Meyer fund adds to Skinner Butte play area.Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard Eugene's planned premier playground on Friday got the fund-raising boost it needed: A $150,000 donation that will ensure the centerpiece of the play area gets built this year. The Meyer Memorial Trust announced the grant to help build RiverPlay in Skinner Butte Skinner Butte (also called Skinner's Butte) is a prominent hill on the north edge of downtown Eugene, Oregon, United States, near the Willamette River. Skinner Butte is a local landmark and the location of Skinner Butte Park, a municipal park. Park. Planned features include a climbing structure replica of Skinner Butte with a 12-foot-tall slide, a wheelchair accessible bridge, a large sand area where children can dig for toy fossils, a miniature 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. , and child-sized Kalapuya and pioneer villages. The Portland-based trust, representing the philanthropy of the late retailer Fred Meyer, also announced grants to other area causes. The $150,000 grant for RiverPlay is by far the single largest gift received by the Eugene Rotary Charitable Trust The arrangement by which real or Personal Property given by one person is held by another to be used for the benefit of a class of persons or the general public. , which is helping the city raise money for the play area. "Because of this grant and all the local businesses and community members who have generously donated to the project, the community can be assured that this destination playground is really going to happen," said Bob Mylenek, chair of the Eugene Rotary Club fund-raising committee. The Meyer Memorial Trust announced 72 grants totalling $12.5 million throughout Oregon and in Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
The $150,000 gift to RiverPlay will pay for much, if not all, of the cost of the Skinner Butte-replica climbing structure, said parks and open space spokeswoman Therese Picado. The structure includes a seven-foot-tall climbing feature fashioned after the basalt basalt (bəsôlt`, băs`ôlt), fine-grained rock of volcanic origin, dark gray, dark green, brown, reddish, or black in color. Basalt is an igneous rock, i.e., one that has congealed from a molten state. climbing columns on the west side of Skinner Butte. With the Meyer gift, other fund raising, including materials and additional in-kind contributions, and $400,000 from the 1998 parks and open space bond issue, the Rotary and the city have raised $820,000 for the playground. The full cost of the project is estimated at $1.2 million. With most of the money in hand, construction of the first phase will begin about June, Picado said. More donations are needed, she said, including cash and, when construction begins, labor and materials labor and materials (time and materials) n. what some builders or repair people contract to provide and be paid for, rather than a fixed price or a percentage of the costs. . "We are still 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. in-kind services, such as demolition and construction services," Picado said. About 420 of an available 1,000 donor bricks have been sold at $100 apiece to raise money for the project. Donors can have their names inscribed in·scribe tr.v. in·scribed, in·scrib·ing, in·scribes 1. a. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface. b. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters. on the bricks, which will be laid in the playground's entry plaza. For information on how to help or donate, or both, call Carrie Peterson at 682-4907 or visit the the project's Web page: www.ci.eugene.or.us/ PARKS/riverplay. |
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