Eugene Oregon's official slogan is "A Great City for the Arts and Outdoors".
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36 Facts About Eugene Oregon
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The part of south Eugene Oregon known as College Hill was the former location of Columbia College.
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Eugene Oregon bested the nearby town of Albany in the competition for the state university.
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Eugene Oregon grew rapidly throughout most of the twentieth century, with the exception being the early 1980s when a downturn in the timber industry caused high unemployment.
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Eugene Oregon is home to Beyond Toxics, a nonprofit environmental justice organization founded in 2000.
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Mount Pisgah is southeast of Eugene Oregon and includes Mount Pisgah Arboretum and Howard Buford Recreation Area, a Lane County Park.
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Eugene Oregon is surrounded by foothills and forests to the south, east, and west, while to the north the land levels out into the Willamette Valley and consists of mostly farmland.
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The combination of summer grass pollen and the confining shape of the hills around Eugene Oregon make it "the area of the highest grass pollen counts in the USA.
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Eugene Oregon abandoned these plans and put it up for sale in November 2016.
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Eugene Oregon is the birthplace and home of Bike Friday bicycle manufacturer Green Gear Cycling.
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Eugene Oregon has a significant population of people in pursuit of alternative ideas and a large original hippie population.
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Eugene Oregon is best known as the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as the male protagonist in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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The University of Eugene Oregon's participatory planning process, known as The Eugene Oregon Experiment, was the result of student protests in the early 1970s.
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Citizen volunteers are working with the City of Eugene Oregon to restore a 65-tree filbert grove on public property.
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Eugene Oregon has a growing reggae and street-performing bluegrass and jug band scene.
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In 2015 installations from a group of Eugene Oregon-based artists known as Light At Play were showcased in several events around the world as part of the International Year of Light, including displays at the Smithsonian and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Eugene Oregon area has been used as a filming location for several Hollywood films, most famously for 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, which was filmed in nearby Cottage Grove.
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Kenny Moore, Eugene Oregon-trained Olympic runner and co-star in Prefontaine, co-wrote the screenplay for Without Limits.
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Religious institutions of higher learning in Eugene Oregon include Bushnell University and New Hope Christian College.
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Eugene Oregon has a Ukrainian Catholic Church named Nativity of the Mother of God.
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Eugene Oregon area has a sizeable LDS Church presence, with three stakes, consisting of 23 congregations.
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Eugene Oregon has a community of some 140 Sikhs, who have established a Sikh temple.
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Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Temple in Eugene Oregon opened in 2012 in the former site of the Unitarian Universalist Church.
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Eugene Oregon is the host of the delayed 2021 World Athletics Championships.
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Nationwide Tour's golfing event Oregon Classic takes place at Shadow Hills Country Club, just north of Eugene.
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Eugene Oregon is home to the Eugene Oregon Emeralds, a short-season Class A minor-league baseball team.
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The University of Eugene Oregon campus is an arboretum, with over 500 species of trees.
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In 1944, Eugene Oregon adopted a council–manager form of government, replacing the day-to-day management of city affairs by the part-time mayor and volunteer city council with a full-time professional city manager.
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Mayor of Eugene Oregon is Lucy Vinis, who has been in office since winning the popular vote in May 2016, and who was re-elected in May 2020.
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Eugene Oregon used to have an ordinance which prohibited car horn usage for non-driving purposes.
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Largest library in Eugene Oregon is the University of Eugene Oregon's Knight Library, with collections totaling more than 3 million volumes and over 100, 000 audio and video items.
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Eugene Oregon is close to many popular mountain bike trails, and Disciples of Dirt is the local mountain bike club that organizes group rides and promotes trail stewardship.
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Air travel is served by the Eugene Airport, known as Mahlon Sweet Field, which is the fifth largest airport in the Northwest and second largest airport in Oregon.
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The City of Eugene Oregon condemned Eugene Oregon's private water utility and began treating river water for domestic use.
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Eugene Oregon is one of the few municipalities in the US that does not fluoridate its water supply.
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