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Eugene Ballet Company Offers New and Enduring Favorites

The Eugene Ballet Company typically offers a four-production season of enduring classics along with something new or different. This year, the company stages “Cinderella” in October. Considered one of the great ballets, Sergey Prokofiev’s beautiful score helps tell the story of how gentle Cinderella turns the tables on her jealous stepsisters.

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Oregon Contemporary Theatre Opens Season With “Becky’s New Car”

The Oregon Contemporary Theatre recently opened its 2014-15 season with “Becky’s New Car.” The play, which runs through Oct. 4, stars local actress Storm Kennedy as Becky Foster, a bored, middle-age middle manager stuck in a middling marriage. And then, an honest misunderstanding with a wealthy widower offers her the chance at an exciting double […]

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Time to Save Heirloom Seeds

Deppe earned a biology degree from Harvard, but she came of age when it was difficult for women to be hired as university faculty, and uncomfortable for them if they were hired. She got a job, but rather than research genetics, Deppe turned to agriculture, and has since done original research with nothing more than […]

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Willamette Farm and Food Coalition

Food used to be simple–people ate what they grew and traded for what couldn’t be produced on the home turf. Food was local, organic, grass-fed and cage-free because there was no system in place for it to be otherwise. The Willamette Farm & Food Coalition is working to bring back a system more like the […]

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Coping With Miscarriage

Deena and Matthew Crandall met in 1987 through a mutual friend. They dated and married 22 years ago, and like most young couples, anticipated parenthood. Deena endured two miscarriages, however, before realizing that she could not have children. This grief, powerful though it was — and in truth, still is — helps the couple counsel […]

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