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<br /> 0~/,~9/05 FRI 15:49 FAX 541 682 4882 EtTGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN ~ 004 <br /> I: U G E N E <br /> Parks and <br /> o en s ace N E~~VS R E LEAS E <br /> p p <br /> www.a.eugene.or. us/parks <br /> ;April 29, 2005 <br /> CONTACT: - <br /> o Therese Picado, Parks and Open Space Public Information Specialist, 682-4814/682-4800 <br /> o Loma Baldwin, Stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cell} <br /> o Armando Morales, Oak Hill School, 744-0954 <br /> -FOR IMMEDIATE RELI=ASB <br /> N(JTL to media: Please call Loma Baldwin at 913-1292 on the day of the event for specific locations. <br /> Exchange Students from Mexico Help Stream Team in Restoration Work along River <br /> For the third year in a row the Eugene Stream Team will spend a day with middle and high school <br /> stMlJdents from Guanajuato, Mexico, to share ways in which the Ci#y of Eugene protects and improves water <br /> iq~ality and fish and wildlife habitat. On Tuesday, May 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., students and their <br /> '';chaperones from Guanajuato, Mexico, will team about and participate in the program's efforts to restore and <br /> !care for Eugene's waterways and natural areas. The students, who are participating in a two-week <br /> e~cch~nge program with Oak Hill School, will spend the majority of their day working along the Willamette <br /> ';I~ver, including numerous tasks at the new Native Plant Nursery in Alton Baker Park, located off of Day <br /> gland Road near the new community gardens. <br /> The Oak Hill exchange program is organized by Armando Morales, who teaches Spanish at the <br /> school. Morales has organized exchanges between shidents at Oak Hiil and from his hometown in Mexico <br /> fc~r the past nine years. For more information about the Oak Hill exchange program, call 744-0954. For more <br /> ;Information about this and other Stream Team projects, call 682-4850. <br /> <br />