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NEWS BRIEFS
BY PAUL NEEVEL
ACTIVIST ALERT
• A special OPB program on the life of Wayne Morse will be
previewed for the public at 5 pm Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Knight
Law Center Room 110. An earlier showing for students will be at
12:30 pm that day. The program will be broadcast on OPB at 8 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 21, as part of the “Oregon Experience” series of
documentaries.
• Architect Richard Gage of San Francisco, founder of
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will give a free public talk on
“9/11 Blueprint for Truth: Re-examining the Destruction of the three
World Trade Center Skyscrapers” at 7 pm Friday, Feb. 17, at LCC’s
Building 17, rooms 308-309. Gage will also be speaking in Portland
Feb. 19 and 20. Contact Merri Sue Clark, clark_m@4j.lane.edu for
more information.
• Friends of Trees and Willamalane Park and Recreation District
are holding a tree pruning work party from 9 am to noon Saturday,
Feb. 18, at Wallace M. Ruff Jr. Memorial Park and Magnolia
Arboretum, 1161 North 66th St. in Springfield. Preregistration
required. Email eugene@friendsoftrees.org or call 632-3683.
• An Occupy Solidarity Social Forum and national conference
is being planned for Feb. 18-19 in Olympia, Wash. Occupiers will share
their experiences, network and strategize about taking the
movement to the next level. Sponsored by Alliance for Global
Justice and Occupy Olympia. Email ossf2012@gmail.com or visit
http://wkly.ws/162
• A Day of Action for a Strong Oregon will be at noon Monday,
Feb. 20, at the Oregon Capitol in Salem. Focus is on budget cuts. See
ouroregon.org
• A film showing of ¡Viva Mexico! and discussion about
Farmworkers United will be at 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 100
Willamette Hall on the UO campus.
• A showing of the documentary film Âs Nutayuneân: We Still
Live Here followed by a discussion of the revitalization of Native
American ancestral languages in the Northwest will be at 7pm Feb.
21 at the UO’s Many Nations Longhouse.
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS
In our Wine column Feb. 2, we printed the wrong venue for
the SMART silent auction benefit March 20. The correct
location will be the Boulevard Grill at 2123 Franklin Blvd. in
Eugene. To donate items or services for the auction, contact
Larry Malmgren at 636-3347 or email larrymalmgren@
comcast.net and to RSVP, call Liz Degner at 726-3302.
MARK STAFFORD
Lifelong Eugenean Mark Stafford attended River Road, Kelly and North Eugene schools while his family was
steadily disintegrating into alcoholism. “My friends were going to college,” says Stafford, who instead joined the
Army to get the GI Bill, then earned a UO business degree in 1980. A year later, he got a start in video as an
assistant on a documentary series for athletes by UO track coach Bill Dellinger. Afterwards, he sold his
motorcycle to buy a VHS camera and founded Stafford Video Productions. Though SVP mostly works with local
businesses and arts groups specializing in training videos, it has also provided Stafford with adventures across
the U.S. and around the world, including three projects for National Geographic in the past five years. In 2000,
he smuggled a prohibited video camera into the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. “Right now, we’re
finishing a huge project on Parkinson’s,” he says. “I’m getting paid, but contributing a lot of time.” Look for the
five-part documentary, Many Faces of Parkinson’s, directed by Vicki Anderson of Leaburg, on CTV Channel 29 at
4 pm Sundays, beginning Feb. 26. SVP contributed to the documentary feature, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the
Earth Liberation Front, which is up for an Academy Award.
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