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Program Information
City Club meetings are held every Friday. See Program Schedule (below). Email meeting reminder: Sign up here Email newsletter: City Club has GONE GREEN! More info A radio broadcast of the meeting may be heard on KLCC 89.7 FM at 6:30 pm on the following Monday. An archive of the radio broadcasts may be accessed here: KLCC Audio Programs Audio tapes of past City Club meetings are available at the reference desk of the Eugene Public Library. NEW! Video tapes of past City Club meetings (partial and whole) are available on YouTube. See Special Features (below)
Program Schedule
Friday, February 5 11:50 am Hilton Eugene Block/Sousa Rm, Lobby Level	BEGGARS OR JOBS FOR EUGENE? Sheryl Berman, PhD Roger Ebbage Jul Orr Do we have a choice? Can we build a really sustainable community with living-wage jobs supporting our local community? Transportation costs are escalating, so having jobs that provide for the basic needs of shelter, food, clothing and health care will make our city more self-sufficient. Our questions today are: What are those jobs? Do we have the training in place? What about 10 years from now? City Club of Eugene will have job development experts from Lane Community College and St. Vincent de Paul tell us how they are helping create a new beginning for our many jobless neighbors. Patsy Raney, Lane Community College Workfare Coordinator, will introduce the speakers.
Friday, February 12 11:50 am Hilton Eugene Vistas Room, 12th Floor	HAS BABY COME A LONG WAY?: An Update on the Status of Women Geri Richmond Barbara B. Aldave Kathryn Firestone In lieu of flowers and candy, City Club offers this Valentine to our sisters and friends: Three amazing women will talk about the accomplishments of women in politics, science and law and sketch the territory that remains to be transformed by woman power. Kathryn Firestone will characterize the role of women in Oregon politics and the likely impact on public policy. Geri Richmond will chart the course of women in science in Oregon and elsewhere, including the shortage of women and what is being done to fix it. Barbara Aldave will tell true tales about her life in law and how doing well is the best revenge.
Friday, February 19 11:50 am Hilton Eugene Vistas Room, 12th Floor	THE PROMISE OF REASON: The Need for Civil Disagreement, Argument and Debate in American Society David Frank, Robert D. Clark Honors College Dean Many despair about the state of American discourse and point to a polarized electorate and the failure of discussions and debates to yield understanding. Professor David Frank will discuss why we need to embrace diverse opinions and disagreement and to use dialogue and debate as methods for working through the disputes we face. To illustrate the promise of reason through argument, City Club members will judge a debate between two members of the University of Oregon debate program on the question of torture and its use to secure information for the purposes of national security.
Friday, February 26 11:50 am Different Location Mallard Banquet Hall (725 W 1st)	ARTFUL CROSSINGS: A Community Conversation Peg Butler, Artist/Designer Tulsi Wallace, Designer Lee Imonen, Artist Dick Upton, ODOT Project Manager Peg Butler, artist/designer; Tulsi Wallace, designer; Lee Imonen, artist; and Dick Upton, ODOT project manager, participate in a panel discussion about the I-5 bridge as an Artful Place. Oregon Department of Transportation learned in 2003 that the I-5 bridge over the Willamette River had to be replaced. The crossing of that historic river presented an important opportunity to bring together the cities of Eugene and Springfield, for which the bridge is the jurisdictional boundary. But there are so many other connections to be made among cultures and histories and stories, on the bridge and beneath it. The community gathered with a determination to make this crossing not a place for art, but an artful place. ODOT, its contractors and dozens of community volunteers have been busy for the past year making this dream a reality. On Friday, March 5, many of those design proposals will be presented in public for the first time, featured as part of Eugene's monthly First Friday Gallery Walk.
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Special Features
2008 City Club Membership Survey 2008 City Club Annual Report
OREGON COUNTRY FAIR: Work of Heart & Hand Address to City Club of Eugene by Leslie Scott, General Manager of the Oregon Country Fair, May 9, 2008. Complete text on-line.
State of the City 2007 Address to City Club of Eugene by Mayor Kitty Piercy, Jan. 5, 2007. Complete text on-line.
Canaries in the Coal Mine: Art, Freedom and Community Address to City Club of Eugene by John Frohnmayer, June 2, 2006. Complete text on-line.
Impacts and Solutions to Climate Change in Eugene Address to City Club of Eugene by Bob Doppelt and Jim Carlson, October 28, 2005. Complete text on-line.
Talking Trash: A conservation paradox Address to City Club of Eugene by Julie Daniel, December 3, 2004. Complete text on-line.
Why Elections Are Not Final Anymore A talk at the City Club by Russell Sadler, September 10, 2004. Complete text on-line.
Leadership & Consensus: Is that a Light or an Oncoming Train at the End of this Tunnel? A talk at the City Club by Russell Sadler, May 28, 2004. Complete text on-line.

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