Meadowview Elementary Students Help Clean Up Irwin Park, Salvage Native Plants and Stencil Storm Drains

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04/ 8/04 WED 09: 2 FAX 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN 01]001 .I ! ~ f April 28, 20 4 CONTACT: ~ Theres Picado, Parks and Open Space Public Information Specialist, 682-4814/682-4800 ¦ Loma B Idwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850 (office), 913-1292 (cell) + ¦ Troy Kr er, Volunteers In Parks Coordinator, 682-4845 (office), 953-2388 (cell) FOR IMME LATE RELEASE Meadowvlew Elementary Students Help Clean Up Irwin Park, r Salvage Native Plants and Stencil Storm Drains ~ Thi Friday, Apri130, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., children from Meadowview School will team about stew rdship of the community's natural resources and community service in a different kind of clas room. In conjunction with the City's Volunteers In Parks program, 28 sixth grade students wi !weed, sweep, rake, pick up litter, and plant trees at Irwin Park, located between E. ~ Irwin and .Irwin, just north of Barger. Another group of students will team up with Eugene i Stream Te m staff and volunteers to salvage saxifrage and camas from a site in west Eugene scheduled o be developed and then take a nature tour at Stewart Pond to Isom more about the wetlands h bitat and plant and anima! life. Finally, a third group of students will be stenciling storm drai sin their neighborhood with the message, "Dump no Waste. Drains to Stream," and placing ed rational door hangers with information about what residents can do to protect water quality. Th is the fourth annual volunteer stenciling project for the school. Vol nteers In Parks and Stream Team provide opportunities for members of the communi ,from elementary-age children to college students to older adults, to do hands-on work, imp ving the city's parks and restoring and caring for the city's waterways and natural areas. For more information about this and other volunteer rpj"ects this spring, call 682-48Q0. j