VERY LITTLE THEATRE
AUDITIONS
Lost in
Yonkers
Neil Simon’s acclaimed
dramatic comedy
Mon., June 1 • 6:30 pm
CALLBACKS ON
Tues., June 2 • 6:30 pm
2350 Hilyard St.
Roles for 2 teenage boys; 2 men
& 2 women, ages 30s-40s; and
one grandmother, age 60s.
For more information, contact
director Chris Pinto at
lkpinto@aol.com
More details at VLT website:
www.TheVLT.com
• Community Rights Lane County
will host a free workshop from 6:30
to 8:30 pm Friday, May 22, at the LCC
Downtown campus, Room 105. The
workshop will “explore provocative
issues around democracy, the power of
the corporate state and communities’
rightful role in local decision-making.”
Speakers include advocates Lindsey
Schromen-Wawrin from Washington,
Cliff Willmeng from Colorado and Ann
Kneeland, a local attorney working to
get community rights initiatives onto
the ballot in Oregon.
• The annual March Against
Monsanto will begin with a gathering at
1 pm Saturday, May 23, at Kesey Square
on Broadway followed by a march
to Alton Baker Park. Bring signs and
banners. The local march is in solidarity
with protests against Monsanto being
held around the world. Contact Aaron at
606-7773 or find the event on Facebook.
• A benefit for Nepal earthquake
survivors will be from 4 to 6 pm
Sunday, May 24, at First Christian
Church, 1166 Oak St. Speakers include
Mayor Kitty Piercy, Pastor Dan Bryant
and Swamini Svatmavidyananda.
Music will be by Forrest McDowell,
Jeffery Dufty, Priscilla Dantas, Jessica
Mendoza y el Taller de Son Jarocho,
and classical Indian dance by Uma
Goswami. Admission is free, and
refreshments and fellowship will follow
the program. For more information,
email arun@skippingstones.org or call
CALC at 485-1755.
• The annual NAACP Memorial Day
Celebration and BBQ will be from noon
to 5 pm Monday, May 25, at Washington
Park, 21st and Washington Street.
The event will include a reading of
President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Speech, a kid’s corner with the HONEY
organization, a basketball ultimate
• Predictable results in the May Special Election.
Disappointing turnout of only 35 percent. We didn’t expect
the vehicle registration fee to pass, but we did expect the
results to be closer. Lane County voters haven’t figured out
that we are undertaxed compared to counties that haven’t
relied heavily on federal timber payments. Measure 5 and
other tax limits put us in a bind when timber payments
dried up. How are we going to catch up now? Nobody loves
new taxes and fees, especially ones that affect low-income
residents, but the options are very limited. Will Lane County
government be perpetually underfunded?
The 4J School Board will get some new blood with Eileen
Nittler replacing longtime board member Craig Smith who
chose not to run again. We expect Nittler to be an effective
addition to the board. Kevin Cronin lost in his energetic
campaign against Jim Torrey, but we hope to see Cronin
charging to reform Oregon’s flawed system for funding
education.
• Anybody want to buy a steam plant and 17 acres
of riverfront land near the center of Eugene? The UO
Foundation’s winning proposal to buy the prime EWEB land
died this week. Here’s some pure speculation: The city is
deeply involved in this project and rumblings around the UO
Foundation deal hint at disagreement over how much public
money vs. private money should go into redevelopment.
It needs to pencil out for a private developer. It will be
in interesting to see how other developers approach
this puzzle. Or is it too early for such a project? Maybe
downtown needs to fill in a bit more first and issues of
railroad noise and access need to be addressed.
• Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and
Ward 2 City Councilor Betty Taylor will be
at the Mayor’s One-on-One community
outreach meeting from 5 to 6 pm
Thursday, May 28, at Haggen at 30th
and Hilyard Street.
• The Lane Regional Air Protection
Agency Board has an opening for a
Springfield position and the deadline
to apply is May 29. Applications are
available at Springfield City Hall or online
at wkly.ws/20r.
• The Register-Guard has been reporting on the UO’s $20
million public image campaign that is intended to build
the academic side of the university. Duck athletics are top
rated, but UO academic program ratings are embarrassingly
low. Will millions spent on branding academics draw better
professors and higher-achieving students? Maybe not.
The problem is not so much UO’s image as Oregon’s archaic
and flawed tax structure. Unfair, unbalanced taxation
means public education is underfunded at all levels, from
kindergarten to universities. Professors with families will
hesitate to relocate to a town where academic salaries
are low, public school classes have 40 students and high
school graduation rates are low. That $20 million would be
better invested in a statewide campaign to better fund all
education in the state.
• ODOT is currently spraying roadsides. Call Tony Kilmer at ODOT District 5 at 744-
8080 or call (888) 996-8080 for herbicide application information. Highways I-5, 99,
101, 105, 126 east of Springfield and Highway 36 from Highway 99 to 1 mile east of
Blachly were sprayed recently, ODOT may spray the rest of Highway 36 soon.
• Roseburg Resources and related companies, 679-3311, plans to spot spray their
roadsides throughout Lane County with 2,4-D, glyphosate, triclopyr, metsulfuron
methyl, Conquer and/or Crop Oil Concentrate. See ODF notification 2015-781-07654,
call Jim Hall at 997-8713 with questions.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy and Gary Hale, ForestlandDwellers.org, 342-8332.
May 21, 2015 • eugeneweekly.com
• The proposed Crossfire Church
cell tower at 4060 W. Amazon goes to
a city of Eugene public hearing on the
conditional use permit from 5:30 to 7:30
pm Wednesday, May 27, at Harris Hall,
125 E. 8th Ave.
• If you are a
fan of VICE, the hot
investigative reporting
series on HBO, look for
a Eugene Weekly cover
from June 12, 2014,
featured on an upcoming
VICE episode on sexual
assault on college
campuses. The cover
is a photo illustration
of a basketball with the
headline “Win, Drink,
RAPE.” The story inside
that issue is “Rape U” by
Camilla Mortensen, and the cover was designed by Trask
Bedortha in our Art Department. No date was announced for
the showing of the episode, and no guarantee that our cover
will be shown or our content discussed. But it’s nice to be
noticed by this Emmy Award-winning show’s producers.
LANE COUNTY AREA SPRAY SCHEDULE
10
bump tournament and a free barbeque
lunch provided by Papa’s Soul Food
Kitchen.
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS
In our May 14 cover story, we stated that
the new Hammered Lamb pub is “Eugene’s
first queer-owned, queer-run bar.” We would
like to clarify that The Hammered Lamb is not
Eugene’s first gay bar. Eugene has a long and
rich tradition of gay bars, which we discussed
in part in the Nov. 26 cover story, “The Queer
Conundrum.” However, many in the community
say that The Hammered Lamb is Eugene’s first
self-proclaimed “queer” bar. Upon its opening,
it will be the only queer-owned, queer-run bar
in Eugene. Discuss amongst yourselves.