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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m forwarding a message on behalf of Jim Scheppke and Oregon Reads 2014. Please add your nomination for naming the new Tri-Met bridge the “William Stafford Memorial Bridge” – read Jim’s message below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is a great opportunity to not only honor William Stafford, but to raise awareness for Oregon’s literary heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carol<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carol Dinges<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Lebanon Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> oregonreads2014list@memberclicks.net [mailto:oregonreads2014list@memberclicks.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Scheppke<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 11, 2013 10:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> Carol Dinges<br><b>Subject:</b> [OregonReads2014] Name the Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Oregon Reads 2014 Contact Persons:<br>This is a little off the subject of Oregon Reads 2014, but as a Board member of the Friends of William Stafford I wanted you to know that we are urging our contacts to participate in Tri-Met's name the bridge project:<br><br><a href="http://www.trimet.org/namethebridge/">http://www.trimet.org/namethebridge/</a> <br><br>Of course we are urging Tri-Met to name their new bridge the William Stafford Memorial Bridge in the Centennial year.<br><br>You can help us by sending in your own nomination using the online submission form on the website above. And you can urge others to do the same. This isn't hard. Please do it today and get others in your library to do the same. We want to overwhelm the selection committee with nominations for the William Stafford Memorial Bridge.<br><br>Here's some talking points to use in your nomination:<br><br>- William Stafford is generally considered to Oregon's greatest poet.<br><br>- He is the only Oregon poet ever to win the National Book Award.<br><br>- The William Stafford Centennial in 2014 has been declared a Statewide Anniversary Celebration by the Oregon Heritage Commission.<br><br>- William Stafford served as both U.S Poet Laureate and Oregon Poet Laureate.<br><br>- He wrote often about rivers, including what some consider to be his finest poem:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>Ask Me</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Some time when the river is ice ask me<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>mistakes I have made. Ask me whether<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>what I have done is my life. Others<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>have come in their slow way into<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>my thought, and some have tried to help<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>or to hurt: ask me what difference<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>their strongest love or hate has made.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will listen to what you say.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You and I can turn and look<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>at the silent river and wait. We know<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>the current is there, hidden; and there<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>are comings and goings from miles away<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>that hold the stillness exactly before us.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What the river says, that is what I say. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>***<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I'd appreciate your help with this. Please forward this message far and wide.<br><br>Jim<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Jim Scheppke<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:jscheppke@comcast.net">jscheppke@comcast.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>503-269-1559<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><br><br><br><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://ola.memberclicks.net/message/image/baf3a626-055a-4346-b3ed-6779bd3790fa"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>