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Parading around
The Ducks on Parade committee will place about 30 decorated duck statues around the city
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
T "T Then retired schoolteacher
\/\ / Linda Wheatley visited
V V her daughter in Maine
last summer, she didn’t expect the
trip to have an impact on the Eu
gene community.
She never counted on the Bears
on Parade.
The city of Belfast, Maine, had 50
life-sized bear statues placed all
over town as tourist attractions, and
Wheatley latched onto the idea.
“It was a dying town, and this
project revitalized it,” Wheatley
said.
The bears all were decorated by
local artists and employed vari
ous themes.
“They even had an American
Bearlines statue,” she said.
Wheatley took the idea back to
Oregon and gave it a local twist:
The Ducks on Parade committee is
using her idea to place 25 to 30 dec
orated duck statues all over Eugene.
“We want people to come down
and see these things,” Wheatley
said. “It will enliven downtown.”
The 12-member committee has
been meeting since January to plan
the project, which aims to add color
to the downtown area and raise
money for local charities through
an eventual auction of the figures.
If all goes well, the first few ducks
will be unveiled by the time Broad
way reopens.
“Our goal is getting it kicked off
in time for the Broadway open
ing,” said committee member Jay
Moore. The group has already re
ceived its first 175-pound duck
from Lincoln City sculptor Joyce
Beemer, and more of the $1,000
figures are on the way.
The committee is already ac
cepting duck designs from local
artists. Wheatley said 25 designs
have been submitted and 12
sponsors have committed to the
project so far.
Moore said the group will look at
as many designs as possible. The
limiting factor is finding a sponsor,
who can pay anywhere from $2,500
to $10,000 to secure a duck for the
summer and fall.
“The challenge is, we have to
marry every design with a spon
sor,” Moore said.
Some of the more notable de
signs submitted thus far include
Dead Duck, a tribute to Jerry Garcia,
Tie-Dye Duck, Organic Food Duck
and the ever-elusive Sunny Day
Duck. Artists will be paid $500 for
their efforts and will receive a por
r
Thomas Patterson Emerald
A 7-foot-tall ‘Duck on Parade’ rests onstage at the Wild Duck Brewery. ‘It’s definitely
different than I thought it would be,’ said Wild Duck general manager Timothy Meyer.
tion of the auction proceeds when
the ducks are sold for charity later
this year.
Similar parade projects have
been popping up all over the coun
try. Chicago and Kansas City host
ed the Cows on Parade project,
Seattle had Pigs on Parade and the
cows visited Portland this year.
But the duck idea is unique to
Eugene. Mayor Jim Torrey has per
sonally sponsored two of the fig
ures, and the University has com
mitted to one as well. Students
shouldn’t expect to see a six-foot
tall fiberglass mascot anytime
soon, however.
“I don’t think one of them will
be Donald (Duck),” cautioned
Barbara West, special counsel to
President Dave Frohnmayer.
“We’re always having complica
tions with Walt Disney.”
The University is planning to
hold a design contest among art
and architecture students.
Students staying in Eugene over
the summer should look for the first
duck to be unveiled at Art & The
Vineyard 2002, a July festival held
at Alton Baker Park. The portly fig
ure should be hard to miss.
“It’s not a skinny duck, it’s a
plump duck,” Wheatley said. “It’s
got a bit of an attitude.”
Most of the ducks will be placed
downtown, but some will be mo
bile enough to take promotional
trips. This raises possible securi
ty questions, as statues in other
cities have been vandalized in the
past. One pig statue in Seattle was
repeatedly taken for joyrides at
night, forcing sponsors to chain
up the figure.
“We know statues have been as
saulted in every city,” Wheatley
said. The committee is planning on
bolting the ducks to the ground.
Nevertheless, the group is de
pending on students and communi
ty members to be responsible with
Eugene’s newest tourist attraction.
“Please do not carry our ducks
away, we need them,” committee
member Michelle Emmons said.
E-mail reporter Brook Reinhard
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