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Torch route
Local runners will carry
the Olympic torch through
Eugene Sunday as it makes
its way to Los Angeles for the
opening of the Olympic
Games.
The relay will come down
Highway 99 to Seventh
Avenue, then along Broad
way and Franklin boulevards
to Agate Street and north on
Agate Street to Hayward
Field, where it will be put up
for the night before heading
out through Springfield
Monday morning.
There is no way to estimate
the exact time of the torch’s
arrival at any particular point
along the route, says Sherold
Barr of the Eugene Family
YMCA, but it will probably
pass the Hult Center between
8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Each runner will carry the
torch for one kilometer.
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Food Center to open soon
By Julie Shippen
Of the Emerald
The small building is ob
viously vacant, and the colorful
“Food-Op” sign still hanging
from its front serves only as a
reminder of the scandal leading
to the operation’s forced closure
a year ago.
But two people possessing a
little student activism and a lot
of organizing talent have come
up with a healthy remedy for
that problem in the form of the
“Food Center,” a sort of
miniature version of the Lane
County Food Bank.
The center is scheduled to
open about the end of July in the
old Food-Op building, located
near the Bean-Complex parking
lot on 15th Avenue. Bill
Snyder, ASUO student events
coordinator, and Connie
Nelmes, a woman whose initial
query resulted in a cheese-and
butter distribution on campus
last year, will direct the
operation.
Synder is hesitant to mention
the former establishment by
name, as “the word Food-Op
makes people shudder.”
Although, it was the fate of the
Food-Op that brought about his
initial concern, he says.
“When they shut the Food
Op down, I said ‘I’m going to
open it back up someday,”’ he
says. After becoming involved
with the Lane County Food
Bank and gaining their support,
Synder was able to begin roun
ding up funds to finally get the
center established.
The new center will actually
have three agencies operating
within its walls, each serving a
different non-retail purpose, he
says. The Oregon Gleaners and
Gatherers, for example, will
give people the opportunity to
receive produce at little or no
cost by going to the fields
themselves and collecting it.
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port and future participation in
the center, because they as a
group “need a good supply of
cheap food,’’ he says.
Those who do volunteer work
at the center will receive an ad
ditional discount on the goods
they buy, Snyder says. He em
phasizes the word volunteer,
though, as even he and Nelmes
won’t be paid employees. “All
we’ll do is come in four to five
hours a month, once it’s
Photo by Michael Clapp
Bill Snyder and Connie Nelmes survey the interior of the old
Food-Op building as they contemplate opening an inexpensive
food distribution center there.
Another agency, Unity Foods,
deals primarily in bulk foods
that the center will sell in a non
profit fashion. And an array of
products from the Commodity
Food Distributors will be sold at
a mere 12 cents per pound.
“Right now they (Commodity
Food Distributors) don’t want
us to sell it, but we run up a lot
of expenses just hauling it
around,” Snyder says. Most of
the center’s basic expenses will
be covered, however, from
revenue generated through Uni
ty Foods’ distribution at a 10
percent profit that is split with
the central office, he says.
Free food baskets will also be
available at the center for those
who qualify, Snyder says.
These include honey and meat,
as well as cheese and bread, due
to the USDA requirement that
food baskets offer a varied diet.
Persons wanting a food basket
or products through the Com
modity Food Distributors will
have to fill out a form at the
center showing their proof of
eligibility, he adds.
Although the center’s main
purpose is to serve the needs of
the poor, Snyder says anyone,
including students, can pur
chase food there at the dis
counted prices. In fact, many
law school students have
already announced their sup
smoothly operating, and pay
the bills,” he says.
And by operating under a
non-employee situation, the
center hopes to avoid the Food
Op’s problem, Snyder says.
“I’m going to be really cautious
because that’s (employees) what
got the Food-Op in trouble.”
Snyder believes the center
will be visited by more than just
students or members of the im
mediate neighborhood. “This
(Food Bank branch) will be
more central. We won’t be get
ting people from just this area.
We’ll be getting people from all
over town,” he says.
This could result in the pro
blem of bringing transients into
the University area, Synder ad
mits, but he intends to remain
open to helping them, a deed
that county and city officials
already have asked him not to
do.
“Lane County and the City of
Eugene didn’t want us to feed
them,” he says. “We can’t
figure any reason not to feed
them. 1 can’t talk myself into
saying ‘no’ to them.”
He is quick to recognize a
potential conflict in this bet
ween himself and the Universi
ty, however. “The University
would shoot me if I encouraged
transients to hang around cam
pus,” Snyder says.
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