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Trail needs lights -121.-144 • <br /> Here is my conception of what is needed in <br /> the Amazon Park system: first, lighting so that <br /> people may use the trail safely from 6 a.m. <br /> until the natural light shuts off the automatical- <br /> ly, controlled high - pressure sodium lights, and <br /> from dusk until, say, 9 p.m. —and then it would <br /> be lights out. The cost of the current for this <br /> time would be negligible, but it could be borne <br /> by the local athletic and track clubs using this <br /> facility. <br /> area. There are scattered throughout the area <br /> a total of six stools and urinals available (at <br /> certain hours) to the public. This is disgraceful, <br /> especially in a park where I have counted up to <br /> 100 people running on the trail at one time. <br /> On Oct. 14, 1991, I appeared before the Eu- <br /> gene City Council to ask for these improve- <br /> ments. The total cost was $194,600. Council- <br /> woman Ruth Bascom informed me that the city <br /> had helped move the stands and renovate the <br /> track at Hayward Field in 1989 and would not <br /> spend any more funds for such a project as the <br /> improvements of the Amazon Trail. <br /> These improvements are vitally needed for <br /> the purpose of supplying one safe place for the <br /> women of this community to run or walk safe- <br /> ly. <br /> Surely if we can spend $170,000 a year for a <br /> camp for the homeless (which I think is won- <br /> derful) and ;100,000 a year to have a prison <br /> cell, psychiatrists and psychologists available <br /> for Russell Obremski, we can afford these inex- <br /> pensive improvements for the good of a lot of <br /> our ordinary citizens. Are we asking too much? <br /> I think not. <br /> CAMERON L. HUTCHESON <br /> Springfield - <br />