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/C.PA/c.�� tis <br /> K L.C.G f C/sy <br /> or- <br /> EUGENE <br /> June 4, 2003 <br /> CONTACT: <br /> • Lorna Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell phone on day of the <br /> event only) <br /> • Therese Picado, Public Information Specialist, Parks and Open Space, 682-4814 or 682- <br /> 4800 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> AMAZON APPRECIATION DAY THIS SATURDAY <br /> Community members are invited to clean-up and care for Amazon creek at the 12th <br /> Annual Amazon Appreciation Day this Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to noon. Stream Team <br /> adoption groups will host work parties at several locations along the creek as in previous <br /> years. This year the event will also include a work party at the creek's headwaters where <br /> volunteers will salvage native plants from the future Amazon Headwaters Tie Trail, which <br /> links to the Ridgeline Trail. The plants will be tended at the Native Plant Nursery run by <br /> Stream Team volunteers and returned to the site after construction. <br /> Stream Team will supply gloves, tools, mulch, and bags. At 12:30 p.m., all volunteers <br /> are invited to Amazon Park at 27th Avenue and Hilyard Street for lunch donated by Track <br /> Town Pizza. Volunteers are welcome to participate in any of the following projects: <br /> 1. Salvage native plants from the path of the future Amazon Headwaters Tie Trail. Carpool <br /> from Amazon Park at 8:45 a.m. or meet at the Ridgeline Trail trailhead on Fox Hollow <br /> Road. Wear long pants and boots. <br /> 2. Clean up Amazon Creek with the Jefferson Westside Neighbors, Far West Neighbors <br /> and Lane Council of Governments. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Patterson School site behind <br /> the Albertson's at 18th and Chambers. <br /> 3. Mulch and weed native plants and clean up the creek with the Miracle on 33rd Street <br /> neighbors. This project begins at 10 a.m. at 33rd and East Amazon. <br /> The original purpose of Amazon Appreciation Day, which began in the early 1990s, <br /> was to raise awareness of Amazon Creek, one of the most prominent waterways in Eugene, <br /> and solicit community member's participation in its clean-up and care. For more information, <br /> call 682-4850 or e-mail lorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> ## # <br />