River Road – Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Tim Foelker
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13th Annual Wildflower Celebration – May 4th – Awbrey Park

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Gary Haliski

Join the fun at the Awbrey Park Wildflower Celebration on Saturday, May 4th from 11 am to 2 pm. The park is located at 4291 River Road. Take a self-guided tour and discover native flowers, shrubs, and trees. The Friends of Awbrey Park will be stationed throughout the park to help you find trillium, lupine, red Columbine, bleeding heart, violets, fairy bells, false Solomon’s Seal, Oregon myrtle, and much, much more. Other items to look forward to:

  • Live Music – Santa Clara’s own Tim Foelker and the group The Nostalgics
  • Treasure Hunt – Search for native plants and earn a native plant while supplies last. Plants are provided by the City of Eugene and the Buford Park Native Plant Nursery.
  • Rock Painting – Rocks and paint provided. You make up your design.
  • Kids games
  • Horseshoes

Meet Santa Clara organizations and learn about their initiatives:

  • The Santa Clara Community Organization – Find out the kind of topics that the SCCO presents at monthly meetings (you can attend SCCO meetings in person or via Google Meets)
  • The Santa Clara Community Foundation – The SCCF is a 501(c)3 non-profit that supports several projects including renovating the old (1901) schoolhouse on River Loop 2 and returning Hileman Landing to a more natural state.
  • Santa Clara’s Social Justice Committee – Learn what the SJC is doing to foster and sustain a neighborhood environment that is diverse, inclusive, safe, and welcoming.
  • Lane County Master Gardeners mobile plant clinic will be available to answer questions.
  • The Irving Grange will give an update about their new mural project on the side of their building (1011 Irvington Dr)
  • Boy Scout Troop 182 – Thank the young men who have helped chip our trails for many years and been responsible for the flourishing natives on ‘Boy Scout Bank’
  • CERT, Eugene EMCOMM, and Ready Northwest will be at the event to give important information about Community Emergency Response and Emergency Communication. Learn about skills needed for fire safety, disaster medical operations, emergency communication, and a lot more.
  • Meet the Friends of Awbrey Park. The Friends just completed their 16th year of improving the park. If you haven’t been to the park since late 2015, it is time to visit the park again. The city put in a new bridge to replace a slippery log. The bridge makes it safe to walk to the small forest in the east part of the park.

Bring a picnic. Children are more than welcome. The park features two playground areas (one for 2-5 years old and one for 6-12 years), a large playfield, a pollinator garden, Spring Creek and a small forest where you will find woodpeckers, mallards, newts, and salamanders.

For more information, please contact Kelsey Irvine, Native Plant/ Waterways Volunteer Coordinator, at 541-228-5349 or KIrvine@eugene-or.gov .

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Public Safety In Our Neighborhood – A special SCCO meeting on Thursday, May 2nd

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Gary Haliski

Public safety is a frequent concern at our SCCO meetings, so we have decided to replace the May SCCO meeting with a public forum on this topic. Note that the location and time of our monthly meeting have been changed for this important issue.

Public safety is more than just policing. How do the providers work together to keep us safe? Where are the gaps in the services? Who falls through the cracks and why? How can we help? A conversation with Eugene Police Department, Lane County Sheriff’s Office, CAHOOTS, Mobile Crisis Service of Lane County, and Western Lane Crisis Response.

There will be five presentations. After the presentations, there will be time for questions and comments. Questions or comments will be limited to two minutes.

Public Safety Forum
Thursday, May 2nd
6:30 until 9:00 pm
Madison Middle School – 875 Wilkes Drive

You can also view the meeting on Google Meet (Similar to Zoom)
PLEASE NOTE FOR THOSE PARTICIPATING REMOTELY, THERE WILL NOT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING
Thursday, May 2 · 6:30 – 9:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/vsd-ngow-ipe
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 813-563-3036
PIN: ‪389 065 445#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/vsd-ngow-ipe?pin=4533368671412

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Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Tim Foelker

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE APRIL MEETING
Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 – 8:30 PM

To join the online meeting, click on: https://meet.google.com/kyi-zznw-xgv
This video meeting uses the Google Meet platform; provide email and click on “Ask to Join”.

Featured Topic: Dodging Winter Disaster on Eugene’s Roads

With: Marion Suitor Barnes, City of Eugene Public Works Department

January’s ice storm was a big challenge for lifeline providers to maintain or restore services in the City of Eugene. Most did pretty well! The majority of power outages were brief; telephone, internet and cable interruptions were relatively minor, and city streets were open to many vehicles in a manner of days, not weeks.

This month we’ll take a look at how the City of Eugene prepares and responds to extreme weather conditions, focusing on how it keeps streets passable for emergency services as well as more ordinary household needs. Would a more severe storm have led to a different outcome, putting the more vulnerable members of our community into life-threatening situations? What tasks should neighborhood emergency preparedness groups expect to be called on to provide when winter weather closes down our transportation system?

This month’s meeting will also feature a short report from the annual conference of the Partners In Emergency Preparedness, a Washington state coalition of agencies and private-sector providers, that took place April 2-4 in Tacoma. Our reporter, Randy Prince, attended a FEMA course on making community organizations effective in reaching the public through their existing connections.

AGENDA
7:00 Short Introductions In Chat: Name, Neighborhood Association, Affiliation
7:10 Eugene’s Roads and the City’s response to the January 2024 Ice Storm – Marion Suitor Barnes, Eugene Public Works
7:30 Questions and Answers/Discussion
7:50 Report from Partners In Emergency Preparedness conference April 2024 – Randy Prince
8:00 Announcements
8:05 Report from neighborhood groups and discussion of future ENPN meeting topics.
8:20 Adjourn

This Third Thursday Meeting Is Brought to You By
Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network (ENPN)
A committee of the Eugene Neighborhood Leaders Council (NLC)

ENPN Objectives: Meet, learn, and exchange views. Find out what volunteers in neighborhood preparedness teams are doing, what they need, and how we might motivate and assist others in preparing our community. Contact us at: enpn.org@gmail.com

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Luper Pioneer Cemetery Work Party-4/20

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Peter Thurston
On Saturday, April 20 from 10 am to Noon, there will be a work party at Luper Pioneer Cemetery on West Beacon Drive, Eugene OR. Bring gloves and tools to clean up around grave headstones. Check out LUPERCEMETERY.COM for location and information about this historic site.
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FRS Radio Training — Saturday, April 13th at 10:00 a.m.

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Tim Foelker

Hello Everyone,

Just a reminder we will be having some fun this Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm at Norkenzie Christian Church located at 2530 Crescent Ave, Eugene. Please park in the back parking lot and the side door will be open for access to the training. If you don’t have an FRS radio, come anyway we will have one for you to join in. If you have FRS radios, please bring them. 

After the FRS fun time, those that have GMRS radios, there will be a brief given on how to connect your GMRS radio to the local GMRS repeater. 

I hope to see you there this Saturday.

Andy Davis
KJ7JDN – Amateur Radio
WRDE880 – GMRS
Eugene EMCOMM Net Manager
Northeast District CERT Leader

andydaviseugene@msn.com
803-316-7529

For your information…Andy Davis is heading up this in-person FRS radio training exercise. It’s a great opportunity whether you currently have an FRS radio or not!

–Charlsey Cartwright / Joel Robe / Ed Farren / Bruce Stermer / Joe Piccolotti, Ready NW Eugene Coordinating CommitteeReady NW Eugene YouTube Channel
ReadyNWEugene@gmail.com

Sign-up for Lane County emergency alerts at: https://member.everbridge.net/337829242601799/new

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