News brief
APASU to host music,
comedy Saturday
As part of Asian Heritage Month
festivities, the Asian/Pacific Ameri
can Student Union hosts comedian
Henry Cho and popular Asian pop
band KAI this Saturday in the EMU
Ballroom.
A raffle will be held during the
event, with prizes ranging from Ave
da day-spa passes to restaurant gift cer
tificates. Raffle tickets are two for SI.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the
show begins at 8 p.m. The cost to at
tend is $6, and tickets can be pur
chased through either the EMU
Ticket Office or at the door.
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Laurel Hill breaks in new boons court
■ Community members
gather for the ribbon-cutting
ceremony on the basketball
court they renovated
By Sue Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
Neighbors in the Laurel Hill com
munity gathered to celebrate their
hard work and play ball together
Thursday evening at the Northwest
Youth Corps center.
Basketball players, including five
members of the University women’s
team, stood in a half-circle facing one
of the two new posts. Red ribbons
trailed down to the ground from one
of the hoops. Eugene Mayor Jim Tor
rey stepped forward to snip the first
ribbon and shoot a free throw. Rain
heavy clouds hovered, but no rain
drops fell while players ran through
lay-up drills to break in the new
court.
“We put in labor and time — to
gether we got the new basketball
court,” said Jake Bradshaw, co-chair
woman of the Laurel Hill Valley Citi
zens Association.
The association received a $1,000
matching grant from the city of Eu
gene to revamp the court, which is
next to Laurel Park. Neighborhood
volunteers and the Northwest Youth
Corps matched the dollar value of
the grant with time and labor.
“We power-washed the pavement,
moved out Dumpsters, dug holes
and set in new posts,” said Betty
Hemmingsen, association co-chair
woman.
The court is next door to the for
mer Laurel Hill Elementary School,
which now houses the Northwest
Youth Corps, a nonprofit private al
ternative school. The corps served
more than 600 youths between 11
and 19 years of age last year, said
Kathleen Colson, the school’s ad
ministrative manager.
“We offer four programs: an out
door school, the youth corps, youth
works, and Americorps,” she said.
Corps members donated labor to
help the community association
match the dollar value of the city
grant.
“They moved in and have been
well-supported by the community
over a number of years,” said Hem
mingsen. “We went into this as a
joint venture.”
Eugene created the matching
grants program two years ago. The
city allots $100,000 annually to
fund the program, which includes
20 projects so far. Staff members
modeled the program after a simi
lar concept in Seattle, said Beth
Bridges, city planner.
“The council decided to do it as a
way to empower their neighbor
hoods,” she said. “We selected this
project in the Laurel Hill neighbor
hood by polling residents on e-mail
about what they wanted.”
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After cutting the ribbon to dedicate the new Laurel Hill neighborhood basketball court,
Mayor Jim Torrey, left, hands the scissors to City Council member David Kelly.
Other projects have included
planting trees at Trainsong Park and
improving Tugman Park. Play
grounds have also been upgraded at
Willakenzie School, Tandy Turn
Park and in the Edgewood/Ever
green area.
A citizens committee approves
proposals twice yearly for funding
and will decide on the next set of
projects Monday night. The commit
tee consists of representatives from
neighborhood associations and Eu
gene citizens who are contacted
through the annual voter poll.
“It doesn’t have to be an official
neighborhood association to apply.
It’s any group of people that wants
to do something good for their
area,” Bridges said. “It’s pretty nifty
and interesting to see how people
pull together.”
Once the committee makes its
selection, the projects move on to
the City Council for final approval
May 29.
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Courtesy art
Lee Kelly’s stainless-steel outdoor sculpture, Akbar’s Garden, will be placed on the west
side of the Straub Hall quadrangle in October.
News brief
New artwork to adorn
Straub Hall quad
After a wait of two years, a
sculpture commemorating one of
the University’s largest fundrais
ing campaigns has finally found a
place on campus.
Akbar’s Garden, sculptor Lee
Kelly’s stainless-steel outdoor art
work, will likely be located on
the west side of the Straub Hall
quadrangle in October. The Cam
pus Planning Committee recom
mended the location for the
sculpture during a Thursday
meeting held in the EMU.
Eric McCready with the Uni
versity Development Office said
the sculpture was a gift from the
Jordan Schnitzer family of Port
land, where Kelly lives. Mc
Cready said the family had dis
played the artwork at their hotel
in Berkeley, Calif., but decided to
donate it to the University after
the hotel closed down.
“It’s a very large, eloquent,
stainless-steel piece,” he said.
The sculpture is about 20 feet
wide and 9 feet tall. It will be lo
cated on the side of the quadran
gle nearest to Gerlinger Hall.
“This is the first significant
piece of art to be added to the
campus in some time,” McCready
said. “This is going to be very vis
ible.”
Dorene Steggell, a planning as
sociate with the University Plan
ning Office, said the sculpture is
made of furnished steel that will
be “very silver” in appearance.
Dean of the Architecture and
Allied Arts Department Robert
Melnick helped plan the location
of the sculpture and said it will
be a prominent addition to the
campus, but also accessible
enough for people to sit around
and walk beneath.
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