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climate change including:
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<br /> Food and Agriculture
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<br /> Land Use and Transportation
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<br /> Buildings and Energy
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<br /> Health and Social Services
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<br /> Natural Resources
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<br /> Consumption and Waste
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<br />Dates and locations for these topic discussions will be available soon. More information, including a short report
<br />discussing the climate and energy issues that will be addressed in this plan, is now available online at
<br />www.sustaineugene.com/eugeneclimate. For more information, contact Matt McRae at 682-5864 or
<br />Matt.a.McRae@ci.eugene.or.us.
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<br />Family Friendly River Festival Bigger and Better
<br />The Whiteaker Neighborhood River Festival, hosted by Recreation’s
<br />Youth and Family Program on Friday, July 24, boasts Oregon’s largest
<br />“slip-n-slide,” kayak try-outs, a Fun For All Zone, live music by Samba
<br />Ja, Library summer reading activities, free food and, new this year,
<br />circus acts. Activities get underway at 4:00 p.m. in Maurie Jacobs Park,
<br />behind the River House Community Center at 301 Adams St.
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<br />Beginning at 7:30, activities move to nearby Sladden Park with a youth
<br />concert, featuring local Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and
<br />Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) youth, and the movie, Bridge to
<br />Tarabithia, at 9:00 p.m. For more information, call Roger Bailey at 682-
<br />6323.
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<br />BRING It Home Tour Highlights Creative Reuse Ideas for Home and Garden
<br />The City of Eugene guide2Green Program is a sponsor of the BRING It Home Tour on July 26 – a tour of 20
<br />innovative and green homes and gardens in Eugene, Springfield and Cottage Grove. Tour sites will feature low-
<br />cost ways to go green, including green and solar design, water catchment, food production and reuse of materials.
<br />From scrap art gates, water catchment projects and dirt floors to architect-designed homes - the BRING It Home
<br />Tour will inspire and educate.
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<br />This self-guided tour, presented by Friends of BRING Recycling and the Northwest Ecobuilding Guild, is part of the
<br />Solar Oregon and American Solar Energy Society 2009 Solar Tour. Tickets for the tour are $8 in advance and $12
<br />the day of the event. Children 12 and under are free. Tickets are available at: BRING, Lane Forest Products, Down
<br />to Earth, True Value Hardware, The Green Store, Capella Market, SeQuential Biofuels, Smith Family Bookstores
<br />and Kalapuya Books in Cottage Grove. For more information, visit www.bringrecycling.org or contact Michele
<br />Piastro at 606-9093 or michelep@bringrecycling.org.
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<br />YouTube Video Touts Adaptive Recreation Award
<br />An award the City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation Services received for bringing the National Institute on
<br />Recreation Inclusion conference to Eugene is now the subject of a YouTube post that includes information about
<br />the program’s nation-leading services and facility. Travel Lane County presented the award at its annual Visitor
<br />industry Celebration. For more information, contact Andy Fernandez at 682-6049.
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<br />Fire & EMS Taps Former Wastewater Employee As New Deputy Fire Marshal
<br />Adhering to hiring guidelines necessitated by the City’s budget circumstances, the Fire & EMS Department was
<br />fortunate to recruit and hire Austin Brushett, a former Maintenance Worker 3 at the City’s Wastewater Treatment
<br />Plant, to serve as the newest Deputy Fire Marshal in the Fire Prevention Section. Austin’s
<br />credentials for his new position include an Associate’s Degree in Fire Science from
<br />Southwestern Oregon Community College. With Fire Prevention, he will begin by
<br />concentrating on job shadowing, training, and achieving additional technical certifications,
<br />and will ultimately be assigned to one or more of the section’s regular functions, which
<br />include fire code enforcement, plan review, construction inspection and public education,
<br />among others. The hiring of Austin brings the Prevention Section a step closer to its full
<br />authorized staffing level, but the position of Fire Marshal remains vacant pending longer-term
<br />decisions that may result from the recently released Eugene-Springfield fire service
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<br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2
<br />July 23, 2009
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