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thodox Christianity
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Grace Lutheran Church
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Worship services: 8:30 am & 11:00 am
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Student Dinners: 6 pm
Bible Study: 7 pm
Grief support group: 7 pm
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Sponsors: Sex offenders top list of concerns
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last month’s neighborhood meeting,
and within weeks flyers were circulat
ing in the neighborhood denouncing
the program’s presence because of its
involvement with sex offenders.
Sponsors, Inc. Executive Director
Ron Chase, Greene, parole and proba
tion officer Larry Wibbenmeyer, and a
Sponsors employee fielded questions
from attendees regarding the type of
crimes committed by people in the
program and the type of supervision
they will have at the apartment quads
the organization is looking to pur
chase. The men said no specific prop
erty has been identified.
No sex offenders who have been
classified as being predatory or a risk
to college-aged students will be living
at the property, Greene said.
“I can’t promise there’ll be no sex
offenders at all,” Greene said, adding
that the amount of sex offenders with
in the prison system makes it almost a
given that programs like Sponsors may
be dealing with people who have been
convicted of sex crimes.
Greene said between 75 and 100
parolees and ex-convicts currently live
in the neighborhood, meaning that
Sponsors is not bringing ex-convicts
into the area but merely providing bet
ter supervision to those already there.
“We’re basically doing more than
updating what we currently have,”
Greene said.
“The concentration and density will
be exactly the same as it was before,”
Chase added.
Eugene police officer Randy Ellis
spoke in support of Sponsors.
Ellis, who patrols the West Universi
ty neighborhood, said he has received
many phone calls from people con
cerned about the program but has spo
ken with parole and probation officers
and understands that the people Spon
sors supervises do not pose any sort of
threat to the community.
“I’m finding myself caught here
between the neighborhood who’s
Marcus Larson | Freelance photographer
Sponsors, Inc. Executive Director Ron Chase, left, and Board of Directors Chair Richard
Greene attended Thursday night's West University meeting that addressed residents’
questions about the purchase of a group of quads west of Patterson Street.
against it and Sponsors, the group I
know the truth about from my co
workers,” Ellis said.
Greene said the people who will be
living at the property will be those who
have already completed the three
month Sponsors treatment and reha
bilitation program and have been clas
sified at a low or medium risk level.
Board member and University stu
dent Craig Laupheimer welcomed
Sponsors to the neighborhood and
said it is the community’s duty to give
the people involved with programs like
Sponsors a chance in the world.
“We owe them a chance,”
Laupheimer said. “We have to assume
they will not commit again.”
Police chief Lehner discussed the
looming rise of neighborhood power in
city politics and said community polic
ing is a big part of some of the changes
that will be happening. He also partici
pated in a group discussion about par
ties in the neighborhood and talked
about the role of the police in breaking
up parties and what circumstances
warrant what punishments.
Also at the meeting, the West Uni
versity Neighbors elected neighbor
hood resident David Wallace as its 1st
Vice Chair and University student and
neighborhood resident Marie Valle as
a board member.
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