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<br /> 09/20/04 MON 16:31 FAX 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN I~jj002 <br /> NEWS RELEASE - The3Moon Terrace at Hendricks Park Native Plant Garden <br /> PAGE 2 <br /> September 20, 2004 <br /> The deck has been constructed primarily by volunteers from the Friends of Hendricks Park, a non- <br /> profit organization dedicated to addressing the park's needs and promoting its resources. For more <br /> information about the Mbon Terrace or the Native Plant Garden, call 6$2-5324 or 607-4066, or visit <br /> www.ci.eugene.or.us/padks/hendricks/npgarden. htm. <br /> Biographical Information: <br /> Jerry Blakely read about the concept of a native plant garden in the Hendricks Park Forest Management <br /> Plan when his wife, Mary Rear Blakely, was dying of cancer. The Blakelys saw the garden as a way to <br /> memorialize Mary's lifeldng love of gardening as well as her long career as an elementary education and <br /> English as a Second Lar#guage teacher. By establishing the Hendricks Park Native Plant Garden Fund with <br /> the Oregon Community foundation and later the non-profit organization, Friends of Hendricks Parkk, <br /> recruiting a team of volunteers, and raising in-kind donations, Jerry Blakely was able to match City funding <br /> and fund the creation of the native plant garden, which was dedicated to his wife in May 2002, and now the <br /> Moon Terrace, which overlooks the garden. <br /> Jin Chen, noted landscalpe architect and friend and student of Mary Blakely, agreed to design the native <br /> plant garden. Currently gieneral manager of EDAW, a global architectural design firm in Suzhou, China, <br /> Chen was project coordinator at the Portland Classical Chinese Garden and project manager and chief <br /> designer fora 12-acre Chinese Garden to be developed at The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in <br /> California. For more information about Chen's work, visit <br /> www. hu ntington. org/I nfortmation/ChineseGarden. html. <br /> <br />