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NEWS BRIEFS
R. Murphy. Kernutt Stokes Brandt & Co., an
accounting firm at Valley River Center, gave
$2,000. Lost Creek Timber, owned by the
Giustina family, gave $1,250, along with
$1,250 each from Giustina Resources,
Giustina Woodlands and Cadore Timber
Company. The anti-tax group Taxpayers
Association of Oregon donated $1,000.
Handy has raised about $53,000 so far,
averaging $69 per donation. Topping
Handy’s larger contributions is $6,000 from
Mountain Rose Herbs, a Eugene business
that has been around since 1987 and is a big
supporter of organic agriculture locally and
regionally. Carlos Barrera, co-chair of the
Friendly Area Neighbors association,
pledged $5,000. The Eugene Firefighters
PAC has donated $3,000 and is also
supporting Commissioner Pete Sorenson.
Robert Emmons, founding member of
LandWatch Lane County and a former city
of Eugene employee, gave $2,500. Political
consultant Phyllis Barkhurst donated $2,000
of in-kind services. Art Johnson, attorney
and co-owner of Eugene Weekly, gave
$1,000. The Lane County Labor Council
donated $500, along with $500 from the
International Union of Painters and Allied
Trades PAC.
The third candidate, Nadia Sindi, is not
raising money for her campaign.
The topic of campaign donations came up
at one of the candidate forums. Handy asked
Farr, “Why are you accepting large donations
from business and industry that will be
affected by your being on the commission?”
Farr answered, “Certainly some of my
friends that I’ve been friends with for a lot of
years, people who provide a lot of jobs in
Lane County, have supported my candidacy.”
He added that “a lot of individuals have also
supported my candidacy.”
Contributions are public record and are
required to be reported periodically during
campaigns. In-kind donations such as
consulting, polling, bookkeeping or website
development need to have a dollar value
assigned, and campaign expenses must also
be documented. All this information can be
found at orestar.org
— Ted Taylor & Ted Shorack
CIVIC STADIUM
GROUPS LOOK
TO THE FUTURE
In Eugene’s rainy spring, Save Civic is an
umbrella — for two smaller Civic groups,
that is. The movement to save the old
wooden stadium, formerly home of the Ems,
has refined itself into Friends of Civic
Stadium, centered on historic preservation,
and Civic Stadium Sports and Entertainment,
focused on business and future activities.
On May 10 the Save Civic groups will
come together to update supporters on recent
developments. Chairman Dennis Hebert says
that Civic Stadium, with the surrounding
fields at South Eugene High School, Amazon
Park and Roosevelt Middle, is the ideal
location for minor league soccer and for
sports tournaments. “The whole combination
comes up with like 10 soccer fields in the
area,” Hebert says. “Be it soccer, be it
lacrosse, ultimate Frisbee, rugby or whatever,
that gives an opportunity to have a regional
tournament there.”
Civic Stadium Sports and Entertainment
commissioned a study to examine the level
of local support for minor league soccer, and
Hebert says they found the response
encouraging — and a natural step forward
for Civic. “Civic started out as football,
morphed into baseball, and I guess it’s time
to slip back into that cocoon and come out
again as a soccer venue.”
Save Civic Stadium meets 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 10, at Washington Park
Community Cottage, 20th and Washington.
— Shannon Finnell
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