Awbrey Park Wildflower Walk CANCELLED – Santa Clara Celebration ON HOLD

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Gary Haliski
  • The Wildflower Tour at Awbrey Park on Saturday, April 18 has been cancelled. 
  • The Santa Clara Community Celebration is on hold.

Wildflower Tour Cancellation:     The Friends of Awbrey Park have decided to follow the CDC guidelines of cancelling events for the next eight weeks.  That means the earliest we could hold the Wildflower Tour is the latter part of May, which is after the majority of wildflowers have bloomed.

Santa Clara Community Celebration:     The SCCO board will be meeting to make a decision about holding a Community Celebration later this year.  The format will be different because the Celebration will not be tied to the Wildflower Tour.  If you have any great ideas how and where we can have our community celebration, please let us know.

Kids with tour sheets

We hope to see you at next year’s Wildflower Walk and hopefully at a community celebration later this year.

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Awbrey Park Wildflower Walk CANCELLED – Santa Clara Celebration ON HOLD

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Gary Haliski

Awbrey Park Wildflower Walk & Santa Clara Community Celebration

There will be a lot of fun family activities at our annual celebration – Wildflower Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Artie the Art Bus, live music, rock painting and more.  And don’t forget the FREE hot dogs!!

Painting Rocks
The Rock Painting Kids (and dog) showing off their skills.
Kids painting rocks at a picnic table.

The Celebration is also an opportunity to connect with over 12 groups or agencies that have projects or activities in the Santa Clara area.  We’ll be featuring some of these groups over the next several weeks as we approach the Celebration.

One of the agencies that will be staffing a booth is the Lane Transit District.  You may not have been able to attend meetings about the LTD transit station at the old Santa Clara School site or been able to attend meetings about the proposed system changes (route changes and frequencies).  Drop by the LTD booth to get the latest information.

LTD Transit Station Sign
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Wildflower Tour CANCELLED and Santa Clara Community Celebration ON HOLD

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Gary Haliski

Awbrey Park Wildflower Walk & Santa Clara Community Celebration

Last year over 300 people attended our annual celebration. Our celebration is family friendly, fun and informative.

Awbrey Park is the ideal park to explore nature with your children or grandchildren. The park is loaded with native wildflowers in bloom and has a small forest where one can find woodpeckers, wood ducks, mallards, salamanders, newts and other wildlife.

Kids in front of sign that says Tour Starts Here
The 2020 Celebration is Saturday,
April 18. 11 AM – 2 PM
Awbrey Park
Kids with tour sheets

Try the Wildflower Scavenger Hunt. Grab a chart with pictures of 16 wildflowers, then go find them. We’ll have some potted native plants to take home for folks who find enough plants on the hunt. We even have guided tours to help you.

Once you’ve had your fill of wildflowers, go play in the open field or on the playground. Then grab some FREE hot dogs from our fantastic hot dog crew. There’s also live music! Are the kids still full of energy? Have them visit Artie the Art Bus. They will have a ball!

Hot Dog team who served 300 hot dogs
Artie the Art Bus

There’s also the opportunity to learn about projects and planning in the Santa Clara Community. Community leaders and volunteers have been working on the River Road – Santa Clara Neighborhood Plan for over two years. Stay tuned for more information about the information booths that will be at the event.

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Survey #1 – Santa Clara Community Park Master Plan

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Gary Haliski
Map of Santa Clara Community Park

The City of Eugene owns 35 acres near Madison Middle School that are targeted to become a community park. The city is asking for input on the park.

From the City of Eugene:

Welcome to the first survey for the Santa Clara Community Park master planning process. This survey will be open through March 31 and should only take a few minutes to complete. We will share results once the survey has closed.

To view the survey, click on https://engage.eugene-or.gov/santaclarapark?tool=survey_tool&tool_id=santa-clara-survey-1&fb_page_type=survey_tool&fb_tool_id=3159

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NLC Housing & Homelessness meeting – March 26

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Gary Haliski
Housing and Homeless Committee NLC

NLC Housing & Homelessness Committee Meeting
Thursday, March 26th
12-1 PM
McNail-Riley House 601 W. 13th Ave

From the Eugene Neighborhood Leaders Council:

Join us to hear from Daniel Ivy, founder of YIMBYES – “Yes In My Backyard” Eugene-Springfield.  The mission of YIMBYES is to empower community stakeholders to say YES to housing affordability for all. This growing movement has a goal of creating more housing opportunities for everyone across all income levels in response to escalating rent and housing costs.  https://yimbyes.org/

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