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with awards, t-shirts and a much deserved stipend. Youth had fun, made new friends and learned while providing service <br /> to the community. <br /> Oregon Festival of American Music's (OFAM)American Music Institute Songfest and Summer Academy programs are <br /> •ockin'and rollin', growing from four academies in 2001 to nine different academies this summer. Besides all of the <br /> „xciting Gershwin lyrics and music these students will learn, AMI Traditional Music Director Debbie Diedrich has single- <br /> handedly started a hip new ukulele craze in town. Ukulele classes will be added in the fall as part of the City's Partnership <br /> for Youth offerings. <br /> YMCA's Teen Night was a great success with about 30 kids participating in swimming, ping pong, pool and foosball <br /> tournaments, and displaying great talent and enthusiasm on the Karaoke Mic! <br /> Volunteers Salvage Native Camas Bulbs <br /> Thanks to Precision Machine of west Eugene, Stream Team volunteers were able to salvage camas bulbs and other <br /> native plants from a site that the company will soon be converting into a parking lot. Harvest included nearly 800 camas <br /> and other bulbs and more than 100 wet prairie plants as well as native seed. <br /> Camas bulbs served as a staple food for the Kalapuya Indians who once lived in this region. The bulbs were harvested in <br /> the spring using a special digging tool. Roasting pits were used to slow cook the camas to break down the sugar and <br /> make them palatable. Merriwether Lewis described a meadow of camas seen from a distance for the first time as <br /> "resembling a lake of fine, clear water." <br /> For information about this and other Stream Team projects, such as helping at the Native Plant Nursery and stenciling <br /> storm drains, call Stream Team Coordinator Lorna Baldwin at 682-4850 or lorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> Work Begins on Project to Develop Gilham Park <br /> Construction on Gilham Park began this week. The park is located on property acquired several years ago just east of <br /> silham Elementary School on Honeywood Street. The $420,000 neighborhood park project is funded with parks system <br /> development charges. Substantial completion of the project is anticipated by late September, with tree planting and other <br /> landscaping to be finalized in cooler weather if necessary. The general contractor for the project is 2G Construction of <br /> Eugene. <br /> The scope of work at the park includes a wide range of improvements. A site will be graded to provide an open play field, <br /> a new playground will be built with sand and water play components, concrete and bark paths will be constructed, trees will <br /> be planted, and park benches, picnic tables, and trash receptacles will be installed. Irrigation will be put in on the northern <br /> half of the park property. Using horses, the contractor will thin some of the trees at the south end of the park to improve <br /> the health of the fir grove (an old Christmas tree farm). The existing drainage swale north of the fir grove will be widened <br /> and generally enhanced. The park design includes tile art in the form of a four-square game in the walk north of the <br /> playground, and decorative plant tiles in the side walls of a new concrete bridge over the drainage swale (similar in flavor <br /> to the Pearl Street Garage tiles). <br /> The City worked with school officials and local parents in 1999 to develop ballfields on the west side of the school through <br /> a project funded in part through the parks and open space bond measure. The partnership continues with the school <br /> district and neighbors involved in the design of the new Gilham Park. For more information, contact Emily Proudfoot, <br /> Project Manager, at 682-6019. <br /> I THIS WEEK <br /> EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br /> July 18,2002 CCnews071802.wpd <br />