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<br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br /> <br />February 16, 2012 <br /> <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 /> <br /> www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />KIDS TO PERFORM PLAY AT LIBRARY FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH <br />STUDY SHOWS BENEFITS OF TAI CHI <br />WORKING CITY VIDEO WINS PEGASUS PROGRAMMING AWARD <br />NATURE, RECREATION, AND LEISURE HELPS FORMER PRISONERS RE-ENTER COMMUNITY <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br /> <br />Kids to Perform Play at Library for Black History Month <br />The Downtown Eugene Public Library will host a free Black History Month play performed by <br />and for children on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 10:15 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The show will tell the <br />story of educator and author Booker T. Washington. <br /> <br />The students of Drinking Gourd Elementary School, ages five to eight, will perform and bring <br />the young children in the audience onstage to participate in the play. This year’s production <br />th <br />will be the 19 annual Black History Month play performed at the Library by Drinking Gourd <br />Elementary School. <br /> <br />For more information, please contact the Eugene Public Library at 541-682-8316 or <br />www.eugene-or.gov/library. <br /> <br />Study Shows Benefits of Tai Chi <br />Campbell Community Center was one of the sites for a study that determined Tai Chi has significant benefits for <br />patients with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease. In an original article published in the Feb. 9, 2012, issue of the <br />New England Journal of Medicine, Oregon Research Institute scientist Fuzhong <br />Li, Ph.D., and colleagues, report that a tailored program of twice-weekly Tai Chi <br />training resulted in improved postural stability and walking ability, and reduced <br />number of falls. <br /> <br />In the four-year project funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders <br />and Stroke, the investigators randomly assigned 195 patients to one of three <br />exercise groups: Tai Chi, resistance training, or stretching. The patients <br />participated in 60-minute exercise sessions, twice weekly for 24 weeks. The <br />results showed that individuals who were in the Tai Chi group performed <br />consistenly better than those in the other groups with regard to balance and <br />stride-length measures. <br /> <br />Recreation’s Adult Services Program offers three different Tai Chi classes weekly, including Beginning and Continuing <br />Tai Chi and Tai Chi for Arthritis. For more information, contact Tom Powers at 541-682-5318. <br /> <br />Working City Video Wins Pegasus Programming Award <br />A four-and-one-half-minute video produced by Metro Television, with the City of Eugene, for the Working City TV <br />series, has been awarded a 2011 Pegasus Award. The Pegasus Awards are the video industry’s premier competition <br />for recognition of exemplary work produced by non-broadcast professionals. This is the first Pegasus Award for Metro <br />TV. <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />February 16, 2012 <br />