Oregon's 5th Annual Wine, Cheese & Pear Jubilee (Willamette Valley Vineyards)

Willamette Valley Vineyards - 8800 Enchanted Way, Turner

Oregon’s premier event featuring award winning wines paired with local artisan cheeses and Oregon pears. Have fun exploring the nuances of this special coupling. Learn the art of cheese making from the people at Oregon Gourmet Cheeses, Rogue Valley Creamery, Willamette Valley Cheese Company, Tillamook, Rivers Edge Chevre, Fraga Farms, Juniper Grove Farms and more. Enjoy a variety of pears and fun recipes from the Oregon Pear Bureau. Your $5 admission includes wine and food tasting, and a free Riedel wine glass!

Name: Staff
Phone: (503) 588-9463
E-mail: info@wvv.com

Dates/Times:
Saturday, March 08, 2008 (noon to 5 p.m.)
Sunday, March 09, 2008 (noon to 5 p.m.)

Local Food Connection: Linking Farmers, Fishers and Food Buyers

This February 4, 2008 the Cascade Pacific RC&D is putting on the Local Food Connection, a local networking event that provides business opportunities for local farmers, fishermen, and food buyers locally in Eugene, Oregon and Lane Country The lunch features locally grown and prepared food that is donated by the event participants.

The Local Food Connection, designed to increase the purchases of locally grown and harvested foods, will be held at the Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon at the Center for Meeting & Learning in Building 19.

The schedule is:

8:30 am — Registration

9:00 am — Welcoming Remarks

9:15 am — Keynote Speaker David Yudkin, Hot Lips Pizza

9:45 am — Vignettes: Successful Relationships between Buyers and Sellers

10:30 am — Break

11:00 am — Product Round-Up

11:20 am — Linking Farmers, Fishers and Buyers

12:00 pm — Lunch

1:15 pm — Workshops

2:15 pm — Closing Comments

You can register at: https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1003249

Any News out there in Eugene, OR

Hey there....someone has to have some news to post on this site.

I am looking for home grown news from out there on the ground in Eugene.

Feel free to contact me about posting kinlane@gmail.com.

EMX Bus Crash on West 11th in Eugene Oregon

Here are some shots of the EMX bus crash on thursday in Eugene. It was bound to happen with the EMX running both directions on a one way street.

Looks like she pulled out on 11th and looked east and just went for it!

Here are the shots I have:

Measure 37 Discussion

Up to 35,000 acres of land in Lane County could be developed, mostly into subdivisions, if Measure 37 claims are allowed to continue unchecked. State and county officials charged with evaluating the claims have established a routine of granting waivers of land use regulations to most applicants."

I recently attended the Envision Oregon conference at the U of O the other day where this was on the table as one of the discussion. I was there more for the talks about what types of business to attract to Oregon, however the Measure 37 talks seem to dominate.

Curious to hear your thoughts? Checkout the recent cover at the Eugene Weekly - LANDWATCH TARGETS MEASURE 37

Eugene Will Be in the News Again Soon

Any thoughts on the Eugene Weekly article 'ECO-TERROR' PRIORITIZED OVER CRIME? Interesting set of priorities our government has chosen.

Check out the full article.

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