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<br />City of Eugene <br />125 East 8 Avenue, 2 Floor <br />thnd <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5010 <br />(541) 682-5414 (FAX) <br /> <br />www.eugene-or.gov <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br />January 24, 2013 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />IN THIS EDITION <br /> <br />ADAPTIVE RECREATION RECEIVES THIRD GRANT FROM NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT <br />UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGIST TO SPEAK AT EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY <br /> <br />AROUND THE CITY <br /> <br />Adaptive Recreation Receives Third Grant from National Inclusion Project <br />The National Inclusion Project has partnered for a third year with the City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation Program to <br />implement Let’s ALL Play—Inclusion in Recreational Programs. As part of this initiative, the National Inclusion Project <br />provides a program model, training, expertise, and an award of $6,000 that provides <br />training to staff who work with children with disabilities. The partnership will augment <br />the City’s efforts to support children with disabilities and enable them to enjoy <br />recreational experiences in an inclusive setting. <br /> <br />Eugene’s Adaptive Recreation Services is a national leader in inclusion services. The <br />grant from the National Inclusion Project has helped Adaptive Recreation serve more <br />than 180 children over the past two years, providing accommodation or special <br />assistance as needed, so that they can play alongside other children. <br /> <br />In 2013, the project is partnering with 85 recreational programs in 34 states. “We feel <br />that working with City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation will help us further our mission to <br />open doors in communities nationwide for children with disabilities to experience everything life has to offer,” says Jerry <br />Aiken, project executive director. <br /> <br />For more information, contact Inclusion Coordinator Carly Schmidt at 541-682-8837. <br /> <br />Underwater Archaeologist to Speak at Eugene Public Library <br />Visiting archaeologist Dr. Nicolle Hirschfeld will give an illustrated talk at the Downtown Eugene Public Library on <br />Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. The talk is titled, “Living Low on the High Seas of the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.” <br />Admission is free. <br /> <br />The world’s first scientific underwater archaeology dig was the excavation in 1960 of <br />a Late Bronze Age cargo vessel shipwrecked off southern Turkey's Cape Gelidonya. <br />Fifty years later, Dr. Nicolle Hirschfeld co-directed a team that returned to study the <br />site. <br /> <br />The ship that sank at Gelidonya circa 1200 BCE belonged to a tinker plying his trade, <br />probably on a local circuit. Nearby at Uluburun, but about a century earlier, a ship <br />filled with much richer cargo was wrecked as well. Comparing the two, Dr. Hirschfeld <br />will explore opposite ends of the spectrum of Bronze Age overseas ventures. <br /> <br />Dr. Hirschfeld has excavated at sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean. An <br />associate professor in the department of Classical Studies at Trinity University and a research associate with the Institute <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />January 24, 2013 <br />