RAIN Forwarding alld Return Postage Guaranteed 2270 N.W. Irving Portland, OR 972Hi Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR Well, gosh, the first encouraging response on RAIN's well-received promotional mailing has started coming through the purple mailbox-in fact, some of you reading this issue for the first time are among our willing captives. In several weeks, we've already logged in 241 returns, 116 of which included new subscriptions, netting us over $3,000 as of April 5th and recovering most of our costs incurred in the process, with thc exception of wornout fingers and thumus. It's not yet clear if we will be successful according to the standard direct mail rule of thumb (one to two percent return), hut our hopes haven't been dashed. Even so, we continue to need your help in getting the good word out. This can be done simply in three ways: mention RAIN to one of your most trusted confidantes or paramours; ask your favorite bookstore to consider carrying RAIN, a professional journal with grassroots appeal; go to your nearest library and tell them about the volume of information that we accessthey "ion't be able to resist! We'll send a sample copy to any and all. Morc promotional updates to come-keep those chins up ... RAIN was so busy last month we forgot to give any explanauion for the mysterious new names in Qur staff box. Actually, Jeff Paine and Pauline Deppen are no mysteries but longtime RAIN friends. Jeff, an Oregonian from way back, first dropped by our office to explore work possibilities almost a year llgo. Now he's here part-time as one of RAIN's interns and using the rest of his time to do house carpentry and more. His is a good example for people looking to find some balance in their working/living situations. Jeff brings with him to RA IN a strong in terest in solar systems of various kinds, and you'll most likely be seeing some entries on this field by him in upcoming issues. Pauline and her architect spouse Dave have known and corresponded with RAIN for a long time. The Deppens moved to Portland from tbe Philadelphia area a year ago to work more consciously on being rooted in a place, and to reclaim some small, neglected piccc of it all with their personal vision of appropriate homesteading. Pauline has done a great deal of organizational work, including a stint at Colorado's WrightIngraham Institute, and will be using her various skills once weekly to help us stay on top of RAIN's entropy-prone infrastructure.... Meanwhile, back at the Recycling Switchboard, Nandie Szabo has taken on coordinator's status. So she's had to abandon our subscription pile for the greater glories of the solid waste stream. Nandie will doubtless continue to contribute to RAIN in the area of recycling, as well as her other passion, herbs, concoctions, potions and prodigious potations of peculiar propensities.... Thanks, Nandie! -SA
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