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7th
8th
9th
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I Ith
15th
20th
24th
25th
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Tea Time
5:15 pm
Vigil for Immaculate Conception
12:00 pm
Immaculate Conception Mass on Campus
6-9 pm
Twilight Retreat
8 pm
Rivers of Light Concert
6 pm
Movie Night
8 pm
Taize Prayer
4:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Soup Kitchen
5:00 pm
Family Mass
12 Midnight Mass
10:00 am
Christmas Day Mass
1850 Emerald St.
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Holiday jobs
help season
go smoothly
■ Seasonal workers
prepare the community tor
the holidays and Y2K
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
While some festive holiday
lovers will be staying home to
spin dreidels and deck halls this
season, many people work over
the holidays, making sure all the
necessary modern conveniences
remain available.
Even during the holiday season
life must go on, and many em
ployees in Eugene and at the Uni
versity will be working to make
sure that it does.
Campus Operations and Mainte
nance manager Ron Bloom said he
sees the winter break as an oppor
tunity to do maintenance projects
that can’t be done when students
are in class and the buildings are
busy. Bloom said more than 170
employees will work at the Univer
sity over winter break.
“All of our classified staff
works the holidays. We’re very
busy during the break,’’ he said.
Custodians and facilities ser
vices employees will keep them
selves busy repairing everything
from classrooms and buildings to
plumbing and drainage, he said.
“We have a lot of people working
over the holiday, and with Y2K, it
makes it even better,’’ he said.
Bloom will be at the University
all night on Dec. 31, to make sure
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Officer Rick Ellis sets up holiday decorations in the West University Police Station. He is
one of many police officers who have to work during the holiday season.
things go as planned for the turn
of the century.
Perhaps the busiest employees
working off campus during the
holidays are those that work in
the retail business. Last-minute
holiday shopping can create a
rather hectic workplace, as DeVar
Jensen can bear witness.
Jensen is the assistant manager
for the Emporium department store
at Valley River Center .and he said
he has already seen large crowds of
holiday shoppers this year.
“This is the beginning of our
busy season,” he said. “The week
ends are extremely busy.”
To prepare for the abundance
of mall goers, Jensen said the Em
porium has been preparing for
months by coming up with sales
and promotions, even shifting the
look of departments to make way
for holiday specials.
Emporium doesn’t usually hire
seasonal employees but some
times takes advantage of the num
bers of students looking for tem
porary holiday work, especially
for their gift-wrapping depart
ment, he said.
On a personal level, Jensen said
his job can sometimes get in the
way of some of his own holiday
preparation.
“If you haven’t got your Christ
mas shopping done before
[work], you’re not going to get it
done,” he said.
Once all the gift-buying is fin
ished, there may still be more
shopping to do, and Ron Bromps
works over the holidays to make
sure Safeway is fully prepared for
every occasion.
Bromps works as the assistant
manager for the West 18th Av
enue Safeway and said that after
working holidays for 10 years, it is
Turn to Holiday jobs, Page 18A
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