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Police Volunteers to Staff Booth at Home Improvement Show This weekend, Lane County homeowners and others will flock to the fairgrounds to attend the 2004 Lane County Home Improvement Show, expecting to find information and suppliers for home projects. What they'll also find may be a little more unexpected - a booth that will be chock-full of helpful information about how to protect those nice home improvements once they've been made. Employees and volunteers with the Eugene Police Department's Volunteers In Policing Program will be staffing a booth at the home improvement show beginning tomorrow and running through Sunday, October 7 - 10. Did you know you can request extra patrol checks by a police volunteer team while you're out of town? Or have a trained crime prevention specialist come to your home and conduct a home safety inspection--also at no cost to you? A variety of community policing, crime prevention and volunteer recruitment materials will be available, including brochures, flyers and useful resources (such as information on Home Vacation Checks, Volunteers In Policing, Child Safety Seats, Preventing Car Break-Ins, Home Safety Inspections, Neighborhood Watch and the Citizens' Police Academy); free gun locks also will be distributed. In addition to the regularly staffed booth, on Saturday, October 9, Ken Metzler of the Police Department's Volunteer Speakers' Bureau will give a presentation on Consumer Scams, Fraud and Identity Theft at one of the Lane County Home Improvement Show workshops. This workshop will be held from 11:00 a.m.- noon in the Green Thumb Garden Theater (Room 4-West, off the south hall lobby.) The Lane County Home Improvement show is open: · Thursday, October 7 -- 5:00 to 9:30 p.m. · Friday, October 8 -- 5:00 to 9:30 p.m. · Saturday, October 9 -- 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Fraud and Identity Theft Workshop -- 11:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.) · Sunday, October 10-- 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. The Volunteers In Policing Program is currently recruiting volunteers to staff the Squad Car Maintenance Team and the Public Safety Substations, as well as for a pool of volunteer receptionists to staff a police information line. Anyone interested in volunteering is encouraged to call the Volunteers in Policing office at 682-5355. West University Neighbors Information Fair On Saturday, October 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the former West University Park (E. 14TM Avenue between Hilyard and Patterson) will be the site of a unique event put on by the West University Neighbors (WUN), the local neighborhood association. A special-use permit was granted to the neighborhood association to use the site for its 'WUN Info-Fair" and neighborhood meeting. Information about neighborhood businesses and local non-profits will be available. Free bike engraving, voter registration, refreshments, and door prizes will also be featured during the Info-Fair. Neighbors can learn about their neighborhood association, the neighborhood alley improvement project, Eugene Parks and Open Space, volunteer opportunities, proposed housing standards, and more. City Councilor David Kelly and mayoral nominee Kitty Piercy are planning to attend to talk with fairgoers. The WUN's October meeting will take place from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Neighbors are especially encouraged to learn about and participate in the WUN Map Project, scheduled to take place on October 16. Information about the project will be available during the Info-Fair. The WUN Map Project is a collaborative effort between the West University Neighbors and Mark Schlossberg's 'Applied Geographic Information Systems and Social Planning' class at the University of Oregon. The class will work with volunteer neighborhood residents to create a digital map of the area, using handheld mapping devices. The goal is to help neighborhood residents address some of their concerns while increasing students' awareness of community-building and improving students' technical skills with the mapping devices. Fair visitors will be able to try the mapping device and sign up to help on October 16. For more information about the West University Neighbors or other City neighborhood associations, contact Steve Norris, Planning and Development, 682-5009, or e-mail steve'd'n°rris~'ci'eu'qene'°r'us' EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 October 7, 2004