• This week we witnessed the awk-
ward kick-off of the yellow-shirt
brigade urging Mayor Jim Torrey to
run a write-in campaign to keep his
job in November. Yellow is a good
color for this pro-Torrey group. They
are afraid to say who’s paying for
their polling, paying for their web-
sites, paying for their T-shirts, paying
for their full-page ads. Sounds like
the Gang of 9 all over again, without
the nasty cartoons (yet). Meanwhile,
all this sneaky campaign activity
appears to violate the spirit, if not
the letter, of Oregon campaign
finance law. This ill-advised campaign
is just making Torrey & company
look like sore losers, and if the cam-
paign does go ahead, the results
could prove embarrassing for our
lame-duck mayor. Call off the yellow
dogs, Jim.
• The whirlwind of presidential cam-
paigning blew into Eugene with lots
of craziness last week. Thursday was
Eugene Weekly night at the Ems
game. Our classy circulation manag-
er, Deena Miller, was poised to throw
out the first pitch when the Ems guy
in charge said she had to wait
because he expected John Kerry to
put that ball out there. Maybe. Kerry
didn’t make it to Civic Stadium and
Deena should get to throw it out
next year.
• John and Teresa were scheduled
to eat dinner in their room at Valley
River Inn, but some smart staffer
took them out instead to Marche’.
Stephanie Pearl Kimmel, Marche’
owner, was impressed at the Kerry’s
enthusiasm for locally grown, organ-
ic, and seasonable food. She says
Teresa was especially strong in her
support of sustainable agriculture.
Was the service slow? No, but
Marché is known for its advocacy of
the “slow food” movement and a
benefit dinner for local organic grow-
ers is happening at Marché Tuesday,
Aug. 24. Money raised will help send
growers to represent Eugene at an
international gathering in Turin, Italy
in October. Call 342-3612 for reserva-
tions.
• On a related note, pick up the
September issue of The Atlantic,
page 153, for a great article about
our own Paul Atkinson and his
Laughing Stock farm, located
according to the author “in southern
Oregon” (not so, of course, it’s right
out here on Territorial road —
Eastern habit of identifying every-
thing south of Portland as southern
Oregon.) Called “Principled Pork,”
the article was done after the author
ate Paul’s pig at Chez Panisse in
Berkeley and the flavor was “some-
thing else again. I resolved to find
out why it tasted so much better by
traveling to the farm.”
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• We also know about Paul’s turkeys.
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Thanksgiving, you better order it
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