JAMIE HOOPER
Chris Moran,
Mr. January, had
to have his
bag lowered
digitally.
LONG TOM CALENDAR
FROM ‘POLE TO POLE’
The much-publicized Men of the Long
Tom Grange Calendar (see our cover photo
this week) is quickly selling out two printings
of 10,000 each and is inspiring both a book
and screenplay.
The book, by volunteer calendar publicist
Danuta Pfeiffer, will tell some tales of the cal-
endar’s production, many of which have not
been covered by local media. For example,
“Mr. January’s picture didn’t quite cut it be-
cause his tackle bag was too high and his
buns showed. (The only one with a crack
showing!) So Jamie [Hooper, the photogra-
pher] digitally lowered the tackle box to
cover any offense,” says Pfeiffer.
Cleve Dumdi, husband of former Lane
County Commissioner Ellie Dumdi, tried to
sneak into his photo shoot wearing shorts,
says Pfeiffer, but “Ellie made him take them
off.”
Local humorist Leigh Anne Jasheway is
reportedly working on a screenplay regard-
ing the “shameless” calendar, its production
and the controversy it raised in Junction City.
The calendar is a fund-raiser for local
schools and is expected to gross at least
$200,000 for the school district. Net pro-
ceeds will be announced.
Meanwhile, the calendar is getting
broad distribution. “The calendar hangs
in the McMurdo Station in Antactica to a
house in North Pole, Alaska, and is featured
in a Polish men’s magazine,” says Pfeiffer.
“So I like to say we’re covered from Pole to
Pole to Pole!”
A final celebration honoring those in-
volved in the calendar is scheduled for 6 pm
at the Shadow Hills Country Club. For more
information on the calendar, book-
signing events and ordering, visit
http://bandsounds.com/grangecalendar/ or
call 998-2828. — Ted Taylor
BY PAUL NEEVEL
KAT DELIOSIO &
THERESA DEULING
Raised on a farm near
Mabel Lake in the
Okanogan Valley of
British Columbia, 22-
year-old Theresa
Deuling got her early
education in a one-
room schoolhouse. Kat
Deliosio, 24, grew up in
Wyckoff, N.J., in the
shadow of New York
City. Each is consider-
ing a career in midwifery. “Both of us are doulas,” Deuling explains, “women who help
women have children.” Deliosio and Deuling are serving as volunteers at the St John
Bosco House in Eugene, where they offer hospitality and care 24/7 to homeless young
women and their children. In return, they get room and board plus a small stipend.
Donations cover the rent. “We have space for four women at a time,” says Deuling. “At
present we have three.” The Bosco House is one of 185 Catholic Worker communities,
each committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, and hospitality for the forsaken.
“We each found it by way of the Catholic Worker website,” says Deliosio, who drove
across the country in October. “I’d never been West.” Deuling arrived at the Bosco
House in September. “I’ve made a year commitment,” she says. “There’s a desperate
need for people to do this kind of work.”
WOULD MANNIX’S PLAN
SHORTEN SCHOOL YEAR?
Republican Kevin Mannix’s plan to bal-
ance the state budget represents a
$450 million hit to public
schools, which could re-
sult in shortening the
school year by 30 days,
according to a state-
ment from Oregon
House
Democratic
Leader Jeff Merkley of
Portland.
Mannix
“This is smoke and mirrors,
plain and simple,” Merkley said in a memo to
his House Democratic colleagues dated Dec.
9. While Mannix reportedly proposes freez-
ing compensation for all state workers, he’s
really talking about public school teachers,
Merkley said. “But [Mannix] ignores the fact
that teachers’ contracts are already in place.
Thus, his ‘savings’ can come only by cutting
classrooms and schools — a callous disre-
gard for Oregon’s schoolchildren.”
A cut of $450 million to schools is equiv-
alent to shortening the school year by 30
days, Merkley figures.
Mannix also proposes to “save” $150 mil-
lion in PERS costs, but Merkley said the cur-
rent appropriation to K-12 schools has al-
ready accounted for reduced PERS rates. “To
save an additional $150 million would re-
quire deep cuts to school programs,” Merkley
said.
Mannix’s proposal to lower academic
standards and eliminate testing could jeopar-
dize $400 million in federal aid to Oregon
schools under the No Child Left Behind
Program, Merkley warned. “A reckless
rewrite of state education policy during a spe-
cial session could jeopardize hundreds of
millions in federal help to K-12 education in
Oregon,” Merkley said.
HOW ARCATA BUCKED
THE CHAIN INVASION
In the summer of 2002, the city of Arcata,
Calif., population 16,700, said no more cor-
porate chain restaurants could open there. No
more McDonald’s, Wendy’s or more Carl’s
Jrs.
Paul Cienfuegos, activist and chair of the
City of Arcata Committee on Democracy &
Corporations which helped pass the ordi-
nance, is coming to Eugene next week shar-
ing strategies for restoring democratic au-
thority over corporations, taking back the
media, and invigorating democratic
processes. He will speak at 7 pm Friday, Jan.
9 at Pacific 123 at the UO. His media work-
shop is from 2 to 5 pm Saturday, Jan. 10 in
Columbia 44. He will also be in Corvallis
leading a community forum from 1:30 to
5:30 pm Sunday, Jan, 11.at the Oddfellows
Hall, 223 SW 2nd.
In Eugene, Cienfuegos will describe the
techniques used by citizens in Arcata to limit
the power of large corporations in their local
economy and government. Cienfuegos co-
authored a 1998 ballot initiative that led to
the creation of the first ever governmental
committee mandated to rein in corporate rule.
Because of this initiative, the city held two
town hall meetings on the topic of democracy
and corporations, attended by 5 percent of the
voting population. Cienfuegos is touring the
state in hopes of inspiring similar actions in
Oregon communities.
“The sky’s the limit in what we can ac-
complish in the future,” says Cienfuegos,
speaking of the Committee’s current push to
pass a resolution abolishing corporate per-
sonhood, the legal precedent granting corpo-
rations the same rights as living people.
The Campaign Finance Reform Initiative,
the Justice Not War Coalition, and the Bill of
Rights Defense Committee are sponsoring
the events. For more information call 465-
1299.
A-CAROLING
THEY WENT
A crowd of Christmas carolers that grew to
85 at its peak converged downtown
Christmas Eve to protest the city’s new
Ordinance 20303, which limits the right to
free expression.
The ordinance, which was passed by the
City Council with Councilors David Kelly
and Betty Taylor dissenting, requires groups
of 25 or more people to have a permit to be
downtown. (see EW 12/18 news briefs.)
Organizers of different groups came to-
gether to form the Coalition for Free
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