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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br />January 22, 2004 <br /> <br /> City of Eugene <br /> 777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 <br /> (541) 682-5010 <br /> (541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> www. ci.euqene.or, us <br /> <br />PARKER/EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY PLA YGROUND IMPROVEMENT <br />BOY SCOUTS PLANT OVER 100 TREES ALONG NORTHWEST EXPRESSWAY <br />PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT PUBLISHES FY03 ANNUAL REPORT <br />EUGENE FLEET & RADIO COMMUNICATION SERVICES JOINS CLEAN CITIES COALITION <br /> <br />Parker/Eastside Elementary Play.qround Improvement <br />On Saturday, January 24, parents and neighbors will gather from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to install new playground <br />equipment and amenities at Parker/Eastside Elementary School. City Councilor Betty Taylor will also participate in the <br />effort. Parker/Eastside Elementary School is located at 3875 Kincaid Street. <br /> <br />The new playground equipment is made possible through a City of Eugene Neighborhood Matching Grant. The highlight <br />is a new 8-foot wall climber. Other additions to be installed on Saturday include a new swing, a "toss 'n' score" and a <br />picnic table. Future improvements included in the grant are bicycle racks and naturescaping. Most of the naturescaping <br />will be installed in the fall of 2004. <br /> <br />The total project is valued at over $13,000. The neighborhood match is primarily general and professional volunteer <br />labor and monetary contributions from the school site councils. The City's Neighborhood Matching Grant program <br />funded $6,375 of the project costs. For more information about the Parker/Eastside project, please contact Sally <br />Krueger, project coordinator, at 687-3303. For information on the Neighborhood Matching Grants program, please <br />contact Beth Bridges in the Planning and Development Department at 682-5272 or via e-mail <br />beth. b. bridges@ci, eugene, or. us. <br /> <br />Boy Scouts Plant over lO0 Trees Alonq Northwest Expressway <br />More than 16 Boy Scouts from the River Road area off <br />Maxwell Rd. helped transform their neighborhood by <br />planting 115 native trees along Northwest Expressway <br />near Chambers, a formerly barren landscape consisting of <br />major arterials, a field and a train yard. The Scouts <br />accomplished this feat in a mere three hours last Saturday <br />morning with the help of the City's NeighborWoods <br />program and the program's local tree planting partner, <br />Eugene Tree Foundation, which coordinated the effort. <br /> <br />The work involved rigorous activities: digging planting <br />holes, removing rocks, planting trees, and, finally, <br />applying leaf mulch to the thirteen islands of trees that <br />were formed. According to Rick Olkowski, NeighborWoods <br />program coordinator, the "boys had a ball." "They'll get to <br />see the trees they planted every day, and the trees will <br />grow as they grow," he said. <br />"It's about building community," said one participant. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />March 17, 2004 <br /> <br /> <br />