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Efficient water use and irrigation: At 7 pm Tuesday,
Aug. 18, Master Gardener and landscaper Bruce
Kreitzberg will share techniques for conserving water
while keeping yards and gardens healthy, sponsored
by the Lane County Master Gardener Association in
partnership with the OSU Extension Service. Free,
donations accepted, no registration required. OSU
Extension Office, 996 Jefferson, Eugene (enter at 10th
Street ramp). Questions? linda.renslow@oregonstate.
edu.
LANE COUNTY AREA
SPRAY SCHEDULE
Oregon Department of Transportation is currently
spraying roadsides. Call Tony Kilmer at ODOT District 5
at 744-8080 for herbicide application information.
M Three Timber Co., 767-3785, plans to hire
Western Helicopter Services, Inc., 503-538-9469, to
spray 74.4 acres, 1 unit north of Cottage Grove-Lorane
Rd and 1 unit near Muslin Creek with Chopper Gen2,
Accord Concentrate, Oust Extra, Induce and/or
Compadre. See ODF notification 2015-781-11328, call
Brian Peterson at 935-2283 with questions.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy and Gary Hale, Forestland Dwellers: 342-
8332, www.forestlanddwellers.org
JAMIE WALSH
After two years at Lansing Community College, close
to her family home in suburban Holt, Michigan, Jamie
Walsh and a couple of friends moved to Los Angeles to
establish California residency and decide where to go
to school. “I didn’t like L.A. at all,” says Walsh, who
headed north to study art history at Humboldt State in
Arcata. “It’s small, and nature is everywhere,” she says
of that much-smaller California town. She graduated in
2006, worked for three years at The Studio, an arts
program for adults with developmental disabilities,
then came to Eugene for a master’s in arts
management. As an intern with the Oregon Supported
Living Program, she helped develop its Arts and
Culture Program as part of her graduate project on arts
programs for adults with disabilities. “It’s a way for
them to learn skills, to be productive and be a part of
the community,” says Walsh, who got her MA in 2013
and became coordinator of the A&C Program when it
opened the Lincoln Gallery at 309 W. 4th Ave. “It all fell
into place. I live a block away.” The A&C Program offers
open art studio hours and classes in many visual arts
media, and in music, dance, yoga and cooking. “We’re
open to anyone,” Walsh notes. “You don’t need to have
a disability.” On Sunday, Aug. 16, 11 am - 5 pm, A&C
artists will take part in Print!Eugene, a free event
sponsored by Watershed Arts, at 291 Mill Street in
Eugene, featuring giant woodblock prints rolled out by
street-paving machines. Look for Walsh’s own
watercolor and acrylic paintings at the ArtWorks
Gallery in Corvallis, during the Corvallis Artwalk on
Thursday, Aug. 20.
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Next there is the issue of equal protection. The case ar-
Eleven youth from Oregon have joined with 10 other kids
gues that minor children who can’t vote should be treated
from across the country and with future generations of chil-
as a “suspect class” — a group of people who have histori-
dren to file a lawsuit that attorney Julia Olson says will chal-
cally experienced discrimination. When it comes to kids,
lenge the U.S. government and ask the federal court system
there is a strong argument that they are a suspect class in
to make a decision as important as Brown v. Board of Educa-
terms of climate change, Olson
tion (racial equality) or Obergefell
says.
v. Hodges (marriage equality).
Finally the case involves the
The youth working with the
‘If we win on any part of this public
trust doctrine arguing that
nonprofit Our Children’s Trust are
seeking equal climate rights for
case, it will be landmark decision. if the government is causing harm
climate system, it needs to
children and for future generations
It has enormous potential, and to be the
enjoined to stop harming it, Ol-
of children and want a national
plan for a swift phase-down of
we have really incredible facts son says.
Oregon component of
CO2 emissions.
we have unearthed about the the Another
case, which is being filed in
Locally, participants include
Kelsey Juliana, who has been a
federal government and a solid the U.S. district court in Eugene,
the proposed Jordan
plaintiff in previous climate suits,
legal argument.’ involves
Cove natural gas export termi-
and nationally, former NASA cli-
nal. Under the Energy Policy Act
mate scientist James Hansen, who
— JULIA OLSON,
of 1992, the government grants
is participating as the guardian of
OUR CHILDREN’S TRUST
permits for the export of natural
his 16-year-old grandchild and as
gas when it is going to a free trade
the guardian of future generations,
country. Jordan Cove has one of
according to Olson.
those permits, Olson says, and the case links the permit to
Olson — who is the executive director of Our Children’s
the due process issue and the public trust doctrine.
Trust as well as an attorney on the case, together with Eugene
“It’s hard to express how big this case is,” Olson says.
attorney Dan Galpern and a California law firm — says the
“If we win on any part of this case, it will be landmark de-
case has several major components. The first is the argument
cision.” She adds, “It has enormous potential, and we have
that the federal government is violating due process rights —
really incredible facts we have unearthed about the federal
the right to life, liberty and property. Olson says, “The big-
government and a solid legal argument.”
gest culprit throughout history has been the U.S. government
Rolling Stone recently mentioned the case in the Aug.
in terms of responsibility for causing climate change.” When
5 article, “The Point of No Return: Climate Change
the government is putting a person in a position of danger,
Nightmares Are Already Here,” and Olson says MSNBC
Olson says, it has a duty to protect you and it has “knowingly
came to Eugene this week to film a story on the case.
for 50 years caused this problem” of the cumulative effects
— Camilla Mortensen
of fossil fuel activities on climate destabilization.
BY PAUL NEEVEL
Your Life in Print: How to Write & Sell Short Memoir
with Melissa Hart is 6:30 pm, Aug. 17, at the Willamette
Writers on the River meeting at the First Presbyterian
Church 114 S.W. 8th Street (enter Dennis Hall off the
9th Street parking lot entrance behind the church) in
Corvallis. Learn to identify compelling topics, write,
pitch and sell your memoir. The meeting is free to
members of Willamette Writers and full-time students.
Guests of members pay $5. Non-members pay $10 to
attend. No one turned away. More info:
willamettewriters.com/wwotr.
YOUTH SUE OVER CLIMATE
IN LANDMARK CASE
HAPPENING PEOPLE
The next general meeting of the Eugene/
Springfield NAACP is 11 am, Aug. 15, at 101 W. 10th,
2nd floor, room 209. Get involved and find out how you
can help move the conversation forward. Special
guest: Our Oregon and the Better Oregon Coalition.