J anuary 18, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
P age B ö
Governor Speaks On Urban
Vs. RuraB Split
Many o f O regon's agricultural
organizations supported his oppo
nent in the November election But
John Kitzhaber, O regon’s new gov
ernor, is convinced he will change a
lot o f minds w ithin the industry be
fore his four-year term is over
I think in four years you will
find a significantly different attitude
in the agricultural community about
me and about my administration,”
says the Roseburg Democrat. “ 1 am
an environmentalist, but the fact o f
the matter is that I represented a rural
constituency for 14 years, timber and
agriculture Actually, at one time 1
received the endorsement ofthe Dou
glas County Farm Bureau.”
K itzhaber strongly believes that
a middle ground exists between pro
tecting the environment and sustain
ing O reg o n ’s m ulti-billion dollar
agriculture industry.
“ We have somehow painted this
as a black or w hite issue,” he says. “ It
is not. It’s a debate over how you
balance shared values. If it becomes
a confrontational debate, the agricul
tural community will lose just on the
basis o f numbers and what is happen
ing demographically in this state. We
can’t allow that to happen. We have
to come to the table and work these
things out."
The new governor talks more
like an architect than a politician
when discussing the needs o f the
industry.
"One o f the things the agricul
tural community needs to do is build
bridges between themselves and ur
ban constituencies,” he says. “The
fact o f the matter is 50,000 people
are coming into Oregon each year.
Most o f them are moving into urban
settings. The agricultural communi
ty is becoming a shrinking constitu
ency in a sea o f people who don’t
necessarily understand its impor
tance. The agricultural community
cannot allow itself to become isolat
ed. One o f the things 1 can and will
bring to that community is the ability
to be an advocate for their interests to
urbanites, letting them understand
the importance o f maintaining agri
culture.”
Kitzhaber agrees that agricul
ture needs to have its fair share of
land and water resources in order to
survive in Oregon. Ensuring access
to those requirements is a challenge
given the competing needs o f an in-
creasing population, demands for
wildlife protection and the desire for
more recreational opportunities.
“We need to exercise and in
some ways strengthen elements o f
our land-use planning program to
make sure that we preserve the land
base for agriculture,” says Kitzhaber.
” 1 supported Right-to-Farm legisla
tion in the past but that is not enough.
We basically have to use the land use
planning tools that we have to make
sure agriculture has its base "
The new g o v e rn o r uses the
term “stra te g ic th in k in g ” when
ta lk in g about e n su rin g access to
land for a g ric u ltu re . K itzh ab er
a rg u es that re sid e n ts o f th e P o rt
land m etro p o lita n area need to
be w illin g to su p p o rt investm ents
in rural in fra stru c tu re , te le c o m
m u n ic a tio n s, surface tra n sp o rta
tion system s and airp o rts so that
som e o f the p o p u latio n grow th
and d ev elo p m en t m oves out into
a p p ro p ria te ru ra l se ttin g s. He
says the se c o n d ary lands q u e s
tio n needs to be add ressed to
m ake sure th at grow th o ccurs not
on prim e farm land as it is in the
R ogue V alley o f southern O re
gon, but in lo catio n s w ere the
land is o f m ore m arginal value.
Family Care
Takes Aim
At Violence
Rhea
Graham
ences who has tau g h t at the u n i
v ersity since 1969. "R h ea was
p re p a re d for a range o f study and
research. She is also very p e r
so n ab le and I w ould im agine th at
she w ill do quite w ell in her new
p o sitio n .”
A native o f Terre Haute, Ind.,
Graham has two children.
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Wishes You A Happy New Year
As We Begin
Our 25th Anniversary
Of Publication.
The Children’s Services Divi
sion has just released the agency ’s
adoption trends for the year 1994.
CSD looks for adoptive homes for
special needs children: those with
physical or mental disabilities; some
were bom drug-affected; brothers and
sisters who need to be placed togeth
er; minorities; children over eight
years old.
“ I am pleased to see that we
found homes for 470 special needs
children in 1994,” said Jan Reed,
CSD Interim Adoptions Manager.
“At any given time about 200 kids
are waiting for adoptive families and
the majority o f the children have
been abused or neglected.”
Key points in CSD adoptions in
1994:
A doption placem ents totaled
470, down slightly from 481 in 1993.
More younger children are be
ing adoptively placed; 31% are chil
dren under three years old.
Foster parents became adoptive
parents for 55% o f children placed.
Nearly 95% o f CSD adoption
placements continued without dis
ruptions compared to other states
where disruption rates can be as high
as 30%.
67% o f the children placed are
white.
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Rhea L. Graham, who will serve
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Graham, recently sworn in by
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She also is the first African
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