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NEWS
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3C Interactive is planning its new office grand
opening from 5 to 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 940
Willamette St., Suite 510, in Eugene, in the recently
finished five-story Woolworth Building. 3C Interactive
has its headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and describes
itself as “a mobile platform company that helps our
clients reimagine consumer engagement with mobile.”
RSVP for the event to katie@3cinteractive.com or call
(561) 886-4849.
Ivy’s Cookin’ is celebrating 20 years in business this
month, delivering home-cooked vegetarian entrees to
Eugene residents every Thursday, ready for the oven.
Chef and owner Ivy Cotler transitioned out of her career
as a Forest Service hydrologist in 1992 to follow her life-
long love of international cooking. She can be reached at
485-4200 or email ivy@ivycookin.com
We don’t hear a lot about local cheese makers, but
one of them, Susan Jackson, is now teaching her craft
and the next class will be from 10 am to 2 pm Saturday,
Feb. 23, at the Community of Christ Church, 1485
Gilham Road. Cost is $50 but you get to take home
cheese! And maybe discover your true calling. Jackson
is also a master food preserver. Register at the OSU
Extension Service office at 783 Grant St. or go to the
Extension Service website.
United Way of Lane County is planning a community
celebration and awards banquet from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Monday, Feb. 25, at the Hilton. This normally annual
event hasn’t been held for several years. Cost is $10.
RSVP by Feb. 22 to 741-6000 or see unitedwaylane.org
ACTIVIST
LERT
• A Touch the Earth Environmental School benefit
concert is planned for 6:30 to 8 pm Friday, Feb. 22, at
the Unitarian Universalist Church, 13th and Chambers in
Eugene. The event features storyteller and singer Calvin
Hecocta (founder of the school), John Henry and Teddy
Box Roix. Suggested donation is $10.
• The annual Green Neighbors Faire with the theme
of “Creating a Green Community Culture” will be from
9:30 am to 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 23, at the First United
Methodist Church, 1375 Olive St. in Eugene. Call 686-
6761 or see eugenesustainabilty.org
• Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on the Brain:
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, will offer a
public reading from 4 to 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 23, in the
Knight Library Browsing Room on campus. The reading
concludes the UO School of Journalism and
Communication’s Annual PageTurners class, facilitated
by professor Peter Laufer.
• The Oregon League of Conservation Voters is
hosting a free discussion about this year’s legislative
session and “what it means for the natural legacy of
Oregon,” from 6 to 8 pm Monday, Feb. 25, at Cozmic, 199
W. 8th Ave. Rep. Val Hoyle is expected to be among the
speakers. See www.olcv.org
• The 2013 Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference will be from Thursday, Feb. 28, through
Sunday, March 3, at the UO Law School and other
locations on campus. See pielc.org for details and
registration.
• A special Black History Month event sponsored by
the NAACP Eugene and Springfield Branch will be from 7
to 10 pm Friday, Feb. 22, at Tsunami Bookstore, 26th
and Willamette. Planned are an art sale, live jazz with
Adam Harris, Greg Black and Kenny Reed, and comments
from the outgoing and incoming branch presidents,
Henry Luvert and Eric Richardson respectively.
Refreshments will be provided. Free.
• The Civil Liberties Defense Center’s annual
Solidarity with Earth Defenders benefit features Eastern
Sunz, Samba Ja and more, 8 pm March 2 at the WOW
Hall. $8 adv., $10 door.
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dents of the student housing cooperative, home to many
student activists, say EPD’s response was excessive and
that news reports have characterized the party as louder
and wilder than it was.
Chanel Warzynski, who lives at the Campbell Club
and was arrested in the incident, says that Campbell Club
residents try to set a precedent of being “polite but asser-
tive” about their rights when they interact with the cops.
She says that hosts turned down the music when they
saw police outside, and when additional police offi cers
arrived they turned off the music completely. But they
refused to allow offi cers to enter without a warrant, which
police soon acquired.
EPD Lieutenant Doug Mozan, who was not one of the
offi cers responding that night, says that before offi cers
spoke with occupants of the Campbell Club, two people
who identifi ed themselves as residents resisted arrest,
and while trying to apprehend them a police offi cer was
“actively pulled inside,” though he was able to get out.
But another EPD offi cer had told the R-G the offi cer was
“grabbed from behind.”
“It sounds like it devolved into a very scary event,”
Mozan says, “and it pulled all the police resources from
the city to handle what should have just been a non-
event.”
Warnynski says that while she wasn’t able to see ev-
erything that was happening, what she did see were peo-
ple calmly asserting their rights by asking if they were
being detained or only answering the questions legally
required of them. “It seems that people were targeted for
knowing their rights and for doing what people should
do in a circumstance like that, which is ask for a warrant
before letting people in,” she says.
“There were 15 police offi cers in the house; doors
were broken down and ripped off their hinges using a bat-
tering ram,” Warzynski says. “People were drug out of
their beds who were sleeping, including people who were
ill with the fl u.”
Fourteen residents were charged with prohibited noise,
six of those were also charged with interfering with po-
lice, and one was also charged with resisting arrest. Nine
citations for noise and eight minor in possessions were
given at the Campbell Club.
An EPD spokesperson says that the Campbell Club is
an “active address,” but the most recent noise complaints
accessible in the EPD computer system were in October
2012 and May 2011. Eugene’s new social host ordinance,
which EPD will begin enforcing April 2, will mean higher
fi nes for repeat party houses and their landlords.
Warzynski says she was in custody the longest, nine
hours, which she says is excessive and a poor use of re-
sources. “I would still be in jail until Tuesday for a noise
violation except that I got bailed out in the nick of time,”
she says. “It’s just ridiculous to be held in jail for a noise
violation when normally the precedent has been to ticket
people and then move on.”
Mozan says that the arrestees were put in jail beds
paid for and reserved by the municipal court, so it wasn’t
a situation where a violent felon was released to house
people charged with noise violations. — Shannon Finnell
TRAPPER: ZOMBIE
TIMBER SALE
The Trapper Timber Sale in the Willamette National
Forest just won’t go away, Josh Laughlin of Cascadia
Wildlands says. “This is a like a low-grade horror movie
where the zombie keeps coming back from the grave.”
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is taking comments on
the old-growth logging proposal’s latest iteration, which
reduces the cutting from 149 acres to 44 acres and the pro-
posed acres to be burned from 92 to 36, according to a
press release from McKenzie River Ranger District.
The release says, “impacts to northern spotted owls will
be signifi cantly less than in the previous project.” Northern
spotted owls are listed as threatened under the Endangered
Species Act, and Laughlin says the area of the planned log-
ging is “a real hotbed for red tree voles and northern spot-
ted owl activity.” Red tree voles are eaten by spotted owls.
Trapper, which originated in the late ’90s, was sold to
Seneca-Jones Timber in 2003 and has been highly conten-
tious ever since. Trapper is in the HJ Andrews Experimen-
tal Forest, and in 2010 scientists working there wrote a let-
ter saying the logging, which had been proposed as part of
study designed to use timber harvest and fi re to emulate
natural disturbances, “will not yield stand-level lessons of
high value for contemporary logging practices.”
In 2011, a judge ordered the USFS to “review the Trap-
per Project and determine impacts to the northern spotted
owls and the learning value of the project, as well as to
bring the project up to changing standards for environmen-
tal review,” the McKenzie River Ranger District says, and
the new proposal is the result. The district says the USFS
“is proposing to complete this portion of the project in or-
der to respect the contractual commitments with the sale
purchaser.”
Seneca, the purchaser, has been hotly protested by Eu-
gene activists for its proposed logging of Trapper as well as
its biomass burning plant in west Eugene.
Laughlin says of the new Trapper proposal, “We will
once again tell the Forest Service that the old trees in the
beloved McKenzie watershed are best left standing for the
recreation, air and water they provide and the unique and
imperiled species they house.”
Comments on the project are due March 11. To com-
ment go to www.fs.usda.gov/Willamette and click “Trap-
per.” — Camilla Mortensen
BILL TO PROTECT
THE MCKENZIE
The McKenzie River, the source of Eugene’s drinking wa-
ter, would be protected from destructive suction-dredge min-
ing and other threats if a bill introduced to the Oregon Leg-
islature this week is passed. The bill, which adds rivers and
tributaries to Oregon’s Scenic Waterways System, would also
protect rivers such as the Chetco, Rogue and Illinois, among
others.
Josh Laughlin of Cascadia Wildlands likens suction-
dredge mining, a way of mining gold from rivers, to “vacu-
LANE COUNTY AREA SPRAY SCHEDULE
• Seneca Jones Timber Company, 461-6245, plans to aerially
spray 2,4-D, Clopyralid, Triclopyr and/or glyphosate on 109 acres
near Camas Swale Creek and tributaries. See ODF notice 2013-
781-00152. Seneca Jones also plans to hire Oregon Forest
Management Services, 520-5941, to manually spray 2,4-D,
Clopyralid, Triclopyr and/or glyphosate on seven acres near
Camas Swale Creek tributaries. See ODF notice 2013-781-00154.
• Ivan Beseman of Hennenkamp Living Trust, 485-8772, plans
to hire Oregon Forest Management Services, 896-3757, and
another operator, to ground spray Transline and Sulfometuron Extra
containing Imazapyr, Triclopyr and/or glyphosate on 15 acres near
a Coyote Creek tributary. See ODF notice 2013-781-00605.
• Roseburg Resources Company, 935-2507, plans to ground
spray glyphosate, imazapyr, triclopyr amine and/or triclopyr
ester on noxious weeds on its forest lands in Townships 18S
06W, 18S 08W and 19S 06W, a countywide notification. See ODF
notice 2013-781-00163.
• Weyerhaeuser Company Springfield Operations, 988-7502,
plans to backpack spray any of several chemicals listed on 97
acres near Parsons and/or McGowan and several other creeks
and/or tributaries. See ODF notices 2013-771-00153, 2013-771-
00164 and 2013-771-00166.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers: 342-8332, forestlanddwellers.org