Board affirms wetlands project.Byline: Anne Anne, British princess Anne (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise), 1950–, British princess, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh. She was educated at Benenden School. Williams The Register-Guard Partners in a proposed environmental education center in the west Eugene wetlands got the nod they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. from the Eugene School Board on Wednesday. After raising questions about the district's $500,000 commitment to the project earlier this month, board members said they'll stick with it and give organizers - primarily from the school district and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management - two more years to cobble together cobble together Verb [-bling, -bled] to put together clumsily: a coalition cobbled together from parties with widely differing aims Verb 1. the necessary remaining funds for the first phase. Anchoring the project would be the Rachel Carson Noun 1. Rachel Carson - United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964) Carson, Rachel Louise Carson Center for Natural Resources, a popular environmental program at Churchill High School. The district earmarked $500,000 for the relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. in a $116 million bond measure passed in May 2002. However, that money would cover less than one-fourth the cost of the first phase, which has been scaled back from original plans to include one classroom instead of two. Organizers have secured another $1 million from the city of Eugene and the BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines , which includes the cost of the BLM-owned land off Danebo Avenue north of West 11th Avenue. They believe it likely that Congress will grant the land to either the district or the city. They have already applied for or soon will apply for the necessary additional funds to cover it. Pat Johnston, west Eugene wetlands project manager for the BLM, said she and other organizers needed the board's assurance on funding and approval of the concept before they could go ahead with those applications. "What was really important is whenever you are writing grants you have to frame the project for your grantors," she said. Last week, all seven school board members, along with a handful of other local government officials and students from the Rachel Carson Center, toured the site, looked at design plans and learned about the educational program. Eventual plans call for office space, an interpretive in·ter·pre·tive also in·ter·pre·ta·tive adj. Relating to or marked by interpretation; explanatory. in·ter  pre·tive·ly adv. center and a lecture hall lecture hall n → sala de conferencias;(UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m on the property. "I think it helped the board get a better understanding of what we were looking at," said Tim Whitely, founding teacher at the Rachel Carson Center. Board member Chris Pryor said the plans are impressive, and he reiterated his backing. "I think it's a great project, truthfully, and I see minimal risk ... and tremendous advantages," he said. Under a best-case scenario, the new Rachel Carson facility would open in September 2005. |
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