Levy may aid extension service
By Meg Dedolph
Emetva!d Reporter
Lane County may stand to
loso its agricultural extension
service if the extension service
levy on the March 23 ballot is
not passed.
The Lane County extension
servic e provides training and
advice to the public on issues
relating to the home, the garden,
farming or forestry.
Janet Calvert, Lane County
extension agent and staff chair,
said the purpose of the exten
sion is to “provide and offer
research-based information to
people in wavs they can use."
The proposed property tax
levy costs about five cents per
SI .000 of assessed property val
ue and is expected to raise
$560,032 each year for five
years, about $30,000 more than
the current levy.
Under federal law. the county
is responsible for providing
administrative support for
extension services, which
includes secretarial help, rent
and educational materials.
There are only eight full-time
agents working out of the conn
tv office, meaning that much of
the extension's services are pro
vided by trained volunteers.
"We cover a wide range of
activities and rely on volunteers
to extend that knowledge fur
ther." Calvert said.
Extension volunteers staff
telephone hotlines, answering
more than 1.5 million questions
eai h year about food preserving,
gardening and woodland man
agement, and teach community
workshops on leadership, com
munication and group manage
ment.
More than 425 volunteers
serve ns leaders in the 4 H youth
development program, working
with t>, 100 i hildren in the coun
ty each year, including those In
homeless shelters
The 4-11 program includes
after-school programs, class
room projects and long-term
project clubs that function for
several months.
Volunteers also staff the Par
ont-Friend cooperative program
with Sacred Heart Prenatal Clin
ic. where new parents are paired
with volunteers who answer
questions about child develop
ment and baby care
Calvert said strong local sup
port may also be why the Lane
County extension service
receives federal funding for pro
‘If then weren't a
local pnsence,
those federal hauls
would go
elsewhere.’
—■ Janet Calvert,
Lane County extension agent
grams like the Expanded Food
and Nutrition Educ ation Pro
gram, which offers nutrition
instruction to low-income faun
lies with t hildren.
"If there weren't a lor a I pres
em e, those federal funds would
,;n elsewhere," Culvert said
(Calvert said the strongest sup
port for the two previous exten
sion levies came from cities like
Eugene, which, although an
urban area, uses the extension
service often
"It's just as important for a
backyard gardener to know how
to use pesticides properly -is a
farmer," (he said
Within Eugene, Calvert said,
very few students use the exten
sion service, except for foreign
students who may ask for help
adjusting to American cooking.
Gay students to take silence vow
Some gay, lesbian and bisexual students will
wear pink triangle pins untl remain silent for 24
hours Iteginning tonight in celebration of the Uni
versity's Pink Triangle Day.
Historically, the pink triangle was a symbol of
hatred, said Doug Kmx ht, a student who organized
the day's activities. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler mode
gay people wear pink triangles, just as he made
levvish people wear yellow Stars of David.
Pink triangles now symbolize empowerment
and ore a show of visibility, Knecht said.
"It's not an act of radicalism," he said "It's a
public affirmation of who we are,"
A rally will take place tonight at B in Room lot)
Willamette. Speakers will dis< uss the history of
the pink triangle Thursday at H pm, a rally will
he at the same place People who wore the pins
will take them off and will "lie given their voices
back." knecht said.
The free pins will be available «t the University
Bookstore and the Dean of Students Offh o. Pink
Triangle Day is pari of Hate Free Week, sponsored
by the Standing Committee of Gay. I.esbian and
Bisexual Concern*.
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