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Bob Welch: Over-the-top local stories - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Page 2 of 3 <br /> Display • Eugene citizens greet the unveiling of the new federal content par <br /> Advertising/ courthouse design with their usual split verdict: Half think it <br /> Rate cards g p <br /> Online ad "celebrates the state's rivers and mountains with avant-garde <br /> Index flourish." And half think it "celebrates futuristic nuclear-bomb <br /> Selected shelters." <br /> Newspaper <br /> Ads online <br /> Online • The Oregon-Oregon State football rivalry turns ugly as pre- <br /> Ad delivery <br /> Great Escapes game trash-talking sinks to all-time lows. Finally, to quell <br /> R-G eStore worries of violence, the two warring factions reach a <br /> Match.com compromise: A neutral crew will do the TV broadcast of the <br /> Dating <br /> Volunteer game. <br /> Link <br /> ............... <br /> • Districts close schools, lay off teachers and cut programs in <br /> TO DO a desperate attempt to save enough money to sponsor the <br /> Laps <br /> inks annual Public Employees Retirement System Club Med <br /> WebCams "Visualize-Your-Future" Cruise. <br /> Movies <br /> Events <br /> Find a • Disgruntled smokers, banned from puffing in Eugene bars, <br /> Restaurant begin brandishing "I smoke and I vote" bumper stickers, <br /> Restaura t apparently to prove they've got half a mind to move to <br /> ReviTicket section Springfield, where smoking is still allowed. <br /> TV listings <br /> • A Register-Guard investigative report shows that although <br /> OTHER LINKS the UO Athletic Department refused to move back the start <br /> Site Map <br /> User's Guide/ time of the Oregon-Portland State football game two hours so <br /> FAQ it wouldn't conflict with the Eugene Celebration parade, the UO <br /> CrRscams- <br /> oad r ch <br /> Paswas, if TV stipulated, willing to play at 3 a.m. on a Wednesday <br /> Road reports - in Guam. <br /> 30-Day <br /> columnist g <br /> archive: • Eugene's urban forester discovers what he believes to be the <br /> Bellamy largest fir cone ever found in Lane County, only to find it is <br /> Godboldrq actually the remains of one of the city's turn-of-the-century <br /> StahlWelch tree sitters. (CBS-TV immediately buys the rights to the story <br /> Lottery for a "CSI" episode.) <br /> Support Services <br /> Newspaper in <br /> Education • Attorneys representing owners of the New Carissa file a <br /> CrirneWatch countersuit to Oregon's countersuit that it filed against the <br /> iHigh.com owners' countersuit, claiming that the original countersuit was, <br /> SPECIAL technically, a countersuit to a previous countersuit. <br /> Mission to <br /> Africa • Bill Clinton whips Democrats into a frenzy at a McArthur <br /> Thurston <br /> Court rally, then complains that he wasn't given enough time <br /> Troubled to speak. Mac Court officials defend the use of the 35-second <br /> Waters clock. <br /> Casualties of <br /> Abuse <br /> • Lawmakers in Salem, seeking a solution to school-funding <br /> woes, say they finally "get it" after a survey shows that two- <br /> thirds of the panhandlers at the state's freeway off-ramps are <br /> principals raising money for their schools. <br /> • After a Eugene artist wins acceptance in the annual Mayor's <br /> Art Show with a paint-splotched section of wooden wall used <br /> as a backdrop to put advertising on LTD buses, copycat artists <br /> go to work for the 2003 show, the two early favorites being <br /> http://www.registerguard.com/news/2002/12/31/1d.cr.welch.1231.html 1/8/03 <br />