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decipher his character and the other silences around her, the author cast herself in an ongoing dream life as a Nancy Drew-type agent." Adds Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys, "FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became." First Friday at the Library is located at the Eugene Downtown Public Library, 100 West 10th Avenue, and is sponsored by the Library, the Friends of the Eugene Public Library, and the Eugene Public Library Foundation. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Library Director Connie Bennett at 682-5363. Stream Team Volunteers of Ail Ages Restore Habitat Across the City Twenty-one Eugene Stream Team volunteers, ranging in age from 9 to 66, helped plant several hundred camas bulbs, saxifrage and other native wet prairie species near Lamb's Cottage in Skinner Butte Park this past weekend. All the plants that were used for Saturday's project were salvaged by many different groups of volunteers over the last two years or grown out from seed at the program's volunteer-run nursery. Last year, Stream Team volunteers pulled ivy off nearby Skinner Butte. This year volunteers helped create new wet prairie habitat by planting native wildflowers (see photo at right). "The planting was done with much care and the survival rate -- as with all volunteer plantings -- is expected to be very high," says Stream Team Coordinator Lorna Baldwin. "Please make a point to visit this wonderful native wet prairie this spring." Stream Team volunteers have also completed construction of two 10 by 12-feet storage sheds at the new Native Plant Nursery at Alton Baker Park and planted hundreds of riparian plants on the banks of Amazon Creek this month. The new native plant nursery is expected to open soon. Volunteers are welcome to join other Stream Team volunteer tending to native plants to be used in restoration projects across the city. Work at the nursery includes up-potting, watering and weeding. Stream Team provides the opportunity for members of the community, from elementary-age children to college students to older adults, to do hands-on environmental work, restoring and caring for the city's waterways and natural areas. For more information about Stream Team, call Lorna Baldwin at 682-4850. City and Oreqon Track Club Workinq Together to Renovate PreFontaine Trail The City, working in conjunction with the Oregon Track Club Masters, recently completed the renovation of the nearly one- mile green loop of the PreFontaine Trail, one of the more popular segments of the trail because it is lighted. After conducting research into the most effective and durable trail maintenance for the heavily used trail, the City is now creating a raised gravel base for the trail and top dressing the base with bark. Nearly 290 tons of quarry rock was used to complete the last segment of the green loop, and volunteers from Oregon Track Club finished the job by laying bark on the top layer of the trail. In total, close to a mile of Pre's Trail has been improved. There are still three miles of worn trail to go. EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 November 18, 2004