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FREE Yoga for the Community at your YMCA
Kundalini Yoga: 7:30 – 8:30am (with Ardas)
Revitalize, relax, stretch and strengthen in this class, designed to bal-
ance body, mind and soul.
Family Yoga: 9:00-9:45am (with Leah)
Enjoy the benefi ts of playing, as a family, and doing yoga! Parents &
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shows. For those who cannot attend the
home show, donations can be made through
www.medicalteams.org
On the national scene, the progressive
organization MoveOn has recommended
three charitable organizations in particular
that are in a position to provide quick help
for earthquake victims in Haiti, with the bulk
of donations going directly to relief efforts.
“With water and medical supplies in
short supply, and the Haitian government
paralyzed, international aid efforts in the
next few days will be critical to prevent
more human suffering,” reads a statement
to MoveOn members.
The three recommended charities are
Doctors Without Borders at http://wkly.
ws/6b and Oxfam America at http://wkly.
ws/6c and Yéle Haiti at http://wkly.ws/6d
All three are set up for online donations
using credit cards. Financial aid is the most
efficient way to provide assistance in disas-
ters. Last week, Oregon’s Attorney General
John Kroger warned that disasters such as
the Haiti earthquake stir action by fraudu-
lent fundraisers and requests from unscru-
pulous nonprofits that direct most of their
donations to their own salaries, advertising
and overhead. If in doubt about an organi-
zation, find out more about it at Charity
Navigator, www.charitynavigator.org
ACTIVIST
ALERT
• Sierra Club Many Rivers Group
will be hosting its last Tuesday of the month
beer social from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Tuesday,
Jan. 26 at the Tiki Room downstairs at
Eugene City Brewery, 844 Olive St. in
Eugene. All Sierra Club members and
friends are welcome to meet new officers
and discuss ideas about how to “Explore,
Enjoy and Protect the Environment.”
Contact Sally Nunn at 541-484-6707.
• A community meeting on helping
animals in disasters is planned from 7
to 8:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 28, at the
Michael Rogers Room, Lane County
Mental Health, 2411 Martin Luther King
Jr. Blvd., in Eugene. For the last six
months, Lane County staffers have worked
with community members to develop a
local plan that can be activated in the event
of an emergency, says Karen Gaffney,
assistant director of Lane County Health &
Human Services. She can be reached at
karen.gaffney@co.lane.or.us
• The deadline for written public com-
ments is Friday, Jan. 29, on proposed
changes to harvest plans for northwest and
southwest state-managed forests in
Oregon. The Oregon Department of
Forestry is holding public hearings from
5:30 to 9 pm Jan. 26 in Salem and Jan. 28
in Seaside. The Salem meeting will be at
the ODF headquarters, 2600 State St., in
the Tillamook Room. The Seaside meeting
will be at Seaside City Hall. Comments
can be emailed to jforeman@odf.state.or.
us or mailed to 2600 State St., Salem, OR
97310; or faxed to (503) 945-7376. Copies
of the plans and their changes are available
on the ODF website.
Lane Area Herbicide Spray Schedule
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company owns about 332,500 acres in Lane County; Rose-
burg owns 76,500 acres; Giustina owns 58,800 acres; Seneca Jones owns 28,200
acres; Swanson Group owns 17,700; and Pacific West owns 17,100 acres. All acreages
can potentially be sprayed with herbicides and other chemicals for several years at
a time in the growing cycle of tree farms. See timber company ownership in Lane
County on map at http://wkly.ws/4h
Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers: 342-8332, www.forestlanddwellers.org
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