BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Safety program set for new kindergartners The Eugene Police Department and the Eugene Kiwanis Club will offer a free two-week safety education program for children entering kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be this fall. Safety Town will be held from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Aug. 2-13 each weekday at Prairie Mountain School on Royal Avenue. Safety Town teaches young children basic pedestrian, bicycle, school bus, poison, fire, water and home safety. The program is open to children enrolling in kindergarten for the 2004-05 school year, with preference given to Eugene students. The registration deadline is July 15, with applications accepted on a first-come, first-served “FCFS” redirects here. For the figure skating competition, see Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. This article is about a general service policy. For the technical concept, see FIFO. basis. Teen volunteers also are needed to help with the program. Volunteers must be 13 to 18 years old, pass a criminal history background check and be able to attend every day of the program plus a training day on July 30. Applications for Safety Town or the volunteer program are available at the police station, 777 Pearl St., or by requesting one at 682-5189. For additional information, contact Sgt. Mike Galick at 682-8189. I-5 Exit 192 northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. to be closed for work Through next Tuesday night, cars heading north can't use Exit 192 on Interstate 5 to enter Eugene via Franklin Boulevard. Each nightly closure will last from 9 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Work crews will install 205-foot-long steel girders on the detour bridge that crosses the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. near Glenwood. One of the huge beams will be set each night; fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: in two sections, they will be lifted into place by a crane and then spliced together. The detour bridge should be completed and in operation by late August. The project became necessary after bridge inspectors found worsening wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. Noun 1. worsening - process of changing to an inferior state decline in quality, deterioration, declension shear cracks in the underpinnings of both Interstate 5 bridges where they cross the Willamette and McKenzie rivers For rivers name "Mackenzie", see . The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles (138 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. . Both bridges will be replaced by detour structures, and permanent bridges will be built during the next several years. |
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