City/Region Digest.Byline: The Register-Guard LOCAL Walk/run to benefit food agency program Walkers and runners are invited to participate in FOOD for Lane County's benefit Million Meals Walk/Run today at Eugene's 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. . Options are a one-mile family fun walk, a 5K walk/run or a 10K run. Participants can walk alone or with a team. Check-in is at the park from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. The event starts at 8:45 a.m., with entertainment and refreshments at 10 a.m. at the park's South Shelter. There will also be awards, door prizes and a special appearance by The Great Blue Whale blue whale, a baleen whale, Balaenoptera musculus. Also called the sulphur-bottom whale and Sibbald's rorqual, it is the largest animal that has ever lived. Blue whales have been known to reach a length of 100 ft (30. , with storytelling for kids of all ages. Officers, dog nab burglary suspect Eugene police arrested a suspect at the scene of a burglary early Friday. Robert Lee Robert Lee is the name of several people and could refer to:
Patrol officer J.R. Frost and his police dog, Rocky, found a back door pried pried 1 v. Past tense and past participle of pry1. open when they arrived at the Solon Solon, Athenian statesman Solon (sō`lən), c.639–c.559 B.C., Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and reformer. He was also a poet, and some of his patriotic verse in the Ionic dialect is extant. At some time (perhaps c.600 B.C. DeLange in the 2700 block of Willakenzie Road just after 1 a.m. A second officer who responded to the reported break-in saw an individual inside who ignored their warnings that a police dog would be released if he did not surrender, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a police report. Instead, the man broke out a window on the north side of the building, jumped out and tried to flee. He was immediately arrested by nearby officers, police said. REGION Alcohol sale sting nets 2 businesses cqo OAKRIDGE - Police have cited two Oakridge businesses for providing alcohol to a minor in a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) that police Chief Louis Gomez said will be continued throughout the year. "The city of Oakridge has seen a drastic rise in the amount of alcohol-related incidents involving minors," Gomez said. "Part of the rise is due to alcohol being purchased by older family members and due to clerks not asking for identification. These operations are one of the tools being used to help change attitudes about underage drinking." Plans are being made for public meetings in the community to discuss the issue, Gomez said. The undercover operation, involving a minor who tried to buy alcohol at seven local businesses, is funded through grants administered by the Lane County Prevention Coalition and the county's Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS . Cited in the sting were employees at Break Time Tavern on East First Street and at Dink's Market on Highway 58 on the east side of Oakridge, Gomez said. |
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