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<br /> 04X0 /04 TUE 09: 0 FAX 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN I~Jj001 <br /> r i I ' <br /> April 6, 20 <br /> CONTACT: <br /> ¦ Ther se Picado, Parks and Open Space Public Information Specialist, 682-4814 or 682- <br /> 4800 <br /> ¦ Lorn Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell phone on day of the <br /> even only) <br /> ¦ Arm ndo Morales, Spanish Teacher, Oak Hill School, 747-0954 <br /> FOR IMME IATE RELEASE <br /> EU ENE STREAM TEAM OFFERS EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM MEXICO <br /> PPORTUNITY TO TOUR WETLANDS AND WORK AT DELTA PONDS <br /> Eug ne Stream Team will facilitate across-cultural experience this Wednesday, April 7, <br /> when 10 eig th and ninth grade students and their chaperones from Guanajuanto, Mexico, learn <br /> about and p rticipate in the program's efforts to restore and care for Eugene's waterways and <br /> natural area .The students, who are partiapating in a two-week exchange program with Oak <br /> Hill School, ill begin their educational program with a presentation and discussion about <br /> Stream Tea 's work at 9 a.m. at the Public Works facility at 1820 Roosevelt Boulevard in <br /> Eugene. Str am Team volunteers, fluent in Spanish, will then lead students on a tour of the <br /> West Euge Wetland and then complete the hands-on part of tfZe program--removing Scot's <br /> broom from elta Ponds. <br /> The ak Hill exchange program is organized by Armando Morales, who teaches <br /> Spanish at a school. Morales has organized exchanges between eighth and ninth grade <br /> students at ak Hill and from his hometown in Mexico for the past eight years. For more <br /> information bout the Oak Hill exchange program, calf 747-0954. For more information about <br /> this and oth r Stream Team projects, call 682-4850. <br /> i~ <br /> <br />