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Aeat <br /> � new parks map <br /> City project scores a I0 <br /> ugenans and visitors to the wetlands and recycles about 4,000 <br /> 4 <br /> city have been given a ear- tons of leaves a year. <br /> ly but more-than-welcome An updated map is timely, be- <br /> holiday gift: a new map of cause in 1998 the city's voters wisely <br /> the city's parks. Every household approved some $25 million in parks <br /> should have one of these maps. projects. Approximately 100 acres of <br /> The new parks map is a grand ad- new parkland has been acquired per <br /> dition to the city's information year since the parks bond measure <br /> bank. The map,which replaces a 12- won voter approval. <br /> year-old predecessor that was not Fresh statistics on park use are <br /> nearly as spiffy or informative, was also useful,and revealing.The city's <br /> distributed for the first time Friday parks and recreation sites consist of <br /> at the Eugene Celebration. It's also more than 2,600 acres. Some 10,000 <br /> available at city parks and the open people attend concerts in the parks <br /> space booth near the new city every summer.Last year,more than <br /> library. 20,000 children attended the Summer <br /> The new map is packed with in- Fun for All program in nine city <br /> formation about the city's 72 public parks. And 550,000 — that's more <br /> parks and its dozen or so open areas. than half a million—people partici- <br /> Examples include: where to find pated in city recreation programs, <br /> horseshoe stakes, volleyball courts with about half that number being <br /> and boat ramps; where to locate the youths. <br /> Cw' city's community gardens and dog In addition to the common inter <br /> runs;the distance from each park to <br /> a local school;which parks have city pretation of what a park is, the city <br /> swimming pools, and the phone also owns and operates the Hult Cen- <br /> numbers and locations of each park. ter and Jacobs Gallery, Cuthbert <br /> As the map notes, the city main Amphitheater, the Shelton <br /> tains 32 athletic fields, 12.5 miles of McMurphey-Johnson House (the <br /> running and biking trails, four off- "castle on the hill") near Skinner <br /> leash dog parks and more than 800 Butte Park, and the Wayne Morse <br /> acres of riverfront park space. Historical Park. In their own way, <br /> The map also provides unusual these cultural and historical proper- <br /> information, such as the fact that ties are indeed part and parcel of the <br /> the city mows about 850 acres of parks system. <br /> park space per year. It inspects and In any event, get yourself a copy <br /> maintains some 100,000 street trees, of the new parks map, and use it to <br /> plants around 1,500 trees a year, explore all that's available. Surpris- <br /> maintains more than 300 acres of es await. <br /> ►e 1Zegis-ter- Guard <br /> SA{urzlay,Seetember 2o, 2003 <br />