WAR DEAD
formance of the Oregon Health Plan in Lane
County, will be the speaker.
More meetings are planned March 26 and
April 30 at the same time and place. Those
agendas will include the insurance exchange
concept, and delivery system reform.
The Oregon Health Fund Board itself will
be sponsoring a series of public presentations
this spring and summer. The board is ex-
pected to wrap up its recommendations by
Oct. 1 and submit them to the 2009
Legislature.
10 FEBRUARY 21, 2008 EUGENE WEEKLY
GATHERING
ON CULTURE
CHANGE
The Whiteaker Community Council
(WCC) and the Eugene Permaculture Guild
are sponsoring a free community gathering at
7 pm Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Harris Hall, 8th
and Oak, to talk about global trends in cli-
mate change, economics, resources, interna-
tional relations and the environment.
These trends are “certain to increasingly
affect the way we work and
live in important and unpre-
dictable ways,” says WCC
Board member Marcella
Monroe. “What can indi-
viduals, families and neigh-
borhoods do to adapt for a
very uncertain future?”
The presentations and
discussions will look at
local examples of people
making eco-logical changes
in their lives and properties:
turning lawns into gardens,
reclaiming
automobile
spaces, looking closer to
home to meet their needs,
and building community,
she says.
For more information,
visit www.suburbanperma-
culture.org or call 686-6761.
KERWOOD GETS
VOLVO GRANT
Lorraine Kerwood was picked this week
as one of three people nationwide to receive
$100,000 for her work to improve the envi-
ronment (see EW story 12/3/07). The Volvo
For Life Award goes to Kerwood for her ex-
emplary work through NextStep Recycling, a
Eugene non-profit that supports both the en-
vironment and a broad spectrum of under-
served communities worldwide.
NextStep Recycling has helped keep
about 3,000 tons of electronic and other
equipment from going into landfills, while
distributing more than 13,500 computers to
disadvantaged people, families, communities
and organizations worldwide.
She will be flown by Volvo to New York
City March 19 to be honored at the Volvo for
Life Awards ceremony. She intends to donate
the award to NextStep to help “open some
significant new doors, and expand our work
in current and new areas.”
Kerwood was a “Happening Person” in
EW’s Sept. 8, 2005 issue.
Since the U.S. invasion of
Iraq began on
March 20, 2003
(last week’s numbers in parentheses):
• 3,963 U.S. troops killed*
(3,960)
• 28,870 U.S. troops injured*
(28,870)
• 135 U.S. military suicides*
(135)
• 307 coalition troops killed**
(307)
• 933 contractors killed
(accurate updates NA)
• 88,784 to one million Iraqi
civilians killed*** (88,479)
• $495.5 billion cost of war
($483.5 billion)
• $139.9 million cost to
Eugene taxpayers
($140.91 million)
* through Jan. 21, 2008; source: icasualties.org; some
figures only updated monthly
** estimate; source: icasualties.org
*** highest estimate; source: iraqbodycount.org; based
on confirmed media reports; other groups calculate
civilian deaths as high as 655,000 to one million
Lane Area Herbicide Spray Schedule
• Near Ma rc ol a E le m en t ar y Sc h oo l:
Weyerhaeuser (741-5211) will backpack spray
12 acres with 2,4-D LV6, atrazine L/WSP,
Velpar DF, Oust XP/SFM, Transline, Clean
Slate, and Accord herbicides starting March 1
(#55128). Call Tim Meehan, Oregon
Department of Forestry stewardship forester,
at 726-3588. Express concerns for children’s
health to Bonnie Covell at Weyerhaeuser.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers:
342-342-8332, www.forestlanddwellers.org
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