COMMUNITIES BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran June 8, 2007): The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife will not be providing fishing poles and tackle for those wishing to fish during a volunteer fair Saturday in Oakridge at Greenwater Park. A brief on Page E2 Thursday had incorrect information. Class has answers to homebuyer questions The nonprofit Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation will hold an Community Homeownership Workshop on Monday for first-time home buyers who want to learn more about purchasing real estate. The class will be 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at NEDCO'S Home Ownership Center at 783 Grant St. in Eugene. Topics include financial preparation for home buying, finding a good mortgage and how to deal with credit and debt issues. It also covers special loan and down payment assistance programs available to first-time and rural home buyers, including the Oregon State Bond low-interest loan, rural development loans and the PAL down payment assistance program available in rural areas. There's no fee for the class. Advance registration required. For information or to sign up, call The Homeownership Center of Lane County at 345-7106 or e-mail nedcocdc.org. Howard Elementary School elementary school: see school. schedules carnival Howard Elementary School, at 700 Howard Ave., holds its annual carnival today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will include games, prizes, food, a silent auction and raffles. Carnival booth tickets are five for $1, raffle tickets are 50 cents and $1, and food items range from 75 cents to $3.50. For information, call the school at 687-3365. Franklin corridor study to be discussed The City Club of Eugene on Friday will hear from local architects about the Franklin corridor study. The meeting, which begins at 11:50 a.m. at the Downtown Athletic Club The Downtown Athletic Club was an athletic club in a 35-story building located at 19 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It was founded in 1926. By 1927, it had purchased this site next to the Hudson River to construct its own building. , is open to the public. Admission is $3. Oregon legislation and budget update offered An update on state legislation and the budget will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday at the Hilyard Community Center, 2580 Hilyard St., Eugene. The event is sponsored by the Advocacy Committee of Senior and Disabled Services. Call 682-4432. Dorris Ranch log cabin log cabin or log house, style of home typical of the American pioneer on the Western frontier of the United States in the great westward expansion after 1765. It was constructed with few tools, usually an axe or an adz and an auger. construction planned SPRINGFIELD - Volunteers will build a replica of the William and Eliza Masterson log cabin at Dorris Ranch on Saturday. Draft horses draft horses see draft animals. will pull the logs into place at a ceremony at 11 a.m. Visitors can help peel logs; costumed historical interpreters will also be on hand. Twelve teachers from Springfield, Crow/Applegate/Lorane, and Fern Ridge schools secured federal grant money to pay for the reconstruction of the Masterson cabin for use in educational programs at Dorris Ranch. The three-year Teaching American History grant, facilitated by Lane Educational Service District, is overseen by the U.S. Department of Education. Weyerhaeuser Co. donated the logs, roof shakes and split rail fencing. William and Eliza Masterson set out on the Oregon Trail Oregon Trail, overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon). The pioneers by wagon train did not, however, follow any single narrow route. in 1851 with their five young children. They settled in a simple 12-by-16-foot log cabin nestled in the oak savanna An oak savanna is a type of savanna, or lightly-forested grassland, with oaks as the dominant tree species. California oak savannas
River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. . For information, call Willamalane Park and Recreation District at 954-7213 or visit Dorris Ranch's Web site at www.dorrisranch.org. Parking lot sale to benefit women's studies The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is holding a parking lot sale Saturday to benefit its scholarship program. The sale takes place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church can refer to:
Proceeds from the sale, which is being held by women educators, fund scholarships awarded to women studying education in college. Mad Hatter Mad Hatter crazy gentleman who co-hosts mad tea party. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] See : Madness Tea Party on tap at Elks Lodge SPRINGFIELD - Springfield Emblem Club No. 506 is having a Mad Hatter Tea Party from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The fund-raiser features a Mad Hat Contest and a raffle. It will be held at the Springfield Elks Lodge, 1701 Centennial Blvd., near Mohawk Boulevard in Springfield. The cost is $5. RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. to Glenda Van Blaricom at 746-8392 or Sandy Hagues at 747-0444. Hands-on composting workshop to be given The city of Eugene will sponsor a hands-on composting workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the River House Community Garden, 301 North Adams St., along the Willamette River bike path. The free class will be conducted by OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. Lane County master gardeners. For more information, call the Solid Waste and Recycling Program at 682-5542. Aviation job fair coming up at airport Lane Community College and Horizon Air will hold an aviation job fair on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. Flight Technology Center at Eugene Airport. For more information, call 463-4195 or visit www.lanecc.edu/flight. Readers theater presented at AAUW AAUW abbr. American Association of University Women meeting The American Association of University Women ''This article or section is being rewritten at The American Association of University Women (AAUW) advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. will hold its monthly program and meeting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Eugene Water & Electric Board. The Branch Readers' Theater will present a collection of short stories and poems. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call Greta Fridlund at 344-4134 or visit www.eugeneaauw.org. Day of free fishing, archery, information slated OAKRIDGE - The Oregon Rangers Association will hold a volunteer fair and free fishing day Saturday at Greenwater Park in Oakridge. Participants can learn about public and private service groups that maintain streams, rivers, forests and wilderness trails. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife will provide fishing poles and tackle for those interested in fishing. Archers can practice archery skills and pull a bow with Bow Tech staff. Some other attendees and displays will include: Oregon Coast Guard Auxiliary, BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines , U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Equestrian Trails, REI Recreational Equipment and Cascades Raptor Center The Cascades Raptor Center is a nature center and wildlife hospital in Eugene, Oregon, that specializes in raptor rehabilitation. They have a large collection of live birds of prey on display. . For information, visit www.oregonrangers.org or call (541) 998-3788 or (541) 554-6143. Free fishing for children offered at Leaburg LEABURG - Lane Transit District will sponsor free bus shuttles Saturday to a free fishing event sponsored by the state Department of Fish & Wildlife at Leaburg Reservoir. The free fishing, for children 13 and younger, will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shuttles will run from the Leaburg Community Center bus stop to the dam from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The last shuttle will depart from the community center at 1 p.m. There is no parking at the hatchery hatchery a commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry. hatchery liquid the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture. next to the dam. Participants must register at the community center between 8 a.m. and noon. No registration will be accepted at the hatchery. There is a three-fish limit. Parents must accompany children at all times but must allow their children to catch the fish. The Fish & Wildlife department will provide life jackets, fishing equipment and fish-packing ice. Call LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability at 687-5555 for more information. 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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