EUGENE FAMILIES: See what our schools offer.
School’s open!
• Local homeless advocate Arwen Maas-DeSpain sent us this photo taken at
11:30 pm Dec. 23 in downtown Eugene. She observes, that it was “33 degrees, Egan
not open and in downtown Eugene there is an army of unused heat lamps under the
shelters where people are not allowed to sleep.”
January is school choice season. In Eugene School District 4J, every school offers an
excellent education. You can enroll in your neighborhood school at any time. To request
enrollment in a different school for 2018–19, apply online at www.4j.lane.edu/choice
between Jan. 1–31. Requests will be accepted in an order determined by lottery.
January
is School
Visitation
Month
Elementary
School Showcase
Each school
offers activities
and times when
parents can visit.
See website for
details.
4J Education Center,
200 N. Monroe St.
Saturday, Jan. 6
10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 6
(during the Elementary
School Showcase)
Learn about the school choice
process. Sign up for school visits.
Talk to representatives from
every 4J elementary school.
www.4j.lane.edu/choice • 541-790-7570
• Ballots for Measure 101 will be mailed between Jan. 3 and 9. We recommend a
“yes” vote well before the Jan. 23 special election deadline. If you are in doubt,
simply look at the list of endorsers and don’t be fooled by the propaganda that this is
a sales tax. It is not. It is a temporary assessment on insurers and some medical
providers that will keep federal funding to provide health care to Oregon’s neediest
citizens. Every vote is important on this one.
• After Rep. Phil Barnhart, a longtime Democratic stalwart in the Oregon
Legislature, announced he wouldn’t run for his House District 11 seat again in 2018,
we began to ponder who might be vying for his spot. District 11 leans liberal but has
enough rural conservatives to make it a real race. We need a Dem good on social
issues and the environment in that spot. We’re wondering if Kamala Shugar, an
attorney who is chair for District 11 with the Democratic Party of Lane County, might
throw her hat in. She’s in the district and was trained by Emerge Oregon, which has
generated such excellent female politicos such as Val Hoyle and Rep. Julie Fahey.
Also in that district is Marty Wilde, the DPLC’s rules chair and a thoughtful political
mind. These are a of couple strong candidates. So far, no one, Dem or Repub, has filed
with the Secretary of State’s Office.
• Nobody is above the law, but a lot of chatter in the past week or two has
suggested that President Trump might suddenly fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller
as the investigation closes in on Trump’s shady and possibly treasonous Russian
dealings. Here’s the plan from Move-On.org if President Trump fires Mueller for any
reason: Protest at the Federal Courthouse downtown. If the news of Mueller’s firing
comes out before 2 pm our time, show up at 5 pm that day at the Eugene Federal
Courthouse. If the news comes out later in the day, show up at the courthouse the
following day at noon. Got that? We’ll see you there.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.
4J Education Center,
200 N. Monroe St.
New
earlier deadline
Eugene School District 4J
• Let’s stop selling space across our city streets for ugly banners, whatever
their message. We agree that the city cannot legally pick and choose the messages
on the banners, be they supporting atheists or Christians, Klansmen or civil rights
advocates, but the city can decide not to sell that precious public space for any
cause. That would be one small step toward a more beautiful city.
School Choice
Information
Meetings
Jan. 31
UO INSIGHT
SEMINARS
Led by experts, surrounded by motivated peers, UO Insight
Seminars offer the community access to a dynamic,
noncredit university experience.
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Bob Dylan, Poet
George Wickes, UO English
Saturdays, January 6, 13, 20, and 27
9:30 a.m.–noon, fee: $120
Jim Earl, UO English and Jeff
Harrison, LCC Language, Literature,
and Communication
Saturday, March 17
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., fee: $75
George Eliot’s
Middlemarch
Henry Alley, UO Honors College
Saturdays, February 3, 10, 17, and 24
9:30 a.m.–noon, fee: $120
The Meditations of
Marcus Aurelius
Shakespeare’s Henry V
Jim Earl, UO English
Saturdays, April 7, 14, 21, and 28
9:30 a.m.–noon, fee: $120
Public Lecture Series: Each month-
long seminar is preceded by a free
evening lecture by the professor.
Jim Earl, UO English
Mondays, March 5, 12, 19, and 26
7:00–9:00 p.m., fee: $120
Preregistration is required. For more information on the 2017–2018
seminar and public lecture schedules, locations, and registration, visit:
uoinsight.uoregon.edu or 541-346-4231
EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity.
© 2017 University of Oregon. AE17447
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