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Buy a RiverPlay Discovery Brick at Bi-Mart this Holiday Season <br />Eugene residents can now buy customized RiverPlay "Discovery <br />Bricks" at any of Bi-Mart's eight local stores and help make the <br />new, destination RiverPlay playground at Skinner Butte Park a <br />reality. This opportunity will provide a significant boost to the <br />"One Brick at a Time" fundraising campaign that the City of <br />Eugene and Eugene Rotary Club, in partnership with local <br />businesses and community members, launched this fall. In <br />order to fund Phase 1 of what will be the area's largest and most <br />unique playground, the City must sell 1,000 bricks by the end of <br />December. <br /> <br />"This is a great project for Bi-Mart--and the community--to get behind," says Bi-Mart President John <br />Harris. "We can be most supportive by doing what we do best--getting the word out and making it easy <br />for folks to buy a brick at one of our stores. What a great gift for the person who has everything!" <br /> <br />The project is funded in part by the 1998 parks and open space bond measure; but, in order to realize the <br />full scope of the vision, donations are needed from the community. So far, approximately $170,000 has <br />been raised in grants and in-kind and cash donations. The Discovery Bricks that are being sold will form <br />the entry pathway into the playground. The cost of each custom-inscribed brick is $100, and the <br />donation is tax deductible. Individuals and non-profit groups can help sell bricks as well. Individuals can <br />earn free bricks and HuIt Center tickets, and non-profits can earn 10% of all brick sales for their cause or <br />organization. <br /> <br />For more information about RiverPlay and the "One Brick at a Time" fundraising campaign, call Carrie <br />Peterson, park development coordinator, at 682-4907. Aisc, look for Bi-Mart's ribbon ads in The <br />Register-Guard every week through the holidays. For more information about Bi-Mart store locations, <br />call 344-0681. <br /> <br />Old Skinner Butte Park Play.qround Demolished to Make Way for RiverPlay <br />On Saturday, November 6, from 9 a.m. to <br />1 p.m., over 30 volunteers from the <br />Eugene Rotary Club and others helped <br />City parks staff demolish the old Skinner <br />Butte Park playground to prepare the site <br />for the new, destination RiverPlay <br />playground. The site was buzzing with <br />activity as volunteers jack-hammered <br />select concrete borders and paths <br />(pictured at right), ripped out some of the <br />existing play equipment/furniture, cleared <br />vegetation around restrooms, and <br />stripped and painted picnic tables and <br />benches, while younger children frolicked <br />at the RiverPlay activity zone. All local <br />television <br />stations and The Register-Guard covered <br />the event. Recent Register-Guard stories <br />about the project can be found at: <br />www.register.quard.com/news/2004/11/05/cl .cr. playground.1105.html and <br />www. register.q uard.com/news/2004/11/07/d 1 .ct.demolition. 1107.html. <br /> <br />Construction of the hands-on, state-of-the-art playground is scheduled to begin in spring 2005. The <br />playground will include a variety of unique play elements such as a play replica of Skinner Butte, an <br />ancient history sand dig, miniature Willamette River, and Kalapuya and pioneer villages. For more <br />information about this and other volunteer opportunities in Eugene parks, call Matt McRae, Volunteers In <br />Parks coordinator, at 682-4845. For more information about RiverPlay, call Carrie Peterson, park <br />development coordinator, at 682-4907. <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 <br />November 10, 2004 <br /> <br /> <br />
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