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Fundraiser October 26th!

Join us at Track Town Pizza on Franklin Blvd. on Wednesday, October 26th for a day of fundraising for Nearby Nature's education and restoration programs! Bring in our special coupon (click here to print) and Track Town will donate 50% of what you spend on food to Nearby Nature! Click here for more information.

 

Volunteers

Our Spring 2011 thanks to:

  • UO Architecture students led by Pip Allen for designing our future outdoor covered work area. The structure is currently awaiting approval through the City’s CIPDP process - watch for an invitation to the building party for this project!
  • Rachel Carson High School students for help in Wildflower Hollow and for weeding the Walama Butterfly Meadow with Walama Restoration.
  • A great crew of Boy Scouts for their June park clean-up and Learnscape maintenance. Special thanks to Jeff Rowberry for facilitating this project in partnership with Nearby Nature, United Way, School Garden Project, and the City of Eugene.
  • ATA 6th graders for working on the Learnscape
  • SOLV for partnering with us for a park clean-up in April and REI for help with the National Trails Day clean-up in June and our Nature Quest in May.
  • Sarah Whitney’s LCC Water Conservation Class for designing irrigation for next year’s garden.
  • Walk on the Wild Side volunteers: Linda and Bridget Johnson, Sarah de Mont, Sarah Pishioneri, Bella Music, Linda Runyan, Allana Morrison, Emily Hollern, NCS students, and Cynthia Waters.
  • Spring Nature Quest assistants: Bella Music and Emily Hollern.
  • Mount Pisgah Wildflower Festival helpers: Sarah Pishioneri and Jeff Janoff.
  • Spring Learnscape Interns: Justin Lacasse, Emily Pelissier, Sarah DeMont, Shihori Kozuma, Molly Cheek, and dedicated volunteer Allana Morrison for over 660 hours of work.

  • Alton Baker Park Nature Guides and Interns: Ben Chilton. Betty Grant, Charlie Horowitz, Dona Shields, Emily Hollern, Bella Music, Jackson Blackburn, Jim Norland, Jeff Janoff, Jenny Laxton, Kateri Woestman, Kathryn Napolio, Kristin Anderson, Leah Hall, Liam Grist, Martin Lindenmeyer, Michael Wherley, Rick Ahrens, Sally Keller, Sam Wotipka, Sander Cole, Sarah Pishioneri, SierraPredovich, Sydney Clagett, Thea Evenstad, and Vicky Mello.

  • School visit interns: Caitlyn White, Kris Posta, Oona Badgley, and Samantha Buchheit and program assistants Sally Keller, YiHsuan Yang, Kristin Anderson, Emily Hollern, and Jenny Laxton.

  • Daycamp brochure stuffers: Dona Shields, Justin Lacasse, and Laurie Anderson.

  • Dave Wagner for teaching a Lessons in the Learnscape workshop.

  • Board member Jane Happy, who is taking a leave from the Board to spend more time with family. Jane has volunteered at Nearby Nature in a variety of capacities for most of the group’s existence. We have so appreciated Jane’s thoughtful and wise contributions as a Board member over the past seven years and look forward to finding new ways to involve her in our work Thanks so much, Jane. We will miss you dearly! 
  • Board member Jackie Marlette, who has also helped out at Nearby Nature in many ways over the years. We will miss Jackie’s input regarding fundraising and organizational matters, but we look forward to seeing her new baby at our events in the future!


Our Winter 2011 thanks to:

  • Bruce Newhouse, Peg Boulay, and Don Lown for leading winter Nature Quests and Oona Badgley and Samantha Buchheit for serving as assistants.

  • All the folks who spent time with Nearby Nature and its partners on restoration and Learnscape projects (1,785+ hours!) in the park this fall and winter. This crew included volunteers from the Cities of Eugene and Springfield, Oregon Imaging, Enterprise, Fred Meyer, the Oregon Community Credit Union, Wells Fargo, three Girl Scout troops, Nearby Nature, the UO’s Environmental Studies Program, Sigma Kai, and the community in general. Thanks also to Nearby Nature’s interns, students from the Network Charter School’s Forest Ecology class, and students from Churchill High School’s Rachel Carson Program.

  • School visits assistants Sally Keller and Jenny Laxton.
  • Winter interns Oona Badgley, Chris Posta, YiHsuan Yang, Samantha Buchheit, and Caitlyn White.


Our FALL 2010 thanks to:

  • Ian Whitelaw for loaning us all of his equipment for the Haunted Hike AND making us a map of what to do with it!
  • All the amazing folks who have helped to give our home in Alton Baker Park a facelift this fall! From painting to moving furniture, we could not have done it without you! Thanks so much Kyra Storojev, Rachel Tochen, Krystal Young, Lisa Erkert, Leslie Kidd, Leslie Peters, Melissa, Liza Kachko, Carolyn Munroe, Thea Evenstad, Billy Hughes, Kari Berg, Melanie Glock, Robert Dike, Sally Keller, and Devonia Stein.

  • The kind folks at Central Valley Cycle for welding our Critter Quest table for free.

  • A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village Museum, Bambini, Brush Fire Pottery, Alan & Janet Butler & the Martin Luther King Education Center Horticulture Program, Cafe Mam, Cafe Yumm, Capella Market, Cascades Raptor Center, Cozmic Pizza, David Minor Theater, Eugene Local Foods, Eugene Toy and Hobby, Euphoria Chocolate, Fridays at the Farm, Eliel Fionn (Artist, Saturday Market), Excelsior Inn, Glenwood Restaurant, Holy Doughnuts, Imagine Gallery, Jim Goranson (Saturday Market Batik Artist),  Jim and Tracy Keith (Pioneer Pottery, Saturday Market), Katharine Emlen (Photographer), Kidstuff, Lane Transit District (LTD), Laughing Planet, Lord Leebrick Theatre Co., Me and Moore, Mezza Luna Pizzaria, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, Noelle Dass (Saturday Market Artist), Northern Lights Christmas Tree Farm, Off the Waffle, Onsen Hot Tubs, Organically Grown, Papa John’s Pizza 29th, Paul’s Bicycle Way of Life, Safeway on 18th, Science Factory, The Shedd, Skipping Stones Magazine, Becky Smith (Massage Therapist), STUDIO-E architecture, St. Vincent de Paul, Sweet Life Patisserie, Track Town Pizza on Franklin Blvd., Trader Joe’s, UO Art Museum, The Vintage Restaurant, Watermelon Kidz, and the WOW Hall for Haunted Hike food and raffle donations!

  • All of our wonderful Haunted Hike volunteers: Oona Badgley, Leslie Kidd, Alice Baldyga, Linda and Bridget Johnson, Kate Crossman, Vicky Mello, Chris Duke, Jim Norland, Donald Burton, Jeff Letey, Brendan Currie, Rachelle Perkins, Erica DeJong, Jenny Laxton, Amber Lippert, Katie Perle, Matt Bradley, Boki, Maddie Allen, Tim Keller, Cheyenne, Mylece, Sierra Predovich, Jillian Tally, Holly Hartmann, Alissa Manske, Natasha Steinmann, Birget Eichman, Megan B, Elizabeth Wymer, Emily Holman, Hannah Alverson, Kim Wymer, Bill Wymer, Bill Brigmon, and Dan Perambo.

  • Maddie Allen and Natasha Steinmann for helping with Nature Quests.

  • SOLV and the Oregon Lottery for new gloves and a mini-grant of $100 for a new wheelbarrow.


Our SUMMER 2010 thanks to:

  • Kristen DeHaven for serving on our Board of Directors since December 2007. Kristen is a student at Northwest Christian College. She served as an Outdoor Leader for our summer camps in 2007 and 2008 and as an office assistant in the Fall of 2007. Thanks so much for all of your help with our programs, Kristen!
  • Summer adult volunteers and interns: Ted Sweeney, Dan Higgs, Sarah Hedden, and Scott Sneed, and Outdoor Leaders Allison Wonn, Cassy Driscoll, Christian Gabor, Dylan Anslow, Evelyn Mailander, Hannah Alverson, Hannah Galka, Holly Brown, Kelsey Inskeep, Liz Maynard, Matt Tendick, Megan Bernatzki, Michael Siddel, Nora Elam, Read Wagar, Selina Fillinger, Taylor Bruce, and Zhanna Kinane.
  • Art in the Vineyard helpers: Sarah Hedden, Sally Keller, Ali Cooper, and Hannah Alverson. Eugene Celebration helpers: Linda Johnson, Denise Velasco, and Ali Cooper. Springfield SummerFest volunteers: Linda and Bridget Johnson.
  • Co-motion Cycles, the UO Urban Farm, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for providing free daycamp field trips and presentations and the River House for rafting scholarships. The Cascades Raptor Center and the School Garden Project for partnering with us on camps.


Our SPRING 2010 thanks to:

  • Don Lown and the Kiwanis Club for building our beautiful new covered bike shed!

  • Track Town on Franklin Blvd. for holding a fundraiser for our Youth Scholarship Fund in April! And thanks to the folks who joined us that night for pizza!

  • Spring nature guides: Ali Cooper, Alice Baldyga, Amy Heimbecher, Austin Diamond, Ben Chilton, David Parziale, Jenna Starr, Jess Lambright, Jessica Maine, Jillian Tally, Julia Grebultowicz, Krystal Young, Liz Sherwin, Maddie Allen, Marissa Bossue, Michael Wherley, Molly Lott, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Olivia Hurd, Rick Ahrens, Sally Keller, Sierra Predovich, Stacie Haus, Thea Evenstad, Tom Hallberg, Vicky Mello, and Willis Logsdon.
  • David Parziale, Krystal Young, Christine Adnani, and Alice Baldyga for working in the Learnscape. 
  •  Thirty Rachel Carson High School students for 630 hours of restoration and litter patrol work since Septemeber. NCS students for countless hours working in the park.
  •  Krystal Young, Julia Giebultowicz, Ali Cooper, Liz Sherwin, Tom Hallberg, and Rachel Latham for helping with spring No School Day programs and Amy Bowers for helping with a Nature Quest, and Vicky Mello, Sarah Holston, Olivia Hurd, and Maddie Allen for help with our daycamps mailing.
  •  Wings and Wine helpers: Ali Cooper and Olivia Hurd, Mt. Pisgah Wildflower Festival helpers: Sarah Holston, Olivia Hurd, Julia Giebultowicz, Maddie Allen and Ali Cooper, Earth Day volunteers: Tom Hallberg, Maddie Allen, Alice Baldyga, Jessica Maine, and Olivia Hurd, Science Factory Open House helper: Maddie Allen, Cozmic Pizza Family Night helpers: Olivia Hurd, Sarah Holston, and Alice Baldyga
  • I Spy Spring donors: Wendy Loren, Organically Grown Co-op, the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Saturday Market, Backcountry Gear Limited, and the Actor’s Cabaret of Eugene.
  • I Spy Spring volunteers: Denise Velasco, Crystal Strege, Rhian Pyke, Amber Lippert, John Mackin, Rachel Latham, Jillian Tally, Julia Giebultowicz, Sarah Holston, and Krystal Young.
  •  ELAW for donating bamboo and the School Garden Project and Laurel Valley Educational Farm for donating plants.

 

 

Our WINTER 2010 thanks to:

  • Papa’s Pizza on 11th Avenue for sponsoring a fundraising day for our Rachel Carson High School restoration partnership in December.
  • Jessicca Laughlin for donating a classy bookcase and Anne Bonine for donating a lovely hummingbird poster. What an office facelift!
  • Jill Hoyenga from EWEB for donating several portable interpretive sign pedestals.
  • Chris Orsinger and Becky Smith for donating cute kid-sized garden tools and Wendy Loren for donating nature stamps and ink.
  • Sally Keller, Amy Bowers, Tom Hallberg, Sarah Holston, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Tanya Homrichhausen, and Molly Lott for helping with School Visits.
  • Krystal Young for helping with Learnscape garden projects and Austin Diamond for helping with park restoration, our new blog, and this newsletter.
  • Duncan Geisler, Amy Bowers, Tom Hallberg, and Nicolette Getty-Beck for helping with all sorts of office projects this winter and spring.
  • Duncan Geisler, Toll Hallberg, and Nicolette Getty-Beck for helping with winter No School Day programs and Amy Bowers for helping with Nature Quests.
  • Amy Bowers, Tom Hallberg, and Duncan Geisler for helping staff our Winter UO Intern fair booth.

  • Board member Cynthius Scanlon for her many thoughtful contributions to our work over the last year plus. Cynthius is leaving our Board to spend more time with her family. We wish her all the best and hope to see her and her family at a Nearby Nature event soon!


Our FALL 2009 thanks to:

  • Our fall nature guides: Rick Ahrens, Vicky Mello, Sally Keller, Nicolette Getty, Kaity Heflin, Anna Bradley, Chris Duke, Duncan Geisler, Jess Lambright, Jessica Stein, Matt Bradley, Michael Wherley, Thea Evenstad, Jack Boucke,  Amy Heimbecher, Ben Chilton, and Casey Pagels.

  • Folks who helped with the Haunted Hike: Donald Burton, Jeff Letey, Kaity Heflin, Brendan Currie, Amber Lippert, Anna Bradley, Kate Perle, Amanda Buckminster, Bill Brigmon, Chris Duke, Dan Perambo, Denise Velasco, Duncan Geisler, Hannah Alverson, Holly Hartmann, Ian Whitelaw,  Jen Jackson, Jennel Hauck, Jess Lambright, Jessica Stein, Kim Wymer, Bill Wymer, Elizabeth Wymer, Kristen DeHaven, Matt Bradley, Michael Wherley, Rebecca Daniels, Reny Ferrari, Saige Kopack, Sarah Pond, Sierra Predovich, Thea Evenstad, and Wendy McKenzie.

  • Casey Pagels and Maureen McClain for work on our worm bin and NCS students for planting and mulching our gardens. Thanks also to 25 folks from the Pentagon Federal Credit Union and EWEB for weeding, planting, and mulching the Learnscape. 

  • In partnership with the City of Eugene Stream Team and REI, thanks to 61 people from Oregon Medical Group, Oregon Imaging Center, EWEB, and the Pentagon Federal Credit Union for picking up 78 bags of trash! In partnership with SOLV and REI, thanks to the 17 people, including folks from the UO Clark Honors College, who weeded invasives in Wildflower Hollow. In partnership with Oregon River Sports thanks to Alpha Phi Omega and the others who helped at the Canoe Canal Clean-up.

  • Folks who helped at Nature Quests: Duncan Geiser and Read Wagar.


Our SUMMER 2009 thanks to:

  • Our daycamp volunteers: Laura Taggart-Murphy, Rachel Tochen, Vicky Mello, Yael Grundstein, Tracy Wright, Nicolette Getty, Meesh Michan, Sarah Jo Pond, Clare Gordon, Aimee Fischer, Cai Pruzynski, Chris Duke, Creed Harmon, Danley Stutzman, Evelyn Mailander, Hannah Alverson, Julia Grebultowicz, Megan Bernatzki, Michael Siddel, Nora Elam, Olivia Clingman-White, Christian Gabor, Read Wagar, Selina Fillinger, Zhanna Kinane, and Sally Keller.

  • Folks who worked in our summer Learnscape: Trish Butcher, Don Lown, Meraiah, Paul Khoury, Taylor, Amie Lamb, and Emily Ehle and our Grand Opening volunteers: Mary Wetherbe, Amber Lippert, Don Lown, Trish Butcher, Thea Evenstad, and Holly Hartmann. Special thanks to The Blair Street Mugwumps for the toe-tapping music, Jared Pruch of the School Garden Project, Leisha Wood of BRING, Dave Cayfe—Master Composter with River House, and Wandering Goat, Toby’s Family Foods, Humble Bagel, and New Day Bakery for food.

  • Folks who helped at Nature Quests: Meg Bernatzki, Zhanna Kinane, and Amber Lippert and at Art in the Vineyard: Hannah Alverson, Rachel Tochen, Nora Elam, Meg Bernatzki, Yael Grundstein, Read Wagar, Chris Duke, Creed Harmon, and Zhanna Kinane.

  • Eugene Celebration parade-marchers: Nicolette Getty, Thea Evenstad, the Peara-Cantril family, the Stein-Pittman family, Howard Kopp, Elyse Perambo, Blair Girard, the Khoury family, and the Lamb family. Thanks to table sitters Ben Chilton and Chris Duke.

  • EWEB and John Femal for donating daycamp supplies and the School Garden Project, the Cascades Raptor Center, and Walama Restoration for helping with and hosting camps. Thanks for presentations and tours to: Chris Nelson of Bike Friday, Dave Walp, Kelly Reis of Oregon Fish and Game, Mike Bellmore of the Stream Team, Liza Kachko of Walama Restoration, Harper Keeler of the UO Urban Farm, and Dwan Sheppard at Co-Motion Bicycles.


A big LATE SPRING 2009 thanks to:

  • Our spring school nature walks guides: Anna Bradley, Ben Chilton, Earl Dill, Jack Boucke, Jenna Kulluson, Laura Taggart- Murphy, Matt Bradley, Melanie Martin, Michael Wherley, Monica Ortiz, Rachel Tochen, Rick Ahrens, Sally Keller, Samara Phelps, Thea Evenstad, Vicky Mello, and Zoe Walmer

  • A special thanks to our spring interns: Yael Grundstein, Tracy Wright, Sierra Predovich, Renee Gabriel, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Meesh Michan, Sarah Jo Pond, and Clare Gordon. See Cheers for Extra Special Volunteers!

  • The Herpetological Society for sharing critters at the Egg Walk.

  • Our Egg Walk volunteers: Laura Taggart-Murphy, Monica Oritz, Elyse Perambo, Dan Perambo, Samara Phelps, Clare Bennett, Kate Perle, Anna Bradley, Donald Burton, Jeff Letey, Thea Evenstad, Larissa Weirich, Kristen DeHaven, Clare Gordon, Holly Rockwell, Jackie Marlette, Renee Gabriel, Meesh Michan, Alissa Kirkpatrick, Jane Happy, Sierra Predovich, Ashlin Aronin, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Andre Brown, Tracy Wright, Teresa Finn, Kim Wymer, Negina Pirzad, Sarah Pond, Mary Wetherbee, Ian Whitelaw, Cynthius Scanlon, Yael Grundstein, Debbie Williamson-Smith, Vincci Lam, Emily Marrer, Becky Ivanoff, Jennifer Hill, Nick Mancuso, Krista Schuchard, Hayley Dixon, and Sanford Weintraub.

  • Spring Learnscape and Restoration Celebration volunteers: Clare Gordon, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Sarah Jo Pond, ReWild Eugene, and Ian Whitelaw.

  • Folks who helped at recent Nature Quests: Don Lown, Nicolette Getty-Beck, Sarah Jo Pond, and Charlotte Hewitt.

  • Folks who staffed our booth at the Mt. Pisgah Wildflower Festival: Nicolette Getty-Beck, Tracy Wright, Sarah Jo Pond, and Meesh Michan.

  • Folks who staffed our booth at Wings and Wine: Renee Gabriel and Jen Jackson.

  • Volunteers at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival: Tracy Wright and Charlotte Hewitt.

  • Our spring newsletter mailing party helpers: Lauren Duvauchelle, Rainie MacDonald, Thea Evenstad, and Nicolette Getty-Beck

  • Late this spring, we said a fond farewell and a big THANKS to Board member Judd Sneirson. Judd has been on board since March 2006. We have so much appreciated Judd's even-tempered, intelligent, and thoughtful input regarding our programs and his legal advice regarding everything from hiring policies to bylaws. We also appreciated his willingness to jump in when needed, especially when we needed a Grandpa Spider one spring for the Egg Walk! We will miss Judd at our meetings but wish him well in his move to far-away Florida. Cheers, Judd, and many thanks!

 

Winter-Early Spring 2009 thanks to:

  • Our winter and spring school visit assistants: Sally Keller, Chanah Hall, Monica Ortiz, Lauren Duvauchelle, Amber Lippert, Rich InLove, Charlotte Hewitt, Carol Fenning, and Sierra Predovich.

  • Brendan Currie for assisting at Nature Quests.

  • Teresa Finn, Thea Evenstad, and Monica Oritz for helping with the UO Career Fair.

  • Whitney Donielson, Monica Ortiz, Rainie MacDonald, and Teresa Finn for office help, mailings, and postering, Rainie MacDonald and Vicky Mello for getting out the winter newsletter.

  • All of our Learnscape Volunteers! See Cheers for Extra Special Volunteers.

  • Thirteen Alpa Phi Omega volunteers for participating in our February Restoration Celebration.

  • Monica Ortiz, Rainie MacDonald, Chanah Hall, Sierra Predovich, and Nicolette Getty for assisting at No School Days.

  • This spring, we said a fond farewell and a big THANKS to Board member Danya Ariel, who has been involved with Nearby Nature since childhood. From youth participant in our programs, to teen Outdoor Leader, to NSC student representative on our Board, Danya has played many roles in our work. Most recently, he has served as an adult member of our Board and worked as an instructional assistant at NCS. What a pleasure it has been to have Danya “on board!” His mature and thoughtful input has rivaled that of any adult member of our group. From serving as secretary, to providing insight into the NCS (where he was part of the school’s first graduating class), to being the only one in our group with a Food Service Card (thanks for all that food prep!) Danya’s dedicated service has been invaluable. Fortunately, Danya is not leaving Eugene and will continue to work with NCS and as a member of the Oregon Country Fair Board. Cheers, Danya, and thanks so much!

 

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