Work continued this week on a key phase of the School Park Preserve project on the 4.3-acre site behind City Hall and across High Street from Placer High School. Workmen are shown placing vegetative soil layers of alders, willows and dogwood to strengthen the banks of Lincoln Creek, which has been “daylighted” after being underground for several decades. The current $2.6 million phase of the project, which includes flood protection features, will be completed in October and the park is expected to be open for public use in spring 2008.