Candidates advance unchallenged.Byline: The Register-Guard Eugene city council candidates George Poling and Mike Clark won't have to stay up late on election night. Poling and Clark don't have opponents in the May 16 primary, so they will automatically advance as candidates to the Nov. 7 ballot. Poling is seeking a second four-year term to represent Ward 4, which covers the eastern part of the city, north of the Willamette River Willamette River 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. . Clark, in his first bid for City Council, is running for the Ward 5 seat now held by Councilor coun·cil·or also coun·cil·lor n. A member of a council, as one convened to advise a governor. See Usage Note at council. coun Gary Pape, who decided not to seek a third term. Ward 5 encompasses the area north of the Willamette River bounded by Oakway and Gilham roads on the east and the river/River Road on the west. City Council races are officially nonpartisan non·par·ti·san adj. Based on, influenced by, affiliated with, or supporting the interests or policies of no single political party: a nonpartisan commission; nonpartisan opinions. , meaning candidates don't have to win a political party's nomination to advance to the fall election. Poling is a Democrat; Clark, a Republican. - Edward Russo WARD 4 CANDIDATE George Poling Personal: 56, married, one daughter. Education: Bachelor's degree, criminology criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see , California State University Enrollment  at Long Beach.
Work experience: Retired sergeant, Lane County Sheriff's Office. U.S. Marine Corp. Military Reserve. Civic experience: Elected city councilor, 2002. WARD 5 CANDIDATE Mike Clark Personal: 42, married, two children. Education: Attended University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. , political science major. Work experience: Advertising and marketing executive, president, Marketing Consultants Inc., Eugene; advertising sales, KLSR Fox TV, KUGN Radio, Eugene. Civic experience: City budget committee. |
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