The Eugene School District has tested its six existing fields, the oldest installed in 2000, and found trace amounts of lead - well below what Thursday's memo suggests as potentially worrisome - in just a few of the yellow and
white fibers. Two more fields were recently completed in the Bethel School District, and two are still under construction in the Eugene district.
peeled-off cone and
white fibers, slogans about the tendons and growing
Gomes demonstrates the lyricism that can come from economy: A little round disk of
white fibers is stuck on the wall at eye level, as if a cotton pad had adhered to the paint and been removed, leaving only slight traces behind.