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AGENDA is interested in receiving items from you for etcétera. Press clippings, press releases, summaries of local events and any other ideas or suggestions are welcome. Just mail them to: Etcétera Editor, AGENDA, 220 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Mi 48104. Speak to Your Senator! State Senator Alma Wheeler Smith wants to hear what's on your mind. On Mondays of each month, between 7 and 9 am, Sen. Smith would like to meet you foran informal discussion about state issues that interest you. Every first Monday: Charlie's Country Squire, 2600 Washtenaw Ave., Ypsilanti. Every second Monday: Sweetwaters Cafe, 111 Washington, Ann Arbor. Every third Monday: Gina's Cafe, 1120 S. Main St., Chelsea. Every fourth Monday: Cafe Marie, 1759 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor. If you're not an earlybird, but still want to talk to Alma, you can réach her and her staff at1-800-344-ALMA. Interf aith Marks 50th Anniv. of Hiroshima On Sunday, Aug. 6, join Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice at the Gallup Park Picnic Shelters from 6 pm until dark. They will remember the bombing and its victims with a variety of activities. In addition to a potluck picnic, there will be peaceful activities for children (including origami peace crane folding, cooperative games, and lantem boat making) and an inspiring program for teens and adults. The program includes: newly translated poetry by women survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, interpreted in dance; personal reflections by Hiroshima survivor Kazue Edamatsu Campbell and herdaughten songs by Common Ground Theater Ensemble; a bell choir; a lantem-boat launch on the Huron River; and more. For more information cali Interfaith at 663-1870. HARC Needs Volunteers HIVAIDS Resource Center (HARC) is looking for new volunteers to help out in three program áreas. Each área has separate levéis of comm itment and each requires dedicated volunteers. All HARC volunteers are required to attend a monthly orientation and a basic lecture about HIV disease. Volunteers are needed as office workers, as food delivery program workers, and as project leaders. The office position requires flexibility and great people-skills. There is immediate need for help during regular business hours. HARC will work around your schedule, and requests two to four hours per week. Volunteers with the Conover Food Pantry Delivery Program will fill food requests as stock permits and record delivery quantities and times. Project leaders must be self-motivated, dynamic individuals, willing to take responsibility for HARC projectsprograms. Training and specific project outlines will be provided. The HIVAIDS Resource Center (H ARC) is dedicated to providing HlV-related services to our community through compassionate direct care, prevention, and outreach activities. HARC is the only agency of its kind in a four-county región (Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Washtenaw). It is dedicated to providing services to persons living with HIV disease. We are also dedicated to serving as a clearinghouse of HlV-related information to the entire región. To volunteer or for more information cali 572-9355. A2 Gains More Affordable Housing Avalon Housing has recently acquired 23 low-income housing units at Stimson Apartments. With the addition of Stimson Apartments, Avalon Housing - a non-profit housing development and management organization - operates71 units of affordable, lowincome housing in the Ann Arbor area. The City of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, the Adrían Dominican Sisters, Great Lakes Bancorp and First of America Bank provided fundí ng for the project. Stimson Apartments will also benefit from the HUD Shelter Plus Care grant awarded to the City of Ann Arbor in 1 994. Through this program, two units will be made bamer-free and up to 11 units will have rent subsidies. "This project, with five funding sources, including $550,000 of federal money passed through the City of Ann Arbor, illustrates the challenges that non profit housing developers must overeóme," notes Carole McCabe, Executive Director of Avalon Housing, "We are proud to have brought together a diverse group of public and private funding sources, both local and national, to make this project possible." Low-income tenants have already begun moving into Stimson units where rents are being cut from $485 to $305 en a onebedroom unit and from $585 to $375 on a two-bedroom unit. The majority of Avaion's tenants are people with incomes at er beiow 30% of área median income, approximately $1 2,000 for a family of two. The maximum income at Stimson Apartments will be 50% of área median income, approximately $21 ,500 for a family of two. ome income eligible tenants who already lived at the property have had their rent reduced to make their housing affordable. Crazy Horse Monument Making Progress Progress continúes on the colossal sculpture of Lakota Indian Chief Crazy Horse, in the Black Hills of South Dakota [see AGENDA, Nov., 1993]. Crazy Horse is the worid's largest sculpture, and completion of the rest of the carving will take decades. Crazy Horse, when completed, will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long and be carved three dimensionally, in the round. This winter saw the completion of Crazy Horse's 27-12-foot-long nose and both cheekbone areas. The twin milestones mean the nine-story-high face of Crazy Horse now is two-thirds completed. In addition to completing the nose and upper areas of the cheeks, workers also have cut and smoothed rock down to the jaw-line on portions of both cheeks. Compirterized measurement for the lips currently s underway. Meanwhile, steady rock removal has also continued on the right side of Crazy Horse's head, what wilt be his arm and chest, and on the horse's mane. To date approximately 8.4-million tons of granite have been blasted off the mountain. Advanced computer technology aids the measuring. Rock removal utilizes state-ofthe-art drilling and explosives engineering techniques. Super-sonic torches are used as finishing tools. The Crazy Horse Memorial is not a federal or state project but is a nonprofi t , educational and cultural undertaking financed primarily from an admission fee and contributions. The Crazy Horse Grass Roots Club with membership of $25 a year is a means of popular support for the project. For information contact: Crazy Horse Memorial, Ave. of the Chiefs, Crazy Horse, SD 57730-9506; phone 605-673-4681 , FAX 605673-2185.