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SECTION 2 - PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALER-HER ALD, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 23,19«S Seminar scheduled on adoption, foster care Are you thinking of adopting a child? A four-part seminar on adoption and foster care is being sponsored by McHenry County College's Community Education Department and will be held at Woodstock ^ High School Tuesday, Feb. 5, 19, 26 and March 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. Leading the seminar will be Mary Jane Westra, who has a bachelor's degree in family social services, has adopted a child, has her own children and has cared for 30 foster children. The first session will be sptent considering why people adopt; traditional and non-traditional families; books, groups and resources; parent associations, what they can and cannot do; adoption exchanges; and in­ fertility. At the second session, in­ formation and discussion will center on finding a child and will include information on agency adoption, international adoption and independent and private adoption. Speakers at the third session will include Karen Becker of Jayne Shover Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center, talking about specialized foster care, and, a representative of Lutheran Children and Family Services who will show the film "Waiting Children" and discuss that aspect. A panel of adoptive parents makes up the core of the final session. Local people, representing all aspects of adoption alternatives- in­ ternational, private, agency, foster children and special needs children will share their experience. - The category of special needs children should be an important segment of the evening's discussion. Participants will hear what families that have experienced adoption have learned about the special needs child and about the con­ siderations which have had to become part of their lives. The focus of this four-part seminar is on the sharing of information by those who have experienced the adoption process, informality, freedom for discussion and questions and socialization with others seeking the same information. The registration fee is $15. Registration begins Monday, Jan. 21 at MCC. You can register by telephone through Jan. 25 by calling (815) 455^510. In-person registration * is required after that date. Registration can be completed in Room 140 of MCC's Main Hall Building Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m/ and 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., or on Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Farmers educated to value of crop residue "There's cheap help available for farmers these days," says Dave Brandt, district con­ servationist with the Soil Con­ servation Service (SCS) in Woodstock. "All a farmer must do is recognize the extra helper and use it." What's the help, you ask? It's crop residue, and all a farmer' must do is leave it on the fields instead of plowing or burning it in the fall. "Crop residue helps in many ways," says Brandt. "One way crop residue helps is that it ' prevents splash erosion (erosion from falling raindrops) during winter rains, and a farmer can save one to two tons of soil per acre per year on flat fields." When splash erosion is con­ trolled, organic matter stays in the field, where it increases the moisture-holding capacity of soil and makes the soil easier to work. Another way crop residue, helps is by decreasing ditch maintenance. Fall plowing increases soil erosion over the winter and spring months, which increases the amount of sediment deposited in ditches. The sediment from plowed fields contain five times the organic matter of the soil in the field. In many areas, it costs to have ditches cleaned or maintained. When you couple this with the value of organic matter, it's better to leave crop residue on the ground. 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