PHOTO BY ROB SYDOR
BEST HELL-RAISER
1. Occupy Eugene
2. Lefty Kelleher
3. Day Owen
In one short year Occupy Eugene went
from a march to a camp (or five) to loud
and proud advocates for the homeless, the
disenfranchised and those who are tired of
getting beaten up by Wall Street. We saw
street folks working with businesspeople
and homeless street kids getting
politicized. We like it and so do our
readers. The Occupation continues.
BEST UPROAR
THOSE WHO
GIVE THE
“CARE BEAR
STARE”
BEST POLITICO
1. Peter DeFazio
2. Kitty Piercy
3. Pete Sorenson
BEST NONPROFIT
1. FOOD for Lane County www.foodforlanecounty.org
2. Planned Parenthood www.plannedparenthood.org
3. Greenhill Humane Society www.green-hill.org
“There is a very deep commitment in Lane County towards
feeding hungry people. It goes deep and it has for a long
time,” FOOD for Lane County Executive Director Beverlee
Hughes says. Established in 1984 with just one staff member
and one volunteer, FFLC has grown over the past quarter
century to be the powerhouse nonprofit we know and trust.
The vision remains: eliminate hunger in Lane County. And
while distributing 7.5 million pounds of food every year
makes a massive difference, FFLC is not stopping there.
“Because our food supply has been limited and the number of
people who need our services is greatly increasing, we’ve
turned to our local economy and we’ve turned to local
farmers and have asked them to start growing crops for us,”
Hughes says, noting that this past year six farmers switched
from grass seed to grain crops to help out and the project was
a huge success
success, one they’ll continue into the future as they
strive to keep besting their bests.
BEST ENVIRO ORGANIZATION
1. BRING Recycling www.bringrecycling.org
2. Cascadia Wildlands www.cascwild.org
3. NextStep Recycling nextsteprecycling.org
Voting for best environmental organization in Eugene is
like voting for the best fish in the ocean. Green groups are
ubiquitous here, and we love all of them. If you haven’t yet
been to BRING, then head on over and be prepared to pick
through something that’s kind of like The. Best. Garage.
Sale. Ever. Kitchen sinks, art, nails, chairs, windows,
doors, toys … it’s all there. Cascadia Wildlands howled
into second with its efforts to save wolves, trees, small
potato-shaped birds and stop coal trains from
fouling our wild places as well as our lungs.
For their electronic needs, readers chose
NextStep with its cool computers and
programs to help people who don’t
always have a lot of cash to throw
at getting a computer in this cyber-
heavy world.
PERSON OF THE YEAR
1. Kitty Piercy
2. Chip Kelly
3. Peter DeFazio
You dirty hippies sure do love your Democrats, don’t you? Looks like Rep. Peter DeFazio
can count on “best politico” voters to support him in his race against Oregon’s favorite
purveyor of the crazy, Art Robinson. He’s got a lot of local momentum, plus one of the best
political Onion articles of all time: “Last Remaining Politician Must Rebuild Entire
Government Following Bloodiest Midterm Election in American History.” Person of the
year Kitty Piercy knocked it out of the park in May’s election, winning 63 percent of the
votes for Eugene mayor. That’s a lot, even for “we should all agree” Eugene.
KITTY PIERCY PHOTO BY ROB SYDOR
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1. Occupy Eugene
2. West 11th EmX
3. Pitchfork Rebellion Mock Trial