Covered bridge graces new, approved county logo.Byline: COUNTY BEAT by Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard THANK GOODNESS, Lane County finally has approved its permanent logo design. After months of hashing Creating hash totals or hash tables. See hash total and hash table. hashing - hash coding and rehashing, the county commissioners have adopted the final design for a new symbol to represent Lane County on stationery, brochures, hats and uniforms, bumper stickers and reports. The latest - and last - change adds a covered-bridge shape in the background of the already accepted design that incorporates a Douglas fir Douglas fir: see pine. Douglas fir Any of about six species of coniferous evergreen timber trees (see conifer) that make up the genus Pseudotsuga, in the pine family, native to western North America and eastern Asia. above water waves. The symbol reflects the county's vast areas of forest, important inland and coastal waterways The list of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth. International waterways
But don't look for the new logo to appear everywhere all at once. Items containing the old letter "L" design will be used up rather than discarded. Historic painting saved Thanks to a county resident with sharp eyes and a long memory, a beautiful landscape painting representing a young couple enjoying a ridgetop picnic during the late 1920s or early '30s has been saved and restored. Nearly 8 feet wide and more than 5 feet high and painted in oils on canvas, "Lane County Afternoon" will hang in the Lane County Historical Museum on the Lane County Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. at 796 W. 13th Ave. in Eugene. County Commissioner Bill Dwyer unveiled the restored artwork Monday, just before delivering this year's State of the County address. Alert county resident Scott Bartlett had admired the painting since he first rented a bicycle from Collins Cycle Shop in his student days in 1965, Dwyer said. In 1981, Bartlett realized the painting was no longer on the wall and asked what happened to it. Told it had been taken down and put next to the store's trash bin for disposal because of its deteriorated condition, Bartlett took the painting and turned it over to the museum, where it sat for about 15 years before receiving a museum-quality restoration by a team of art conservation experts in Portland and Seattle. Dwyer named MPC (1) (Mobile PC) A handheld or laptop computer. See handheld computer, laptop computer and Ultra-Mobile PC. (2) (MultiPath Channel) See multipath. chairman The Metropolitan Policy Committee has elected Dwyer chairman and Eugene City 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 Bonny Bonny (bŏn`ē), town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta, on the Bight of Biafra. In the 18th and 19th cent., Bonny was the center of a powerful trading state, and in the 19th cent. it became the leading site for slave exportation in W Africa. Bettman vice chairwoman. Each will serve a one-year term. Established in 1987, the MPC is an intergovernmental committee that promotes problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. and serves as an issues-resolution body for city of Eugene, city of Springfield and Lane County. The committee includes two elected officials from each jurisdiction. The city managers of Eugene and Springfield and Lane County's administrator serve as nonvoting members. Other representatives join the committee when it considers metropolitan transportation matters (the Lane Transit District A transit district or transit authority is a special-purpose district organized as either a corporation chartered by statute, or a government agency, created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. ) or regional parks and open space study matters (the Willamalane Parks and Recreation District in Springfield). The committee also has oversight responsibility for the cable TV franchise with AT&T Broadband. Lane County reporter Randi Bjornstad can be reached at 338-2321 or by e-mail at rbjornstad@guardnet.com |
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