by Southtowne Rotary | Dec 10, 2020 | Education, International Concerns, Non-Profit, Politics, Volunteer Opportunities
Meet Kellie McSween, a junior at the University of Oregon. In high school, she participated in a Rotary exchange program. Since then, she’s set her sights on joining the U.S. State Department. This September, she will be interning with The Borgen Project, a U.S....
by Southtowne Rotary | Oct 1, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Non-Profit, People and Personalities, Politics
Meet Ibrahim Coulibaly, an advocate for discussing human rights issues and current president of the Eugene Springfield NAACP. Ibrahim grew up in the small, french-speaking country of West Africa. He came to the US for the first time in 2008, where he lived in New York...
by Southtowne Rotary | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, People and Personalities, Politics
Police Reform Amidst Eugene Protests Over the past few months, the Eugene Police Department has been working hard to manage protests safely and effectively. The department has currently spent $650,000 of overtime costs to do just that. Chief of the Eugene Police...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jul 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Miscellaneous, Politics
Hugo Nicolas’s Story When Nicolas was 11, his mother told him and his two younger siblings that they would travel to the U.S. to join their father, who was an undocumented farmworker. He remembers walking for two days to cross the border. He was dehydrated and...
by Administrator | Mar 27, 2019 | Community Awareness, Local Business, Politics
The Lane County Courthouse outdoes itself running essential legal processes for Lane County. This one small building houses the Circuit Court, District Attorney’s Office, Sheriff’s Office, Victim Services and more. The services conducted within its walls include...
by Deanna Rivera | Feb 21, 2019 | Community Awareness, Environmental Concerns, Health and Wellness, Local Business, Non-Profit, Politics
How prepared are you to survive and recover from the next Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake? Steve Robinson, of Cascadia Prepared, tells us why, when and how we should be prepared. Steve has worked for SAIF Corporation and ODOT, was a 12-year member of the Eugene...
