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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1985)
Licensed Tax Consultants Bookkeepers Business Planners 1745 Coburg Rd., Suite 2, Eugene, OR 97401 484-1006 ,0 pl 40 r We're here specializing In Po cellophane haircolor • perms • cuts • make-up • legwaxing • personalized skin care • facials • nail care • pedicures Balcony Level at the 5th St. Market — 485-2005 Focus your personal inner strength on getting what you want out of life. . . • lose weight • stop smoking • manage stress • create new directions You have the power, I have the tools! 1257 High St. Suite 7, Eugene, OR 97401 484-1969 FROM THE SOIL TO YOUR TABLE A Forum on the Safety of the Food Supply I (As I WI Wednesday, March 6, 1985 Erb Memorial Student Union University of Oregon 8:30 am 9:30 am 1 pm 5 pm 6:30 pm Registration Nutritional Quality and the U.S. Food System Pesticide Use and Food Safety Agricultural Chemicals and the Food Supply Films on the Safety of the Food Supply The cost of the Forum is $15.00 For more information call 345-1218. Willamette Valley Tilth UPFRONT. Chemicals in the Environment The Debate Continues in light of the recent contro versy around how to control the gypsy moth in Lane County as well as the recent County Com missioners' charge of "cover-up" by the EPA in their study of toxic chemicals in western Lane Coun ty, we can all afford to be better educated about the chemicals our bodies absorb daily. There is just such a chance this week in Eugene. A conference en titled From the Soil to Your Table: A Forum on the Safety of the Food Supply will be held on March 6 at the Univeristy of Ore gon's Erb Memorial Union, Dad's Room (near the Ballroom). Regis tration is at 8:30 am. It lasts all day. Moderated by the League of Women Voters, the forum will bring together experts in the areas of nutritional science and educa tion, and agricultural production and policy. Featured speakers are Joan Dye Gussow of Columbia University's Nutrition Depart ment and also a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Jean H. Peters of the OSU Nutri tion Department; Mary O'Brien, Information Coordinator of the Northwest Coalition for Alterna tives to Pesticides; Jake Makenzie, Western Regional Compliance Director, EPA; Tom Hunton, full time farmer and owner of a chem ical fertilizer business; Robert Cooperrider, full time farmer of organic grains and seeds, active with Tilth. There will also be films offered on the safety of the food supply at 6:30 in the evening. Hopefully the wide range of views represented by these people will allow for good dialogue and debate. The forum costs $10 before March 1, which you may mail to Beth Naylor, 2411 Monroe St., Eugene 97405. It will cost $15 the day of the event. University credit is also available. For more information, call Tom Forster, 345-1218. Volunteers Needed! The Voluntary Action Center recruits and refers volunteers to fill needs in the community. The following are some of the posi tions open in local non-profit agencies right now: Teacher's nursery aide: Help the staff at a local agency give quality care to very young children. Volunteer coordinator: Liaison LETTERS Mutations and Pesticides This is addressed especially to those of you whose professions involve health. There is a conspicuous threat to public health in the proposed use of Dimilin and Orthene for gypsy moth. If you feel this subject is controversial, I urge you to study the facts readily obtainable from SOS or NCAP. Here are a few, for starters: • The ODA (Dept. of Agriculture) steering committee did not discuss health in arriving at its position. • A mutation is a heritable altera tion in the cells, generally harmful, that can cause birth defects in present or future generations, miscarriages, cancer, inborn errors of metabolism, or failure to develop normally. • Recorded birth defects have in creased world-wide from 6% in 1968-69 to 10.8% in 1977. March of Dimes puts this figure at 1 in 14 at pre sent for the U.S. • It is illegal to label any pesticide "safe when used as directed." • Orthene, which they want to spray in Eugene, was tested by the Gene-Tox program of EPA and found positive, or genotoxic, in three out of five tests for point-gene mutations, three out of six tests for DNA damage, and one out of three tests for chromo sone damage. Dimilin was also shown to be muta genic in several assays, and to reduce the male hormone testosterone in male chicks. • No safe dose of threshold can be established for a mutagen or cancer in itiator since such damage is irreversi ble and cumulative. • There is growing evidence that Bt alone is more successful than synthetic insecticides—apparently because it is less harmful to the pests' natural ene mies. There is no way they can spray Oregon in April without contaminat ing water and gardens. Please call your legislators, free, at 1-800-982-1211, and ask for inves tigative hearings—in a committee not dominated by those with conflict of interest (i.e., Agricultural Commit tees). Barbara Kelley Co-ordinator, SOS (Save Our ecoSystems) Weekly Eye Opener by Larry Deckman (Taken from the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan): 'The total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth." COUNTRY COOPERATIVE GARAGE Care & Repair of Est. 1973 TOYOTA • DATSUN VOLKSWAGEN • SUBARU AND OTHERS, WORKER OWNED FEMINIST COLLECTIVE 683-3780 0 3144 W. 11th, Eugene between a recreational facility and its volunteers. Trade for creational facility use. re Teenage counselor: Facilitator for adolescent support group. Trade for recreational facility use. Volunteer advisor: Provide contact and assistance to recently graduated Job Corps youth. Friend to the blind: Visit blind people and read to them or write for them. Office volunteer: Help with general office duties, answering questions from the public, typing, filing, etc. Good job experience. To find out about these and other positions, call the Voluntary Action Center/YMCA at 342 4451 or come by at 2055 Patter son. Photo Contest A photo contest entitled A Na tion of Readers is being sponsored by the Eugene Public Library in cooperation with the American Library Association. The contest is open to amateurs, and three prizes in each category will be awarded for black and white and color photos. There are separate prizes for adults and for students. Dot Dotson is furnishing the prizes for local winners whose photos will then be forwarded to compete for a total of $7,100 in national cash awards. The deadline is April 6. Official entry blanks may be obtained at the Eugene Public Library, 100 W 13th Ave. and at any Dot Dotson Camera store. ZeSNTCR WIZARDS Alterations Tailoring • Repairs We put your ideas into fabric 1120 Alder near campus 343-3050 What’s HAPPENING Eugene/Springfield’s Arts & Entertainment Magazine Published every Thursday Editors Elisabeth Lyman, Lucia McKelvey. 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