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contract for the Energy Assistance Program with EWEB, the center was able to accept a stipend from
<br />EWEB to underwrite the cost of the dinner. Gunderson spread the word of the event in the neighborhood.
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<br />EWEB scheduled the outage when a routine inspection revealed several power poles and overhead
<br />wires were in immediate need of repair. Logan explained that without the scheduled outage to maintain
<br />the system, the neighborhood risked an electrical failure that likely would have resulted in a much longer
<br />outage and greater inconvenience. As it turned out, the outage brought a neighborhood together for a
<br />dinner served with, appropriately, fresh squeezed lemonade! For more information, contact Yvaughn
<br />Tompkins, 682-6315.
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<br />Eugene Special Events Team (Eset) Website
<br />Last year, the City formed a new, multi-departmental service team to improve the organization’s ability to
<br />help event planners secure permits, licenses and/or rental forms for everything from a wedding rental in
<br />a community center to a large scale event that closes downtown streets. This week, the team is rolling
<br />out a new webpage on the City's site that provides tips and guidance on key items related to special
<br />events, access to PDF copies of applications, links to other agencies, a variety of calendars to see
<br />competing activities, and names and phone numbers of City staff that can assist planners.
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<br />The site also includes an online Event Notification Form that will send email alerts to the service team
<br />members about prospective, large-scale events. The service team plans to meet monthly to review
<br />proposals and address issues that arise from the wide range of private and community special events
<br />that occur in area parks, centers, pools, libraries and public rights-of-way.
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<br />Thanks to the following team members: Peter Aquilar and Derel Schulz, EPD; Jan Bohman, CMO;
<br />Randy Dewit, EFD, Andy Fernandez and Tim Patrick, Recreation; Kevin Finney and Richard Zucker,
<br />POS; Cathy Joseph, Risk; Katharine Kappa, PDD; Tom Larsen and Donna Stark, PW, and Mark
<br />Loigman, Cultural Services. For more information, contact Tim Patrick at 682-6347.
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<br />City Staffer Earns Waste Prevention Recognition
<br />Anne Donahue of Eugene’s Planning and Development Department has received the 2008 Alice
<br />Soderwall Reuse and Waste Prevention Award. The award was presented by the Association of Oregon
<br />Recyclers at its conference in Seaside, June 5-7. The annual award recognizes an individual or
<br />nonprofit organization that has gone “beyond the norm” to reuse materials and prevent waste and has
<br />made a significant impact on the community as a result. Colleagues from around the state nominated
<br />Donahue for the award, noting: “Throughout the state, when waste reduction educators, institutions or
<br />schools have a question about composting, they turn to Anne Donohue for the answers. Anne…works
<br />zealously to research, pilot, prove and spread the word about reducing food and food packaging waste
<br />and composting.” The award was first presented in 1995 and honors the late Alice Soderwall, who
<br />established the BRING Recycling Glass Station in Eugene in the early 1970s.
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<br />Donahue has worked in Eugene’s Solid Waste and Recycling Program for nine years, coordinating
<br />organic waste prevention programming and Oregon Green Schools. Some of Donahue’s
<br />accomplishments are helping set up Earth Tubs at six Eugene 4J schools, writing “One Rotten
<br />Curriculum” on best practices for school composting, and organizing two statewide Oregon Green School
<br />summits in Eugene. For more information, please contact Anne Donahue,
<br />anne.c.donahue@ci.eugene.or.us, 682-5542, or Nancy Young, nancy.a.young@ci.eugene.or.us, 682-
<br />6849.
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<br />New Hult Center Website
<br />The Hult Center is excited to announce the debut of a new look and upgraded technology for
<br />HultCenter.org. Over six months of work went into the re-design and upgrade of the content
<br />management system, which includes hundreds of ticketed and free-event descriptions, photos, graphics,
<br />and information pages. This fresh, less-cluttered look should make finding information easier for the
<br />approximately 10,000 unique visitors per week. The “old” look and its content management system was
<br />three years old (which in technology terms means “when dinosaurs roamed the earth.”)
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<br />The Hult Center is especially appreciative to web designer Dual-Sided Media of downtown Eugene,
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<br />which brought 6 Street Grill to the Hult Center as a sponsor of the re-design, while the Hult Center
<br />provided the budget for the technology upgrades. For more information, please contact Billie Moser, Hult
<br />Center marketing and PR manager, at 541.682.8380.
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<br />June 12, 2008
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