Holiday Market, an extension of Saturday
Market that includes fine arts and crafts from
around the region, plus food and music, kicks
off from 10 am to 6 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, at the
Fairgrounds. The market runs weekends
through Dec. 24. See holidaymarket.org
Dutch Bros. Coffee is planning to open its
first Cottage Grove location at 1534 N. Gateway
Blvd. at a date in November to be announced.
The coffee chain gives away free drinks when it
opens new stores, always leading to long lines.
Lorraine Kerwood, founder of NextStep
Recycling, has been honored as a 2012
“Woman of Worth” by L’Oreal of Paris for her
innovative work providing technology literacy
and job and skills training to persons with
disabilities through Kindtree Autism Rocks! The
award comes with a $10,000 grant and the 10
women honored will compete via online voting
for a chance to win an additional $25,000 grant.
See www.womenofworth.com to vote.
Institutional Stove Solutions (InStove) of
Cottage Grove is expanding its Stove-Factory-in-
a-Box program to Haiti, Uganda and Senegal this
fall. The program ships all the tools, parts and
supplies to set up stove manufacturing plants in
third-world countries, according to stove
designers Damon Ogle and Fred Colgan. See our
Aug. 30 cover story in our archives at http://wkly.
ws/1dv And speaking of high-efficiency stoves
out of Aprovecho and Cottage Grove, Ben West
and his EcoZoom stoves are featured in the
latest Oregon Business magazine. EcoZoom is a
for-profit enterprise that has sold 68,000 stoves
so far for $1.9 million.
Birth to Three, serving Lane County families
since 1978, has changed its name to Parenting
Now! to reflect its expanding mission. The
nonprofit “continues to fulfill its mission that all
children are raised by nurturing, skilled
parents.” The new website address is
parentingnow.org
Chocolate Decadence is a new shop
occupying the Euphoria Chocolate location at
Valley River Center. The store offers its own line
of chocolates plus products from Euphoria,
Sipping Dreams, Coastal Mist, Sweet Thang and
Pacific Nazelnut Farms. See
chocolatedecadence.com
Alejandra Serrano from Cancun, Mexico, has
arrived for a fellowship with Environmental Law
Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), joining ELAW
fellows Ana Lucia Maya from Columbia, Thuli
Makama from Swaziland, and Emilio d’Cuire
from Honduras. See elaw.org
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WAR
DEAD
10
SLANT
• Veterans Day this week went by without the presence of a prominent local Vietnam vet, John
“Mac” McFadden, who died Oct. 16 at the age of 66. “Mac McFadden was the veteran of a war no one
much talks about anymore,” says local writer Hart Williams. “A war, that, had we remembered its
lessons, would have prevented us from invading Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that Mac was against.
That sounds political, because Mac was political.” McFadden was well-known in Democratic politics in
Oregon, ran for office several times, including for county commissioner, and was a presidential elector
in 1996. He was profiled in EW’s “Happening People” back in our May 18, 2000 issue. Find him in our
archives at http://wkly.ws/1du
Surviving the violence of war changes and crystallizes young people in remarkable ways. Some
vets come home as gung-ho, flag-waving hawks; some come home with a profound dedication to
peace, life and justice. We have enough hawks. The world can use more Mac McFaddens.
• Is anyone else less than tickled pink about Victoria’s Secret’s presence at the UO? This fall,
campus looks like someone sprayed a bottle of Pepto Bismol everywhere. The purveyor of candy-
colored intimates (and a canard yellow UO hoodie) has been parking their polka-dotted trucks near
the EMU, giving away loads of free stuff (EW heard they recently gave away hundreds of thongs to
students) and conducting scavenger hunts. Because that’s where students should be focusing their
attention, searching campus for push-up bras. And, the Alpha Kappa sorority recently won the “FLIRT”
Bra Party contest. They even have a twitter handle, @OregonPINK, with close to 500 followers. Their
slogan? “Real Ducks wear PINK!” No, Victoria’s Secret and UO, real ducks wear nothing at all.
• While our media fusses and frets over where David Petraeus might have poked his highly
classified personal probe, another U.S. soldier was killed and 52 were wounded in action in
Afghanistan last week, following seven American deaths and 53 injuries the week before. Bloody
weeks turn to months and years of screaming death and destruction far from our eyes and ears. Some
800,000 vets are waiting up to a year for resolution of their lifetime disability claims. We spent (or
rather went in debt) about $2 billion in Afghanistan last week. The war and occupation cost Eugene
taxpayers about $500,000 each week. Feeling safer? We update our War Dead statistics weekly on
our website.
• We see the Occupy Medical (OM) clinic had a very busy and hectic weekend down at the Park
Blocks and had a mental health support worker on hand. “Through all this chaos, the head of Lane
County Public Health showed up,” notes Sue Sierralupe on the OM Facebook page. “For some reason
he was so impressed that he asked if we would be willing to run pertussis vaccines through our clinic.
Oh, hell yes!” Find out how to help on the Facebook page or stop by the mobile clinic’s open house
Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Park Blocks.
• Our Best of Eugene awards are highly prized and prominently displayed in many local
businesses, but now some counterfeit Best of Eugene awards are being offered for sale for more
than $150. Some fly-by-night New Jersey website is pushing these bogus awards in flagrant violation
of everything we hold sacred — well, maybe not, but these Jersey gangsters are violating our
copyrights and taking advantage of our good name. Please pass along any solicitations you might get,
either by email or in person. Our cherished awards have always been free. And regarding those
awards: We find ourselves constantly reminding people that the winners are chosen by a large poll of
our readers, and not by our staff. You pick ’em, we print ’em.
• From our Nate Silver-ish pigskin prognosticator: Oregon’s Ducks are sitting pretty, undefeated
and on track to play for the national championship. Unfortunately, Stanford is coming to town,
bringing its power running game. To shut down Stanford’s runners, Oregon needs strong play from its
defensive line, but Oregon’s defensive line has been shredded by injuries. Oregon’s defense will have
trouble stopping Stanford, so the game might come down to Oregon’s offense trying to outscore
Stanford. The good news is that Oregon’s record-setting offense looks like it could outscore almost any
team in college football. Look for the Ducks to outscore the Cardinals by 14 in a game with lots of
points at 5 pm Saturday at Autzen.
S L A N T IN C LU D E S S H O R T O P INI O N P IE C E S , O B S E R VAT I O N S A N D R U M O R- C H A S IN G N OT E S C O M P IL E D B Y T H E E W S TA F F.
H E A R D A N Y G O O D R U M O R S L AT E LY ? C O N TA C T T E D TAY LO R AT 4 8 4 - 0 519 , E D I TO R @ E U GE N E W E E K LY. C O M
IN AFGHANISTAN
IN IRAQ
• 2,143 U.S. troops killed* (2,142)
• 17,939 U.S. troops wounded in action (17,887)
• 1,263 U.S. contractors killed (1,263)
• 12,793 civilians killed (12,793)
• $584 billion cost of war ($581.7 billion)
• $172.5 million cost to Eugene taxpayers ($171.8 million)
The war officially ended December 2011 with a total of 4,422
U.S. troops killed, 31,930 wounded in action and undisclosed
hundreds of U.S. military suicides. But U.S. contractors have
assumed a larger role, high levels of U.S. spending continue, and
the body count from civil unrest grows.
November 15, 2012 • eugeneweekly.com
• 1,587 U.S. contractors killed (1,587)
• 119,993 to 1.2 million civilians killed* (119,869)
• $808.6 billion cost of war ($808.4 billion)
• $238.8 million cost to Eugene taxpayers ($238.7 million)
Through Nov. 13, 2012; sources:
icasualties.org; defense.gov, U.S. Dept.
of Labor (contractor deaths updated
occasionally)
* highest estimate; source:
iraqbodycount.org; based on confirmed
media reports; other groups calculate
Iraqi civilian deaths as high as 655,000
(Lancet survey, 2006) to 1.2 million
(Opinion Research Business survey,
2008). Afghan civilian deaths from
guardian.co.uk tallied monthly.