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I PAM <br /> THE REGISTER- <br /> GUAF <br /> 1 4..- . CITY/REGION R r !..-70, —.R <br /> e ,� <br /> a <br /> Digest . �. k <br /> ' `-. <br /> .. <br /> LOCAL 5-.5-02, <br /> Officials, organizer <br /> dedicate garden - . `"* <br /> Once just a seed of an idea, <br /> the new Hendricks Park Native - ; :�M �: ., ••... • - t <br /> Plant Garden became a reality i, y ,,.., <br /> Saturday during a dedications,r �, w �' <br /> ceremony attended by local - �' 4:= <br /> officials and the landscape <br /> architect responsible for its - _ a "" ''design. <,v._ t <br /> Mayor Jim Torrey, City <br /> Councilor David Kelly and Los 1` : <br /> Angeles landscape designer Jin . f <br /> Chen spoke at the afternoon <br /> event at the F.M.Wilkins • ' 4114101111. <br /> Shelter on Summit Avenue in < „ ' <br /> Eugene. •ltram-- '"" + <br /> Chen,who oversaw the �� "` <br /> creation of the Portland Classical <br /> Chinese Garden,unveiled his <br /> garden design and ideas for , <br /> future development of the park. <br /> Also in attendance was • <br /> Eugene resident Jerry Blakely, to ba <br /> who helped spur park Laws aim <br /> development when he decided <br /> • last year to build a native plant • <br /> garden as a memorial to his atyRearBlakely, avid hvote-by-n <br /> wit <br /> gardener who was dying of <br /> cancer. should to <br /> Blakely established a fund' <br /> II Oregon: The upcoming primary <br /> through the Oregon Community effectiveness of these fraud-prevention mean <br /> Fpundation and recruited a team <br /> of volunteers and contributors, <br /> who were able to match By BRAD CAIN Turnout in the 2000 E <br /> available city funding:The park The Associated Press about 81 percent in On <br /> was dedicated Saturday to Mary SALEM—Vicki Ervin has seen election officials was pi <br /> I Blakely,who has since died. the troubling side of Oregon's the convenience of the <br /> Creating the garden was a top unique vote-by-mail elections, in and partly to high votei <br /> priority in the Hendricks Park which people fill in their ballots at the issues and races. <br /> Forest Management Plan,a home and then either mail them But critics of the On <br /> long-term vision for the park back or leave them at designated it could invite electioi t' <br /> adopted by the Eugene City drop sites. though so far none <br /> - Council in January 2000. Ervin is elections chief for Mult- discovered. <br /> The three main goals of the nomah County,Oregon's most popu- "With vote-by-mail, 1 <br /> management plan were to reduce lous. During the November 2000 facials have lost contra <br /> the threat of wind damage to election, she received reports of un- ballot," said Bill Lunch, <br /> trees around the F.M.Wilkins identified people standing on a es political science at C <br /> • <br /> picnic shelter,to integrate the street arid offering to deliver the University. "I'm worrib f' <br /> social and natural components of ballots of motorists who were head- bad guys will eventuall: <br /> the park,and to provide ed to a downtown drop site. how to game the system t; <br /> educational opportunities for the Many people accepted the offer Lunch also worries a <br /> community. — saving themselves the trouble of tential for coercion, si <br /> Li having to find a parking spot in spouse trying to bully <br /> NORTHWEST busy downtown Portland and hand- vote a certain way. <br /> deliver the ballots. "I was dismayed Oregon's mail ballo <br /> Vale students win by what was going on," Ervin said. got caught up in a c( <br /> • auto repair contest "Since I didn't know who the people debate this year over a <br /> were, I didn't know where the bal.- tion reform bill aimed a <br /> PORTLAND—The 10 lots were going.It was distressing." lot irregularities that cr <br /> mechanical problems Ford As it turns out, state officials other states in the Nol k, <br /> technicians intentionally planted say the people taking the ballots presidential vote. <br /> in a forest-green 2002 Ford were not Irvine to sway the elec- An initial version of <br />