(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.
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