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Eugene Garners Health and Safety Awards <br />Healthiest Employer Award: For the fourth year in a row, the City of Eugene was named one of Oregon's top 10 <br />healthiest employers of its size by the Portland Business Journal. The mission of the Healthiest Employer <br />Program is to reward companies which demonstrate innovation and leadership in their workplace <br />wellness initiatives. Organizations were assessed in six key categories: culture and <br />leadership commitment; foundational components; strategic planning; <br />communications and marketing; programming and interventions, and reporting and <br />analysis. <br /> <br />LOC/CIS Safety Award: The City of Eugene was presented with the top safety award at the 2013 <br />League of Oregon Cities (LOC) annual conference. The award is a joint recognition from LOC and <br />Citycounty Insurance Services (CIS). This year CIS created a separate category for large employers and <br />the City of Eugene was the first large employer to receive the Gold Safety Award, which is given to the employer with the <br />lowest injury frequency rate. <br /> <br />For more information, contact Risk Services Director Myrnie Daut, Central Services Department, at 541-682-5790. <br /> <br />Staff Team Wins “Award of Merit” for Eugene@150 Celebration <br />City staff who planned and implemented last year’s celebration of Eugene’s150th anniversary received an Award of Merit <br />from the Public Relations Society of America Portland Chapter at a ceremony on Oct. 17. The award recognizes those who <br />have “raised the standards of public relations through the use of successful tactics, <br />campaigns and programs.” <br /> <br />Events of the four-month celebration coordinated by the staff team included a <br />kickoff party downtown; the creation and installation of a Blue Heron public art <br />sculpture dedicated to the anniversary; creation and playing of the Passport to <br />History game that asked children to find historical structures around town for a <br />chance to win a prize; walking, biking and driving tours of historical buildings; <br />presentations on historical topics at the Eugene Public Library, development of an <br />interactive map of historical places and a “Eugene@150Places” app for iPhone; <br />writing and producing a video curriculum of Eugene’s history for fourth graders; a <br />commemorative brewing of a “Commonwealth” beer; and a birthday celebration <br />that included a procession to downtown Eugene, cakes decorated with images of <br />historical buildings, and the singing of “Happy Birthday.” <br /> <br />The anniversary celebration planned by the City staff team was truly a community event. The team invited residents to put <br />on their own events under the umbrella of the Eugene@150 mission and logo and asked: “What’s your 150?” As a result, <br />dozens of resident-organized events complemented those planned by the staff team. <br /> <br />Members of the staff team pictured are: Billie Moser, Kathy Madison (both Library, Recreation and Cultural Services <br />[LRCS]) and Jan Bohman (Central Services/City Manager’s Office [CS/CMO]). Other staff team members included Karina <br />Fon and Matt McRae (CS/CMO); LaVena Nohrenberg, Tom Powers and Isaac Marquez (LRCS); Eric Jones, Kim Mast, Jeffrey <br />Flowers and Lorna Baldwin (Public Works), and Laura Hammond, Becky Taylor, Nancy Young, and Steven Ochs (Planning <br />and Development Department). <br /> <br />For more information, contact Jan Bohman at 541-682-5587. <br /> <br />Famed Poet Billy Collins at Eugene Public Library <br />The Downtown Eugene Public Library will host a reading by Billy Collins, the United States <br />Poet Laureate for 2001 – 2003, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Collins’ work has inspired both <br />critical acclaim and extraordinary popularity. Collins considers humor “a door into the <br />serious,” leading to poems that are funny, tender, quirky, moving, and profound observations <br />of everyday life. <br /> <br />Often heard on National Public Radio, Collins has been widely honored, including as the <br />inaugural recipient of Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry and winner <br />of the 2013 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. His latest book is “Aimless <br />Love: New and Selected Poems 2003 – 2013.” <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />October 24, 2013 <br />