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<br /> 04,Y29/06 FRI 15:49 FA% 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS ~i-~ PW ADMIN ~ 002 <br /> E U G E N E <br /> ParNs and <br /> open space N E S R E L E AS ~ <br /> w++vw.ci.eugene.or. us/parks <br /> April 219, 2005 <br /> ~(~NTACT: <br /> Matt McRae, Volunteers in Parks Coordinator, 682-4845 <br /> ~ Ray Wiley, Eugene Rotary Club project manager, 344-1316 <br /> * Therese Picado, Parks and Open Space Public Information Specialist, 682-4814/682-4800 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> Rotary Volunteers Spend Saturday Morning Cleaning Up Skinner Butte <br /> On Saturday, April 30, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, F_ugene Rotary Club and Eugene Volunteers In Parks <br /> will team up to do some spring cleaning at Skinner Butte Park. Skinner Butte Loop between Lincoln and W. <br /> will be closed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Road access to the top of the butte is available via the eastern <br /> sectign of the Poop, accessed off of W. 3'~ from High. <br /> By the end of the morning work session, visitors to the park should notice the difference. The <br /> s~as4ned volunteers, in conjunction with Parks and Open Space staff, plan to accomplish an ambitious <br /> ~sl~te of work, including resurfacing parking areas, building walkways, removing ivy from frees, refurbishing a <br /> ~g~`avel walkway. restoring two planter areas, installing a basalt maker to identify the former location of the <br /> summit reservoir, and removing brush and other debris around the Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson house. <br /> The effort is in part guided by the Skinner Butte Park Master Plan adopted in 2002. The park's <br /> master plan calls for the restoration and long-tens preservation of popular, historically sign cant views from <br /> 'the summit of Skinner Bu#e, native upland prairie habitat that once covered nearly all of Skinner Butte, and <br /> 'triails, Since 1996, the Eugene Rotary Club has sponsored several significant volunteer rehabilitation and <br /> b~auitification pn~jects on Skinner Butte, including the Veteran's Memorial overlook and flag. To find out <br /> more about restoration efforts at Skinner Butte Park, visit www.ci.eugene.or.us/parks/sbp/sbpmplan.htm. <br /> For more information about this effort, ca11682-4845. <br /> <br />