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, Ti Gity commission on trees _____________.- Union asks public or comments it will ',. • Urban forest: A new plan proposes According to the plan, trees on public property would 122 lan '1, ways to keep and add trees. include trees along public street rights -of -way and on all ✓ other publicly owned land, including parks, the downtown By Tbe Associated P mall, publicly owned riparian areas and land owned by The city will hold open houses today and next Tuesday public agencies other than the city. ELKTON — Unioi on a draft urban forest management plan that spells out say they will fight lay how the city would manage trees on public and private Most trees in the city are on private property, inducting Oregon's state nurse lands in Eugene. yards, industrial and commercial properties and undevel- Douglas County coma oped land. The two biggest issues for managing those trees .The plan addresses many of the tree - related concerns are how to retain existing trees and how to add more. The The Department c expressed by citizens in the past few years, said Jan plan attempts to balance development needs with the need has proposed to coot Staszweski, the city's urban forester. to retain healthy and well -sited trees, Staszweski said. private reforestation The drop -in open houses are today from 6 p.m. to 9 Some trees on private and public lands predate the the 122 union jobs a p.m. in the Eugene Water & Electric Board training room, city's founding. The tree commission is forwardin Phipps Nursery. ro 500 E. Fourth Ave. and Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at als for both mandatory and voluntary approaches for pro- In a feasibility the McNutt Room at Eugene City Hall, 777 Pearl St. tecting so-called heritage trees. leased in August, the Copies of the plan are available at the Public Works timated the move r Building, Based o Pearl la .; the t and Information t Public Center, Works Based on advice from the public, the commission will more than $600,000 244 E. Broadway; the Planning Division at City Hall, 777 choose on approach before forwarding the plan to the next three years. Pearl St.; and Public Works Maintenance, 1820 Roosevelt planning commission and the City Council. Nursery employee Blvd. Under the mandatory approach, the city would require represented by the Oi In developing the plan, the Eugene Tree Commission heritage trees to be retained on private property, unless lic E Union assumed city residents agree that the urban forest adds to they present a health or safety threat. Under the voluntary dispu th ose fi gures the quality of life, helps offset pollution and enhances the approach, the city would encourage property owners to ter study released Tue community's appearance and attractiveness. retain such trees. A union spokesw, The major sections of the plan address tree selection, The tree commission will hold a public hearing on the once corrections wer trees on publicly owned land, trees on private property, plan Oct. 10. The council will hold a hearing in early 1992. the department's esti� heritage trees and education. More information is available at 687 -5220. savings, alternative st fied in the union's stu the department's figur 105-year-old Oregon • • • i s , ? � � C �a� 20 j native d ies in Eugene �� . � G _ ion field representativ • v � v Under terms oft ,, ; ment's collective A private service was held Monday Eugene and Edwin Christie of Beaver- contract with the emp for 105- year -old native Oregonian Li& to department must cha an Bernhardt Christie who died Satur- In 1926, John and -Lillian Christie ion's proposal if the ! day. moved their family to Eugene, where -44144,. provides "equal than nr Christie was born to German immi- fle and savings man than John worked as office manager for the ...�., grants in Cushman on Oct. 18, 1885. Walters-Bushong Lumber Co. until his °' t7ed in the man provides Her parents had moved to Oregon death in 194 Lillian stayed in Eu- The 261 -acre nurs from Chicago after the 1871 Chicago gene, last residing at Green Valley lashed in 1927 in Co. Care Center. - -1- moved to Elkton in Christie left home is her early 20s Christie was a 70 -year member of Lillian Christie duces nearly 20 mi to work as a housekeeper for a family the Order of Eastern Star and was a root Douglas fir see in Gardiner. There she met and mar- member of the Blue River Chapter No. Dies at age 105 year for reforestatior, ried in 1908 John Christie, the office 158. She enjoyed gardening, - Besides her children, she i handis sur- burned or understoc manager for the Gardiner Mill Co. great- land. work and fishing, which she continued vived by three grandsons, seven The couple had two children who to do well into her 90s on the McKen- grandchildren, and numerous nieces Most of the see survive their parents, Wilma Opdahl of zie River. and nephews. purchased by Burea Management district Forestry Departmer Man found dead on tra tracks vattlandownersester OAKRIDGE — A transient who hitched a ride on a bird wine and no identification other than several scribbled Southern Pacific train Tuesday died when he apparently phone numbers, has been tentatively identified as the 29- fell from a' train car onto railroad tracks about five miles year-old son of a Portland couple, Salter said. east of Oalutdge. The train the man was riding on was headed to Port - The man probably was riding In an outside compart- land from Klamath Falls. It passed through the Oakridge v meat on a freight car when he somehow slipped, fell and hit area about 7:30 p.m., where it met an eastbound Amtrak . his head, state police said. The train ran over one of his train. Salter said the vibrations created by the two trains , a hands. may have caused the man to slip. _i.,,• --