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• <br /> - 5/- 93 <br /> Volunteers to help . <br /> clean up Amazon . <br /> ■Picking up: People will gather Saturday morning <br /> to pick up litter around Amazon Creek. <br /> By HARRY ESTEVE <br /> The Register-Guard watching tour of the Am <br /> 8:30 a.m., Amazon area. At <br /> Amazon Creek once again will be Bruce Newhouse of the Na- <br /> tive Plant Society win lead a native <br /> • <br /> the target of an intensive cleanup cam- plant walk. <br /> taiga of Coffee,a.m. At <br /> donuts <br /> Saturday as the second annual• <br /> will be served at 9 a.m. At 9:45 a.m., <br /> Amazon Appreciation Day gets under announcements will be <br /> way. unteers will ormade and vol <br /> Volunteers are asked to gather for Cleanup organize into work parties. <br /> 10 d is expect- <br /> coffee, donuts and instructions at 9 ed to cont nuegun ilnstnoon Volunteers <br /> a.m. at the Amazon Community Cen- are encouraged to bring a sack lunch <br /> ter,2700 Hilyard St. and stick around to watch an outdoor <br /> "If 10 people show up,that's good," play performed by students from Mad- <br /> said Rick Cavagnaro, a KZEL radio <br /> promotions manager who is helmison High School in Portland. <br /> aoe the helping or- The play, <br /> piecleanup effort. "If 100 peo- p Y "Murky Water Caper,"is <br /> show up, we'll do more. If 1,000 willan environmental melodrama, which <br /> ; : ." <br /> :"� _;� people show up,we'll do a lot more." u staged outside the Amazon <br /> As they did last year, most of the Community Center. <br /> cleanup work will take place on the Last year's cleanup event was or- <br /> portion of the creek in west Eugene. ganized by <br /> The creek starts near Spencer Butte reporter and news anchor Al PetersonV <br /> . <br /> and runs through south and west Eu- Peterson became concerned about the <br /> gene before emptying into Fern Ridge litter in the creek after filming a docu- <br /> Reservoir. mentary about it. <br /> But this year the group also will <br /> spend time in Amazon Park creating Cavagnatroe said the Amazonsrc •• <br /> the Amazon Arboretum in a of his favorite places. one <br /> ash trees at the southeast cornerstand of <br /> park. of the <br /> "It's a neat little ecosystem unto <br /> Workers will layitself," he said. "There's something <br /> down a trail sys- that really bothers me about seeing • <br /> tem in the trees. <br /> Later, native wild- something that can be so pretty get <br /> flowers and shrubs will be planted littered up." <br /> there. <br /> • <br /> IS "From what we're told, that's as <br /> close as you get to having an original <br /> ash grove in this area," Cavagnaro <br /> said. "Ash is indigenous to this area, <br /> but it has all been taken out." <br /> Events will begin with a 7 a.m.bird <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> i <br />