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Recreation’s Spring Break Camps Offer Variety and Fun
<br />Kids get their choice of physical play, using their imaginations, having an adventure or creating art at the Recreation
<br />Division’s selection of spring break camps. Recreation is offering 10 camps for spring break, Mar. 24 - 28, for children ages
<br />three to 18. In Tots Soccer Academy, experienced coaches will introduce three- to
<br />five-year-old youngsters to the world’s most popular sport. Petersen Barn Preschool
<br />Camp will keep kids, ages three to five, busy with indoor/outdoor games, silly
<br />challenges and plenty of art and craft fun.
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<br />It’s “Old School Cool” at KidCity Adventures Camp. Youth in grades K - 5 choose arts,
<br />sports, water games, pool parties and more. Participants in 8th grade, and younger,
<br />will learn passing, shooting, dribbling, and ball handling at Water Polo Camp.
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<br />At Construction and Contraption Camp, six- to nine-year-olds will use their intellect
<br />to imagine, design, build and craft crazy contraptions, catapults and castles. Then it’s
<br />Spy vs. Spy Camp as the Alpha Team tracks the Echo Team, where campers make
<br />and break codes and create and complete mental and physical challenges, and hone
<br />tracking and evasion skills.
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<br />Youth ages 10 – 15, attending Camp Arrowhead will travel to a wilderness destination to learn survival skills, including
<br />archery, tracking, camouflage, and first aid. Tweens and teens, ages 10 - 15, work together on service projects that earn
<br />them activities such as canoeing, sand-boarding, and hiking in Counselor-In-Training Camp. Spring Break Quest Camp is
<br />designed for individuals, ages 12 - 21, with physical disabilities.
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<br />For more information, contact Kathy Madison at 541-682-6342 or kathy.madison@ci.eugene.or.us.
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<br />Third Annual Eugene Sunday Streets Final Report Available Online
<br />In 2013, the Eugene Sunday Streets program expanded to two events – July 21 in downtown and September 8 in Bethel.
<br />More than 5,200 people came out to enjoy the city’s largest public spaces – its streets – by foot, bicycle, wheelchair, roller
<br />blades, skateboard, and more, along the car-free Sunday Streets routes. View the final report at 2013 Eugene Sunday
<br />Streets Final Report.
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<br />Public Works Engineering, with support from many other City
<br />divisions and departments, puts on the Sunday Streets program to
<br />improve the health of Eugene residents, reduce dependence on
<br />motor vehicles and encourage walking and biking, increase
<br />environmental and climate change awareness, improve
<br />neighborhood livability, and create new opportunities for
<br />businesses by recirculating money directly into the local economy.
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<br />Eugene Sunday Streets partnered with staff from Library
<br />Recreation and Cultural Services to make Sunday Streets
<br />Downtown a “Summer in the City” event. Sunday Streets
<br />Downtown also partnered with dark30 sports to launch the
<br />TrackTown City Center Mile and Rolf Prima Criterium races by sharing part of the route in the morning and lending
<br />support with route closures.
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<br />Each event featured more activity booths and food carts than the previous two years, and the sponsorships from local
<br />businesses and organizations continued to grow. The program achieved its fundraising goal and is looking forward to
<br />continued partnership with community partners to grow the program and make the 2014 events even more successful.
<br />Contributions from sponsorships, vendor fees and individual donors raised $27,000, and another $26,000 worth of
<br />advertising and entertainment was given through in-kind donations of services.
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<br />Eugene Sunday Streets 2014 plans to have an open street event in two different neighborhoods next summer during the
<br />fourth year of the program. The events will be located in central Eugene along 5 Avenue and Jefferson Street highlighting
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<br />the new WJ Skatepark and in the Harlow Neighborhood. For more information, visit www.eugenesundaystreets.org, or
<br />2013 Eugene Sunday Streets Final Report, or contact Transportation Options Coordinator Lindsay Selser at
<br />sundaystreets@ci.eugene.or.us or 541-682-5094.
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<br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2
<br />March 13, 2014
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