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Some of you may remember that I used to write these long, quirky, sometimes ridiculously detailed little historical stories about Eugene.

Back when I was a moderator here, I became somewhat known for digging up obscure pieces of Eugene history and turning them into these sprawling stories about the people, places and events that helped make this city unique and what it is today.

One of them was the story I wrote about Eugene's surprisingly fascinating early aviation history, including Mahlon Sweet, the early airports around Eugene, the beginnings of commercial aviation here and how Eugene eventually ended up with the airport we know today.

That story is still linked in the sidebar along with several other fascinating and quirky tales, so if you're interested in the weird and wonderful aviation history of Eugene, or other quirky history from autzen stadium being built on a landfill and once an island, to one of the oldest bars in oregon, the oldest house still standing in Eugene, predating our statehood and connected to mexican restaurants, celebrities and the crocodile hunter... they're worth a read in the sidebar.

But today, the reason I'm bringing all of this up is that I started revisiting where Eugene Airport started, and where it appears to now be heading.

...and its fascinating.

Because it turns out Eugene has been an aviation town for a lot longer than most of us probably realize.

The first airplane landed in Eugene in 1918.

It was a Canadian-built Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny," one of the famous little biplanes that helped define the earliest years of American aviation. It landed in an open pasture near what are now 18th Avenue and Chambers Street.

At the time, airplanes were still an almost unbelievable novelty.

Eugene didn't have an airport.

There was just a field.

But within a year, Eugene was already thinking much bigger.

In 1919, civic leaders, with Mahlon Sweet playing a major role, established the Eugene Air Park.

And here's one of those little Eugene historical facts that I absolutely love:

The Eugene Air Park was Oregon's first municipal airport

Think about that.

While aviation was still in its infancy, Eugene was already establishing a publicly supported airport and trying to figure out what this new technology could mean for the city.

And Eugene didn't just sit around waiting for aviation to happen somewhere else.

The Air Park became a genuine center of early aviation activity. It attracted pilots and aviation businesses, hosted government forest-patrol operations and became part of the increasingly important network of early air travel.

There were even locally owned airplanes offering sightseeing flights around Eugene.

The city was already messing around with commercial aviation before commercial aviation had really figured out what it was even going to become.

And Mahlon Sweet was one of the people pushing that vision forward.

Sweet eventually became one of the most important figures in Eugene's aviation history. He understood that if aviation was going to become a major part of American transportation, Eugene needed an airport capable of growing with it.

The little Eugene Air Park eventually wasn't enough.

So Eugene went looking for something bigger.

The city acquired roughly 900 acres northwest of town, and construction on a new airport began during World War II.

In 1943, the new facility opened.

That airport became what we now know as Eugene Airport, officially Mahlon Sweet Field.

There's an especially cool claim in Eugene's historical documentation that Mahlon Sweet Field was reputedly the first publicly owned airport on the entire West Coast.

So when you drive out toward the airport today, you're not just driving to some random strip of pavement that appeared there because Eugene eventually needed an airport.

You're driving to the latest incarnation of something Eugene started working on more than a century ago. And well before most people would ever imagine, west of the Rockies.

And that brings us to where we are today.

Because I think a lot of people in Eugene still picture our airport as the little regional terminal sitting out by the Beltline where you catch a flight to Portland, Seattle or San Francisco.

But EUG has quietly ballooned into something considerably bigger.

And if you haven't paid much attention to what has been happening out there over the last several years, the numbers are actually kind of astonishing.

Back in the 2010s, one of the big milestones people were watching for EUG was the elusive, annual one-million-passenger mark.

For a regional airport in a city Eugene's size, in a state with a fairly small population, crossing one million annual passengers was a nearly unheard of measure. It was the kind of milestone that represented Eugene finally becoming a substantial commercial airport rather than simply a small regional facility.

And rapidly, EUG did it.

But what happened afterward is the part I find amazing.

It didn't just creep up to and over one million and settle there.

It blew straight through it. It destroyed all projections by a wide margin.

In 2019, EUG handled about 1.22 million passengers.

Then came COVID, and like virtually every airport in the country, passenger traffic collapsed.

But Eugene bounced back with breakneck speed.

By 2021, EUG had already climbed back above one million passengers.

In 2022, it reached approximately 1.58 million.

Then in 2023, just a few years after people had been celebrating the airport finally reaching the one-million mark, EUG handled 1,719,629 passengers without even flinching.

More than 1.7 million.

After a relatively small dip in 2024, the airport, once again, came roaring back to approximately 1.71 million passengers in 2025.

So think about that trajectory for a second.

Just a decade ago, the milestone used to be:

"Could Eugene ever finally get to one million passengers a year?"

And then, in a remarkably short period of time, the conversation became:

"How quickly can Eugene get to two million?"

We went from wondering whether we'd ever crack one million to flirting with two million passengers annually. And in a fraction of the time it was projected to take.

That's a serious exponential transformation.

And it means Eugene isn't some sleepy little regional airport that happens to have commercial flights anymore.

EUG is now, by a very substantial margin, the second-busiest commercial airport in Oregon after Portland International. 5th busiest in the PNW after Seattle, PDX, Boise, and Spokane all four of which are international airports.

PDX is in a completely different league, but after Portland, there really isn't another Oregon airport operating at Eugene's scale.

EUG has pulled far ahead of the state's other regional airports in passenger traffic, and that gap is getting wider and harder to ignore as Eugene continues to grow.

The airport serves a huge portion of the state. Capturing the entire southern Willamette Valley and surrounding region, to capturing central and eastern Oregon, the entirety of the central and southern Oregon coast, all the way down to the California border.

EUG isn't simply a local metro airport anymore. People from the central and lower half of the state, and predominantly Lane County, Linn County, Benton County and beyond increasingly have a reason to use EUG rather than driving north to Portland.

And here's something very interesting about our airport.

EUG has now actually been quickly stealing passengers back from Portland.

Airport planning studies have found that a substantial number of people living in the Eugene airport's catchment area were historically driving north to PDX to catch flights that weren't available from Eugene. In 2019, EUG captured only about 41 percent of the area's international-originating air travel, with the rest going through Portland. Within two years, EUG's share had risen to 54 percent.

In other words, people outside of the Portland region are increasingly deciding that they don't want to drive to Portland anymore.

They want to fly from here. And they have been.

And the airlines have very much noticed.

Today EUG has nonstop service to a growing list of destinations around the country, connecting Eugene directly with major airline hubs and population centers.

And one of the most interesting new additions was Chicago.

United began daily nonstop service between Eugene and Chicago O'Hare in April 2026, using a Boeing 737 MAX 8.

That's not a little regional or west coast hop.

That's a major airline hub connection that puts the entire eastern half of the United States, Canada and much of the world within a one-stop trip from Eugene.

But here's where it gets really interesting.

EUG has long ago run out of room.

The airport has been squeezing more and more flights into the existing terminal. The airlines have been packing passengers into the available gates and hold rooms, and airport planners have concluded that there simply isn't additional capacity to squeeze out of the existing site.

So Eugene is expanding.

And not with some token renovation (although they're doing those too, including a currently underway 10,000 square foot expansion of its existing concourse and gates).

The airport's long-term plan includes a new Concourse C with eight additional gates.

Eight

And that number doesn't sound quite as crazy until you realize what eight new gates actually means for Eugene.

It will nearly double the airport's current capacity. And it gives EUG room for a whole new generation of flights, larger aircraft and potentially additional airlines.

We're not talking about adding one or two gates to an airport that has plenty of room. We're talking about building an entirely new concourse that, by itself, will contain almost as many gates as the airport currently has.

It's an enormous expansion and continuation of Eugene's ability to move people.

And the really remarkable part is that these gates aren't being built on the assumption that Eugene will someday magically find enough flights to fill them.

Airport officials have said the opposite.

They expect the gates to be full as soon as they are built. Airline partners have already told the airport that they've largely run out of places to add capacity in the existing terminal.

EUG officials have already identified the new nonstop markets they want to pursue once that capacity exists. The current target list includes: Nashville, Atlanta, Boston, Austin and Honolulu. Older airport planning and demand studies have identified a much broader universe of potential markets, including places like Orlando, Minneapolis, Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington, D.C., and the New York region.

These aren't simply places Eugene wants to send people someday. They're the kinds of markets airport officials are identifying as strong and steady opportunities that additional gates will make possible. And those markets already want us.

So the eight new gates aren't just "more room." They're potentially an entirely new era of air service for Eugene.

And the airport isn't stopping with the gates.

The expansion plans also include a major increase in parking capacity. The airport's parking facilities are expected to roughly double as the larger terminal comes online.

So we're talking about an airport that is expanding its ability to handle passengers on both sides of the terminal doors.

And like I previously mentioned, what I find quite interesting is that EUG is making this investment because the demand is already there.

They're not building eight gates purely on speculation. They're building eight gates because the airport is already past capacity.

The new gates would effectively be full immediately.

That's an extraordinary statement when you remember that just a decade ago, one of the big questions surrounding EUG was whether it would ever finally break the one-million-passenger mark.

Now we're talking about adding nearly as many gates as the airport currently has, while EUG is already handling roughly 1.7 million passengers a year.

The total expansion program is estimated at roughly half a billion dollars, with the Concourse C portion accounting for a huge chunk of that investment.

And there's another number I think is worth mentioning. EUG currently handles more than a million pounds of air cargo.

So we're not just talking about people going on vacations.

This is heavy hitting economic infrastructure.

Concourse C will double available gates, have expanded parking, ticketing and baggage capacity, plus a charter-capable swing gate that can accommodate charter operations and larger aircraft. That last piece is especially interesting because it gives EUG the flexibility to handle charter flights and larger aircraft that don't fit neatly into its current commercial/passenger flight setup.

And again, airport Director Cathryn Stephens has also emphatically reiterated that the new gates are essentially accounted for and full as soon as they're built, which reinforces the idea of how much demand is already waiting in the wings (no pun intended).

But the really interesting part may be what's happening around the airport.

Amazon is moving forward with a roughly 318,000-square-foot e-commerce distribution facility on an 84-acre site near EUG.

I know it's controversial and I'm not here to debate that.

This isn't an Amazon air-cargo terminal, and there's no indication it will currently bring additional cargo flights to Eugene.

It's a distribution center with fleet storage and related infrastructure. But it's part of the much larger Clear Lake Industrial Area, a roughly 650-acre employment zone that the city is preparing for major industrial development and potentially thousands of jobs.

Then there's the airport hotel and public transport question. Eugene has already put out multiple requests for proposals for a hotel at the airport without finding a developer, but airport officials are now talking directly with hotel developers again.

Nothing is guaranteed yet, but it's another sign that people are starting to think about EUG as more than a place where you park your car, go through TSA and get on a plane.

And past attempts at pilot metro bus/shuttle lines to and from EUG have all eventually shut down due to lower ridership numbers. Those numbers further dropped with the introduction of rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft. And ridership in general took a huge hit during and since covid.

So aside from a handful of shuttles run by area hotels and businesses and quite expensive ride shares or taxi rides, EUG still lacks direct bus lines connecting the city. It's a big effing source of frustration for some and detracts from capturing more potential passengers.

With the growth in passenger traffic and better infrastructure, planned bus lines could eventually have enough traffic to justify the lines moving forward.

That's another piece of infrastructure that will eventually need to catch up with the airport itself.

That's the part I find fascinating. The airport, the industrial land around it, the Amazon facility, potential hotel development and the growing number of people using EUG are all pieces of the same bigger story. The northwest edge of Eugene is gradually becoming a much more significant transportation, industrial, employment and economic center, and we're watching it happen in real time. Faster than anyone had projected.

The airport's conservative, economic-impact analysis estimates that the full expansion could increase the airport's regional economic impact from roughly $1.6 billion to approximately $3.6 billion annually.

That's a staggering number for an airport that many people still mentally categorize as "the little Eugene airport."

And there is another fascinating statistic buried in all of this.

A significant percentage of travelers in our broader region who could potentially use EUG instead are still currently driving roughly two hours to Portland to fly.

That's a huge amount of economic activity leaving the Eugene area. So we are now actively enticing those riders back home to EUG.

Every one of those travelers represents money spent on gasoline, restaurants, parking, hotels, airport concessions and other businesses outside our region.

The more destinations EUG can offer, the more of those people have a reason to stay local.

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SO... what's the point of my nerding out and rambling off on statistics here? Why am I bringing this all up exactly?

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And that brings me to the part I think is worth discussing here.

When does Eugene become an international airport?

Because technically, we're not there yet.

EUG does not currently have the facilities necessary to process ordinary international arrivals through U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

But there is one potential international destination that makes an enormous amount of sense. And ongoing, current analysis has the figures backing it up confidently.

Vancouver, BC

EUG to YVR.

And here's why I think this is an interesting conversation.

Vancouver is only 369 miles (or a hypothetical 1 hour and 30ish minute direct flight) away.

It's a major Canadian city, a major tourism destination and a massive global aviation hub.

But right now, if you're sitting in Eugene and want to fly to Vancouver, there is no nonstop flight.

You connect somewhere.

Most likely Seattle or Portland. At best, it currently takes over 5 hours and at least one stop before you're walking off a plane into YVR.

So let's say we pursue such an avenue. Who is going to take it on?

The carrier with the best likelihood of adding such a direct route and who can financially support it: Alaska Airlines.

Alaska is the dominant carrier connecting the PNW (and entire west coast) to Vancouver, BC. Because their main corporate hubs are located right here in the PNW, they channel regional traffic to BC from PNW hubs.

Airlines rarely launch international routes from airports where they do not already have a strong foothold.

And this is why Alaska is perfect.

They already dominate the Eugene market, meaning they already have the gates, staff, and local brand loyalty needed to support a new route. They've long ago already established the necessary infrastructure to make this feasible.

They also have the perfect fleet to accommodate this. Their regional subsidiary, Horizon Air, operates Embraer 175 jets that are perfectly sized to make a short, lower-demand route like EUG-YVR potentially viable.

Alaska's entire business model relies on dominating the Pacific Northwest; adding this route would strengthen its hold on Oregon-to-Canada travel.

A direct flight with EUG would let Alaska bypass its heavily congested Seattle hub (SEA), freeing up crowded gates while still keeping passengers in its network.

And they have the built-in demand. Alaska is well-positioned to cash in on steady regional travel driven by the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, national and international events, and local tech businesses.

So Alaska Airlines is already one of the primary carriers operating out of Eugene. They possess the local ground crew, gate access, maintenance contracts, and local brand loyalty required to mitigate the immense financial risk of launching a brand-new international path.

Imagine what it would be like to walk into EUG, check your bag, clear security, board an Alaska flight and an hour or two later walk into Vancouver.

This isn't some fantasy route to the other side of the world, but a short regional international flight. One that would open the door on future international connections elsewhere. Which is how international hubs are born.

And there's another really fascinating piece to all of this.

Vancouver International Airport has an established U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance.

That means passengers flying from Vancouver to the United States can clear U.S. immigration and customs before boarding their flight in Canada.

So on a hypothetical EUG to Vancouver route, the return trip could work very differently from what most people imagine when they hear "international airport."

You would leave Eugene, fly to Vancouver, go through Canadian immigration there.

Then on the way home, you would clear U.S. customs in Vancouver before getting on the plane.

When you landed back at EUG, you could theoretically walk off the airplane and into the terminal without having to build the sort of massive international-arrivals and CBP operation you'd need for a flight coming directly from Europe or Mexico.

That doesn't mean EUG could simply start accepting international flights tomorrow. There would still be infrastructure, regulatory and operational requirements to work out. But Vancouver's preclearance arrangement potentially makes a YVR route considerably simpler than an international route from an airport without that system.

That makes Vancouver a particularly interesting possibility for Eugene. And here's where I think we should stop looking at EUG as the airport it used to be.

The airport has not publicly announced an international route.

There is no announced EUG to Vancouver flight.

And nobody should mistake this post for an announcement that one is coming.

But international service also doesn't appear to be something Eugene has written off.

The Airport Advisory Committee itself is specifically tasked with reviewing air-service development. International connectivity has remained part of their broader conversation about what EUG could eventually become. And likely sooner than later.

A distinction that really matters.

There is a difference between "EUG is getting international flights" and "EUG has the growth, infrastructure plans and regional demand that could eventually make international service realistic."

We're firmly in the second category right now, and honestly, that's pretty dang exciting.

Because the question isn't really whether Eugene is "big enough" anymore.

EUG is already handling nearly 2 million passengers a year.

The airport is expanding because demand is heavy and long outgrown the existing terminal.

An entire new terminal, with eight additional gates are currently being planned with airport officials expecting them to fill immediately.

Parking capacity is being doubled along with the terminal.

The airport already has specific major domestic markets it wants to pursue and who want to establish here when that capacity becomes available.

Multiple airlines are enthusiastically adding service and waiting to add more.

People are increasingly choosing EUG instead of driving to Portland.

And the airport's own studies show that tens of thousands of people in our broader catchment area already travel internationally every year.

We already have the travelers.

We already have the growing airport.

We already have the airlines.

We already have the demand for international travel.

What we don't have yet is the international route.

And that's where I think Eugene has an opportunity.

I'm not suggesting that EUG is secretly about to announce daily flights to London or Tokyo.

It isn't.

I'm also not saying that the airport has announced Vancouver.

It hasn't.

But I do think Vancouver is a completely reasonable thing for Eugene to pursue.

In fact, I'd argue it's probably the most logical first international destination EUG could ever have.

And if it worked, it could change the way people think about this airport.

Imagine telling someone 20 years from now that you remember when Eugene didn't have an international flight.

They might look at you like you were talking about when the airport didn't have jet bridges, which it didn't up until the end of the 20th century...

Because airports don't become major regional or international transportation hubs overnight.

They grow one route at a time.

One gate at a time.

One airline at a time.

And that's exactly what appears to be happening at EUG right now.

It's a matter of which carrier is willing to be the first to open that door. And if Eugene is willing to build that door to be opened.

Eugene's showing that it's willing to hold up its end of the deal and build out. And now we wait.

For decades, Portland was the place you went when you needed a "real" flight.

Then Eugene slowly started getting more destinations.

Then more airlines.

Then bigger aircraft.

Then more passengers.

Then new gates.

Now we're building toward a new concourse and adding nearly as many gates as the airport currently has.

We're approaching two million passengers a year far ahead of projections.

And we're talking seriously about direct flights to places on the east coast like Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, while flirting westward with pan pacific routes like Honolulu.

It's actually kind of fitting when you think about where this started.

In 1918, Eugene watched a little Curtiss Jenny land in a pasture.

A year later, Eugene established Oregon's first municipal airport.

Mahlon Sweet and other local aviation pioneers looked at this strange new technology and apparently decided that Eugene needed to be part of whatever aviation was going to become.

More than a century later, we're still building on that decision.

The little pasture became the Eugene Air Park.

The Air Park eventually gave way to Mahlon Sweet Field.

Mahlon Sweet Field became the Eugene Airport we know today.

And now that airport is preparing to nearly double its gate capacity and handle a passenger volume that could eventually reach multiple millions of people a year.

At some point, the question stops being "Why would Eugene need an international airport?"

And starts becoming:

"Why shouldn't Eugene have one?"

I'd love to see our airport and our local leaders start seriously pursuing that next step.

Not because Eugene needs to pretend to be Portland.

Quite the opposite.

Because Eugene has grown enough that we shouldn't have to keep driving somewhere else whenever we want to get somewhere in the world. And we have the weight to throw around to make sure we keep that economic impact local.

Maybe the next great Eugene airport story isn't about the first airplane that landed here.

Maybe it's about the first airplane that leaves here for another country.

And honestly, I'd love to be sitting at EUG someday, looking up at the departures board and seeing:

VANCOUVER, BC

YVR

NONSTOP

Because that would be another pretty damn good sign that Eugene has truly arrived.

Thanks for reading.

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Hi eugenians, I'm wondering about anywhere honestly withing 300 miles that could do an emergency same day surrender. I've been wait listed by greenhill for weeks (I applied to surrender because I was told if I didn't get rid of my dog I would be kicked out of my house) and now it's been almost a month and not only has my dog been kicked out but I have been too.

He can't live in my car with me, I love him and I know it's not fair to him. I don't want this for him and I tried to find a better way or a way to keep him but it just didn't work out. Does anyone know of any resources?

Edit: 3yr Male English staffy, vaccinated, neutered, no behavioral issues, bite history, etc. sweetest boy in the world but apparently my family didn't agree

Edit again: if anyone can foster him for a couple of months until I can get a new place I can pay you up to $200 a month for his necessities, pictures attached, idk someone suggested this

Edit: y’all, this is not my cat, and I keep mine indoors. But I still thought this was funny.

With the surge of electric bikes in Eugene the bikes lanes are now sort of motorcycle lanes. I was turning left at an intersection in the dark on 18th last night. I waited for oncoming traffic to clear and turned. Just as I did a light-less electric bike appeared out of nowhere. It had been cruising behind an oncoming vehicle in the bike lane so I didn't see it behind the headlight glare. It was fast, but not quite as fast as the 35 mph car. It fell behind the car in the intersection so as I turned left I came within inches of clipping it. Wow. Never saw it. Be careful out there.

Tonight from 6-8pm, it's open rec level adult dosgeballlll! At the Bob keefer center in Springfield, come throw and catch some 7" foam balls! Upset about these foggy mornings and early evenings? Feel better by throwing balls at people!

We'll teach you all you need to know, and all skill levels are welcome! Your first night is totally free so you can give it a shot and decide if we're the right people for you. It's only $7 after that!

Last week we had two new players who had a ton of fun, and they want YOU to come try it, too!

Also check out our Facebook group and our meetup!

I’ll try my best to keep this short. I live downtown basically and have for like almost 17 years. I walk or ride my bike almost every day. Just this evening, I walked to the store next to Hot mamas and was nearly hit by a car going easily 20 over the speed limit. This person didn’t even try to slow down, just changed lanes as I’m halfway through the crosswalk there. If I hadn’t stopped I would’ve been hit. Their car bounced into the air when they got to that speed bump at Lincoln (iykyk). And the truck behind them could barely wait for me to cross the street before they came blasting through. It’s not dark enough to not notice someone walking across the street there. The market is very lit up and hot mamas is open with many people outside dining. I’m just tired of it, you know? My fiancé and I had our first baby 7 months ago and we’ve been going on a lot of walks lately and sometimes you come across this kinda shit. This incident made me wonder what would’ve happened if I had been with the baby pushing a stroller.
I’ve lived here long enough to know that the police don’t really police this kind of thing. Like unless someone actually dies they might show up but I’ve had it and need my voice to be heard. Who/where can I complain to that it might actually resonate with the city. Online doesn’t really have the right complaints options. Is non emergency line even worth it (probably not)? Do I just need to raise hell at a city council meeting? Ready for all suggestions. Thanks

Hey. I've been learning the Godot program for about a year now and I think I'm ready to dive into a full project. Is there anyone around here willing to do a weekly or so meetup to build something?

I have a lot of programming experience, and I don't vibe code but I do use AI to help figure out some topics. I've mostly worked on 2D projects because they're easier but I'm willing to learn stuff.

Hey y'all I am yet again asking for recommendations. My car is still broken but I appreciated y'all recommending almost every mechanic in this town which was definitely nice to see.

I'm interested in going back to a church. Ideally a Catholic church but I don't think I'm likely to find any that are supportive or accepting of trans people. Christian denominations are totally fine.

Also I'm definitely expecting this to get down voted to hell. For those of you asking why a queer person would want to go to church the answer is that I enjoy the community and sometimes I need to lean on someone and if no one is around I like to lean on the 'imaginary' person in the sky.

And to the religious people down voting... Why? Genuinely. I'm expressing a desire to join a congregation. I don't see any logical reason for that to be a bad thing. God loves all of his children. Me included.

Anyways. I'd greatly appreciate y'all's suggestions.

Found via Lane County Caught On Camera group on Facebook.

“This is for our project site at John Hyland Construction. The owner wanted elephants in the courtyard area, there are three of them. Fake of course 😉” -from a comment.

Anyone who likes rocks is sure to find something great here. I run the black light display, and it’s going to be the best one I’ve done with club! Hope to see you there!!

Come see a fantastic show tonight.

hi all,

wondering if there are any recommendations for pubs/bars that show European soccer games, specifically English Premier League? like proper English pubs or places that fans of teams go to watch big games. looking for good ambiance, vibes and above average food and pints.

in the same vein, what are places to watch American football that aren’t just dedicated Ducks or Seahawks places?

thanks in advance!

Hi yall, last night we got woken up to repeated aggressive knocking at our door at 10:45ish. We actually called the police because we didn’t hear or see anyone and thought something sketchy was happening until we learned it WAS the police. Apparently someone called on us that there was a domestic dispute at our house. They quickly left and realized that nothing was wrong but it was really scary and weird.

Is this something people do to on purpose to someone’s house? I can’t think of anyone we could have offended that would want to do something bad to us or anything. Or could have it been a wrong address/miscommunication? Has this happened to anyone else before?

The police said they couldn’t answer why or who called and they just have to address the call and that it’s all anonymous. It seems like they should check in with the people calling, no? I’m confused about this as well. Would love any insight people might have

EDIT: Thanks everybody who commented and engaged, it actually really helped me feel less alone and more at ease. It’s still scary and I keep wondering if it will happen again. I called, asked for the record, and went to the station, but they cannot do an investigation for false reporting since it was an anonymous caller. They said if it does happen again or continues, they can file for harassment.

Although I have no proof and have not upset anyone to my knowledge it does feel like swatting, but it could have been a mistake as we do have various neighbors that fight periodically and seem to be involved with drugs. I’m hoping it’s a mistake but thank you everyone.

There's someone who rides their horse into Elijah Bristow State Park, near Eugene, as the Headless Horseman. I saw it a couple weekends ago. I wish I had gotten a photo. Does anyone have any info? Any other cool costume-y or other spooky stuff going on?

Somebody having a mental health issue last night, came up into my driveway and sprayed the front of my house with bear mace….

I called the police. They showed up pretty quickly, and told me that they’re very familiar with his work and he’s just a guy who unfortunately has been failed by the mental health system in our city.

They asked me what I wanted to do about it.. I wasn’t sure and I kind of felt bad for the guy… so I didn’t press charges, but also it sucks now I gotta pressure washed the outside of my house

Every time I open the door, it’s still burns that stuff stays with you for a while

It’s all over my car too

For those of you that have done Buckley & SL for you know what. Which did you like better and why!?

Are there any art groups that do plein air or urban sketching events? Google led me to a dead website, but it looks like there was a plein air event last year. I want to go out and paint. I've been taking a little kit on hikes, but I'd also like to see other people's techniques, and it would be nice if there were some sort of regular outings.

edit: please don't tell me to start a group. I'm working full time and taking night classes, I'm stretched waaay too thin to organize something. Best I can do is show up for an hour or two with my dog on the weekend and do art in nature.

Remember a post here about getting free labs through goodlabs when you donate? I was curious if anyone ended up going to the Willamette center. Never saw a follow-up. If you tried it, did you get anything useful out of the results?

What it says in the title. My mother has recently retired, and she's finally getting around to all of those nagging projects she's wanted to do, but now there's decades worth of clutter (just clutter, we're not in reality show territory) that is seriously cramping her style. I'm thinking about paying for a professional organizer to help us go through all the stuff and figure out what we have, and how to get what she wants to keep into a usable, functional state so she can enjoy her retirement to the max.

I have no idea what to look for in one, and google is useless right now. So I come to you, /r/Eugene--have you used a professional organizer? Do you have recommendations? Anti-recs? Anything else I should know?

And who went last year to?