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/ t <br /> <br /> L ~ <br /> News Release Skinner Butte Access Road <br /> June 17, 1998 <br /> Page 2 <br /> The project also is made possible by donations from Eugene Rotary Club and Wildish <br /> ~I Construction Co. Wildish donated approximately $3,000 worth of labor and materials to <br /> construct curb and gutter at the top of the butte road earlier this spring. The Eugene Rotary <br /> donated $800 for curb and gutter work and also constructed 210 feet of 5-foot wide sidewalk <br /> along the south side of the parking lot, installed a park bench and street lamp at the overlook, and <br /> coordinated the efforts of an Eagle Scout project to build steps and a park bench at the large "E" <br /> II below the arkin lot. <br /> p g <br /> I <br /> The current project is just the latest in a series of efforts to restore the popular overlook to <br /> III safe public use. In March 1997 conditions at the butte had deteriorated to the point where the <br /> i <br /> Eugene Public Works Department recommended closing the butte to vehicular access. However, <br /> volunteers from the Rotary and other groups pitched in to help heal erosion scars on the face of <br /> the butte and clean up much of the damage caused by vandalism in the parking lot area. Ray <br /> ~i Wiley, a Rotary member who organized many of the work parties at the butte, said the paving of <br /> the access road is the culmination of more than a year of work that has turned the butte into a <br /> source of community pride. <br /> I <br /> i <br /> I <br /> <br />