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Byline: The Register-Guard

South Eugene High to host Mr. Axeman The word axeman has a number of uses:
  • Most basically, an axeman is a person who wields an axe, such as a woodchopper, an executioner or a warrior of antiquity. From this history, it is often used for someone who abuptly ends something.
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South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall.  will host its annual Mr. Axeman Pageant at 7 p.m. Saturday in the school auditorium, 400 E. 19th Ave.

All of the proceeds will go to the Children's Miracle Network The Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is an international non-profit organization that raises funds for Children's hospitals, medical research and community awareness of children's health issues. .

The pageant is a culmination of multiple fundraising activities. Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for adults, and may be purchased the week before at the school or on the night of the pageant.

For more information, call 687-3201.

Unitarians to volunteer

in Native Plant Nursery

In celebration of Earth Day, members of the Unitarian Universalist Church will volunteer at the Native Plant Nursery in Alton Baker Park Alton Baker Park is located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, near Autzen Stadium. It features duck ponds, bicycle trails, and a dog park, and directly touches the Ferry Street Bridge.  from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Church members will build raised beds and transplant seedlings. The garden grows native plants throughout the year from seedlings.

River Road/Santa Clara

surplus book sale set

The River Road/Santa Clara Volunteer Library will hold a surplus book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the River Road annex, 1055 River Road.

Hardcover books sell for 50 cents, and paperback books for 25 cents. More than 5,000 books available, including children's books.

For more information, call 688-3303.

Starbucks workers plan Earth Day park project

SPRINGFIELD - Plenty of free caffeine will be available to people who take part in a work party Saturday at Meadow Park Meadow Park is the home of the English Southern Premier League football club Gloucester City. The club moved from their former Horton Road ground in 1986. The ground has a total capacity of 4500 with a 560-seat stand. Other than this the ground is terraced and 80% is under cover. , 851 Mill St.

Volunteers from nine area Starbucks stores will take part in the Earth Day park improvement project, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Citizens who join the effort will be provided with coffee and pastries, courtesy of Starbucks.

Projects planned for the day include erecting a new sign, making shrub shrub, any woody, perennial, bushy plant that branches into several stems or trunks at the base and is smaller than a tree. Shrubs are an important feature of permanent landscape planting, being used for formal decorative groups, hedges, screens, and background  beds, working in the playground area, painting restrooms and pressure washing the tennis courts.

Spring walk planned through Hendricks Park Hendricks Park (32 ha / 78 acres) is the oldest city park in Eugene, Oregon. Just blocks away from the University of Oregon campus, it contains mature forest, a world-renowned 12-acre rhododendron garden, and a native plant garden.  

A walk through Hendricks Park to discuss its trees and enjoy the blooming spring wildflowers will be held Sunday at 1 p.m.

Participants should meet at the Wilkins Picnic Shelter. The walk, which is free, will be held rain or shine and will be led by Whitey whit·ey also Whit·ey  
n. pl. whit·eys Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a white person or white people.

Noun 1.
 Lueck.

For more information, call 607-4066.

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