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EUGENE <br /> :UGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER <br /> May 8, 2003 <br /> City of Eugene <br /> 777 Pearl Street, Room 105 <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 <br /> (541)682-5010 <br /> (541)682-5414(FAX) <br /> www.a.eugene.or.us <br /> IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION <br /> WEST UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP <br /> CEREMONY DEDICATES MEADOWLARK PRAIRIE IMPROVEMENTS <br /> MORE THAN 1800 SCHOOL CHILDREN SIGN UP FOR TOURS ON PUBLIC WORKS DAY <br /> PARKS AND OPEN SPACE NEWSLETTER DUE IN AREA HOMES NEXT WEEK <br /> GARDENERS WILL GET TIPS FOR DEALING WITH INVASIVE PLANTS AT LECTURE THIS MONDAY <br /> AROUND THE CITY <br /> West University Neighborhood Cleanup <br /> University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer and Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey will join West University neighbors for a <br /> ceremonial tree planting and neighborhood cleanup this Saturday, May 10. The tree planting will take place at 10 a.m. at <br /> the corner of 16tn Avenue and Ferry Street, where a street tree was burned in a riot last September. Participants in <br /> Saturday's cleanup event will gather at Central Presbyterian Church, 1475 Ferry Street. Refreshments and tools will be <br /> irovided. The event is expected to last until 3 p.m. <br /> The neighborhood cleanup and tree planting was conceived and organized by the West University Task Force which <br /> convened after the riot last year. The event is a collaborative effort between the City of Eugene, University of Oregon, <br /> ASUO, West University Business Association, Central Presbyterian Church, Sanipac, Von Klein Property Management, <br /> Lane County Waste Management, and many neighbors. <br /> Several City programs are involved in the effort. Eugene Police will lend a hand with the cleanup and the NeighborWoods <br /> Program will be planting trees and shrubs. Neighborhood Services will also participate in the cleanup and will be promoting <br /> the revitalization of a West University Neighborhood Association. For more information about the event, contact Steve <br /> Norris in Planning and Development at 682-5009, or e-mail steve.d.norris@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> Ceremony Dedicates Meadowlark Prairie Improvements <br /> Local and federal officials will be joined by a Native American <br /> elder on Monday morning, May 12, to dedicate the natural and <br /> recreational improvements recently completed at Meadowlark <br /> Prairie in West Eugene. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at <br /> the Meadowlark Prairie overlook on Greenhill Road, south of <br /> Royal Avenue. f <br /> The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of <br /> Land Management, the Oregon Department of Transportation, <br /> and the City of Eugene worked as partners in a two-phase, <br /> multi-year project to restore the native prairie wetlands <br /> adjacent <br /> o lower Amazon Creek and extend the Fern Ridge Path <br /> EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 1 <br />