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GUARD/ <br /> • 485-2000 ---,--f," . Cri <br /> ■Time and temperature 1236 <br /> ■Local weather 1240 <br /> ■ Oregon lottery 1777 FOR THE RECORD <br /> BOB WELCH <br /> • <br /> Rose camJust <br /> PRor Eugene ■ ReubliRepublicans: Conn <br /> INEVER PROMISED you a rose garden. of running a11.outsider if <br /> But here's a trivia question involving one <br /> anyway,plus an answer to it and other <br /> nagging Lane County puzzlers: By DAVID STEVES <br /> Q.In Eugene's.Owens Rose Garden,a The Register-Guard <br /> ii video surveillance camera is'mounted hi Conservative <br /> high political activi <br /> / ,/.(.r on a pole pointed at the once-private threatening to runan outside c, <br /> / grounds.Are we becoming one of those next fall if Republicans nomin, <br /> bL L, !J e /,, l c ala( Orwellian cities such as in the United Saxton for governor, saying.his a <br /> Kingdom? rights views are unacceptable. <br /> SD Vl/' / A.No, we're becomingone of those Lou Beres, head of the C <br /> c c C ir���._ Web savvy cities that believes there's value in <br /> showing roses to folks who can't—or don't <br /> �e f want to—stop and smell them in person."It's <br /> t-� �'` ''� 6+" . really public relations,"says Bob Blanchard,a <br /> Web developer for the city's Parks and Open <br /> �` l L !'n r'L. Space Division(Check it out at: <br /> t?.4._ www.ci.eugene.or.us/PW/PARKS/Owen/ <br /> owencam.htm. <br /> Q.Why does KEZI market itself as"9 <br /> News"when it's actually on Cable Channel <br /> 10,which is how most <br /> of us view it? <br /> A.Because the <br /> station's noncable <br /> channel is 9,its cable <br /> r� , channel on most systems <br /> is 9 and within the next <br /> year or so,it will be <br /> channel 9 on the AT&T <br /> '- cable system that serves <br /> imetro Eugene,says. <br /> General Manager John <br /> Prevedello. <br /> Q.In The <br /> Register-Guard's April 21 Oregon Life <br /> section,there was a wedding announcement <br /> in which the groom's name was Cubby <br /> O'Brien.Could this be the former <br /> Mousketeer himself? <br /> A. Yup. O'Brien,55,was a Mousketeer on all <br /> four seasons of the"Mickey Mouse Club"TV r ,', <br /> shows from 1955 to 1959. Since then,he's made <br /> a career out of drumming for everyone from <br /> The Carpenters to Andy Williams. O'Brien met <br /> Delta flight attendant Holly Sims,a 1978 North . <br /> Eugene High graduate, while flying from New <br /> York to Portland,where he was drumming a - <br /> gig for Bernadette Peters. Sims and O'Brien <br /> wares marrinl 14t.,,-.,1,11..,.a 1: :..:n• --1.., <br />