Page 24 RAIN October 1978 Washington State is on the verge of passing a bottle bill. Residents of that state are urged to sign petitions and help gather signatures for the initiative. Contact Citizens for Returnable Beverage Containers, 1406 N.E. 50th Street, Seattle, WA 98105, 206/525-9453. NASCO (North American Student Cooperative Organization) is sponsoring the annual Co-Op Education and Training Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20, 21 and 22. The timing of this is important as the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Bill has just passed, creating a cooperatively owned bank that will loan money and give technical assistance to co-ops. The Institute workshops will cover the bank, co-op strategies for operations and management, etc. Contact: NASCO, Institute '78, Box 7293, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, about this conference and other information related to co-ops. Northwest Food and Land Policy is the focus of a Rural America Conference in Seattle November 12, 13, 14. Rural housing, and community development, health care, food and nutrition, and land, water and resources are the three tracks of focus. Contact Rural America, Inc., 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036, or Stephen Bossi, Seattle Coordinator, 206/243-4539, for registration. RAIN 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 97210 Nuclear Intervenors Training Conference, Washington, D.C., October 8-10, following the Critical Mass 1978 Conference. An intensive two-day working conference will set the legal framework and demonstrate the skills necessary for lawyers and citizen activists to be effective intervenors and public advocates on nuclear power issues. Two levels of workshops (in some cases) will facilitate dealing with different levels of experience. If you cannot attend this conference, you can order a training manual prepared for this conference that compiles the legal precedents, procedural guidelines, and strategic tools essential for effective intervention. Cost is $50 to energy/utility activists and citizen group representatives, $7 5 to private and government attorneys, $250 to industry reps. Contact NITC, 1025 Fifteenth St., N.W., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005. October 2-7, Quebec, Canada, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Seminar and Congress. Contact: Clement Boulander, 340 Willowdale, Suite 2, Montreal, Canada HJT 1G7, 514/342-9264. October 6-8, Washington, DC, Critical Mass '78, $15 individuals, $100 corporation representatives. Contact: Critical Mass '78, Box 1538, Washington, DC 20013, 202/546-4790. Forwarding and Return Postage Guaranteed Environmental Action Foundation is looking for a new editor for The Power Line, its monthly journal on utilities and energy. Applicants should have writing and editing experience as well as an interest in the utility reform movement. Involves contact with local citizens' groups. Salary $11,500; job begins mid-November. EAF operates as a collective. Send resume and clippings to: Deborah Schoch, Environmental Action Foundation, 724 Dupont Circle Building, Washington, DC 20036. News comes to us of a terrible automobile accident taking the life of Justas Bavarskis, news editor of High Country News, the environmental journal of the Great Plains and Rockies published in Wyoming. Seriously injured in the same accident were staff members Dan Whipple and Marjane Ambler. Ironically, High Country's staff had resisted taking group medical insurance in order to help keep the magazine afloat financially. Faced with at least $12,000 in medical bills, only part of which will be covered by auto insurance benefits, the High Country people are in desperate need of financial support. Now is the time for all of us to activate our informal support network and help these folks through the difficult times. Please send your $10 (or more) and moral support to: High Country News Box K Lander, Wyoming 82520 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR
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