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? Colette Jonopulos is co-editor of Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry, as well as the author of two nonfiction books, The One Thing Needful and Living Waters for a Parched Land. ? Charles F. Thielman has been involved in the peace movement since 1968, and is honing a book-length manuscript under the working title "writing upright outside the lost and found.” The chapbook was created in collaboration with the Eugene Concert Choir’s performance on April 22. The choir, along with two professional soloists and the Oregon Mozart Players, expanded to symphonic size, sends a message of peace and hope. The featured work will be Ralph Vaughan Williams' moving choral masterpiece Dona Nobis Pacem, written in the mid-1930s as a warning against the rising drums of war in Europe. The text employs poems by Walt Whitman and John Bright, as well as passages from the Bible. Also featured will be Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Rachmaninoff's Vocalise and Robert Kyr's "Voices for Peace." This concert is supported by the Hult Endowment and is the culmination of a week- long "Festival of Peace." Grant Us Peace closes the Windfall Reading Series for this year. The series is co-sponsored by the Eugene Public Library and Lane Literary Guild, and will begin its next season in September. For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 682-5450. Crest Drive Community Team Moves Ahead on Agreement-Building Process The Crest Drive Community Team (CDCT) concluded its third planned process training workshop on April 6. Volunteer facilitators Josh Reckord and Bill Kentta led the participants through a group agreement-building process that will frame the decision-making, public involvement, and design development process for street improvements in the Crest Drive neighborhood. A draft group agreement has been developed, focusing on group process elements surrounding CDCT decision-making, communication, and meeting parameters. A subcommittee of the CDCT comprised of residents, neighborhood group leaders and a city staff person conducted a selection process for a facilitator who can lead the group through the project development, public outreach, and design process. Margot Helphand of Helphand & Associates has been selected, and will facilitate the first CDCT “context sensitive solutions” meeting scheduled for April 20. For more information, contact Lisa Gardner, senior transportation planner, at 682-5378. Choctaw Storyteller Tim Tingle at Eugene Public Library Award-winning storyteller and author Tim Tingle shares the lore of his people through lively historical, traditional, and personal tales on Saturday, April 22, 2 – 3 p.m at the Downtown Library. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Tingle delights audiences of elementary-school kids, teens, and adults alike. His tales are interwoven with music as he chants, sings hymns in Choctaw, and plays Native American flute, gourd rattles, and deer and whale skin drums. Tingle spent two decades collecting Native American tales, and has amassed an extensive collection of recordings of older tribal members telling their stories. His books include Walking The Choctaw Road and Texas Ghost Stories: Fifty Favorites For The Telling, and Crossing Bok Chitto, a historically based, illustrated children’s book, about a Choctaw girl who aids an escaping slave family. In addition to working a vigorous schedule of folklore and storytelling festivals across America, Tingle performs at over 100 schools annually. He has been invited for three years to perform a traditional Choctaw story before Chief Gregory Pyle's Annual State of the Nation Address at the tribal gathering in Tushkahoma, Oklahoma, a Choctaw EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 April 14, 2006