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EUGENE COUPLE ALL ABUZZ ABOUT `RACE'.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: EUGENE COUPLE ALL ABUZZ ABOUT `RACE'.(City/Region)(Ask the Joneses how they ended up on the CBS hit reality show, but don't ask how they made out - they can't say)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

Take a gander at the thumbnail images on CBS's Web site for the new season of "The Amazing Race" and try to guess which pair is from Eugene.

Could it be? a? the couple in tie-dye?

Bingo.

Arthur and Anita Jones are not only the oldest contestants on the 13th edition of the hit reality-TV show, they are perhaps the most colorful - figuratively and literally.

"You don't think you're going to get on (the show)," Arthur Jones, 61, who works in playground maintenance for the city of Eugene, says of the application process. "It's like buying a lottery ticket."

Spend some time with the energetic quintessential Eugene hippies with the infectious zest for life, though, and you quickly realize why they were selected. Who could resist them?

The Joneses applied last November...

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