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<br /> 04/1 /09 TLTE 10: 9 FAX 541 682 4882 ELTGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN ~J001 <br /> j <br /> Aril 15, 20 3 <br /> p <br /> CONYACT: <br /> ¦ The se Picado, Parks and Open Space Public information Specialist, 682-4894 or 682- <br /> 480 <br /> Lom Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell phone on day of the <br /> eve t only) <br /> ¦ Arm ndo Moraies, Spanish Teacher, Oak Hill School, 747-0954 <br /> FOR IMME LATE RELEASE <br /> EU ENE STREAM TEAM OFFERS EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM MEXICO <br /> PPORTUNITY TO PLANT NATIVE PLANTS ALONG AMAZON CREEK <br /> Eug ne Stream Team will facilitate across-cultural experience at Amazon Creek this <br /> Wednesda ,April 16, when 13 eighth and ninth grade students and their chaperones from <br /> Guanajuan o, Mexico, team about and participate in the program's efforts to restore and care for <br /> I Eugene's aterways and natural areas_ The students, who arrived yesterday to participate in a <br /> two-week xchange program with Oak Hill School, will begin their educational program with a <br /> ~ presentati nand discussion about Stream Team's work at 10:45 a.m. at the Public Works <br /> 'I facility at 1 20 Roosevelt Boulevard in Eugene. Stream Team volunteers, fluent in Spanish, will <br /> then lead tudents in the hands-on part of the pn~gram-planting native shrubs and wildflowers <br /> along Am zon Creek at Oakpatch Road off of W. 11"' Avenue. <br /> j Th Oak Hill exchange program is organized by Armando Morales, who teaches <br /> ~ Spanish a the school. Morales has organized exchanges between eighth and ninth grade <br /> students Oak Hilt and from his hometown in Mexico for tha past seven years. For more <br /> informatio about the Oak HiN exchange program, call 747-0954. For more information about <br /> Stream T am projects, call 682-4850. <br /> l <br /> <br />