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Unless otherwise noted photos by Victor von Salza

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Friday January 14th, 2005 • Plants for Area 1b at the Park
Greg and Kathy brought the plants from Corvalis, and were offloaded in about 30 minutes with help of 6 other people.

But freezing rain on 1/15 caused us to postpone the planting event to next weekend.

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Saturday/Sunday January 15/16th, 2005 • Planting Event POSTPONED to NEXT WEEKEND

As of 6:17pm Saturday January 15, no snow, but temps are 28 degrees and freezing rain has started falling. Radar shows that it will continue

to fall for some hours yet, and is predicted to fall most of the day. So no planting event today, we'll try again next weekend.

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Saturday January 22, 2005 • Planting Event in Area 1b
Good turnout, better than predicted weather, and hard work by 21 volunteers

resulted in all 500 plants getting in the ground before 1pm. Thank You Volunteers!

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Saturday February 1, 2005 • Fencing in Area 1b
Greg and Victor extended the fencing on the northwest side of the area by 100 feet. Plan to install another 100 feet on each side of the project to protect the newly planted area.

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Thursday February 10, 2005 • Fencing in Area 1b continued
Greg, Steve, and Victor extended the fencing 100 feet on the playground side, and 50 feet on the soccer field side of area 1b.

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Friday February 11, 2005 • Fencing in Area 1b continued
A long section of the fencing installed on Saturday was lifted out and layed down over the plants (which were not harmed). Victor put the fence back in the ground and reinforced every third post.

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Sunday February 13, 2005 • Fencing in Area 1b completed
Greg reinforced the fencing some more.

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Monday February 14, 2005 • Fencing in Area 1b vandalized
The fencing from the pear tree south on the soccer side of the area was knocked down; the two southern most posts were lifted out, three other posts were bent over 90 degrees at ground level... this time it is bent outward onto the lawn not on top of the plants, which have not be harmed. The rest of the fence is ok.

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March 10th and 11th, 2005 • Irrigation in Area 1b
Greg with help from Steve and Victor set up sprinklers to irragate area 1b. Jim Hicks has agreed to allow us to use water (for which he will be reimbursed) from his house (located just above the playground). We watered the plants a couple of times this week.

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Wednesday March 16th, 2005 • City Removes Invasive Trees in Area 1c
City workers cut down Hawthornes and Holly on the east (playground) side of the creek.

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Wednesday March 23th, 2005 • City Removes Invasive Trees in Area 1c continued
City workers cut down Hawthornes and Holly on the west (soccer) side of the creek. This leaves only two Hawthorne's in area 1b to be cut down.

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Saturday April 16th, 2005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Five volunteers came out a rainy day and removed ivy

and dug out blackberries.

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Tuesday April 26th, 2005 • Catlin Gabel Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Paul Dickinson and 9 students from Catlin Gabel School

did a superb job removing the ivy and

blackberries from the west(soccer field) side of area 1c.

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Saturday May 16th, 2005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Nine volunteers came out on overcast but nice day, pulled ivy and planted willows in Area 1c, and weeded areas 1a and 1b.

Photo by Michael Mullinax

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Saturday June 18th, 2005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Greg was the only volunteer who showed up on this overcast but nice day, he pulled ivy in Area 1c, and set up a new compost pile on the playground side of the creek.

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Saturday June 19th, 2005 • Restoration Creek Name Official
This week Jeanette Kloos received the official notice that the creek on the south end of St. Andrew's Parking lot which continues on through Albert Kelly Park is now officially named Restoration Creek. This was approved by the US Board On Geographic Names on May 12, 2005. Thank you to those who helped chose this name. Thanks also to Lewis L. McArthur who provided the official description of the creek and championed this proposal through the Oregon Geographic Names Board and the US Board.

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July thru October, 2005 • Irrigation in Area 1b
Victor, with occasional help from Greg, watered area 1b two times a week on consecutive days.

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Tuesday July 12th, 2005-6 Grant for Area 1c Accepted
The BCS received its third $5000 grant from BES for the Community Stewardship Grant for continuation of restoration project at Albert Kelly Park. Special thanks to Steve Mullinax and Greg Schifsky who spent many hours preparing the grant proposal. And a big thank you to all our volunteers without whose contribution of thime and effort have helped make this project such a great sucess!

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Saturday July 16th, 2005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Four volunteers came out on a beautiful summer day, pulled ivy and blackberries in Area 1c, and weeded areas 1a and 1b.

Greg and David removing ivy

Bird nest David found while removing ivy

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July 26th, 2005 • Area 2 weeded, Non-native cherries removed from Area 1c
Darian Santner brought a crew of four who used chainsaws to weed all of area 2 in less than an hour, after weeding area 2, removed the stand of non-native cherries located near the east soccer goal.

BES crew member cutting down weeds with chainsaw.

BES crew members cutting down weeds with chainsaws.

Cherries half cut down.

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Saturday August 19th, 2004
Invasive Touch Up Event
We'll be working mainly in areas 1b and 1c removing blackberry and ivy resprouts, and some weeds. Tools and refreshments provided.

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Saturday August 20th, 2005 Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Jerry and Victor came out on a beautiful summer morning, pulled ivy and blackberries in Area 1c. Although the West bank is almost done, much remains to be done on East/playground side of the creek. Jerry "discovered" (by getting stung a few times thru his glove) a yellow jacket nest on the northeast side of the SW 1 creek crossing; heading East just as you start up the slope towards the playground there is an indentation in the slope just below a large 6" diameter cherry tree.

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Tuesday September 13th, 2005 • SOLV/Key Bank National Volunteer Day
Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Fifteen volunteers from Key Bank worked from 1pm to 4pm and cleared two thirds of the east bank of Area 1c.

Key Bank volunteers.

Debris pile and cleared area created by Key Bank volunteers.

Area by the swing set cleared by Key Bank volunteers.

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Saturday Sept 17th, 20005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Greg, Steve, and Victor worked on removing ivy and blackberries from area 1c. Still much left to be done, come help in October if you can.

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Saturday October 15th, 2005 • Invasive Removal Event in Area 1c
Dave, Greg, Jerry, Steve, and Victor removed Ivy from the east bank and planted 20 aspens provided by the City in Area 2. Still some ivy on the west bank yet to be removed.

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Saturday October 15th, 2005 • Aspens planted in Area 2
Dave, Greg, Jerry, Steve, and Victor planted 20 aspens provided by the City in the sunnier areas close to the creek. These trees will propagate by sending out runners.

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Saturday November 19th, 2005 • Erosion Control Event in Area 1c
Greg, Jerry, Kathy, Priscilla, Steve, and Victor came out on a beautiful Fall day and installed erosion control netting and bio bags on both banks of the creek. The yellow jacket nest just north of SW Trail 1 on the eastside of the creek was still active, and that is the only area where invasives remain to be removed. Hopefully some additional cold weather between now and January's planting event will finally get the nest to go dormant and let us get it ready for planting.

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Saturday December 20th, 2005 • Erosion Control in Area 1c contd.
Greg placed and staked 20 soil bags in preparation for the January 21st planting event.