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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1979)
Sun show History was in the making Monday morning when e moon inched over the face of the sun creating the st total eclipse of the sun the Northwest has seen nee 1918. The view of totality swept over the earth tea wall of darkness. A few viewers looking toward e sky were able to see the moon’s shadow creeping gng to totality. What most people saw eclipse mor- ng was the fast fading darkness of the sun, with a lek cloud cover making it hard to view the lenomenon from most Portland area neighborhoods. Eric Holstrom, Print photographer, was among the cky one who got a chance to view the eclipse first Holstrom was a member of Mike Aronson’s eclipse iss and says the class really paid off. Practicing king pictures of the event to make sure everything is right was a “good idea,” he said. Holstrom and five her class members camped out close to the McNeary ver and Monday morning hiked up a hill to stand and eclipse “in awe,” said Holstrom. ise image is reflected off sunglasses of Bob Sch Phyllis Thompson tries to capture elusive eclipse on canvas. Photos by Eric Holstrom. State legislators face issues Oregon legislators will be i with several issues that affect community college ents during this legislative neof them, child care sub- 5lor low-income students, fat students throughout late, and another, building lities, wll be of special in St to students at the Ke. ¡«child care bill (HB 2663) ^appropriate $3.7 million feet subsidies to low- pe student parents. This would be administered de State Scholarship com- ion through the State Need tprogram. ptently, there are no fflns to help students with ost of child care while they fading school, according My Smith, Oregon M Lobby legislative coordinator. The cost of quality day care is approximately $115 per month, she said. It is the contention of the OSL that providing these funds would make it possible for more parents who are currently on public assistance and not receiving any education to at tend school, and would allow more part-time students to at tend college full-time. “We feel our request for these funds is legitimate, even in a legislative year that will see money matters facing serious scrutiny,” said Happie Thacker, student liaison for OSL at the College. “Our goal is to convince the legislature that parents who are given this help to get an education will become economically viable members of the community and more than repay any child care fun ding they receive once they go to work and start paying taxes,” she said. The building priorities problem will be of special in terest to Clackamas County residents and students of the College, Thacker said. There are nine community colleges that qualify for building funds but Governor Atiyeh’s building proposals plan stops at priority number four. The new science building for the College scheduled to be under con struction by next fall, is number six on the list. “We are not trying to get the legislature to move us up higher on the list because that would hurt the other schools.” said College President John Hakanson in a address to Associated Student Gover nment last week. “What we want to do is convince them to fund all nine because they couldn’t afford scheduled projects, but cer tainly to number six on the list as it stands,” he said. child care and especially former students who have finished school and are now working who have utilized child care facilities,” Thacker said. In order to influence the legislators to vote in favor of the students, Hakanson and Thacker have asked students to begin an intensive letter writing campaign to their represen tatives, and especially to mem bers of the Full Ways and Means Committee and the Ways and Means Education Subcommittee. “I would also like to have people contact me who are willing to testify before a legislative committee on the child care issue,” said Thacker. “I need students who are’at tending school part-time but would go full-time if they could get child care assistance, those who have had to quit school Guidelines for writing letters to legislators, names and ad dresses of legislators to contact, and information about testifying before a committee are available from Thacker at the Student Activities Office, 656-2631, ext, 245. “It is important that these let ters be written as soon as possible to be the most effec tive,” said Thacker. “Soon the legislative session will be in full swing and all legislators will be swamped with letters and lob byists. We want to get ours in before the crush so they will be noticed.”