Oregon's Springfield in tight battle for premiere.Byline: Jack Moran The Register-Guard Early returns Tuesday showed Springfields in Oregon, Illinois Oregon is a city located in Ogle County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,060. It is the county seat of Ogle CountyGR6. Estimates for 2005 show a population of 4,163. and Vermont in a virtual three-way tie at the top of the list of competitors vying vy·ing v. Present participle of vie. vying vie for the national premiere of "The Simpsons Movie." Each of the three cities The Three Cities is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea on the Island of Malta, which are enclosed by the massive line of fortification created by the Knights of St John, the Cottonera Lines. had garnered 12 percent of the vote as of Tuesday afternoon. "Vermont?" Mayor Sid Leiken of Oregon's Springfield said upon hearing the news. "I would have thought it would have been Oregon, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri and Ohio. Vermont is really a surprise." While not the tiniest Springfield in the 14-city competition that kicked off Monday morning, Vermont's Springfield has a population of just 9,000. Lane County's Springfield has about 56,000 residents, while the population of Springfield, Ill., is about 115,000. Voting at www.thesimpsons.usatoday.com continues through Monday. Each of the cities submitted Simpsons-centric videos for the 20th Century Fox-sponsored contest. The videos are linked to the Web page, although computer users who have not installed a "Flash" plug-in viewer cannot watch them. The entry submitted by Lane County's Springfield presents evidence suggesting that "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[1] in Portland, Oregon;[2] his family name is pronounced 'greɪnɪŋ', rhymes with raining , a Portland native, was inspired by their city to pick Springfield as the name of his animated television family's hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" . Voting totals are not listed on the Web page, but a click of the mouse Tuesday revealed what percent of the vote each city had received. To check the vote, all one had to do was move the cursor (1) The symbol used to point to some element on screen. On Windows, Mac and other graphics-based screens, it is also called a "pointer," and it changes shape as it is moved with the mouse into different areas of the application. to the lower part of a box containing the name of a Springfield, right click the mouse and choose "select all." The hidden setup was removed from the Web page late Tuesday. Leiken said he is confident that his home city will win the movie premiere, as long as it gains the support of voters throughout the West. Except for Colorado's Springfield, all of the cities participating in the contest are in Midwestern and Eastern U.S. states A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and . "If we can get the West Coast to vote for us, I think we'll be all right," Leiken said. TO VOTE Vote on the Web through Monday www.the simpsons.usatoday.com |
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