Page 2 RAIN July 1976 For subscription prices,·see subscription blank on next-to-last page. This blank can also be'used to send us change of address messages. .RAIN's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone 503227-5110. RAIN Staff Anne McLaughlin Lane deMoll Mary Wells Steve Johnson Lee Johnson Rhoda Epstein Tom Bender Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Stephen Buetow •• CORRECTIONS Cold Spring c/o Hank Patton Sacajawea Elementary School 4800 N.E. 74th Portland, OR 97213 Mom's Garage 520 N.E. Russett Portland, OR 97211 Oregon Dept. of Energy: It is Julie (not Linda) Fink who works at the Oregon Dept. of Energy. Special thanks to Laughingbird for her help on the June issue. Larry Geno, author of Energy, Agriculture and the Environment, a report prepared for Environment Canada, has moved: Larry Geno R.R. 1 Morrisburg, Ontario KOC lX0 Canada - North Country Star is $2. 50 for 10 monthly issues, not $10.00 as quoted in June RAIN. In the article on Cold Springs (page 21, RAIN No. 7/8, May 1976) The Big Eric Treeskinner, a heavy duty drawknife, was mistakenly said to weigh 10 lbs.! The Big Eric, in reality, has a 20" blade, weighs only 4-1/2 lbs. An outstanding tool,_ 20 bucks postpaid, Cold Spring, ijox 186, Underwood, WA 98651. RAIN DROPS A repeat of what we said last month: We raise_d our subscription prices in May. RAIN is now $10/year. We have a "living lightly" rate of $5/year, and I guess we'd define "living lightly" as having an income low enough that $10/ year isn't affordable." Anyone who's sent $5 after May 1 without specifying "living lightly" will have a five-issue subscription. If this box Dis checked, it means you sent $5 without saying, and you'll have a five-issue sub unless you write us otherwise. As of today, June 2, we have 1220 subscribers. In the past three months, we've gotten about 3-1/2 subscribers per day. And in May, when our rates went up, we had about the same rate (3.4/day to be exact), getting $766 for 102 subscriptions. Among these 102 was Deborah Robboy, who sent $50 to become our First (and only, so far) Charter Subscriber. She said she's hoping she'll start a trend. We hope so too. By the way, that $766 subscription income during May covers our $730/ issue printing and production costs. We also got about $350 in income from other publications, billing fees, store sales, etc. This goes toward covering our $5 3 5 average monthly office expenses. Our salaries amount to about $800/month (Steve and I), and are now being covered out of the savings we have from a foundation grant. We may be getting a little more, but are counting on subscriptions and other sales to be the main part of our financial base, rather than grants. Subscribe and encourage others.. The last issue was supposed to be (eGRICULTURE•FOO~ Earthwork 1499 Potrero Ave. San Francisco, CA 94110 Got a nice packet recently from our old friend Eleanor Mccallie, who's now part of Earthwork, an urban center for the study of land and food. They've inherited the library and files of the now-defunct Center for Rural Studies. Here are the conten.ts of the packet, all of which look to be real good (no prices listed, so you'll have to enquire): Turnover-Newsletter of the People's Food System, 3030 20th St., San Francisco, CA 94110. Fat with articles on food prices, goats, yogurt and more. San Francisco Food Directory, Northern California Food Network, 944 Market St., 4th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94102. Includes emergency meals, comsent as a sample copy to people on the mailing lists of People and Energy and The Elements, but at the last minute we decided that its NW regional focus (in honor of Habitat Forum in Vancouver, B.C.) made it too localized to be a representative issue of RAIN. It did go to some of Co-Evolution Quarterly's readers, those not so far away from here. Now this issue (No. 10) will be the sample for the other magazines' readers. We hope that you who haven't seen RAIN before will be interested in subscribing. And if any RAIN subscribers don't want to be included when we trade mailing lists, please let us know on your subscription blanks. We trade only with publications we value and use ourselves, and decide each request with careful consideration. This is RAIN's last issue of Volume II (each Volume will be having 10 issues, we expect). We're going to take a twomonth "holiday" from magazine publishing. And before you start to imagine us lying on a rainy Oregon beach, read the "Rush" section of this issue. During this two months, about 500 of you will receive RAIN renewal notices. Probably all of our subscribers will get something special in their mail sometime. Wf can't imagine keeping quiet for that · long. The next issue of RAIN will be along around the first of October, maybe a little sooner. If you'd like back issues, you can use the blank inside the back cover to order any we still have. They're $1 each. If you're missing any issues because you moved without telling us ahead of time, the same procedure applies. (AM) munity gardens, food stamps, nutrition info, senior citizens programs, co-ops, groups, publications and speakers bureau. Ecology for City Kids, 15 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94111, $2.50. A book for teachers to lead the way to sharpening city senses, treasure hunts and food surveys and wildlife in parks and parking lots. Also a list of land reform papers available from Earthwork themselves. Apple Cider Press, 10 and 15 gal. per hour capacity, for prices & details write: • MacKays Wood Products P.O. Box 1023, Dept. 06 Bellingham, WA 98225 206/734-4291 Continued on page14
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