BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 3/18/04): The 19th annual Great Oregon Spring Beach Cleanup will be held March 27. The date was wrong in a Communities brief on Page D2 Wednesday. Parade, family festival to mark St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
A "wearing of the green" parade this afternoon will kick off a St. Patrick's Day Family Festival Celebration at the Vets' Building, 1626 Willamette St. The parade will begin at 5 p.m. at Charnel char·nel n. A repository for the bones or bodies of the dead; a charnel house. adj. Resembling, suggesting, or suitable for receiving the dead. Mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. Park (Charnelton Street and 17th Avenue), proceeding north to 16th Avenue, east to Willamette Street and south to the Vets' Building. Evening activities will include a "St. Bridget Noun 1. St. Bridget - Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523) Bridget, Brigid, Saint Bride, Saint Bridget, Saint Brigid, St. Bride, St. Brigid, Bride and the Byre" puppet show by Michelle Seeds; storyteller Tom McCormack (with songs, tunes and sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros ); music by the Michael Kevin Daly Band featuring Julia Heydon and Glen Waddell, with a guest appearance by Lexy Wellman, former singer with Skye; music by Sharon Rodgers and Chip Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. ; and Tony Wright and the band Eider Eider, river, Germany Eider (ī`dər), river, 117 mi (188 km) long, rising S of Kiel, N Germany, and flowing N to the Kiel Canal before turning west and meandering to the North Sea at Tönning. with guest Alison Rickenbaugh. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children under 13, free for children under 3. Irish stew Irish stew n. A stew of meat and vegetables. Noun 1. Irish stew - meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions stew - food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables , soda bread soda bread n. A quick bread leavened with baking soda and buttermilk or sour milk. soda bread Noun a type of bread raised with sodium bicarbonate and Irish tea will be available for purchase for dinner. Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., there will be a no-host bar featuring Guinness, Harp Lager, Murphy's Stout, Jameson's Whisky and Bailey's Irish Creme. Irish goods, both imported and locally handcrafted hand·craft n. Variant of handicraft. tr.v. hand·craft·ed, hand·craft·ing, hand·crafts To fashion or make by hand. hand·craft , will be offered for sale. Proceeds will benefit the An Ceangal Mara Foundation, a nonprofit Celtic cultural arts and education organization. Massages, acupuncture to raise food bank funds FOOD for Lane County will reap the benefits of a day's worth of massages and acupuncture treatments this Saturday. Licensed massage therapists Heather McCarley and Michelle Read and licensed acupuncturist Peter Chabarek are donating their services for a day to benefit the nonprofit agency's hunger relief activities. They'll provide acupuncture treatments and one-hour massages for $50 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at their downtown Eugene clinic and turn over all proceeds to FOOD for Lane County. Call Acupuncture Services at 579-5843 for appointments, or just drop in to the clinic at 492 W. Broadway. Beach cleanup program seeking volunteers The 19th annual Great Oregon Spring Beach Cleanup will be held this Saturday, and the program needs thousands of volunteers to help clean Oregon's beaches from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers should check in at one of 42 meeting sites, pick up a bag and hit the beach. Groups of 20 or more are asked to register in advance with the appropriate zone captain, listed along with meeting sites at www.solv.org or by calling (800) 333-SOLV. Last year, volunteers removed 38 tons of trash from Oregon's beaches. The worldwide event, which began in Oregon in 1984, has spread to 55 states and U.S. territories along with 109 countries and sovereign territories. Ward 8 candidate to talk to Rubicon Society Chris Pryor, candidate for Eugene City Council Ward 8, will discuss his campaign at the Rubicon Society meeting at noon Thursday at the Pearl Street Ice Cream Parlour, 1313 Pearl St. The event is open to the public. Lunch is optional. Wildlife park to operate for extended hours WINSTON - The bears are back at Wildlife Safari. After four months of hibernation, brown bears are again playing in the pond In the Pond is a 1998 novel by Ha Jin, who has also written Under the Red Flag, Ocean of Winds, and Waiting. He has been praised for his works relating to Chinese life and culture. and soaking up sun, just in time for the extended hours of spring break. The park, open weekends only during the winter, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily beginning Saturday. Admission is $14.50 for adults; $11.50 for seniors over 60 and $8.50 for children 4 to 12. For more information on spring break activities, call (541) 679-6761. 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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