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board and the administration,
the administration and the
employees, and between the
school and the students,”
Johnson said.
Johnson did not plan on
running for the board position,
he explained, but was re-
quested to do so by several
members of the community
who were “concerned about
the way the College is being,
run,” he said.
Johnson, an independent,
ran on a fiscally conservative
platform. He is opposed to any
lack of accountability in public
Jim Johnson
officials. He also came out
against the proposal to allow
the National guard to build an
armory on campus.
“I’m against taking five
acres of the College’s land and
deeding it off to the National
Guard. That is not the reason
the land is there.”
Johnson used the armory
as an example of officials who
neglect the wants and needs of
their constituents. “You have
to remember the mandates,”
he said. “Why did the people
set up the College? If you
forget that, people won’t trust
you any more.”
Groener was in favor of
the armory, which would be
designed for use as a conven-
tion/meeting hall, and would
have some class space, as well
as a place to store weapons.
Johnson also based his
campaign on taking a look at
the administration of the Col­
lege. “It has been reported to
me by concerned citizens that
the school is top heavy with ad­
ministration,” Johnson said.
He explained that this is not his
personal knowledge, but only
what certain voters have ex­
pressed to him.
“I don’t have any definite
plans right now, because I
don’t know the College well
enough yet,” he said. “I’m go­
ing to be spending a lot of time
learning my way around there.
You can’t just walk in and say
‘This is what I’m going to do’.”
Communication is another
mainstay of Johnson’s plans.
“You should never have to
fight city hall, or the administra­
tion. After all, the people in
Hepatitis case linked to local restaurant
The Southern Inn
Restaurant, less than a mile
from Clackamas Community
College on Be vercreek Road,
Was thrown into turmoil last
week when two food handlers
were diagnosed as having
hepatitis A.
The restaurant was im­
mediately downgraded to a C
class last Thursday, and the
two employees were removed.
Anyone who ate in the
Southern Inn between March
15-31 should contact their doc­
tor or the local health division
for treatment. People who
have hepatitis, or who suspect
they may get hepatitis, are ad­
vised by the Clackamas County
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Health Division to obtain gam­
ma globulin injections.
This week, another in­
spection was made of the
restaurant and the former A
rating was reestablished.
Bonnie Hartley-Linse, stu­
dent health nurse for the Col­
lege, said her office received
many calls of concern from
students, staff and faculty
members. Several people from
the College have received in­
jections of gamma globulin.
Hepatitis A was formerly
known as infectious hepatitis.
After a person has been in­
fected by the virus, there is an
incubation period of two to six
weeks before the symptoms
appear. The symptoms include
vomiting, yellowing of the
skin, nausea and loss of ap­
petite.
Hepatitis A is rarely fatal,
and most people recover
within several weeks..
Although the county
health department is suggesting
gamma globulin for those in­
fected, they state that is not a
cure for hepatitis A. Gamma
globulin is used to strengthen
one’s own internal defensive
system and help ward off the
virus.
born in Tahiti), and Forrest
(age 2, born in Oregon City).
By profession, Johnson is
a carpenter. However, he is
currently not working much.
Before joining the Oregon City
City Council, he did a great
deal of work on various
historical building in the area.
However, that work, paid for
with money from HUD (Hous­
ing and Urban Development) is
considered a conflict of interest
for a city councilperson.
Conservation and the en­
vironment are of special con­
cern for Johnson. He was the
primary opponent to the
Resource Recovery Facility last
year. The facility, also known
as the garbage burner, was to
be built near Rossman’s Land­
fill in Oregon City, and would
have been used for dual pur­
poses; to destroy the ever-
My major goals growing mountains of trash at
the landfill, and to provide
are to have better use steam-powered electricity for
and accountability for the Publishers Paper plant.
The facility was defeated,
public funds ... to
partly because of the work
break the barriers of Johnson did campaigning
communication bet­ against it. In Nov. 1982, six in­
were passed by the
ween the board and itiatives
voters, prohibiting the building
administration, the of the facility. That was another
administration and the issue upon which Johnson and
were adversaries.
employees, and bet­ Groener
Johnson ran a strong cam­
ween the school and paign for the school board posi­
tion, complete with lawn signs,
the students. ”.
canvassing and phoning more
than 700 people, twice each. “I
sion or knowledge about what’s didn’t take on the race for a
best for the school, but they power goal or an ego trip,” he
should have some say,” he ex­ said. “I wouldn’t have run if I
plained.
didn’t think I had the popular
As well as working on the support. I ran because people
city council and the school asked me to.”
board, Johnson is also the
Johnson explained that
founde • of Oregonians for his main concern is in how top
Clean Z ir, is the state chairper­ officials spend the public’s
son of the Friends of the Earth, money. “I think there is a lot of
and is a member of the Buena room for cutting down waste,”
Vista Civic Improvement Club, he said. He feels officials have
the Oregon City Economic a responsibility to do just that.
Development Commission, “You have to provide the ser­
and the Association of Oregon vices you are supposed to pro­
Recyclers. He teachers part- vide. That’s why you take an
time at Portland Community office,” he said.
College. Beyond that, he is
“I am really excited about
also the husband of Patricia A. being on the College’s board.
Morgan, and father of three, It’s a wonderful opportunity to
Jessica (age 7, born in Papua, work for something that I think
New Guinea), Morgan (age 5, is worthwhile,” he said.
charge are us, and should be
answerable to the people,” he
said. “That’s a big problem
everywhere. It’s not inherently
wrong with our system of
government, though. It’s
something inherently wrong
with the people in power.”
Johnson is concerned with
the communication, or lack
thereof between the board of
directors and the students. “It is
important to develop a direct
tie between the student body
and the board, and to have as
much communication as possi­
ble,” he said.
He also feels that students
should be incorporated into the
decision-making machinery of
the College. “That’s not to say
students have some special vi-
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