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Development category. The award was presented by Dave Yarborough, Amtrak Station Manager, who complimented Facilities Project Manager Russ Mecredy, the architectural firm of WBGS and the contractor, Morris Keilty, for their exceptional effort in modernizing the depot while retaining the historic character of the building and keeping the station operational during the construction process. Kudos to Facilities Management for these acknowledgements from the downtown community for the division's efforts to support a vital city center. For more information contact Glen Svendsen, 682-5008. Mexican Exchanqe Students Help Stream Team with Restoration Work For the third year in a row, middle and high school students from Guanajuato, Mexico, spent a day with Eugene Stream Team, learning about the many ways in which the City of Eugene protects and improves water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. Last Tuesday, students and their chaperones from Guanajuato, Mexico, who were participating in a two-week exchange program with Oak Hill School, helped remove the invasive oyster plant along the section of Pre's Trail that runs through the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park. They also helped mulch the native trees and shrubs planted last February by several crews of volunteers in the same area. During lunch at the native plant nursery, Stream Team Coordinator Lorna Baldwin and one long-time nursery volunteer talked about how Stream Team volunteers help with the full cycle of restoration--from salvaging native plants and propagating them at the nursery to re-planting them in natural areas across the city. One of the leaders of the Mexico group was part of the first group of students who visited Eugene six years ago. He is now 22-years-old and studying water resources in an hydraulic engineering program at a college in his hometown. "We learned about issues of watersheds and water quality and how we can apply what you are doing here in Eugene in my community in Mexico," he said. Stream Team Coordinator Lorna Baldwin has been invited to join the Oak Hill students who will be visiting Guanajuato next March and do some classroom instruction about water quality issues. "We won't make her work though," the young man quipped. The Oak Hill exchange program is organized by Armando Morales, who teaches Spanish at the school. Morales has organized exchanges between students at Oak Hill and from his hometown in Mexico for the past nine years. For more information about the Oak Hill exchange program, call 744-0954. For more information about this and other Stream Team projects, call Lorna Baldwin at 682-4850 or e-mail Iorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or. us. EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 May 5, 2005