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Page 2...The Portland Observer...November 20,1991
Oregon Educators and Utilities Team-Up To
Make Oregon
** Students ‘Energy Smart’
In an unprecedented cooperative
effort, Portland General Electric (PGE),
Northwest Natural Gas (NNG) and the
state department of energy and educa
tion kicked off Energy Smarts, a class
room curriculum for grades K through
12. The program will encourage stu
dents and their parents to learn how to
use energy more efficiently at home.
Energy Smarts is the second phase
of the previously announced energy
Efficiency in Oregon Schools (EEOS)
program. The first phase of the pro
gram deals with retrofitting school
facilities with energy efficient equip
ment.
Originally developed by Portland
General Electric and the state, EEOS
has been enhanced by the addition of
Northwest Natural Gas as a full partner
on the project. Through this partner
ship, the program may now be initiated
statewide.
Pacific Power is also contributing
to the effort by bringing Energy Smarts
to schools in its northeast Portland serv
ice territory. Pacific Power plans a
December kick-off in the Madison school
cluster.
Those participating in the announce
ment at Lincoln High School included:
Norma Paulus, State superintendent of
public instruction; Kay Stepp, presi
dent of PGE; Bruce Sampson, senior
vice president of public affiars and
general counsel. Northwest Natural Gas;
and Tom Imeson, vice president of
government and public affairs, Pacific
Power,
“ We developed this program not
only because we want to help Oregon
schools get the most out of their limited
funds,’’ said Stepp, “ but also because
we truly committed to environmental
responsibility. Energy efficiency is the
resource with the least economic and
environmental cost. We must begin
today to build energy awareness in
tomorrow ’ s adults and to draw a strong
relationship between energy and the
environment.
Different Energy Smart programs
have been developed for each grade.
The eighth and ninth grade curriculum
puts the students in three separate roles-
investigator, computer technician and
home energy expert. In the investiga
tor role, the student works through a
study guide in which he or she reads
about energy efficiency and the envi
ronment and then does an energy audit
in his or her home. The audit includes
questions on home heating and cool
ing, water use, kitchen appliances,
lighting and home electronics.
In the role of computer techni
cian, the student takes the information
from his or her audit and enters it into
a computer, following specific for
matting instructions. The participat
ing utility then transfers that informa
tion to a computer at the utility and,
using historic energy billing data, makes
recommendations and dollar saving
estimates for each child’s home.
Armed with the utility report, the
student becomes a home energy ex
pert and shows his or her parents what
needs to be done and how m uch money
can be saved. The report will include
special utility programs, a free energy
efficient shower head and recommen
dations on everything from energy
efficient lighting to recycling. Stu
dents are encouraged to compete for
who can save the most power in their
home.
The eighth and ninth grade En
ergy Smarts program, called “ In
Concert with the Environment,” was
developed by EcoGroup of Tempe,
Arizona and was first tested in three
Phoenix-area high schools by Arizona
Public Service, that area’s largest util
ity. Arizona Public Service has now
extended the program statewide.
Portland General Electric, North
west Natural Gas and Pacific Power, in
association with Oregon Schools, are
developing the Energy Smarts curricu
lum for grades K through seven. The
program consists of 32 different mod
ules with six student activities and in
formation on a specific energy efficient
project. For example, in The Battle of
the Bulbs, students learn that incandes
cent bulbs give off 90 percent of their
energy as heat instead of light.
They are asked to count the bulbs in
their home and note the different types.
Other module topics include: Cur
tain Caper, The Lawn Ranger, W att’s It
All About?, and Let’s Grow Green. The
K through seven program begins in the
first quarter of 1992.
Grades ten through 12 are offered a
grant program in which students and
teachers are encouraged to develop their
own programs on energy efficiency.
Grants of up to $500 are offered.
The EEOS program, including the
Energy Smarts component, is being test
marketed in eleven Oregon schools this
fall. If the pilot is successful, it will then
be extended to the rest of the state.
The first phase of the EEOS pro
gram, announced earlier, concentrates
of facilities and can save schools 15 to
30 percent on energy bills through en
ergy audits, maintenance training and
installations of new energy-efficient
equipment such as timers to automati
cally start heating systems, high effi
ciency lighting and new energy effi
ciency equipment regardless of the energy
source. Over the next five years, these
measures could mean a savings of $15
million to $20 million, in addition to
delaying the need to construct new power
and plants, keep energy costs down and
protect the environment.
Oregon Liquor Control Commission Proposes Restrictions
To the Editor:
My name is Pil Jun Chung. I bought
the Alberta Street Market located on
9th and Alberta in 1986 and another
market on 14th and Prescott in 1989. I
have 7-10 employees in my stores. My
concern is with the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission’s proposal to re
strict the store’s liquor license.
I have voluntarily pulled all wines
out of the stores and have stopped sell
ing fortified alcohol as of October 29,
1991. During my six years at the loca
tion on 9th and Alberta I have never
violated any City or government regu
lations. i have never had any warning
letters, nor citations. The OLCC feels
that restricting my license and other
stores around the area will reduce the
problems in the neighborhood. I would
agree if they would justify it by doing
the same to all the stores that they say
are in the impact area ( about 22 stores),
instead of individual stores.
If I should be punished I think it
should be for a violation involving my
stores. I don’t think that I am being
treated fairly by being compared to the
other stores in the neighborhood, and
because of the neighborhood itself. I
feel as if I an being harassed because of
the high incidents involving gang ac
tivities in the neighborhood. I do my
best to prevent any drinking around the
store’s vacinity, and my employees and
I monitor whom we sell acoholic bev
erages to.
I employ people living in the
community. I try to reciprocate the
neighborhood, and I make several con
tributions to the community. I have
written St. Andrews Catholic Chulch
regarding their views about Alberta
Street Market and the kind of impact
they think we make on the neighbor
hood, and I have the support of the
King Neighborhood Association and
Stay Clean.
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May I take this opportunity to thank
my readers for their strong and favor
able response to last week’s article.
Though I should have known, it was
interesting to learn how many others
have experienced the same unpleasan
tries. As 1 said in my front page article,
“ vigilance” is what it is all about.
Also, thank you teachers for requests
for my presentations during the coming
year.
Back on the ranch, we find the
education scene about where we left it.
There are some things I don’t like being
right about and certainly one of them is
the lack of progress of the president’s
“ Education 2000” program announced
last spring. My less-than-lavorable
assessment seems to have been right on
target as the reports come in from edu
cation circles around the country. The
Education Association says it quite well:
“ While there is little that is not
admirable about the six National Edu
cation Goals adopted by George Bush
and the nation’s governors, the Bush
Administration’s ‘America 2000: An
Education Strategy’ plan has been called
a scam (Gordon K. Davies, ‘ ‘The Presi
dent’s Bold Educational Reform” Is a
Scam, "T he Chronicle of Higher Edu
cation, May 15, 1991) and a crusade”
(George R. Kaplan, “ Watch Out for
America 2000: Il Really Is a Crudade,
“ Education Week, Sept. 2,1991).
As Kaplan observes, ‘ For a conser
vative administration in panting need
of a domestic agenda, America 2000
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tion, Lamar Alexander, have proposed a
reform package that simply changes the
subject. Rather than deal with how and
why children so not learn, they propose
two initiatives that merely confuse the
issue: testing and choice.’
Have Oregon leaders fallen onto
the rhetoric bandwagon? One wonders
when State superintendent Norma Paulus
remarks that she is not happy “ to be
leading a parade that is marching back
wards.” One wonders about legislative
leaderss who so willingly passed such
an estensive education reform package
as The Oregon Educational Act for the
21st Century in the near-absence of
research, costing, or input from the public.
One also wonders whether our state
leaders, like the Bush Administration,
arc simply trying to change the subject.
In their zeal to implement the new
reform act, state department staff, when
asked where the funding will come from
to implement the act, have simply stated
that ‘the act will not fail because of lack
of funding, rather because of people’s
unwillingness to change.’ ”
The reader can well understand If I
opt for a continued close support of the
teacher .student and parent-rathcr than
lose time engaging a confused bureauc
racy in cambat. All three have become
increasingly aware of the nature of the
problem, and of THEIR OWN POWER
TO IMPACT THE PROCESS-from
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‘We’ve Come A Long Way But We Still Have
A Long Way To G o’
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Wlje ^ o rtla n b (Dhserrte
offers exciting prospects; a shot at
preempting a powerful Democratic Party
issue 18 months before the 1992 na
tional elections...’ ”
Like I always say, “ you read it
here first,” but I would much rather be
right about horse races. Some were not
pleased with my cogent remarks last
spring but, now, some of my evalu
ations arc being quoted verbatim. It
was in the July 25, 1990 edition of this
newspaper that 1 presented a two-page
layout reflecting the critical state of the
education process in Oregon. It in
cluded a recount of my experience before
an education committee of the Oregon
State Legislature. My testimany was at
the request of state senator Vera Katz,
a leading proponent for education re
form in the state of Oregon.
This appearance before the
“ Teacher Standards” body was right
in line with my long recognition that
the CLASSROOM TEACHER is the
key and essential component of the
education process. On the page facing
my report, I presented a wealth of
material on minority contributions to
the culture and technology of the coun
try - and how the classroom teacher
could be supported in an integration of
this material into the curriculum or
lesson plan. But is Oregon’s “ Educa
tion Plan” faing any better than the na
tional? Again, I quote from the No
vember Oregon Education Journal.
“ Davies argues that ‘The Presi
dent and his new Secretary of Educa
Sincerely,
Pil Jun Chung
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