Agency seeks human rights nominees.Byline: SPRINGFIELD/CITY BEAT By Bob Keefer The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect, also known as SAfER, is seeking nominations for its human rights award, which will be given at an event celebrating the life of Cesar Chavez Noun 1. Cesar Chavez - United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927) Cesar Estrada Chavez, Chavez on April 12. The person selected should demonstrate the values of social justice set forth by leaders such as Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt. The nominee nominee n. 1) a person or entity who is requested or named to act for another, such as an agent or trustee. 2) a potential successor to another's rights under a contract. must live or work in Springfield and be involved in human rights issues, either as an individual or through an organization. "Through personal commitment and action in support of equality and respect, a nominee will be a person who exemplifies the spirit of Chavez and others who have dedicated their lives to human rights," an announcement from SAfER said. The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. Monday. They should be sent to P.O. Box 1214, Springfield, OR 97477; faxed to 485-0257; or e-mailed to calc@efn.org. SAfER presents its Human Rights Leadership Awards three times a year. Previous recipients include Nancy Bray, Stan STAN Stanchion STAN Stärke- und Ausrüstungsnachweis (German) Stan Standard Man (human patient simulator) STAN SEMCIP Technical Assistance Network STAN System Trace Audit Number STAN Star Trek Area Network Paine, Jaime Johnson, Pat Riggs-Henson, James Mattiace, Dennis Shine, Gloria Griffith, Paulette Ansari, Rita Wallace, Jim Garcia and Judy Harold. Sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. cafes should gain approval - again On March 21, the City Council adopted an ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been authorizing sidewalk cafes in Springfield. The ordinance allows existing restaurants to serve food at sidewalk tables in front of their businesses if pedestrians can easily get by. On Monday the council is expected to do it all over again. Len Goodwin, technical services manager for the city, said that because of a clerical error an error made in copying or writing. See also: Clerical , the version of the ordinance that the council passed last month was not the updated version it had intended to pass. The new version contains a couple changes from the original proposal. One removes a proposed restriction on alcohol sales - that's the business of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) is an agency of the U.S. state of Oregon. The OLCC was created by an act of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1933 as a means of providing control over the distribution, sales and consumption of alcoholic beverages. , councilors reasoned - and the other allows an informal sketch sketch, a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right. of the premises, rather than a scale drawing, in the application. "It's a very technical thing," said Goodwin. "But rather than take even the slightest chance that someone would object, we thought we'd just have them pass it again." Bob Keefer can be reached at 338-2325 or bkeefer@ guardnet.com. |
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