Laserfiche WebLink
City of Eugene Volunteer Opportunities Now Available on Centralized Web Page <br />Community members interested in <br />exploring City of Eugene volunteer <br />opportunities have a new resource <br />available to them. Staff recently <br />finished developing a centralized web <br />page providing information about City <br />of Eugene volunteer opportunities <br />including program names and <br />descriptions, staff contact information, <br />photos, and links to more detailed <br />information about each opportunity. <br />Additional volunteer program <br />opportunities will be added to the <br />page in the coming months. <br />In fiscal year 2007, more than 4,000 <br />volunteers contributed 81,000+ hours <br />of service to the City of Eugene! <br /> to browse volunteer opportunities and learn how City services are <br />Visit www.eugene-or.gov/volunteer <br />enhanced and improved with the support of citizen volunteers! For more information contact Volunteers <br />in Policing Program Coordinator, Carrie Chouinard at 682-5355 or carrie.f.chouinard@ci.eugene.or.us. <br />Adaptive Scuba Diving Gives Woman “Wings” <br />Last November, an Albanian woman who was <br />in Eugene to study at the U of O experienced <br />what she called, “the most extraordinary thing <br />in my life.” She was referring to Adaptive <br />Recreation’s Adapted Scuba Diving Class <br />that is co-sponsored by DIVE Northwest. <br />The program, offered every month at Sheldon <br />Pool & Fitness Center, begins with classroom <br />instruction, followed by one-on-one instruction <br />in the pool. Teuta Halila, who is a paraplegic, <br />was conflicted by the idea of going scuba <br />diving. She was terrified of water as a result <br />of bad experiences as a child, but at the same <br />time was drawn to it; she wrote, “…when I <br />looked at (the water), it seemed so beautiful, <br />blue and peaceful that I wanted to go in and <br />embrace in my arms but as soon as my foot was in water the sea would turn to be black and fierce and <br />my fear would come back again.” <br />In a letter to Adapted Recreation Programmer, Patty Prather, Teuta described the experience as “a <br />feeling of freedom….I totally forgot the fear I had from water…. I felt like I was flying in the sky.” She <br />concluded, “I highly recommend other people with disabilities to try this wonderful experience with scuba <br />diving and you will see that disabilities we have do not define us. Just try and challenge yourself and you <br />will see that I am telling the truth.” For more information, contact Patty Prather, 682-6365. <br />th <br />10 & Charnelton Request for Proposals to be Released <br />The 10th & Charnelton Development Site Request for Proposals (RFP) will be released on Monday, <br />March 3. Internet access to the RFP will be available at www.eugene-or.gov/downtown. For more <br />information, please contact Denny Braud at 682-5536 or denny.braud@ci.eugene.or.us). <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />March 3, 2008 <br />