Page 2 RAIN RAIN is supported by your subscriptions and a grant from the N.W. Area Foundation, administered through the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. For subscription prices, see subscription blank on next-to-last page. This blank can also be used to send us change of address messages. RA/N's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone 503227-5110. RAIN I Full Circle Staff Nancy Lee Tom Bender Lane de Moll Lee Johnson Steve Johnson Anne McLaughlin Mary Wells Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Ancil Nance Graphics on pages 4, 7, 11 & 16 by Meg de Moll The deadline for material is approximately the 28th of each month. We are selling RAIN through retail outlets. If you have some suggestions, please send them along. Maybe you could distribute in your area? WHAT ABOUT BACK ISSUES? For you who are wondering what past issues exist and how to get them, RA/N's first volume consisted of Issues 1-9, plus a four-page flyer. We are out of issues 1-6, except for a couple of precious copies. We use these copies as masters when someone wants an excerpt badly enough to pay 25¢/page for us to copy and mail it. Issues 7, 8 and 9 are available at 75¢ apiece. The yellow flyer is just about gone. (It was a reminder to subscribe and noted our change of address to Irving Street from PSU. It didn't really include any of RA/N's usual meaty stuff.) Last year's RA/Ns between February and June were wrapped around some essay-suggestionhow-to sheets called Roughdrafts. These were 4-6 pages, each on a particular topic. Here are what they were about and what they would cost you (again at 25¢/page) if you'd like some. No. 1, Brainstorming ($1) No. 2, Funding ($1.25) No. 3, Centers ($1.25) No. 4, Networking ($1) No. 5, Creative Instability ($1.50) We're now into Volume II, consisting of No. 1 in October, 2 in November, and so on. They're also available at 75 ¢ each. THE SECOND It's time to give you a financial report, even past time maybe. I remember promising you one last fall. Seems to me that the dollars and cents part should fit into a picture of RA/N's people-parts. There are six of us who work daily in our office/ home here on Irving Street, and one who's here during part of the month. Lane, Tom, Lee and Steve write many of RAIN's articles and entries. (By the way, Lane is a woman and Lee a man-some readers have wondered and/or guessed wrong). They also ~onduct solar workshops and other projects, clean house and keep on top of more information than will ever fit into this magazine. Nancy is setting up RAIN's local distribution and working on several other things, including helping Portland's food co-ops fit into a NW food network. She wears a bright green slicker. Mary Wells is our part-timer, doing our layout one week a month. She's responsible for our striking good looks. In our June 197 5 issue she wrote a valuable article on layout for small publications. It seems to have inspired a remodeling spurt among those we exchange with. I take care of RAIN's mailing list and spend hours writing down numbers and amounts of money in a large green ledger and other places, all while listening to the radio. So there are seven of us to be supported in some way, plus we have to pay the printer and rent and etcetera. Lane, Tom and Nancy don't show up in the budget you see here. Lane and Tom get income from doing outside consulting on energyrelated things. Nancy is paid through CETA, a federal employment program, and will be till the end of June. Mary is called "layout" on the budget. She also has another job doing production for Willamette Week, a Portland newspaper. Steve, Lee and I each now receive $400/month from RAIN itself. Here's a listing of average monthly expenses for the months in which we print a regular RAIN. During two summer months the expenses are reduced by approximately the $750 publishing expenses. Personnel: Salaries and fringes $1239 Publishing: Printing $400 Postage 50 Typesetting 170 Layout 100 Miscellaneous 30 TOTAL 750 Office: Rent $150 Utilities 80 Repair & Maintenance 60 Phone 90 Postage 140 Printing & Xeroxing 30 Miscellaneous Supplies 50 TOTAL Travel & Consultants: TOTAL €GRICULTURE • FOO~ The Commercial Fish Farmer & Aquaculture News, $8/yr., bi-monthly, from: The Commercial Fish Farmer P.O. Box 2451 Little Rock, AR 72203 501-376-1921 A consolidation of The Catfish Farmer, Fish Farming Industries and The American Fish Farmer & World Aquaculture News, this publication would be invaluable to those working on integrated agriculture-aquaculture in solar and wind-powered greenhouses (see Jim 620 20 $2609 DeKorne's book, The Survival Greenhouse, RAIN, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 8, and Bill Vanda's Solar Sustenance Project, RAIN, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 7). Dec. '75 issue contains an aquaculture industry 1976 buyers' guide, a complete directory of production, processing and marketing equipment, supplies and services. CFF also is making great efforts to solicit readers' comments on what they would like to see covered ... reader participation seems very important in this rapidly changing field. Acquisition and Culture of Research Fish: Rainbow Trout, Fathead Minnows, Channel Catfish and Bluegills, by Brauhn and Schoettger, EPA-660/3-7 5-011, May
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