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River Loop Path would connect the Dorris
Ranch Living History Farm with
Clearwater Park, where it will eventually
connect to a path along the Springfield
Mill Race. When used with existing street
lanes, the planned path would form an
eight-mile loop beginning in downtown
Springfield and connecting to the exten-
sive riverfront path system in Eugene. The
proposed path will also provide the first
off-street connection between east and
west Springfield south of Main Street.
“This is what people in Springfield told
us they wanted [in a 400-person survey],”
says Rebecca Gershow, a park planner for
Willamalane.
“Springfield is sur-
rounded by rivers
and this is provid-
ing people with
great access to
these rivers and an
opportunity to ex-
perience
nature
close to home.”
The prelimi-
nary planning is
under way and be-
fore
Christmas
Willamalane plans
to submit the per-
spectives that must
be approved by the
Oregon Department of Transportation and
the Federal Highway Administration. Once
approved, the funds designated by
SAFETEA-LU will be released and con-
tractors can be hired to start the detailed
planning.
The tentative schedule has the detailed
designing and engineering taking place in
2006, the right-of-way acquisition in 2007
and construction in 2008 and possibly
2009. Willamalane has a five-year window
to complete the project.
Seventy to 80 percent of the land
needed for the path is already publicly
owned and Willamalane doesn’t foresee
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BY PAUL NEEVEL
LINDSEY REYNOLDS
In her freshman year at South Eugene High
School, Lindsey Reynolds joined a peer educa-
tion program called AIDS and Substance
Abuse Prevention. “I stayed with it all four
years,” she says. “I spent an incredible
amount of time teaching HIV prevention.”
After graduation in 2000, Reynolds left for
Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn.,
where she ran a similar peer education pro-
gram that served 14 schools. She won a grant
to travel to South Africa for a thesis on HIV
prevention efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province.
There she also spent time helping out at a
rural AIDS hospice, where fellow Wesleyan stu-
dent Angela Larkin was studying orphan-care
strategies. On their return, Reynolds and
Larkin founded Thembanathi (“hope with us”
in Zulu), a small-scale project to raise funds
for day care at the hospice. Visit www.thembanathi.org to learn more. A $5 donation will
purchase a hand-beaded AIDS pin similar to the one in the photo. Reynolds will be selling
other hand-crafted items from South Africa from noon to 6 pm Saturday, Dec. 10, at a
Human Rights Day event at the UO Law School, and from noon to 5 pm the following day
at 1452 Barber Drive in Eugene (call 345-6144).
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