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Title: Board to consider YMCA proposal for fairgrounds.(General News)(The organization wants to lease the livestock building for soccer fields and offices)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 26, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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