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Article: Issue fires up Santa Clara resistance.(Politics)(In the county: Some residents don't want Eugene fire service, fearing it's a step to annexation.)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2002
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Byline: SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard
Call them the Santa Clara defenders, a small but passionate bunch of residents living on the bucolic flatlands north of Eugene. They don't want to be part of the city, but it's a losing battle and they know it.
Still, they've set up camp at the scene of the latest skirmish: the Santa Clara Fire District fire station.
The issue: a contract between the all-volunteer firefighters in Santa Clara and the paid Eugene Fire Department that would bring Eugene firefighters and paramedics farther north than they've come before.
Santa Clara is a patchwork of a neighborhood, with some homes and businesses on ...