Party with a purpose turns 40…
The preparations are complete and the gates will open this morning on the 40th edition of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta.
200 – “The surf is up. We are definitely picking up speed around here and looking very much forward to what we hope is a very good celebration for everybody.”
Doug Green is the backup Operations Manager for the fair. He says visitors today will have a similar experience to what they felt in 1969 at what was then a benefit for an alternative school… with a few changes.
201 – “I think they’d see the same love and energy, but I think they’d see it multiplied by a tremendous amount.”
Green says there are more than 800 craft vendors, 80 food booths and 17 stages with all manner of entertainment. In fact, one of the final events of the fair will be Portland’s Nowhere Band on stage Sunday afternoon to commemorate another 40th anniversary.
202 – “It’s the Beatles’ White Album 40th anniversary as well. And, so they will be performing that out on a new stage we’ve built out on Pirate’s Cove which is a little bit of a lush meadow type place where there’ll be a lot of open space.”
Tickets to the fair are not available at the gate, they can only be purchased at TicketsWest outlets or at TicketsWest.com.
Four more protesters at the Umpcoos Ridge Number 2 timber sale southeast of Reedsport were taken into custody yesterday, bringing the total arrests there to 27. All will face charges of interfering with an agricultural operation. The four arrests yesterday were protesters that had suspended themselves from trees around a homemade blockade that was erected to stop logging on the Elliott State Forest. Demonstrators from Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide said they wanted to stop the logging to protect fish and wildlife habitat.
Lane County Sheriff’s Deputies, in conjunction with Oregon State Troopers, will be focusing their attentions on roads in Western Lane County between Eugene and Mapleton beginning today in response to an expected increase in traffic due to the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta. Traffic Team Sergeant Fred Swank says the saturation patrols will be focusing on alcohol and unsafe driving related situations. Swank says the traffic increases will likely cause delays on Highway 36 as well at Territorial and Suttle Roads in the Elmira areas.
The head of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - former Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco - is coming to the Oregon Coast. She will be at the Newport waterfront on Friday highlighting how federal stimulus funds are being used to clean up derelict crab pots that pose a hazard to fishing boats as well as marine life. Afterwards, she will be meeting with commercial fishermen at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in what is being called a listening session.
TAKING A LOOK INTO COAST RADIO SPORTS:
Northwest League Baseball:
The Eugene Emeralds broke a two-two tie with a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth inning last night for a 3-2 victory over the Spokane Indians at Civic Stadium. Bo Davis, who drew the free pass, said it was his first ever ‘walk-off-walk’ and danced his way to first base as Nate Freiman came across the plate. It was the fourth time on the night that the Ems had the bases loaded with two outs… the other three times, in the first, sixth and eighth, they couldn’t capitalize… Eugene stranded 17 base runners in all. The Indians and the Emeralds continue with game two of their five game series tonight in Eugene.
Also on the schedule… this evening the Three Rivers Sandblasters will be in Corvallis where they’ll face the Richies at seven o’clock. Corvallis is coming off an 11-3 upset loss to Springfield last night. Tonight’s game will air on Coast Radio Sports beginning at 6:45. Three Rivers will face Springfield tomorrow in Springfield at one, then takes on Albany’s Mid-Valley Rockets at home Sunday afternoon at two… that game also will air on Coast Radio Sports.
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