Food for Lane County settles into new location
■ A new warehouse expands the
capabilities of Oregon's second
largest food bank, here in Eugene
By Sara Lieberth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Less than a week after Oregon State Uni
versity released “A Portrait of Poverty in Ore
gon,” which highlighted hunger and pover
ty as blossoming statewide problems, the
state’s second-largest regional food bank held
an open house for its new, expanded facility
in Eugene — helping to prove the point.
Food for Lane County, which annually
distributes over 3 million pounds of food to
nearly 200,000 people, had outgrown its
previous location in the Whiteaker district
and is now settled in a gigantic warehouse
at 770 Bailey Hill Rd.
Saturday’s dedication ceremony marked
the end of FFLC’s two-year building finance
campaign, No Room For Hunger, which
successfully collected donations from both
individuals and local organizations.
“This is a wonderful, giving communi
ty,” FFLC Founder and Executive Director
Caroline Frengle said. “Things aren’t as
they should be, but now we have the facili
ty and commitment from the community to
do something really big about it.”
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Eug.) addressed
the crowd of several hundred and congrat
ulated the broad community effort that
helped make the new building possible.
“I don’t believe the solutions are going to
come down to us from Washington, or
Salem or even city hall,” he said. “The peo
ple at the grassroots will do more than all
the grand speeches and all the great
promises that come from politicians.”
Citing an “unfair distribution of re
sources,” DeFazio detailed a number of sta
tistics, including the fact that 20 percent of
children in the United States live in pover
ty and that 25 percent go hungry. He noted
that last year alone Lane County received
161,000 requests for emergency food assis
tance, and some 500,000 meals were served
to school-aged children.
OSU’s Extension Service report indicat
ed that the need for food and emergency as
sistance in Oregon is steadily increasing in
recent years,
“It’s at least partially because there’s
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Mae and Neil Quigly speak with Henry Stackhouse (left) during the open house for Food for Lane County.
been so much pressure on public agencies
to get people off welfare and because of cut
backs in food stamps for illegal aliens and
single people,” said Jerry Tippens, chair of
the Oregon Food Bank’s board of directors.
Food for Lane County is a member of the
larger statewide food bank network and
also works with 65 local social service
agencies running food-box distribution
sites, soup kitchens, shelters, foster-care
programs and halfway houses.
To find out about volunteer opportuni
ties that address hunger in the county, call
343-2822.
Oregon Alumni Association gives $95,000 for improvements
■ The association gives
the funds to improve
computers in Agate Hall
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon Alumni Association
passed tWo motions at its winter
Board of Directors meeting Satur
day in the mock courtroom of the
William W. Knight Law Center.
The first motion was to approve
a draft version of the Alumni As
sociation’s sponsorship philoso
phy. The philosophy states that
sponsorship dollars will not com
promise program objectives. It
also mandates'that language used
in advertising or promoting spon
sored events will be preapproved
by the Alumni Association.
With the second motion the
Alumni Association allocated
$95,000 for improving its facilities
in Agate Hall. Half of the money
will go to buying new computer
equipment.
Duncan McDonald, vice presi
dent for public affairs and devel
opment, presented a strategic plan
that outlines the association's
goals and objectives for the years
2000-2004.
“This is a time for reflection, but
it is also a time to look ahead,” Mc
Donald said.
McDonald addressed faculty
compensation issues discussed in
The Oregonian’s three-part series
titled “Majoring in Mediocrity,”
which has offended some admin
istrators.
The University is mediocre in
funding, not performance, he said.
After the association president
and executive director gave re
ports, each of the committee
chairs gave reports.
The Advocacy Committee will
be launching efforts to oppose Bill
Sizemore’s anticipated initiative.
“Friends don’t let friends sign
destructive initiatives,” said Mary
Jubitz, committee chair.
During the Budget and Finance
Committee report the board toast
ed, with empty commemorative
Sun Bowl champagne glasses, to a
recent victory in a lawsuit against
the Internal Revenue Service.
Ernie Kent, University alumnus
and men’s basketball coach, made
a visit before committee reports
were completed. Kent spoke of his
coaching philosophy and of team
building and bonding activities
the team does before and during
the season.
One board member, who is a
psychologist, praised Kent’s holis
tic approach to coaching and his
role as a parent and a teacher, say
ing it is what our youth need today.
“Our success this year has to do
with everything we do behind the
scenes,” Kent said.
The board gave Kent a standing
ovation and then continued with
the committee reports.
University Senate President Pe
ter Gilkey said in his report, “the
Alumni Association is one of the
more pleasant things that has hap
pened to me this year,” in refer
ence to recent challenges the sen
ate has faced in increasing faculty
compensation.
Though the faculty compensa
tion issue has been challenging,
Gilkey remains positive. “If it
sounds like I’m being optimistic
and upbeat about the University,
it’s because I am,” he said.
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