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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER
January 24, 2013
IN THIS EDITION
ADAPTIVE RECREATION RECEIVES THIRD GRANT FROM NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT
UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGIST TO SPEAK AT EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY
AROUND THE CITY
Adaptive Recreation Receives Third Grant from National Inclusion Project
The National Inclusion Project has partnered for a third year with the City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation Program to
implement Let’s ALL Play—Inclusion in Recreational Programs. As part of this initiative, the National Inclusion Project
provides a program model, training, expertise, and an award of $6,000 that provides
training to staff who work with children with disabilities. The partnership will augment
the City’s efforts to support children with disabilities and enable them to enjoy
recreational experiences in an inclusive setting.
Eugene’s Adaptive Recreation Services is a national leader in inclusion services. The
grant from the National Inclusion Project has helped Adaptive Recreation serve more
than 180 children over the past two years, providing accommodation or special
assistance as needed, so that they can play alongside other children.
In 2013, the project is partnering with 85 recreational programs in 34 states. “We feel
that working with City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation will help us further our mission to
open doors in communities nationwide for children with disabilities to experience everything life has to offer,” says Jerry
Aiken, project executive director.
For more information, contact Inclusion Coordinator Carly Schmidt at 541-682-8837.
Underwater Archaeologist to Speak at Eugene Public Library
Visiting archaeologist Dr. Nicolle Hirschfeld will give an illustrated talk at the Downtown Eugene Public Library on
Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. The talk is titled, “Living Low on the High Seas of the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.”
Admission is free.
The world’s first scientific underwater archaeology dig was the excavation in 1960 of
a Late Bronze Age cargo vessel shipwrecked off southern Turkey's Cape Gelidonya.
Fifty years later, Dr. Nicolle Hirschfeld co-directed a team that returned to study the
site.
The ship that sank at Gelidonya circa 1200 BCE belonged to a tinker plying his trade,
probably on a local circuit. Nearby at Uluburun, but about a century earlier, a ship
filled with much richer cargo was wrecked as well. Comparing the two, Dr. Hirschfeld
will explore opposite ends of the spectrum of Bronze Age overseas ventures.
Dr. Hirschfeld has excavated at sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean. An
associate professor in the department of Classical Studies at Trinity University and a research associate with the Institute
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of Nautical Archaeology, she has received numerous awards for her work, is published widely, and is an Archaeological
Institute of America Kershaw Lecturer for 2012-2013.
Dr. Hirschfeld’s talk is sponsored by the Eugene Public Library, the Eugene chapter of the Archaeological Institute of
America, the University of Oregon Classics Department, Friends of Eugene Public Library, and Eugene Public Library
Foundation. For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 541-682-5450 or www.eugene-or.gov/library.
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