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• Children's Games • Food Vendors Sheldon Community Center provides an excellent venue for this celebration of community: a playground, a pool, a concert stage and the cool green grass of Sheldon Park! For more information, contact Kim McManus at 682-6343. Young People Spend Vacation Working with Stream Team, Other Local Organizations Six young people from communities across the U.S. recently spent two days helping the Eugene Stream Team remove invasive plants Pr— and salvage and cultivate native plants from wetland and riparian, or river, ecosystems around Eugene. The volunteers, who were part of a • group of several hundred youth participating in a Catholic Heart Work Camp, worked from 9:00 a.m, to 3:00 p.m. in 100 plus degree 'Ilk temperatures at the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park, the west Eugene wetlands, Alton Baker Park boat launch, and the Native Plant Nursery run by Stream Team volunteers. II ilt(c During their lunch break, the group participated in facilitated dialogue with Stream Team staff and volunteers. Stream Team Coordinator - Lorna Baldwin says that the experience seemed to have sparked an • . . • interest in environmental issues among the youth on her crew. "They - - began to show an understanding about the interdependence between people and the environment and how critical environmental sustainability is to everyone on the planet." Baldwin recalls one student summing up Stream Team's core mission by expressing how he gained a deeper appreciation for nature and the effect of his actions on water quality and the community in which he lives. The Catholic youth program brings young people together to work on community service projects. All participants pay for the trip and spend four days working on a variety of community service projects. They are also treated to one day of sightseeing and enjoying the company of their hosts. Several other local organizations in addition to Stream Team 5enefited from the labor of these young people. 1111/"For more information about this and other Stream Team projects and trainings, call Lorna Baldwin, Parks and Open Space, at 682-4850. Dinner to Be Held in Honor of Visiting Sister City Delegation The Eugene-Kakegawa Sister City Committee is hosting 20 delegates from Kakegawa, Japan, for a five-day visit to Eugene and the surrounding area. In honor of their visit, and to celebrate 25 years of friendship as sister cities, a dinner will be held at the Hilyard Community Center on Sunday, August 24, 2003, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. General admission tickets to the dinner are $15.00 ($7.00 each for committee members) and the meal will include the main course and beverage. Attendees are asked to bring a potluck dessert. For more information about the dinner or the Kakegawa delegation, please contact John Simpson at 345-0858 or via email at jsimpson@callatq.com. Willow Corner Wetlands Restoration Project to Begin Restoration of nine acres of wetland prairie and an additional four acres of upland prairie will begin next week at Willow Corner, located at the southwest corner of West 18th Avenue and Bertelsen Road. The Willow Corner site is located immediately adjacent to The Nature Conservancy's 440-acre Willow Creek Natural Area and offers an outstanding opportunity to expand and enhance rare habitat for native plant and animal communities. One goal of the restoration project is to expand the existing populations of two species listed on the federal Endangered Species list -- Kincaid's Lupine and Fender's Blue Butterfly -- that now exist at the , • Willow Creek Natural Area. -+ The Willow Corner site is currently covered by fill material that was placed on the site in the 1970s and '80s. The restoration project consists primarily of removing Increasing habitat for the endangered Fenders the Blue Butterfly is one of the objectives of the Willow Corner Wetlands restoration project (photo by Neil Biorklund). EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3