporate neighbor and will stay in Eugene for .1 while Some citizens expressed con 1 erns about tin- longevity of the projer t. citing a c losing lac torv in Colorado, but Shyn reassured the audience that the projet t is long-term When we commit > St .1 bit bon investment, it's not a chii drun's game." be said He also said the company Turn ! HYUNDAI, f’.i je 4 Buildings, hopes falling again at Amazon Demolition: A : ate land use board rejects the Save Amazon Coalition’s appeal Sherry Ramey Demolition resumed Wednes day afternoon at Amazon Fami ly Housing, despite numerous attempts bv Amazon residents and low-income housing advo cates to prevent the razing of buildings. The state Land Use Hoard of Appeals lifted the stay that had been delaying the demolition in a written ruling released Tuesday afternoon, finding against the Save Amazon Coalition "All appeals to LI HA have l>eeii exhausted for the coalition." said Maureen Shine, deputy director of communications for the University. Mike l.vster. director of Uni vanity Housing, agreed. “There's nothing that they can do legally to prevent us from implementing our plan." However, he said, there might be ways to further delay the demolition. Perhaps the only avenue left for the Save Amazon Coalition is the state Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction to review Li 'HA\ order In its statement, th** hoard found that the University had complied with Husnu's city code for obtaining a demolition permit for a historic district We are very pleased LUBA has affirmed what we’ve been saving at! along.” Shine said On the other hand, David Zupari, member of the Save Ama zon Coalition and Citizens for Low Income Housing, said he is disappointed with the hoard’s ruling. "We have an emergency hous ing crisis in this community — it's criminal to allow them to bo destroyed." /.upon said. "From {the University’s! per spective,” Shine said, "we re very thankful we re biu k on track It's good to know LUBA fwfieves tfie city of Fugeno was right and. therefore, we were right.” But Zupan still believes the University didn’t follow city codes and that it dearly violated the law. Nancy Wright, director of facil ities for University housing, said even though the project has been tie layer! by the coalition, the Uni Turn to AMAZON, Paged MAP* MC. r rfW I nwwi Crews resumed tearing down the Amazon Family Housing complex Wednesday, after a temporary stay against the demolition was lifted
