BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Clinic to offer assistance in checking child seats Lane County Healthy Start will offer a free child safety seat check-up clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Eugene fire station at West Second Avenue and Chambers Street Chambers Street is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, at south of the Old Town. The street is named after William Chambers of Glenormiston, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who was the main proponent of the 1867 Edinburgh Improvement Act, which gave permission for the street's . Child safety seat technicians will be available to assist with the correct installation and information about child safety seat recalls. No registration is required. For more information, contact the Lane County Healthy Start car seat information line at 682-2045. Chamber, alumni group to hold annual auction SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce and the UO Alumni Association An alumni association is an association of graduates (alumni) or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni will host the sixth annual Tailgate A conversion layer that lets IDE devices connect to the IEEE 1394 Firewire interface. Auction Friday at the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center in downtown Eugene. For more information, call 746-1651. Rubicon Society to focus on future of Springfield The Rubicon Society of Lane County will meet at noon Thursday at the Pearl Street Ice Cream Parlour, 1313 Pearl St. Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken will discuss "Springfield after Sony." Visitors are welcome. Lunch is optional. For more information, contact Milt Krueger at 431-7359. Big donation helps bring BRING closer to expansion The Meyer Memorial Trust has given BRING Recycling $60,000 to help the nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. build a new headquarters in Glenwood. BRING qualified for the matching grant matching grant Academia Non-peer-reviewed funding in which a commercial enterprise, foundation, or philanthropy, federal government, contributes a sum of money that 'matches' a financial contribution made by an institution, university or hospital. after it raised an equal amount from 81 local donors in the past year. The trust, created by the late retail magnate Fred G. Meyer Fred G. Meyer (born February 21, 1886 – died September 2, 1978) was a pioneering U.S. retailer. Born Frederick Grubmeyer in Brooklyn, 1886, he travelled through the American West before settling in Portland, Oregon in 1909, where he founded a horse drawn coffee service , previously gave the recycling group $50,000 to help launch its first-ever fund-raising drive Noun 1. fund-raising drive - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported . BRING has raised about $360,000 for the first phase of its move to a 2.8-acre lot it owns on Franklin Boulevard in Glenwood. The organization hopes to raise another $840,000 by the end of 2004 and relocate to the site in 2005. The group already is remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling one of two existing buildings on the new lot, formerly the home of Burkett Trailer Sales & Service. BRING's headquarters and used materials yard now are in cramped quarters off Interstate 5 east of Lane Community College. The new location, 2 1/2 times larger, will allow the organization to expand educational programs and services. BRING was started 32 years ago and is one of the nation's oldest non-profit recyclers. Send announcements to: Briefly News at The Register-Guard, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440, fax 683-7631 or e-mail rgnews@guardnet.com |
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