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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1987)
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CATERING GOURMET PIZZA GELATO Informal dining at its best • Fresh and Creative Gourmet Cooking • Wines by the Glass • Delicious Desserts • Hors d’oeuvres Dinners served: M-Th 5:30-9 pm F-Sat 5:30-10 pm « ImIMME 901 Pearl • 342-3110 URBAN CAFE WINE GIFT BASKETS EXCELSIOR PASTRIES IT'S SUMMERTIME AT BOOK & TEA CAFEl Enjoys dinner on our terrace Book & Tea Cafe Tues-Fri 8:30-10 pm, Sat-Sun 9-5 1646 East 19th, Eugene 344-3422 ■PUBLIC INTEREST Witness for Peace sends delegation to Nicaragua by Linda Kintz The North Pacific delegation of Witness for Peace will leave for Nicaragua on August 24, with a send off at 5 pm at the Federal Building in Eugene. (See the What's Happening Calendar for details.) Twenty-one people from Oregon, Washington and Idaho will spend two weeks in Nicaragua. They will first meet with local women’s and civil ians’ groups, opposition leaders, farmers, union members, church peo ple, and forestry workers. The dele gation will then spend a week and a half in the countryside in the province of Nueva Segovia, the northern pro vince of Nicaragua which borders on Honduras. There delegates will stay with Nicaraguan families and par ticipate in work projects to help re build after contra attacks in the area. Many towns in Nueva Segovia such as Panali and Quilali, have been attacked frequently by the contras, local cooperatives damaged, and civilians killed. Trucks and boats bringing TOOd and medical supplies are frequent targets, as are other eco nomic sites. The strategy of “low-in tensity conflict" focuses on eco nomically important sites, such as cooperative farms and transportation routes. In this kind of warfare, civil ians are most severely affected. Witness for Peace, a nonpartisan, nonaffiliated group, is a nationwide organization, begun by people con cerned about the consequences of contra funding on civilians in Nica ragua. It is made up of a wide diver sity of people, some of whom are af filiated with churches, some of whom are not. Witness for Peace is aided in Nicaragua by CEPAD (a group sup ported by more than 40 Protestant churches), the Maryknoll Sisters, and the Antonio Valdevieso Cultural Center, which is also funded by Pro testants in the U.S. The Northwest regional coordinator of Witness for Peace is Pam Fitzpatrick of Eugene. The North Pacific delegation will take to Nicaragua 30 bags of material aid donated by people in the North west; other supplies will be shipped down by container via Seattle. Provi dence Hospital in Portland has donated $14,000 worth of medical supplies; people of the First Presby terian Church in Sandpoint, Idaho, have donated baseball equipment. The Peace Club at South Eugene High School has raised money for school supplies; the most frequent request made of visitors by children in the streets of Nicaragua is a request for pencils. People of the First Presby terian Church in Corvallis have sewn 21 duffle bags for supplies being taken down. Thirteen Oregonians, nine of them from the Eugene-Springfield area, will participate in the delegation. Hal Sheller, a minister for the Church of the Brethren in Springfield, is being helped by members of his congrega tion in funding his trip. The young est member of the delegation is Greg Barnheisel, president of the Corvallis High School Peace Club; another Corvallis resident, Erwin Barron, as sociate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Corvallis, will participate. Two physicians, Ben Kenagy from Eugene and John Miller of Rogue River, who formerly worked with the medical ship, the SS Hope, will ac company the delegation, as will three University of Oregon faculty members, Dan Goldrich, Alan Wolfe, and myself. Among the other dele gates are a legislative aide to the Oregon Senate, Bonnie Souza, and Marcella Becker, a graduate student and West German citizen who was a former participant in the West Ger man anti-nuclear movement. Woody Hesselbarth, a forest ranger from Idaho, will talk with Nicaraguan of ficials and timber workers about re forestation projects undertaken in parts of Nicaragua decimated by over cutting during the Somoza years. Three former members of the U.S. Navy, one a mechanical engineer, another a navigator and Vietnam veteran, will also join the group. The delegation will bring back in formation about the lives of civilians in Nicaragua. The public is encour aged to contact the delegation with questions before and after the trip at Witness for Peace, 485-1755, 372 W. 10th, Eugene. Those interested are also invited to join the delegation for a send-off on August 24. kestrel cape 454 WILLAMETTE • EUGENE’S LIVELIEST CAFE • BREAKFAST 7 AM-1 PM • LUNCH 11 AM-3 PM • OPEN EVERY DAY Great Food at Affordable Prices AIR CONDITIONED DINING —BENEFIT DINNER-. Friday, August 28 • 5pm-9 pm Proceeds go to BEN LINDER MEMORIAL FUND and New El Salvador Today (NEST) $4 to $7 Sliding Scale This photograph was taken at Estele, Nicaragua, near the area the Witness for Peace Delegation will visit. Sacred Heart opens Prenatal Clinic The new Sacred Heart General Hospital Prenatal Clinic opened on Monday, August 17, to serve pregnant women who would not have access to prenatal care otherwise. The clinic is a joint effort of the Lane County Health Department, local physicians and Sacred Heart. An estimated 400 women in Lane County received inadequate prenatal care last year, according to the Health Department. And last spring the Oregon Medical Association named Lane County as one of six counties that had a critical lack of prenatal care for low-income women. The clinic is a response to this need, according to Sister Monica Heeran, Sacred Heart General Hos pital administrator. “As responsible health care providers, we felt we needed to find a way to give women the proper care they require,” she said. The clinic will be staffed by Nurse Manager Wendy Lang, Certified Nurse Midwives Carolyn Nelson and Cindy Week, and Office Coordinator Gloria Vaupel. Physicians will be on call if complications arise. Initially, physicians from Women’s Medical Services will be working with the clinic. Women who are pregnant and are unable to gain access to prenatal care themselves should call the Health Department at 687-4013. Following a financial screening and need assess ment, the Health Department first will refer eligible women to local phy sicians who accept Medicaid patients. When all the appointment times avail able for new patients are filled or if patients don’t meet financial require ments, the Health Department will refer them to the Prenatal Clinic. These patients may include women who are among the “working poor,” often uninsured and unable to pay for care; and women who are not quali fied for Medicaid but fall below Federal poverty guidelines. Fees will be assessed on a sliding scale according to ability to pay, and no one will be denied care because she cannot pay. The clinic should serve to reduce the incidence of low birth weight in newborns, which contributes to the majority of infant deaths in Lane County.
