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. 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