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<br />Division and Mayor Kitty Piercy, REI Eugene is holding a community recognition event on Saturday, <br />April 29, at 10:30 a.m. at which the REI Parks Grant will be presented to the Eugene Parks Foundation. <br /> <br />The mission of the Eugene Parks Foundation is to earn, <br />raise, accept, and distribute funds and other items of <br />value to improve and enhance this community's parks, <br />open spaces, and recreational facilities and services. <br />The foundation is an independent, nonprofit <br />organization with a governing board of community <br />volunteers. Its current initiatives include renovating <br />Monroe Park's wading pool into a spray play park and <br />building a special reserve fund that could be used to <br />quickly acquire property identified as desirable in the <br />City of Eugene Parks Recreation, and Open Space <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br /> <br />For more information please contact Carrie Peterson, <br />park development coordinator, at 682-4907 or <br />carrie.a.peterson@ci.eugene.or.us, or John Winquist, <br />View from Spencer Butte <br />Eugene Parks Foundation board member, at <br />winquistj@lanecc.edu. <br /> <br /> <br />Glitterary Word Festival at Eugene Public Library <br />On Saturday, April 29, kids invite their favorite adults -- and vice versa – to the Glitterary Word Festival, <br />the annual, free event sponsored by the Young Writer’s Association (YWA) and Eugene Public Library. <br />It’s a play day for the whole family keyed to this year’s theme: <br />Creatures and Their People. <br /> <br />From 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., join in a smorgasbord of imaginative activities. <br />Make an artful book, enjoy animal tales, act out with a theater troupe, <br />or interview inner creatures. Capture memories of family pets at <br />KLCC-FM's mobile radio studio, Elsie. Add to a community bestiary <br />of words and pictures for display at the Hult Center’s Jacobs Gallery <br />during the Lane Arts Council YouthArts Celebration. Let your fingers <br />do the talking and invent a poem inspired by the mysterious touchy- <br />feely box. Chat with children’s book authors, including Linda Crew, winner of the Oregon Book Award for <br />best young adult book (A Heart for Any Fate) and the judge of the YWA writing contest. <br /> <br />Participants can also visit with live animals, read to dogs, and meet Eugene’s favorite Kitty – the Mayor - <br />- and more. At 1:30, the winners of the YWA annual writing contest will read their works; then everyone <br />celebrates with cake! For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 682-8316. <br /> <br />Getting the Word Out on Recreation Service Division’s Summer Programs <br />More folks know about Recreation’s summer activities thanks to Isaac Markehe, outdoor recreation <br />program assistant, and Lizz Zitron, youth and family recreation activity coordinator. Both appeared this <br />week on KVAL TV’s Northwest News at noon with host Shelley Kurtz. <br /> <br />Isaac pitched the new “Out in the Artdoors” urban adventure race coming up on May 20, as well as a new <br />fly fishing class, family blackberry float on the Willamette, Mother’s and Father’s day challenge courses, <br />Saturday drop-in park walks and the Whiteaker Neighborhood River Festival on July 21. <br /> <br />Lizz promoted the wide range of summer camps and other free and low-cost events, including the Fun <br />For All program to be held this summer, We are Bethel on June 3, and Touch-a-Truck on July 19. <br /> <br />This was the first of what will be quarterly staff appearances on the program to publicize City recreation <br />activities. For more information, contact Isaac Markehe at 682-6321. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />April 27, 2006 <br />