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Community, vendors pack Central Park with music, art, merrymaking for Fall Festival By Audrey Regan THE DAILY BAROMETER
The morning clouds yielded to a beautiful weekend for the 42nd annual Corvallis Fall Festival. Central Park was crowded Sept. 27-28 as residents of Corvallis and visitors took advantage of the fall sun and free admission. Around 200 vendors proudly displayed handmade goods, selling everything from jams to oil paintings. Next to the southwest Monroe Avenue Park, 18 food trucks served up a wide range of dishes. All the food booths were paired with a nonprofit organization. Zia’s Burritos, which sponsored Boy Scout Troop 170, sat next to First Alternative Co-op, which sponsored the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition. Elephant ears, Willamette wine and ice cream were just some of the treats open late into the night for the crowd’s See FALL FESTIVAL | page 4
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Ray calls for university resources to fight against sexual assault, harassment By Kaitlyn Kohlenberg THE DAILY BAROMETER
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Father-son pair Josh Sewell (left) and Andy Sewell (right) from Viola, Idaho sold their oil-and-watercolor paintings at the Fall Festival in Corvallis Sept. 27 and 28. They paint on canvas, but also offer prints of their work.
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(Above) Virginia Jurasevich, from Eugene, Ore. sells her shibori silk scarves at the Fall Festival. (Right) Regan Maasdam, 10 of Corvallis, hangs in a hammock made by David and Brandi Egnatz.
“This is long overdue,” said Oregon State University President Ed Ray in response to the “It’s On Us” initiative announced by President Barack Obama Sept. 19. Following Obama’s speech, Ray gave a press release calling for a community-wide review of resources and support Resources services for There are several resources survivors of for survivors of sexual sexual harassharassment and assault, ment and including: assault. Sexual Assault Help “I think Line: Sexual Assault Supwe’re in a very port Services good place to 541-737-7604 have a conSexual Assault Nurse versation Examiners: 541-737-9355 about really Sexual Assault Crisis changing Line: Center Against Rape the dynamand Domestic Violence ics,” Ray said. 541-754-0110 “Certainly in this society. God knows it’s needed worldwide.” In his Sept. 23 press release, Ray announced that throughout the 2014– 15 school year, OSU will undergo a series of reviews and improvements in the university’s methods of educating about and responding to issues of sexual violence. Ray explained that Obama’s speech highlighted the important fact that issues of sexual violence are heavily rooted in societal practices. He added that OSU already has a number of resources and educational programs for students, but there is still room for improvement. “Before we get too smug about other people’s problems with this, See IT’S ON US | page 3
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Local political organization holds event to inform electorate of climate change, future water supply in Willamette Basin By Justin Frost
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Voters flooded in from the first rain of fall into the main meeting room of the CorvallisBenton County Public Library to learn about climate change’s impact on water scarcity in the Willamette Valley. Members of the Corvallis League of Women Voters attended to hear John Bolte, chair of the
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biological and ecological engineering department at Oregon State University, speak. “There is no question that climate change is happening,” said John Bolte as he presented figures of models indicating a future of warmer, drier summers throughout the Pacific Northwest. The model also predicts that the population of the Willamette Basin — from Portland to Eugene — will nearly double by 2050, ballooning from its current size of 2.6 million to 4 million. Bolte has spent the last three years leading a study called “Willamette Water 2100: Anticipating Water Scarcity and Informing
Integrative Water System Response in the Pacific Northwest.” The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks to address how climate change and population growth will affect water supply, demand and allocation in the Willamette Basin throughout the next century. The study is a multi-million dollar endeavor led by 30 scientists from OSU, University of Oregon and Portland State University. “We don’t have much of a water deficit to begin with,” Bolte said. Taking into account more than 200 variables, the study suggests that the current excess of unallocated water in the Willamette Basin will
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begin to dwindle as the population grows and climate warms. Water scarcity, particularly in the West, has become a hot issue in recent months. A 2014 study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography illustrates the “dire hydrological state of the West” using models and methods similar to that of Bolte and his team. This issue drew the interest of the League of Women Voters, which organized Tuesday evening’s event. With committees ranging from voter service to local food, the League See MEETING | page 3
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