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Michael Carrigan and Majeska Seese-Green filed prospective petitions for Ward 7. Mr. Carrigan filed his completed <br />petition on February 4. <br /> <br />Calls from people requesting information about becoming a candidate are increasing. Two callers have scheduled <br />appointments later this week to file prospective petitions: Maurie Denner and Kevin Gore. Filing deadline is March 4 at <br />5 p.m. The City's Elections website at www.ci.eugene.or, us/cityreco/Elections will continue to be updated each time a <br />candidate initiates or completes filing. For more information, contact City Recorder Mary Feldman at 682-8353. <br /> <br />Volunteers Brave Damp Weather to Tend Riverbank Near Autzen Footbridqe <br />Undaunted by the cold, damp weather last Saturday <br />afternoon, about 20 students from the University of Oregon <br />and Lane Community College along with volunteers from <br />Eugene Stream Team dug up blackberry plants and planted <br />native plants along the Willamette River just downstream <br />from the Autzen Footbridge. The students belong to Oregon <br />Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG), whose <br />local membership, in partnership with Stream Team, has <br />adopted the riverbank near Autzen Footbridge in an effort to <br />improve habitat for spring Chinook salmon and other plants <br />and animals dependent on a healthy river ecosystem. <br />Volunteers, many of whom have worked on the site for the <br />past three work parties, built on previous work by the group, <br />cutting and digging out blackberries and replanting the area <br />with plants from Stream Team's volunteer-run Native Plant <br />Nursery. <br /> <br />"The volunteers were quite pleased with the progress that has been made at the site," says Stream Team Coordinator <br />Lorna Baldwin. "Passers-by who stopped to thank the volunteers for their efforts were encouraged to come back and <br />check out the native plants in the spring." <br /> <br />Stream Team also provided an educational program in which the historical uses and current ecological status of the river <br />were discussed. Both OSPIRG and Stream Team have educational missions. Stream Team provides the opportunity for <br />people to do hands-on environmental work, restoring and caring for the city's waterways and natural areas. For more <br />information about this and other projects and trainings this spring, call Lorna Baldwin in Parks and Open Space at <br />682-4850. <br /> <br />Parks Staff Tackles I_arqe Tree In Amazon Creek <br />When a large shore pine toppled into Amazon Creek at 17th <br />Avenue and Oak Street, the Natural Resources Maintenance <br />crew had to act fast to prevent the tree's top half from entirely <br />clogging the flow of water through the canal, which provides <br />stormwater conveyance through the city. According to the <br />crew's supervisor, John Clark, by the time the problem was <br />assessed, the tree, which fell upstream of a bridge, was already <br />wedged under the bridge and had amassed a considerable <br />amount of debris. <br /> <br />"It was like a big plug in the channel," says Clark. "The tree had <br />jammed the bridge so completely, you couldn't see under the <br />bridge to the other side." <br /> <br />Because the tree was located over the concrete wall of the creek <br />and under a bridge, a crew member was harnessed to the railing <br />of the bridge and lowered over the side in order to gain access to the tree. Limbs were cut from the tree and removed by <br />a hydraulic excavator mounted to a truck. Eventually, the trunk was exposed and also hauled out of the channel, and <br />normal flow was restored to the creek. <br /> <br />One of the important functions of the Natural Resources Maintenance Crew is to remove hazards, debris, trash, and <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />March 17, 2004 <br /> <br /> <br />