/Eugene

20020713
• - "Insiders' view: Those who grew up with [Oregon] Country Fair share its secrets." ... "Whimsy, ... may be the most delicious part of the three-day event staged west of Veneta along Highway 126." ... "For 33 years, people have been lured to the prairie wetland by the promise of musicians and vaudeville performers, arts and crafts vendors, and food booths offering everything from blintzes to falafel to gumbo to no-nonsense hamburgers." -By Susan Palmer  -RegisterGuard

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• "Get ready for some holiday reading; library opening is set." ... "Think of the new library as a 126,000-square-foot Christmas present Eugene residents are giving themselves." -By Susan Palmer -RegisterGuard

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20020505
• "Moving On:  After 'Johnny Appleseed,' children's theater guru Celeste Rose will hit the road." ... "Celeste Rose, founder of the Rose Children's Theatre of Eugene, will soon be dancing with a new partner - herself." ... "Rose's new interest is an old one: her Oregon Fantasy Puppet Theater, which she has been running since 1969, often at the same time as she was writing and directing children's plays. Freed from those production responsibilities, she intends to manipulate her puppets full time." -By Fred Crafts -RegisterGuard 

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