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Graphic by Jm Payne Solar salvation United Methodist Church turns on to sun’s power By KENT KULBY Of the Emerald David Albright, a United Methodist minister from Springfield, presented final plans in a press conference Thursday for expansion and solar heating of his church at 332 N. 58th St. in Spring field. The church will be the first solar-heated public building in Springfield and is the largest structure to use an active air system for solar heating, ac cording to Al Paz, the architect who designed the plans. Paz explained that heat from solar panels is blown into a rock storage tank: Fans blow the hot air through pipes to various places in the building. The rocks are able to retain the heat from two to four days, he said. “The air system is preferable to the water sys tem because water may freeze, and it requires more piping mechanisms than air,” Paz said. The total estimated cost is $125,000, of which $98,000 has been secured. The funding has come from donations, contributions of founda tions and corporations volunteering services. Albright has been working on the project for more than a year. “The biggest problem has been convincing (po tential contributors) that solar energy is feasible,” Albright said. Paz has spent eight months gathering govern ment and university solar heating researchg in formation and drawing up the final blueprints for the projects. “We’ve heard nothing but positive, encourag ing comments from community citizens,” Al bright said. Ground-breaking will begin this weekend, and construction is planned for mid-May. Western Solar Inc., will supply the solar heating equip ment. The present United Methodist Church is “filled to capacity with church and community activities like kindergarten, mentally retarded and Lane Community College programs,” said Don John son, contractor/coordinator of the project. The state wili monitor the building and its effec tiveness to help formulate future state energy policies. “It is one of the finest projects we’ve seen," said Al Kipnut, solar specialist of the Energy De partment. Gov. Bob Straub salutes the project as “a commendable step forward.” (Continued from Page 1) Bribe? she says. ‘‘Let’s get 'em early while we can still help.” While “all teachers are impor tant,” McFarland feels it is “those first ones” which deserve the most attention, since it is in the first grades that fundamentals are learned. "We've been putting our em phasis on the wrong thing," she says, referring to state require ments for more education in sec ondary school teachers than elementary teachers. She sug gests a fifth year of education for elementary grade school teachers, or “some education after you’ve been teaching.” Adequate textbooks are another area McFarland is con cerned about. She says often texts are not actually at the read ing level the publishers claim. And some math books used for teach ing, say, fourth grade math, will be written at an eighth grade level. These are the “wrong tools,” says McFarland, and "are not helpful in the educational arena.” These three Ts — testing, teaching and textbooks — are the basis of McFarland’s campaign. If elected, she would like to estab lish workshops to help local dis tricts effectively implement policies in these areas. She says she would try and be a strong leader, but at the same time would have respect for local autonomy. McFarland believes the State Basic School Support budget should be raised 50 percent. She feels this money need not come from higher taxes, but from jug gling other budget areas. It may take a re-ordering of priorities to get the money, says McFarland, but, she feels it’s a jus tified rearrangement. "Let's be concerned about education for a change,” says McFarland, since public educa tion "gives people skills with which they can live the rest of their lives.1 March to protest ruling A march protesting the recent court ruling that allows herbicide spraying in national forests begins at 2 p.m. Saturday at Main Street and “I" Avenue in Cottage Grove. The march is sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. STARTS 1 WEEK TH€ CHAPLIN BIOGRAPHY Narrated by Walter Matthau, Laurence Olivier and Jack Lemmon An AffectionateTribute to Charlie. Including Scenes from 17 of His Greatest Films, The Complete Academy Award Presentation to Chaplin, Rare Footage from Chaplin’s Own Vaults, Oona Chaplin’s Horne Movies and Newly Photographed Film of His Private Life. Original Music by Charles Chapin Written and Directed by Richard Patterson •Produced by Bert Schneider A Tine Production Corp. Release in Association with Marvin Films, Inc '4S. 10.V A M'lVriJf aftp iuh y Co-hit 6lenda Jackson in “Incredible Sarah” -Times: Tramp” 7 & 10:15 “Sarah” 8:25
