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compiled and displayed as a web-based exhibit.
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<br />"It was encouraging, satisfying, and hopeful to see the event bring such life and community to the west
<br />end of the park," says Robin Hostick, park planner and author of the Skinner Butte Park Master Plan, in
<br />which Skinner City Farm was originally conceived.
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<br />Skinner City Farm, a local non-profit organization, manages, cultivates and develops educational
<br />programming for the City's historical community gardens at Skinner Butte Park. The site was once a
<br />prairie, inhabited by Native Americans, and part of the original donation land claim by pioneer farmers
<br />Mary and Eugene Skinner, for whom Eugene is named. Educational programming emphasizes the
<br />historic and agricultural importance of the site, food security, and farming and gardening. Currently, 14
<br />youth and 21 families from five different community groups that serve people in need are tending plots at
<br />the farm. For more information about larger organizational garden plots or educational programming at
<br />the farm, call Skinner City Farm at 344-8322 or visit www.efn.org/~scf. For more information about
<br />individual garden plots or the City's Community Gardens Program, call Program Manager Matt McRae at
<br />682-4845 or visit www.ci.euqene.or, us/PARKS/howto/commqardens.htm. For more information about
<br />Skinner Butte Park or the park's master plan, call Robin Hostick, park planner, at 682-4915.
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<br />La PasiOn Seqfm San Marcos - June 24, 25
<br />Don't miss the Northwest premiere of La Pasi6n Seg~n San Marcos. The Passion of Jesus Christ
<br />According to St. Mark -- in the form of a South American street festival -- opens this season's Bach
<br />Festival and unfolds in a brassy, percussive parade of sensory images, ritual dances, and heart-stirring
<br />vocals. Composer Osvaldo Golijov, commissioned once before for the Bach and the Americas project
<br />"Oceana," brings forth a passion with ritual, drama and rhythms hot enough to dance to. Conducted by
<br />Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand, and accompanied by the Schola Cantorum and Brazilian jazz
<br />singer Luciana Souza, the passion blends ever-shifting rhythms of salsa, mambo, flamenco, and tango
<br />with the mystery and meaning of the Gospel of Saint Mark. It speaks to our time with a culture-crossing,
<br />barrier-breaking celebration of the strength of the human spirit and a faith in a greater destiny. "A
<br />passion resounding with Latin America's rambunctious vital 21st century voice." says the Chicago Sun-
<br />Times. For more information, contact the Hult Center Ticket Office at 682-5000.
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<br />Southeast Neiqhbors Celebrate their Newly Renovated Neiqhborhood Park
<br />On June 15, Councilor Betty Taylor helped
<br />re-dedicate Milton Park with the chant, "Red
<br />Rover, Red Rover, send the kids on over!"
<br />Scores of local kids from the southeast
<br />Eugene neighborhood dashed through the
<br />crepe paper ribbon (at right) and officially
<br />re-dedicated the recently renovated park,
<br />nestled in the 3300 block of University
<br />Street. Over 100 park neighbors came out
<br />for a summer picnic in the park, complete
<br />with sub sandwiches, old fashioned field
<br />games, and live music by "The Tuesday
<br />Night Barn Group", a lively, homegrown
<br />blue grass ensemble.
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<br />Councilor Taylor, along with Philip
<br />Richardson, the park's planner, and Vincent Martorello, neighbor and member of the Friends of Milton
<br />Park, addressed the crowd gathered on picnic blankets in the verdant open field and at the new picnic
<br />tables. Councilor Taylor acknowledged an 80-year-old neighbor named Annie for her persistence in
<br />advocating for renovation of the park. Martorello said the Friends of Milton Park formed when a group of
<br />neighbors began talking to each other and wondering what could be done about their outdated, decrepit
<br />neighborhood park. He thanked City Parks Planning staff for their responsiveness to neighbors. "They
<br />sifted and distilled our input into a wonderful park with diverse forms of play for children of all ages. The
<br />park really is a jewel for the neighborhood," Martorello said.
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<br />The renovation of the 0.6-acre park was funded by the 1998 parks and open space bond measure.
<br />Originally developed in the 1960s, the park now has a new play area, including a simulated rock climbing
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<br />June 16, 2005
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