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L.. <br /> imillimu <br /> Mill BY PAjiiiireireyai______ <br /> -. Tift : 1 ...‘r.„,:, irylaTir- , <br /> I i <br /> i *--- ' . ''4.:• ':'..i"t :..',:... ."'"*. .—te_.-t. op.o:",– -,e.'Z.,–•!''' ' <br /> • <br /> '� far+moi° <br /> a ,,1-04hS A A if,;• <br /> ( .„,..& , 1 . ."ate <br /> Alice Endo Aikens Volunteer manager Alice Aikens oversees 45 plots in the Amazon <br /> Community Garden."We have very low turnover,"she observes."This year we had four <br /> err openings—they were snapped up in 10 minutes."(Other community gardens still have <br /> space-inquire at 682-4800.)In 1942,as a three-year-old Sansai(third-generation <br /> Japanese-American),Alice Endo moved with her family from California to Utah on a two- <br /> week deadline to avoid being sent to a concentration camp."It was a hardship,"she <br /> recounts."We lived in a warehouse,in a chicken coop, in back of a dry-cleaning shop for <br /> years."After high school and college in Salt Lake City,she taught junior high before she <br /> married Mel Aikens,who joined the UO anthropology faculty in 1970."We have so many <br /> trees at home,"Aikens says."I signed up for a plot in'91 so I could grow vegetables and <br /> flowers that need sun."Two years later,she was asked to manage the site. "I said,"I <br /> guess so,then,—she relates."And here I am!"The output of one communal plot plus <br /> excess produce from other gardeners is hauled off weekly in season to FOOD for Lane <br /> County."Last year we donated over 2,000 pounds,"Aikens notes. <br /> eugene weeny MARCH 27,2003 7 <br />