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Draft FY08 Work Program and describes the Planning Division’s four work program areas: Land Use <br />Code Implementation; Community Character; Regional Coordination; and Supporting Roles. Survey <br />results will be forwarded to the Planning Commission and City Council as they finalize the work program. <br />For more information about the online survey, contact Bill Almquist at 682-5437 or via e-mail at <br />bill.j.almquist@ci.eugene.or.us. <br />Banned Books Week: Lois Lowry at Eugene Public Library <br />In honor of Banned Books Week, the Eugene Public Library <br />will host a free talk by internationally-acclaimed writer Lois <br />Lowry on Wednesday, October 10, at 6:00 p. m. in the <br />Downtown Library. Dave Fidanque, Executive Director of the <br />ACLU of Oregon, will introduce Lowry. <br />This Author!Author! event celebrating free speech, the power <br />of fiction, and the love of reading is co-sponsored by the <br />Eugene Public Library Foundation, with the University of <br />Oregon Bookstore providing author-signed books for sale <br />on-site. <br />A two-time winner of the prestigious Newbery Award -- and <br />many other honors -- Lois Lowry is a prolific author whose <br />works appear on “favorites” lists of readers of all ages. Her <br />best-known title, the modern classic The Giver, is among the <br />most frequently challenged books in the U.S. (A challenge is <br />a formal, written attempt to remove a book from a library or classroom.) <br />Lowry’s many novels range from the serious – a family engaged in the Danish Resistance to Nazism <br />(Number the Stars) – to the hilarious (her Anastasia and Gooney Bird series). Nevertheless, she says, “it <br />seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human <br />connections.” <br />Commenting on the impulse to censor, Lowry suggests that “each time a child opens a book, he pushes <br />open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are <br />magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.” To learn more about Lois Lowry, visit www.loislowry.com. <br />During October, the Eugene Public Library's drop-in book groups for adults, teens, and ‘tweens share <br />views about The Giver. Lowry's provocative tale is set in a society with no poverty, crime, or sickness. <br />When young Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories, he learns the disturbing truth <br />behind his “utopian” world. For more information about events at the Eugene Public Library, call 682- <br />5450 or visit www.eugene-or.gov/library. <br />Current Delta Ponds Project Nearing Completion <br />On October 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled <br />to complete the latest in a series of projects to enhance water <br />quality, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities in the Delta <br />Ponds area. As soon as the Corps has approved completion of <br />the current project, the East Bank Trail will be reopened to bicycle <br />and pedestrian traffic. <br />In July, Pro Landscape, working under a contract managed by <br />the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, began the work of installing <br />two, 9-foot-wide, arched culverts beneath the East Bank Trail. <br />The culverts are designed to improve seasonal flows from the <br />Willamette River into the Delta Ponds and also are gated to allow <br />for flood control. The new culverts are the first of several that will <br />establish hydrologic connections between the ponds and the <br />Willamette River. Construction of the next culvert under <br />Goodpasture Island Road is anticipated in the summer of 2008. <br />TwinculvertsinstalledatDeltaPonds <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 <br />October 4, 2007 <br />