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(who has played with Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds and is a buddy of Utah Phillips) to the Peace Choir itself, the show is meant to celebrate songs of protest and re- sistance. “Music is in our bones, in our DNA, in our ancestry,” Melia says. “When we share these songs as a community, magic hap- pens.” Slug Queen SlugRetha, a silent auction and ice cream from Prince Puckler’s round out the event, which begins at 7 pm at the First United Methodist Church and runs $3- $10 on a sliding scale. For more information, contact CALC at 485-1755. — Suzi Steffen TWO WHEELS ARE BETTER Eugene area businesses are once again participating in the city’s annual Commute Challenge to encourage people to leave their cars at home and walk, bike, bus, kayak, skip or carpool to work. The challenge week is Oct. 9-13 and par- ticipating businesses such as Eugene Weekly will report to the city Oct. 11 on the number of employees using alternative transporta- tion. An awards luncheon is Friday, Oct. 13 honoring businesses with the highest per- BY PAUL NEEVEL DONNIE SEVILLA THE POWER OF DIALOGUE The Eugene Middle East Peace Group is planning a town hall meeting on “Contemporary Issues in the Middle East: Where Do We Go from Here?” from 7 to 9 pm Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the Campbell Senior Center, 155 High St. The event is free and open to the public. The meeting will open with speakers from different backgrounds presenting their perspectives on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. After brief statements, those in attendance will be asked to share their con- cerns on the topic. Three members of Eugene Middle East Peace Group, Gary Reiss, Ibrahim Hamide and Mimi Dvorson, will fa- cilitate the meeting. “I saw the people change the course of the government,” says Donnie Sevilla, who grew up in San Francisco during the 1960s. “I was a child of that generation.” After 15 years as a timber faller in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Sevilla moved into construction as Silicon Valley ate the “tomato capital of the world.” In 1990, he relocated to 10 acres just outside Cottage Grove, “I moved to Oregon and I’m glad I did,” he says. “Eugene is one of the enlightened places on Earth.” An avid radio fan since age 14, when he built a Scott radio kit, Sevilla enlisted Aprovecho (his local appropriate- tech non-profit) to sponsor a low-power FM station. After a two-year wait for FCC approval and another year to assemble used broadcasting equipment, station KSOW-LP (Real Rural Radio, 106.7 FM, ksow.org) went on air in late 2004 from a studio in Sevilla’s home. KSOW has an eight-mile broadcast radius and a 24-hour schedule of public-affairs and music programs. “We have 15 programmers, all vol- unteers,” says Sevilla. “I’m the station manager and chief janitor.” centage of employees participating in size categories. Individual prizes will also be given. For information call Cindy at 682- 5285. The Commute Challenge coincides with the city’s Walking and Biking Summit from 8:30 am to 1 pm Saturday, Oct. 7 at the UO’s EMU. The free summit, including a free breakfast and lunch, is the kick-off event of a new strategic walking and biking planning process for the city of Eugene. For more in- formation, visit www.eugene-or.gov/walk- bike “The goal of the summit is to get commu- nity residents excited and interested in the planning process while also gathering some useful information about areas of the walking and biking infrastructure that could use some improvement,” says David Roth, transporta- tion planning technician with Public Works Engineering. “In addition to facilities im- provement, we would also like to find out what else can be done to make Eugene a bet- ter place for walking and biking.” CORRECTIONS/ CLARIFICATIONS Last week’s cover featured a small photo of two Fender’s blue butterflies, and the same photo ran in our Outdoors issue May 5. The unidentified photographer is Matthew Benotsch, Willamette Valley stewardship co- ordinator for the Eugene office of The Nature Conservancy of Oregon. Wellness Centered Dentistry, PC Darin J. Ward DDS, F.A.G.D. 300 Country Club Rd. Ste. 290 • Eugene, OR 97401 Health is Achieved by Intention. 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