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Reservoi rs reopen it, and we don’t have that," Chapman said. “It was never highly developed, not in the order of Orchard Point or Richardson. They have marinas, they have concessions, they have irrigated turf, just about everything. Zumwalt was always more of a natural park." he said. The U.S. Corps of Engineers also operates two parks at Fern Ridge: Perkins Peninsula and Kirk, hamster said. According to Lamster, Or chard Point is the most heavily used park at Fern Ridge with 175,000 visitors in 1906. followed by Perkins Peninsula with 154.000. Richardson with 127.000. Kirk with 37.500 and Zumwalt with 12,000 At Dexter Lake, l.ane County operates two parks. Dexter and Lowell. Dexter Park has a boat ramp and dock, picnic sites and a swimming area. Lowell Park has a small marina, a boat ramp, a picnic area and a swim beach. The University crew team has their headquarters at Ixiwell Park as well, with a dock and storage building located on park property. According to Lamster, Dexter Park attracted 104.000 visitors in 1986 and Lowell Park 102 000 The reservoirs aren't without controversy, however. "There's a group of people that varies in size that wants Fern Ridge Reservoir left full all-year-round," hamster said “Quite honestly, if the dam was left full there would be floods every' year And it may not affect someone in Fugene because they're upstream. Hut it sure is going to flood out Monroe and Corvallis and some of those places." he said. Fern Ridge is drained during the winter so it has the capacity to store spring runoff from the Piano instruction available to community By Sean Nelson Of the Emerald Beginning Sept. 28, the University's School of Music will offer a special pre-piano instruction course for children emphasizing music through movement and im provisation, as well as the usual piano courses for com munity residents of all ages. Children’s courses will in clude “songs and stories, and are designed to provide preliminary instruction to children ages 3 to 5,” accor ding to Barbara Baird, direc tor of the Community Piano Program at the School of Music. “What we're teaching them is to make music...as well as learning a repertoire," Baird said. More advanced-level courses are offered to children ages 5 to 6 utilizing the Dalcroze Eurythmics method, she said. The Dalcroze Eurhythmies method is "a method of music teaching that involves the child in whole body response to sounds and rhythms," to prepare them for a continued musical experience. Baird said. Children and teen-agers are offered courses which teach the skills of piano itself, while adults receive instruction in the form of classes or private lessons, she said. “It is a program for children ages 3 to 93," she added. Other courses offered through the School of Music include a course for teen agers which concentrates on individual instruction, but students meet with a group in the electronic piano lab once a week to explore a musical topic more thoroughly. Baird said. “I think our program is uni que in its emphasis on the creativity of the child, har monization and improvisa tion skills." Baird said "We have group instruction as well as private instruction so the kids are involved in the social aspect of piano instruc tion... which makes it more fun for them," she added. The skills taught in the preliminary program would apply to all of the different programs offered for all ages. Baird said. Instruction is designed to provide a lifelong learning experience. The courses cover perfor mance of standard piano literature, she said. "It runs the gamit from Bach to the contemporary composers in cluding popular literature and folk songs.” she added The courses also cover har monization and improvisa tion, and aim to include their members in ensemble perfor malices at group meetings, which meet every other week and perform for eac h other, she said. "Teens paired in lessons perform for each other, in dividually instructed teens perform only once a month or once a term," Baird said. The end of the term is open to children, teens, adults and the entire community, she added. Beginning children’s classes are taught in groups of three or four, and emphasize the reading and creative skills needed to build a strong musical foundation "Basically learning to ruad music and learning to im provise, harmonize, transpose and perform music is all in tegral in the student's instruc tion." she said This would help the in dividual child "as a well rounded musician" who com poses and responds to music he or she hears. Baird said. Children who move for ward from this stage can con tinue to work in gniups or in pairs with additional private instruction, she added. "We have both adjunct in structors and GTFs who pro vide that instruction." Baird said "For the most part they are all highly experienced and well qualified," she said. Long Tom River. Coast Range streams and the Amazon Slough. Chapman said. "They hit the spring rains, fill the reservoir up and then use it ail year round for charg ing the Long Tom River downstream for irrigation pur poses." Chapman said. "it's a very flat lake. So as they draw down, the shoreline recedes quickly.” he added. The controversy over use of Fern Ridge has raged for years, although the 1960s wen? a turn ing point. 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