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letters NEW ZONE STAYS VIBRANT Last week’s visual arts story by Es- ter Barkai, “A Glass Half Full: Eugene and Springfield art venues look for op- portunities in uncertain times,” left out the successes of the New Zone Gallery. For over the past 20 months, the gal- lery has thrived with the cup brimming full of excitement with ongoing and vi- brant shows, well attended First Friday openings, and a new beautiful location dedicated for bringing the arts alive to downtown Eugene. We are also open every day of the week for the public to visit at their con- venience. Also, we want to thank St. Vincent de Paul for giving us a lease for the first time in our 38-year history in the beautiful Aurora Building located at 110 E. 11th Avenue, and the arts commu- nity for their continued support during these unprecedented times. Steve La Riccia New Zone Gallery Coordinator HUMANITY IS KILLING THE EARTH I applaud Ramona Wise’s letter of Jan. 6 explaining why she didn’t have kids. I, too, made a conscious decision not to have children and don’t regret it. I was once ac- cused by a former high school classmate when we were both grandparent age, that my not having children proved I was “self- ish.” My classmate insisted that I was put on this Earth to procreate. “That’s your purpose for living,” he insisted vehemently. My response was to point out that since his children were all grown and on their own, by his logic, he no longer had a purpose for living, so why didn’t he commit suicide? Of course he disagreed with my view but offered no cogent rebuttal other than repeating his absurd assertion. Our species, Homo sapiens, has been wearing out its welcome on the planet for a long time. Despite our current ad- miration for Indigenous peoples and their reverence for nature, their ances- tors in a brief amount of evolutionary time killed off thousands of megafauna we now find frozen and fossilized. With our population as the world’s most ef- ficient killers now approaching eight billion, we are on the threshold of mass suicide by nuclear war or heating our planet to the boiling point. I have con- KRISTOF’S DOMICILE IS NOT HIS RESIDENCE The Oregon Secretary of State’s office recently confirmed that Nicholas Kristof will not have been a resident of Oregon for three years prior to May 2022, as required by our state Constitution. He is therefore ineligible to run for governor. Residency requires the physical pres- ence of the person in the state. A person can own property in three states but can only reside in one of them at any given time. For instance, in Nevada a person can become a resident and file for a di- vorce by actually living in the state for six weeks before filing. Kristof clearly has not lived in Oregon for three years prior to our May election. He has been admittedly working and liv- ing in New York. (Oregon does allow for at least one exception to the continued residency of three years requirement, which is how Congresspeople can serve at the Capitol). Kristof argues that his intent mat- ters in that he has always considered Oregon his true home. Kristof ’s intent is irrelevant to the question of residency. Domicile, however, considers intent and is where a person’s true, fixed and per- manent home, to where he will return af- ter residing somewhere else, is located. Our Constitution requires that Kristof actually live in the state for three years prior to the election, not just claim Or- egon as his home. Kristof ’s domicile is not his residence. The secretary of state understood this, and I have no doubt the courts will, too. Edward Gerdes Eugene NO SHRINKAGE We just wanted to thank the commu- nity for showing us the joy that a snow sculpture can bring. Who would have thought? Also, we would like to give a shout out to the Eugene Police Depart- ment, who tweeted, “Yes, there's a giant snow penis at 15th and Oak. No, it is not illegal.” “You’ll love how durable, natural-looking, and bio-compatible they are!” Wellness Centered Dentistry 541-868-2008 4725 Village Plaza Loop, Ste 101 Eugene, OR E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M DERREK STARK CAMILLE ORTIZ ANDREW POTTER MELANIE SPECTOR ANDREW BISANTZ VALERIE RACHELLE Papageno Tamino Pamina Sarastro Queen of the Night Artistic Director & Conductor Director fidence that our brilliance as a species will certainly find a way to kill us all off. Mother Earth will simply shrug and wait for the next infestation. 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