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stuart.g.ramsing@ci.eugene.or.us. <br />“Youth to Make It Happen” Open Mic Night <br />Youth to Make it Happen (YMIH), a youth leadership program sponsored by Petersen Barn Community <br />Center and designed to empower high school youth through creative expression, hosted its first “Youth <br />Open Mic” night on Wednesday, March 1, at Cozmic Pizza in downtown Eugene. High school students <br />from throughout Eugene shared their poetry, music, spoken-word and other vaudevillian inclinations with <br />a diverse and enthusiastic audience. <br /> <br />Youth to Make it Happen reflects the Recreation Services Division’s expanded effort to develop young <br />leaders in our community, pursuing this goal through facilitated, project-based, performance <br />opportunities. Aligned with the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets, which emphasize positive <br />connections among youth and their broader communities, YMIH projects provide high school students <br />with the opportunity to practice visioning, decision-making, negotiation, and public speaking skills <br />through creative expression. <br /> <br />In addition to Youth Open Mic, current YMIH projects include Hip Hop Hope—a week-long, intensive, <br />camp collaboration between high school students and local professional recording artists that culminates <br />in the production and distribution of a youth CD Summer Youth Concert—a concert presented at <br />Churchill skate park in partnership with Recreation’s summer skate park contest series, and Youth <br />Voices—a peer-to-peer, needs assessment process designed to contribute to recreation and community <br />decision-making. <br />For more information regarding Youth to Make it Happen, please call Recreation Program Assistant <br />Peter Chavannes at 682-6359, or Recreation Activity Coordinator Lizz Zitron at 682-6042. <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene Public Library Foundation Keeps On Giving <br />In February 2006, the Eugene Public Library Foundation gave two gifts totaling nearly $13,000 to the <br />Eugene Public Library. Interest from the EPL Foundation Year 2000 Fund endowment provided $7,034 <br />towards the purchase of picture books, large print books, and the five-volume reference Historical <br />Statistics of the United States. An additional $5,900 for new books, films, audio books, and other <br />materials came from donors to the New Books and Media Fund 2005. <br /> <br />For more information about the Eugene Public Library Foundation, call 682-5338 or visit <br />www.eplfoundation.org. For information about library materials and services, call the Eugene Public <br />Library at 682-5450 or visit www.eugene-or.gov/library. <br /> <br />City's Theme for Home Show is “Be Smart about Car Washing” <br />Eugene’s stormwater education program will focus on the link <br />between car washing and protecting local streams and rivers at <br />the Lane County Home Show, which begins today and runs <br />through Sunday. Soap and pollutants washed from cars often <br />empty into local storm drains, and flow, untreated, into Amazon <br />Creek and the Willamette River, where they harm wildlife, <br />damage habitat, and reduce water quality. Even biodegradable <br />soaps, if disposed of improperly, can damage the environment <br />by consuming oxygen that fish need to survive. <br /> <br />Stormwater program staff will be on hand at Booth #517 in Expo <br />Hall # 1 to explain the pollution problems associated with car washing and offer simple tips to prevent or <br />divert runoff. Home show attendees can also pick up printed materials and a free, inexpensive chamois <br />designed to get people thinking about putting together an environmentally friendly car washing kit. For <br />more information, please call Kathy Eva, public information specialist for the Stormwater Management <br />Program at 682-2739. <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />March 9, 2006 <br />