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• America's college football fans will
look to Eugene at 12:30 pm Saturday,
Sept. 23, when the Colorado Buff aloes
visit the Ducks. Oregon and Colorado
are both undefeated at 3-0 and ranked in
the top 20. Colorado's new coach, Deion
“Coach Prime” Sanders, never met a
spotlight he did not love, and the Ducks
are not shy about drawing attention. 60
Minutes called Colorado the “unlikely
epicenter of college football.” Can the
Ducks steal the Buff s’ thunder?
• Ballots for that janky Portland-
based Recall Paul Holvey campaign
have been mailed. Vote “no!” We need
solid voices and votes like Holvey’s in
the Legislature, not petulant recall
campaigns.
• What we’re reading: Remarkably
Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
is charming, funny and heartbreaking
by turn. The novel, set in Washington
state — and partially narrated by a
giant Pacifi c octopus, bringing in a waft
of magical realism — looks at family, love
and second, and third, chances. The
audiobook version is deftly narrated
for those who prefer a listen.
• Annette Montero, a homeless
woman who died in 2019 under the
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on her candidacy at EugeneWeekly.
com. An architect, city planner and
former Oregon track star, she could
get plenty done.
wheels of a garbage truck as she slept
on the pavement in an alley in Eugene,
at last got a form of justice on Sept. 15
when a jury found Sanipac — owner of
the truck — to be mostly responsible
for Montero’s death. Sanipac’s initial
evasions didn’t help its case, Montero’s
lawyers said, and the company has
been ordered to pay $360,000 to her
family. Sanipac initially off ered the family
$9,999, the lawyers say. That sounds
depressingly like a discount price for a
human life. Read about the settlement
at EugeneWeekly.com.
• The Wall Street Journal article, in
print and online, “Inside Exxon's Strat-
egy to Downplay Climate Change,”
should be required reading for every
American. It tells how Exxon has known
for a long time the damage that fossil
fuels are doing to the climate but had a
strategy to downplay it. The WSJ says
that Exxon currently plans to spend $25
billion a year in capital expenditures
through 2027, mostly on oil and gas.
Ponder that the next time an unsea-
sonable and unsustainable hot, dry day
fi lled with wildfi re smoke hits Oregon.
• We have been asking for a parade
and there’s one being planned! At 7
pm Saturday, Oct. 14, there will be a
“human and electric powered parade of
Eugene’s unique quirk” from downtown
Eugene to the 5th Street Public Market.
Parade entries are being accepted
through Sept. 30 and must be human
• On Sept. 15, the state Fish and
Wildlife Commission voted unanimously
to prohibit wildlife killing contests for
coyotes and other species classifi ed as
unprotected mammals in Oregon. In
wildlife killing contests, the participants
compete for cash and prizes for killing
the most, the biggest and the smallest
coyotes and other wildlife within a set
time period. Eugene’s Cascadia Wild-
lands and Predator Defense were among
the groups advocating for the ban.
or electric-powered and can include
marchers, dancers, creative lighting,
costumes, bicycles, strollers, wagons,
animals and musicians. Find out more
at ArtCityEugene.com.
• With Lucy Vinis' recent announce-
ment that she will not be running for
mayor again, we should think about
what we want our next mayor to do.
Send us your ideas — Editor@Eugene-
Weekly.com — and we will put them
out there for all to see, and then see
what the new mayor does about them.
Kaarin Knudson has thrown her hat
into the ring, and you can see our story
• Congratulations to Bill Rauch,
former artistic director of the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, whose vision
helped New York City’s new $500 million
Perelman Performing Arts Center —
where he was named inaugural artistic
director in 2018 — to make its glittery
debut this week at Ground Zero. Rauch,
who in his decade at OSF transformed
that distinguished regional theater into
one known nationally, had this to say
when asked by The New York Times
whether the Big Apple now has one
too many big performing arts centers:
“When every man, woman and child
who lives in the fi ve boroughs of New
York City has a life that is saturated in
performing arts, then we can begin to
talk about whether there’s too much.”
Way to go, Bill!
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