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~i <br /> 06?04/Oa WED 12: 9 FA% 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN 0001 <br /> ~ ~ <br /> June 4, 200 <br /> CONTACT: <br /> ¦ Lom Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell phone on day of the <br /> ' even only) <br /> ¦ The se Picado, Public Information Specialist, Parks and Open Space, 682,4814 or 682 <br /> 4800 <br /> FOR IMMED ATE RELEASE <br /> I <br /> I' AMAZON APPRECIATION DAY THIS SATURDAY <br /> ~ C mmunlty members are invited to clean-up and care for Amazon creek at the 12th <br /> ~ Annual azon Appreciation Day this Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to noon. Stream Team <br /> <br /> ' adoption roups will host work parties at several locations along the creek as in previous <br /> ~ years. T is year the event will also include a work party at the creek's headwaters where <br /> ~ voluntee will salvage native plants from the future Amazon Headwaters Tie Trail, which <br /> links to th Ridgeline Trail. The plants will be tended at the Native Plant Nursery run by <br /> ~I Stream T am volunteers and returned to the site after construction. <br /> S earn Team will supply gloves, tools, mulch, and bags. At 12:30 p.m., all volunteers <br /> are invite to Amazon Park at 27th Avenue and Hilyard Street for lunch donated by Track <br /> ?'own Pi a_ Volunteers are welcome to participate in any of the following projects: <br /> 1. Clean up Amazon Creek with the Jefferson Westside Neighbors, Far West Neighbors, <br /> and L ne Council of Governments. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Patterson School site behind <br /> ~ the AI ertson's at 18"' and Chambers. <br /> 2. Mulc the native plantings and clean up the creek with the Miracle an 33"0 Street <br /> I'~ neigh ors. This project begins at 10 a.m. at 33'~ and East Amazon. <br /> 3. Salva a native plants from the path of the future Amazon Headwaters Tie Trail. Carpool <br /> from azon Park at 8:45 a.m. or meet at the Ridgeline Trail trailhead on Fox Hollow <br /> Road. <br /> ' 7 e original purpose of Amazon Appreciation Day, which began in the early 1990s, <br /> was to rai a awareness of Amazon Creek, one of the most prominent waterways in Eugene, <br /> and solici community member s participation in its clean-up and care. For more information, <br /> ~~I call 682-4 50 or a-mail lorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or_us. <br /> 'I <br /> <br />