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Win a Yuba Boda Boda V3 Cargo Bike! Support Civic Park Last chance! Tickets on sale at Capella Market on S. Willamette St., at Arriving By Bike and online at eugenecivicalliance.org thru Saturday, Aug. 20th . Capella Mkt. party & drawing 1-4pm, 8/20 Details at facebook.com/arriving.by.bike ÓÇäxÊ7>iÌÌiÊ-ÌÊUÊx{£°{n{°x{£ä °qÀ°Ê££qÇ]Ê->Ì°Ê£äqÈ]Ê-Õ°Ê£Óqx Buy or repair a pair of Birkenstocks and get a FREE $10 iTunes gift card. Just as the visionary detractors warned, traffic has become horrendous. Sure, most of the time there is absolutely no delay, but sometimes I’ve been delayed up to 30 seconds, even a minute or two during rush hour. This is a terrible injustice nobody should have to endure! And the naysayers were also correct when they predicted that drivers would avoid the congestion, severely hurting businesses on that stretch. Don’t let the parking lots full of vehicles fool you; those businesses are dying out there! And all of this in the name of safety, inclusiveness and livability? If we allow this new design to stand, Eugene’s Cycling Industrial Complex will be empowered to redesign more outdated roadways, marginally slowing down traffic in other neighborhoods throughout this city. I ask you citizens of Eugene: Is that the world that we want for our children? Joshua Welch Eugene LOVE ’EM TO DEATH Today’s 10 highest grossing box office releases are about animals, including Finding Dory, The Jungle Book, Zootopia, The Secret Life of Pets and Kung Fu Panda. Nearly half of our households include a dog and nearly 40 percent have a cat. Two- thirds of us view them as family members and cherish them accordingly. We love our animals to death. Literally … For every cat, dog or other animal we love and cherish, we put 500 through months of caging, crowding, deprivation, mutilation and starvation before we take their very lives, cut their dead bodies into little pieces and shove those into our mouths. And that doesn’t even include Dory and billions of her little friends, because we haven’t figured out how to count individual aquatic animals that we grind up for human or animal feed. The good news is that we have a choice every time we visit a restaurant or grocery store. We can choose live foods — yellow and green vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts and grains as well as a rich variety of grain and nut-based meats and dairy products. Or we can choose dead animals, their body parts and other products of their abuse. What will it be? Edward Newland Eugene Repair • Renew • Recycle your favorite Birks with us TODAY! believe in fit 16 Oakway Center, Eugene, OR | 541.683.4115 | burchsshoes.com HILLARY IS BEST SHOT Bernie Sanders supporters: If you have not listened to Bernie’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, please do so. You can find the full speech online. Bernie hasn’t given up on the revolution; he hasn’t sold out. He is continuing to push for our goals in the most effective way he currently has at his disposal — by influencing Hillary Clinton. There is historical precedent for this move. Obama didn’t care about healthcare reform, but Hillary kept pushing for it BECOME A YOGA TEACHER THIS FALL YOGA TRAINING AT BALANCED HOT YOGA EUGENE twobirdsyogatraining@gmail.com FOR MORE INFORMATION www.twobirdsyogatraining.com www.hotyogaeugenebalanced.com eugeneweekly.com • A ugust 18, 2016 5
