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TO THE EDITOR
been a top priority because it is currently
being resurfaced as I write this letter. I
live on Roosevelt and travel it every day.
It wasn’t bad enough to warrant a
top priority. There are many others that
are much worse and could have been
fi xed before taking on a project of this
magnitude.
It must be very high priority because
a great deal of the work is being done
between 9 pm and 6 am when most people
are sleeping and have to work the next day.
I don’t know about everyone else in
the area but to speak for myself, all night
jackhammering, dump trucking, heavy
equipment operating and concrete cutting
doesn’t do a lot to help me to achieve my
fi nest slumber!
The more I think about it, could it be
just a coincidence that the new EWEB
facility is being built on Roosevelt near
Beltline?
Maybe the city ought to think about
having EWEB foot part of the bill for this
all night circus. Because they’re just going
to keep raising our rates anyways.
Michael Milosevich
Eugene
PARK & BARK
I know there are many, many things
going on out there in the world, but this is
one small thing that I at least just want to
vent about to someone.
This is actually a letter to the people
who use the Park and Ride Parking lot
at Amazon Park while they are at the dog
park:
Please let the people who need to use it
for the bus use it for that purpose. It is so
frustrating to need to park to catch a bus
there and see people parking and walking
their dogs to the park. I have to leave work,
drive to the Park and Ride and catch a bus
to a class at UO all within the time span of
10 to 15 minutes, depending on whether or
not the bus is late. I have to circle and hope
that someone leaves. In a perfect world I
wouldn’t have to worry about the time, but
I don’t plan the time UO offers classes and
don’t have a lot of choice about my work
hours — I am fortunate that I can leave
fi ve minutes early to try to catch the bus.
Parking there is limited to start with (as
well as at UO, which is why I am trying
to take the bus in the fi rst place). I have
no problem with people playing with their
dogs, and I don’t dislike dogs, it’s just
that people trying to catch the bus are on
a timetable that doesn’t wait for Fido. I
would just ask for some consideration for
people who are trying to use the Park and
Ride for its intended purpose.
Wendy Clements
Eugene
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PUP POOP POLLUTION
Thanks for your recent edition (8/28)
devoted to animals and pets. Especially
the story about ways to dispose of waste.
Many people, especially those who don’t
clean up after their pets, don’t realize what
a serious problem this is.
I direct my remarks to the 50-ish
bearded man who walks his large black
dog along East Amazon Drive every
morning, next to the creek, at about 7:30.
He represents a lot of people. I’ve observed
him for over a year and a half as I bike to
work in the morning. I’ve never seen him
clean up after his dog nor seen him carry
any equipment needed to do so.
He also walks his dog in the early
evening. This dog produces at least a
pound of you know what every time he
gets walked. Never been a math whiz, but I
think that’s 730 pounds of you know what
deposited along the creek yearly. In three
years that’s more than a ton from one dog.
Multiply that times the thousands of dogs
in south Eugene, many of whose owners
don’t clean up after them. Then there’s the
rest of Lane County.
Think of the toxic bacteria from all those
piles that is migrating when it rains into
nearby creeks and catch basins that direct
wastewater to rivers; fl owing through the
city and the countryside, into water plants
where drinking water is processed. The
number of individual particles of germy,
disease-causing bacteria is a number so
large that I’ll bet a name for that number
doesn’t even exist!
Come on people! Clean up! You have
a responsibility to your fellow citizens to
not pollute community water sources.
Gary Cornelius
Eugene
DOORS FOR DEMOCRACY
I saw a most inspiring thing today.
Moments ago (Sunday, 11/2) my doorbell
rang, and when I opened it I found two
young girls, no older than 15, standing in
the rain. With bright smiles (and chattering
teeth) they asked if I had voted yet. I said
that I hadn’t but that I was almost done
fi lling out my ballot and that I would take it
to a drop box the next morning. Festooned
with buttons and stickers proclaiming
their proud presidential choice, they asked
who I was supporting. I told them, and
they smiled.
As we stood there chatting, I
couldn’t help but have a sense of pride
and admiration for these girls who had
ventured into the inhospitable world of
door-knocking to ensure democracy. I
thought about the war, the fi nancial crisis
and a whole host of things that weigh on
us as we make these decision. But to see
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