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The nonprofit Helios Resource
Network now has matching grant money
available for nonprofits and emerging
groups planning to become nonprofit,
according to Helios President Cary
Thompson. The small-grant program
focuses on sustainable action and
education in Lane County. For more
information see heliosnetwork.org/
grantinfo.htm or call 636-0465.
A regional carsharing program is
scheduled to launch April 2 in Eugene and
Springfield. The program is a
collaboration between LTD’s Point2point
program, Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s WeCar
program, and the cities of Eugene and
Springfield. Ribbon cutting ceremonies
will be at noon Thursday, March 29, at the
Springfield Chamber of Commerce,
followed by 2:30 pm at 906 Charnelton
St. in Eugene. The program will begin with
four Ford Fusion cars. Call LTD at 682-
6183.
Eugene mortgage broker Casey Lown
of Alpine Mortgage Planning is now
providing free information on HARP 2.0,
the Home Affordable Refinance Program
designed to help “underwater” home
owners with loans through Fanny Mae and
Freddie Mac take advantage of today’s
lower mortgage rates. He can be reached
at 743-2970 or email casey.lown@
alpinemc.com
The Oregon Bach Festival brings
thousands of classical music fans to the
Eugene area each summer and the dates
this year will be June 29 to July 15.
Performances will be in Eugene, Portland
and five other cities this year. See
oregonbachfestival.com And overlapping
the Bach Fest will be the Oregon Country
Fair July 13-15, with early tickets now
available online at ticketswest.com
Mountain Rose Herbs of Eugene now
has “the only certified organic tea line on
the market packaged with 100 percent
post-consumer waste materials,”
according to VP Shawn Donnille. See
mountainroseherbs.com
SNAIL DARTERS
AND AMPHIBIANS
“Hump smarter, save the snail darter,” Zygmunt Plater
read off a package of the Center for Biological Diversity’s
Endangered Species Condoms, which were given out to
attendees of the UO’s Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference in early March.
The questionably witty rhyme got the packed audience
laughing in the EMU ballroom on the afternoon of March 3
for the keynote speakers of the day. The subject at hand was
a case near and dear to Plater, who is a faculty member at
Boston College Law School.
Plater has served as petitioner and lead counsel in a case
ACTIVIST ALERT
• The Opportunity Eugene Task Force on
Homelessness will be meeting at 9:30 am Friday, March
30, at Lane County Health and Human Services, 151
West 7th Ave., Room 258. Contact is Michael Wisth,
682-5540 or michael.c.wisth@ci.eugene.or.us
• The SOLVE Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup will be
from 10 am to 1 pm Saturday, March 31. Volunteers are
encouraged to register at www.solv.org, or call (503)
844-9571 ext. 332.
• A public “meet and greet” with Springfield Mayor
Christine Lundberg and some city councilors will be
from 1 to 3 pm Saturday, March 31, at Jerry’s Home
Improvement, 2525 Olympic St. in Springfield.
• Two community meetings on “Transforming
Healthcare in Lane County” are coming up, dealing with
the Oregon Health Plan. The first will be from 1 to 3 pm
Monday, April 2, at the Florence Events Center on
Quince Street in Florence. The second will be from 5:30
to 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 3, at the Eugene Public
Library downtown.
• Another “Hoodie Action” built on this week’s
gathering at the old Federal Building is coming together
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for 6 pm Monday, April 2, at the Free Speech Plaza, 125
E. 8th Ave. The vigil in memory of Treyvon Martin is
being organized by Occupy Eugene, NAACP, CALC and
the Civil Liberties Defense Center. A march is also
planned that day at 5 pm starting at Campbell Senior
Center, 155 High St.
• The third in a series of first-Monday “Conversations
on the Forest” continues at 6 pm Monday, April 2, at
Cozmic Pizza, 199 W. 8th Ave. in Eugene. Hosted by
Commissioner Rob Handy, forester Roy Keene, and
ArchitectureWeek editor-in-chief Kevin Matthews.
Handy says the first monthly meeting drew 100 people,
the second 140. “It’s gathering legs like we thought it
would,” he says. See conversationsontheforest.org for
more information, or email rob@robhandy.com
• Commemorating the anniversary of Martin Luther
King Jr.’s death, CALC will present local high school
students performing excerpts from his speeches and
writings on economic justice, as well as their
own speeches, poems, or songs, from 7 to 9 pm
Tuesday, April 3, at First Christian Church, 1166 Oak. Call
485-1755 or e-mail calcpeace@efn.org for more
information.
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involving the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The snail
darter was crucial to his argument that went before the
Supreme Court. The TVA had put dams all over the state
flooding small farmers’ lands and damaging wildlife
habitats, but these concerns weren’t enough leverage to
bring a suit.
According to Plater, the key was the Endangered Species
Act, which had recently been passed at the time in 1973.
Under this legislation, the snail darter was endangered and
needed to be protected. The Tellico Dam threatened its
protection. Plater made his case based on this and won, but
the dams were built anyway thanks to a congressional
amendment exempting the snail darter from the ESA.
The second keynote speaker that afternoon was Tyrone
Hayes, a biologist and professor at the University of
California, Berkeley. In his research, Hayes has focused on
how chemicals can affect amphibian development. He has
studied these dangers throughout the U.S. and Africa.
Hayes had found that certain herbicides such as atrazine
can feminize male amphibians. He urged that this is not
only a risk to wildlife, but to humans too and especially to
those in lower-income areas who tend to be less informed
about the dangers surrounding pesticides. Locally, atrazine
is widely used as a forestry pesticide, and members of the
Triangle Lake community have tested positive for its
presence in their urine. For more information on Hayes’
research go to atrazinelovers.com
— Ted Shorack
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by Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld’s Elaine, The New Adventures of
Old Christine’s Christine), Meyer feels more authentic, funny
and flawed than other women on the tube, teetering between
confidence and frazzled incompetence.
Girls, HBO (April 22). The latest HBO show about four
single New York City women is being called the “antidote”
to Sex and the City. Whereas SATC is set in the city’s most
glamorous pockets, Girls takes a sharp, comic and more
relatable look at Big Apple life for ambitious and broke
recession-era twentysomethings who get tested for STDs,
smoke pot, struggle with their weight and have awkward sex.
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