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<br /> 04/14/05 THU 17:7 FA% 541 682 4882 EtTGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN ~I004 <br /> E U G E N E <br /> ParNs and <br /> open space N E S RELEASE <br /> www,ci.eugene.or.us/parks <br /> April 14, 2005 <br /> CONTACT: <br /> Loma Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 9131292 (cell phone) <br /> ¦ Therese Picado, Parks and Open Space Public Infarmation Specialist, 682-4814/682-4800 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> Church Volunteers Help Stream Team In Honor of Earth Day <br /> On Saturday, April 23, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist <br /> Church will help the Eugene Stream Team build its capacity to improve water quality and fish and wildlife <br /> habitat in honor of Earth Day. The group will meet at the new Native Plant Nursery in Alton Baker Park, <br /> located off of Day island Road near the new community gardens and the dog park. These intergenerational <br /> volunteers will build raised beds, transplant seedlings, plant nectar plants for butterflies, and remove non- <br /> native vegetation from the banks of tha Willamette Riv~ar. More than 70 people have signed up to <br /> participate already. <br /> "The students and teachers have been discussing water and the environment <br /> the integrated web of <br /> life-each Sunday for weeks now and are really ready for ahands-on contribution," says Lorna Baldwin, <br /> Stream Team Coordinator. <br /> Stream Team provides the opportunity for people to do hands~on environmental work, restoring and <br /> caring for the city's waterways and natural areas. For more information about Stream Team, call 682-4850 <br /> or e-mail Ioma.j.baldwinQci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />