Please Help Us Move Building Materials, 6/26/25, 10:30 AM

The Schoolhouse Project would like some bodies to help us move building materials between storage location. Please come if you can. Thursday, June 26, 10:30 AM.

The Schoolhouse is located at 990 River Loop 2 in the midst of construction of the new Santa Clara Community Park.

More volunteers means short work. Thank you!

    ~ Kate Perle, Schoolhouse Project Manager, Santa Clara Community Foundation

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Visiting Navajo Traditional Artisans

Intrepid Santa Clara neighbor, Katie Preston, is hosting several Navajo women traveling here from Arizona. They’ll be selling handmade rugs and jewelry at the 5th Street Market Pavillon, Sunday, June 29th, 3-6pm. A great way to support cultural heritage survival.

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Summer Food Program – Awbrey Park: June 23 – August 22

Awbrey Park
4291 River Road
Eugene, 97404
June 23 through August 22
Monday – Friday
11:30am – 12:30 PM

From Food For Lane County:

The Summer Food Program is a federally funded program through the USDA that provides free, nutritious meals to youth aged 2 to 18 years old during the summer months. This critical program picks up where school breakfast and lunch programs leave off to help children get nutritious food to eat over the summer. FOOD for Lane County serves free lunches at over 30 sites in parks, community centers, schools, etc.

We invite all children to eat lunch for free during the summer months. Each summer, FFLC serves thousands of lunches and breakfasts to children through the Summer Food Program.

For any site updates please check our social media pages. https://www.facebook.com/foodforlanecounty

For more information, including additional sites, visit the Food For Lane County website.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!!

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, there are also Fun For All Activities at Awbrey Park from 9 am to noon. Take advantage of the Fun For All Activities days and stay for the free lunch for kids.

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Join us for Games in our Parks – July 8th and 22nd

Join your Santa Clara neighbors for a relaxing evening of family games. Bring a picnic, a blanket, and sit back while you enjoy a fun evening on either July 8th, July 22nd, or both.

Free Alden’s Organic ice cream bars from Oregon Ice Cream Company while supplies last.

Tuesday, July 8th —— Wendover Park 5-7 pm
Tuesday, July 22nd —–Arrowhead Park 5-7 pm

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Greetings Bottle Hunters,

It’s time to hone your clue-cracking and bottle-hunting prowess once again! We’re excited to let you know the Hidden Bottle Hunt  (Sign up for clues!) is back this year. On Thursday, June 26, we will hide six commemorative bottles in wonderful places across Oregon and issue clues over a four-day period to reveal their location. Each lucky finder gets to keep the bottle as a memento of their triumph and select a BottleDrop Give nonprofit  (Santa Clara Community Foundation, of course) of their choice to receive a $1,000 donation!

We are thrilled to unveil this year’s commemorative bottle, which honors the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary in Lake County. Thanks to the work of DarkSky Oregon, this majestic southern Oregon sanctuary offers one of the most breathtaking night sky viewing experiences in the country. The Hidden Bottles are made from BottleDrop’s Refillable Bottles, which support the only statewide refillable bottle program in the United States.

We can’t wait for the bottles to find their new homes with six savvy hunters. If you’ve received this email, you have previously signed up to be notified when the clues are posted each day, so you don’t need to sign up again. In the meantime, share this information far and wide so other people can enjoy the hunt, too! Fellow hunters can sign up to get the clues on the Bottle Hunt webpage.

Happy hunting! 
The BottleDrop Team  
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