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Portland O bserver, July 17, 1985, Page 3 ■anular groupa ihnxigfxxit the country <uxl two natxxial gnxipa M o i Interna tional and the Naixxial I ixigre» far Mat, Smith uud DADS o f Portland have approximately JSO people on its mailing list. The or gat valion cnwaes all racial lines and gender is not a ques- METROPOLITAN Dads Against Discrimination HOMES NEEDED NQW Katarina and Pete are coming to spend a high school year with an American family by Nathaniel Scott St. Johns Landfill: filling fast turning Muliixxnah County's dcusHXi to exclude the Wildwtxxl site from fu r ther consideration. The local Sierra Club is one o f the □tizens’ groups most involved in the garbage controversy. They want Metro to look at alternatives that ex tract something o f value from the garbage, for instance composting or ethanol conversion. by Robert Lothian Portland has a garbage problem. The St. Johns Landfill, where m il lions o f tons o f orange peels and tin cans have been dumped for genera tions, is filling up. The landfill is scheduled to close in July o f 1989, and the problem is, what is Portland going to do with 2,000 tons o f garbage produced each day? As environmentalists who advocate alternatives and traditionalists who want to continue burying and burning the smelly s tu ff line up on opposing sides, w e'll be hearing a lot about this issue. The option chosen to deal with the growing stream o f solid waste w ill in fluence the economy and air and water quality fo r future generations, say local environmentalists. They often wrangle with Metro, the regional agency in charge o f solid waste. Metro has opted fo r a new landfill and high tech garbage burners. In 1982, Oregon City voters, con cerned about air quality, turned down a proposal fo r a garbage burner in their community. Now Schiut/er Steel Products Co. has announced plans to build a $65 - $1«) million dollar garbage burner on a site owned by Schmtzer in the Rivergate area about one-half mile from the St. Johns Landfill. The proposed plant could handle about 1,000 tons a day. about half the metropolitan area’s cur rent production. Another alternative »xxikl eventually have to be found for the extra 1,000 tons. Metro has been proposing a new landfill for the Wildwood area o f North west Portland, hut that effort appears to bed losing in the face o f protests by residents and a legal battle waged by the local chapter o f the Siena Club. A Sierra Club lawyer » im i a court decision in June that prevented Metro triMii over “ We admit that finding an environ mentally acceptable solution to the solid waste problem is not gixng to be easy, but it would be nice if they at least trie d ," said local Sierra Club chair man Bob Smith. "S o far the Sierra Club has been dragging Metro kicking and screaming toward such a solution." Citizen expert Lyle Stanley offered some creative options during a recent club meeting. Stanley, who has a background in biochemistry, said that garbage burners are expensive, they pollute the air and they produce tons o f ash which pose another en vironmental hazard. In addition, aluminum, a valuable resource that takes tremendous energy to prixluce, is lost in burning, he said. A n alternative to wasteful burning that could make money would be to recycle the metal, glass and plastic, and make fuels like methanol and ethanol out o f the organic waste, said Stanley. Portland has the potential o f pro ducing 26 m illion gallons o f ethanol a year, with a value o f over SI a gallon, according to Stanley, who said that ethanol is being used to fuel cars in Brazil. Garbage separation, recycling and resource recovery technology is ex pensive, but only about half as expen sive as burning. Some cities are a l ready recycling garbage, Stanley said. "T here’ s a lot o f energy in this thing, and we have the potential o f making money from something that is now a lia b ility ," he said. MRS. Cs WIGS M an y w i "W e are not anti-women; we are pro-fathers," said V ictor Smith, pres ident o f DADS (Dads Against Dis crimination), a non-profit organiza tion, as he outlined the organization's fight fo r equal rights under (he 14th Amendment. D AD S ’ concept is " t o bring about a little more equity in domestic laws and to educate the public about fa therhood," Smith said. The philosophical position o f the organization is that fathers are treated different than mothers in domestic disputes; especially when the pro ceedings end in divorce. Smith outlined a number o f " in equities" which he said denies the father his rights to parenting. In most cases, he said, the mother is awarded custody o f the child or the children and fathers are given visita tion rights. "W e don’ t want to be considered visitors in our children's lives,” Smith said, "B o th parents, unless clearly judged unworthy, should have equal time in the parenting process." Smith emphasized that “ children” are the biggest losers and it appears that our system o f judication has not made proper allowances for dual parenting relationships D ADS are not only concerned with domestic matters; they advocate for the rights o f men and the prescr valion o f the American heritage: justice fo r all. Recently, DADS pointed out to Pacific Northwest Bell that its com munity service pages (the blue pages) had a listing for "w o m e n ’s services,” but no such listing for men. Herbert Amerson, consumer a f fairs manager with Pacific Northwest Bell, said a "m e n ’s services" listing will be included in the next directory. DADS questions the biasness o f "approximately $20” o f marriage li cense fees going towards "domestic violence programs" which are exclu sively fo r women, Smith said. DADS, in its newsletter, advocate that U.S. Senator Bob Packwood be txwi. Smith cundudcd that DADS is in need o f financial and volunteer snpp Anyone »ho » i d » to contact the gamzaixxi may write: DADS. P Box 8504, Portland. OR 97207 or 222-61«) Families like yours are needed now tor European students arriving in your .community in mid August These slu dents speak English, carry their own spending money and are covered by insurance Katarina To select your student, call trom Sweden Pete trom Germany L u rle n e S h a m e u d -D In , 281-3716 E d u c a tio n a l F o u n d a tio n for F o reig n S tu d y a non protit organization VICTOR S M IT H "given non-support from the fathers o f Oregon.” Smith said, "(Senator) Packwood is absolutely worthless to the men and fathers o f Oregon. I am coastantly looking for one thing (Senator) Pack- wood has done for a divorced man (in Oregon). I challenge your readers to furnish me with that inform ation,” he added. Another issue Smith raised was the Governor’s commission on women. " I t ’s funded in excess o f $81,«X) per year," he said, "M e n have no such program.” Smith said in a lot o f ways (he gen eral public is "taxed for sexist means." He said the powtaxi of DADS is that men, the same as women, suffer the trauma o f crises And that under the priXectuxi o f the law, each slxxikl re cuse adequate and equal care. He add ed, “ Women have a crisis hot line, men don’t." DADS raised the quesUtxi: "Should judges alixtg with iXhcr public servants, penixlicalls he required to subnut to drug testing to pnxevt the public?" " I ikxi't think it's any problem to ask our public servants to (submit) to drug tests," Smith said, adding, "that in cludes the mayor " DADS has resources (hot lines and tn- hxmaiHxi) in Portland, Beaverton, lugenc. Grants Pass and Mcdhxd, Smith said. 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