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Eugene City Beat: New park celebrates opening day - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, Page 1 of 2 <br /> www.registerguard.com I ©The Register-Guard, Eugene,Oregon <br /> October 12, 2003 <br /> Eugene City Beat: New park celebrates <br /> opening day <br /> By Joe Mosley <br /> The Register-Guard <br /> Break out the confetti and the picnic basket. <br /> Today's the grand opening for Country Lane Park, off Sorrel <br /> Way east of Coburg Road and a block or so north of Interstate <br /> 105. <br /> Neighbors and crews from the Eugene Public Works <br /> Department have teamed up over the past month and a half to <br /> renovate the park, excavating the playground area and <br /> removing its old equipment, building a new pathway and <br /> wheelchair ramp, and installing new play equipment. <br /> Dozens of neighbors turned out to help pour the concrete and <br /> install equipment. <br /> The park now features a play structure with a rock climbing <br /> wall, swings and hanging rings. There are also "spring riders," <br /> which were made possible by local fund raising and a matching <br /> grant from the city. <br /> "When we applied for a neighborhood grant for new spring <br /> riders, we had no idea we would get a total remodel," says <br /> Suzy Bock, who served as the project's volunteer coordinator. <br /> The park, which reopened for play a week ago, will also get a <br /> new bench, a wheelchair-accessible picnic table and a new <br /> trash receptacle sometime during the next couple months. <br /> Today's grand opening will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. <br /> City funds aid <br /> in waterways study <br /> The city will be kicking in a total of $300,000 in cash and in- <br /> kind services for a $3.5 million, four-year study that will <br /> identify ways to improve, restore or enhance waterways in the <br /> Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. <br /> Other partners in the project are Springfield, Lane County and <br /> the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The federal agency will pay <br /> half of the study's cost. <br /> http://www.registerguard.com/cgi-bin/printStory.py?name=c 1.cr.citybeat.1 0 1 2&date=2003 1 01 10/17/03 <br />