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Surplus food provides meals By Stephanie Sisson i"Vp(?.v' iWy Errwrak1 Five nights n week. « van from Foot) For I.ano County pic ks up about 1,000 pounds ol food from more than 20 Eugene sites The program, called Food Res cue Express, specializes in pro pared and perishable fcw>ds from restaurants and other food ser vices. The food collected pro vides meals on a regular basis for .15.000 people in Lane County "We’re doing two wonderful things We're stopping hunger, and we're ending waste,” said Ellen Knepper. assistant director for Food For Lane Counts "Hunger and waste are totally incompatible.” The program provides food for fi5 nonprofit agencies, all of which serve Lane County resi dents. The agencies include shel ters. soup kitchens, foster core programs, halfway houses and services that provide emergency food boxos. "The Food Rescue program is a response to a growing need and a recognition of the potential for waste in the prepared foods industry," Knepper said. "What we recover is surplus food — food that has been cooked, but not served.” After the food is collected, it is transported to Kelly/da Vinci Middle School. Volunteers at the school package the food into fam ily-size units for three to four peo ple. The food is then taken to the Food For Lane County ware house, frozen, and then distrib uted. Knepper said eight volunteers are needed for the collecting and packaging process. Food is col lected Tuesday through Saturday, and is packaged from 7 to 11 p.m. “We really put the word par m ANOY TUURW ** EmtnlW Dan Norton arrives to pick up tha Univarsity ’s excess food that Food For Lana County will freeze and help distribute. ty back into work party." Knep per said. "Wo have a good time. There is such a sense of accom plishment to start out at ground zero, and average 1,000 pounds a night. ... You work hard for four hours, and you can really see what you've done." Since its creation 10 months ago. Food Rescue Express has col lected 207,240 pounds of food. "Wo anticipated the first year would be a start-up year, and we'd make 100.000 pounds." Knepper said. "Well, as you can see, in less than a year we're over 200.000 pounds, and prolmhly in the coming year we have the potential to go up to 300,000." Four of the collection sites are part of the University: Carson Hall, Hamilton Hall, University Inn and the Casanova Center Knepper said the vegetarian food collected from the Univer sity sites fills a sp»x ial need. "Many clients look for vege tarian food and have a difficult time finding it." she said. "It's opened up whole new areas of service." Collecting food from restau rants and redistributing is not only legal, but is encouraged. Knepper said a law passed in 1989 called the Good Samaritan Act alleviates the food donor specifically from liability as long as the donation was made in good faith. To volunteer or to find out more alxmt Food For Lane Coun ty. call 249-2822 Exhibit documents domestic violence By Meg Dedolph Oregon Deify [ met aid More than 500 battered women and children fled their homes in Lane County last year, accord ing to statistics from Womenspace. This month, some are getting a chance to tell their stories through drawings and collages displayed at the Lane County Courthouse. The exhibit is part of the We Will He Safe” campaign observing Domestic Violence Awureness Month, which runs through October Shaped like a large house, the exhibit display* not only art from children and mothers, but pho tographs of the children and information on domestic violence The ( hildren's drawings and paintings, done in Womenspace's children's program, are a< cornpa nied by explanations such as the one beneath a painting of a house. "The seven-year-old paints a heart havering over the roof," the accompanying card reads "She wishes for a home where the love is inside the Turn to ART, Page 12 eut 22 $4 Th« Soubotfons VSJW C:cL 23 $6 Tho Daddtes Springtooth Get 24 $3 9 c ii.il THE!/ SCREW FRIDAY e OCT. 22 E.M.U. EAST LAWN KWYA prrTKti «r* *om 3 3D * 'JD Ocl 22 r jn* Jr*' 9* Tom m* Cm "tw*C RIDE SHARE Traveling soon? Need a ride? Offering a ride? Rule Share brings together people needing and offering rules any where m Oregon or throughout tl»o eountrs (•'or more information call 345-7600. Cash For Textbooks Mon.-Sat. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Block From Campus 345-1651 Quit dreaming... START SCREAMING!!! SKYDIVE! ]) Tandem Jump-$135.00 1 st Static Line Jump - $75.00 Eugene Skydivers Inc. USPA Drop Zone Urban Moore 345-8007 USPA Inst. • Tandem Inst. • Pro Rating UiuvitmIv Hum!tv P?v**,nts A SI 11 JNI» *4 A‘4 >N |*«H H.M. 1UTN akina nit aiki Vfcptxi 10. 1). 11 11. itm JIS&S®* 'wecln®s^aVBest&jns contest »£Ssa— g