ELC host recyclers
By J. Dana Haynes
Of The Print
For anyone who is familiar
with the truly original aroma
that permeates an area east of
Oregon City, good news
abounds! There is an alter
native to garbage dumps:
waste recycling.
Not a new idea? Perhaps
not, but statistics show that it is
an idea that has never been
properly attempted. Cost is the
primary prohibitive factor, with
apathy lending a helping hand.
Several private citizens and
representatives from civic
organizations gathered in the
John Inskeep Environmental
Learning Center on campus
Tuesday for lectures, films and
question/answer sessions.
Their topic was waste recycling
and how to make'it feasible.
ELC Education Coordinator
Charles Puckett hosted the
four-hour affair, which includ
ed guest lectures from
DEQ,
trom DtQ,
the Metropolitan Serice District
(Metro), Portland Recycling
team, Independent 'Paper
Stock Co., and the Pacific Rim
Exchange,.
Time and again, the point
emphasized at the conference'
was that recycling need not be
non-profit. \A carefully organiz
ed and well-run operation can
be a money-making enterprise.
Judy Roumpf, the represen
tative from Metro, pointed out
that not having a waste reduc
tion plant can also be expen
sive. “Garbage costs money,”
said Roumpf. “Every ton of
garbage diverted from the land
fills saves public dollars.”
Metro itself is not a garbage
gathering agency. That is to
say, a Metro employee will not
knock on your door and ask for
old beer carts and back issues
of “The Print.” But they do run
recycling operations.
The idea that reusing refuse
was feasible and practical
sprang in part from the Earth
Day, 197Q. After that nation
wide attempt to show the
disastrous effect the Industrial
Revolution was having on the
^environment,
virtually
thousands of volunteer
organizations became involv
ed. Recycling centers sprang
up seemingly overnight.
Many flourished for all of six
months, some survived a year
Or two. But the prohibitive cost
slew many projects, along with
a fickle market for the gleaned
commodities and lack of
storage facilities.
However, if organizations
such as Metro, the Portland
Recycling Team and the Col
lege’s owh ELC are successful,
new systems and procedures
will become available to every Midnight oil, cracked books and empty speed bottles
community. It is even remotely herald the return of the dreaded Finals Week. Schedules
possible that sources of on page 8.
monumental stench, such as
Rossman’s Landfill will be
transformed from hysterical
sores to historical sights.
Language classes to march towards Waterloo
By Tom Jeffries
Of The Print
They’re called the “Groupies
II” and, basically, they have
only one thing in common: an
intense desire to go to Europe.
Toward this end, 16 CCC in
structors and CCC and Univer
sity of Portland students have
formed a group that will visit
seven countries this summer.
Their trip will cover 21 days,
and cost $1,500 to $1,700
each.
“This is the second group to
go,” explained Magdalena
Ladd, one of the instructors
planning to go along, and a
chief coordinator. “That’s why
the name. The first group was
called ‘The Groupies’.”
The first group went two
years ago and was much
smaller. That group of eight did
not include Ladd.
“We planned it out and
everything, but then three days
before we were scheduled to
leave I got sick. Luckily, Dr.
Ayres was able to step in on
short notice and take the
group. That says something for
her adaptability I think,” Ladd
said. Angela Ayres will be ac
companying the “Groupies II,”
also.
Between the two, Ladd and
Ayres are able to command
three of the major languages of
the European Continent:
Spanish, French and German.
The students are nearly all in
either their first or second year
with one of the languages and
so would not be able to make
do on their own. For many, the
only trip outside of the country
they have taken has been to
Canada.
“Groupies II,” unlike their
predecessors, will not be ex?
clusively from CCC. Three of
the 13 students going are from
the University of Portland. One
of the tutors of the College also
teaches at the U of P. The
students there did not have the
opportunity through their
school, so she contacted Ladd
and arranged to have the
students
merge into one
group.
The trip will start the week of
June 21, when the “Groupies”
will meet in Seattle for the flight
to London. They will stay over
night there and then take a
train to Dover and cross the
channel by ferry to Calais near
the Belgian border. There they
will pick up the two
Volkswagen busses that will
carry the 16 across Europe.
From Calais, they will head
east to Waterloo, where they
will pick up another member of
the group who is currently stay
ing there. From there, they
may go north into Brussels, or,
simply head back west and
then south down the coast of
France. They will drive through
the rural countryside of the
Loire Valley and Mt. St.
Michele, famous both for their
beauty and their imposing
castles. From there, they will
skirt Paris and go south across
the Pyrenees Mountains into
thé Basque country of northern
Spain.
In Spain, the group will have
the opportunity to stay both in
private homes and former no
bles’ palaces that have been
rebuilt as hotels as they drive
southward to Toledo and then
east to Valencia. From there,
they will hêad north through
the tiny Republic of Andorra,
Development office raises money
in conjunction with CCC Foundation
Development Office. The
Foundation is composed of
Money. The Development citizens who are able to donate
Office Is one way the College financiaTsupport and time to
gets it. Thè Development Of the College.
Currently, the Foundation is
fice raises money for projects
that are not paid for by the Col working with the Development
lege’s tax-supported general Office to establish a memorial
scholarship, which has not of
fund.
The Development Office ficially been confirmed. The
coordinates grants, federal foundation is funding 11
contracts and special projects. scholarships, one for each high
The office also raises money by school in the College district.
Money was raised by the
contacting other external
sources such as businesses and Foundation to landscape the
the community. Community Art Department and to buy
groups, especially the awards for the livestock judging
Clackamas Community Col team. The organization helps
lege Foundation, work closely any College program it con
with the Development Office.
siders worthwhile. Last year,
The College Foundation is a the Clackamas Community
private organization that raises College Foundation raised
money for the College. “One $28,000 to support projects
purpose of the group is to in that the College’s general fund
volve the community with the would not have covered. >
The Development Office
College,” said William Anton,'
executive director of the also is assisting the Red Soils
By Mike Rose
Of The Print
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Youth Complex in raising
$400,000. The money is need
ed to purchase baseball and
soccer fields. “We are here to
serve the community, that’s
why we help organizations like
the Red Solis Youth
Complex,” Anton said.
“If a professor wanted
money, to do research, .say
$50,000,” Anton said, “the
first thing he would do is come
to the Development Office. We
would try to find sources of
money and assist in the paper
work.”
The College is trying to get a
grant to purchase a methane
gas digester for the livestock
facility. The digester costs over
$50,000. The Development
Office is working with Rep. Les
AuCoin’s office in pursuit of the
grant. The College has been
turned down twice for the grant
request, but is still searching for
other funding.
Donation programs also are
arrange^ by the Development
»Office. One of these is the
deferred giving program, in
which the contributor takes out
a life insurance policy that is
payable to the College. The
cost of the life insurance policy
is tax deductible and the con
tributor can specify what the
money will be used for.
Over $65,000 has already
been raised by deferred gifts, to
be received after the donors
die. The Development Office is
also working on an annual gift
program. Individuals pledge to
give donations every year.
Anton said,“We are a com
munity college. The important
thing to remember is. that our
middle name is community-
that’s what we do is serve the
community. In turn,” he add
ed; “we are the community,
that’s why we work with the
community organizations.”
perched high in the Pyrenees.
This small nation has the
distinction of having its major
revenue from smuggling bet
ween Spain and France.
Back in France, the
“Groupies” will cruise the
Riviera on their way to
Switzerland. There they will
stay again in a private home of
a friend of Ladd’s, who was
bom in Switzerland,., Thestay
will end with a tour through the
Black Forest area, Stuttgart,
Franfurt, Trier, and the, Mosel
Valley. In this area, they will be
able to visit a Porsche factory,
the Mercedes museum, and
the famous vineyards of the
Mosel. From there, they will
drive 'west to Paris, where the
group will disband.
Of the 16, only four will
return to the U.S. right away.
The others will go off alone to
various parts of Europe, in
cluding France, Germany,
Switzerland and Austria.
Because the trip won’t be a
guided tour, the job of driving
the vehicles will fall on the
“Groupies.” This adds an inter
national driver’s license as one
more preparation for the trip.
“The main drawback was the
money,” said Shelley Erickson,
a CCC French I student whose
only previous out-of-the-U.S.
trip had been to Canada^ “I’m
working very, very hard, and
with a little help from my
parents, I think I’ll make it. I
think I’ll be able to converse,
maybe not too well, but .with
Mrs. Ladd there it won’t be like
we’ll be all alone.”
Erickson originally picked
French because it seemed like
an interesting language, and
then decided that she wanted
to go to Europe.
The “Groupies^ already
have their plane tickets and will
soon be paying the advance
rent for the cars. Those who do
not have passports have been
advised to get them right away,
so that nothing can come up to
hinder the “Groupies _II” trek
across Europe.
Clackainas Community College