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Play lands in plans -The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Page 1 of 4 <br /> www.registerguard.com I ®The Register-Guard,Eugene,Oregon <br /> December 19,2003 <br /> Play lands in plans <br /> By Scott Maben <br /> The Register-Guard <br /> The second-graders could barely contain their excitement when <br /> they stumbled upon a city planning presentation Thursday. <br /> No, really. <br /> That's because the plans they saw were for new playgrounds in <br /> Alton Baker Park and Skinner Butte Park. And these are no <br /> ordinary playgrounds. <br /> They'll have stuff to rouse the imagination and stimulate the <br /> senses. Like a treehouse village and kid-sized replicas of local <br /> landmarks. Like spraying water and a place to dig for buried <br /> artifacts and fossils. Like walls, nets and "mountains" to climb. <br /> Like a miniature river ferry, pioneer plaza and an American <br /> Indian longhouse. <br /> Eugene city officials chose the <br /> Hult Center to unveil the <br /> architectural drawings for the <br /> "RiverPlay" project to be built Planned Skinner <br /> starting next summer. The Butte play area <br /> sophisticated development will <br /> blend science and history, <br /> adventure and fantasy, art and ��� lit <br /> whimsy. �.• <br /> .r <br /> After the news cameras left, a <br /> half-dozen students from Guy � <br /> Lee Elementary School in Eugene <br /> Springfield wandered by and `I <br /> rendered their verdict. <br /> "It's cools several exclaimed, <br /> running their fingers along the <br /> meandering blue lines that will The Register-Guard <br /> become flowing waterways <br /> representing the Willamette <br /> River and Eugene Millrace. <br /> Janessa Glenz, 7, said she definitely would play in the sandy <br /> archaeological dig at Skinner Butte Park and climb the nets <br /> that look like a mountain range at Alton Baker Park. <br /> http://www.registerguard.com/cgi-bin/printStory.py?name=d 1.cr.playgrounds.1 21 9&date... 12/26/2003 <br />