Child care center to be cut from budget
By Heather C. Wright
Of The Print
For 15 years Clackamas
Community College has pro­
vided child care for students,
faculty, staff and the com­
munity.
At the end of winter term
the Clackamas Community
College Child Care Center will
no longer be funded by the
College, due to budget cuts.,
The College will lease the child
care building to a Clackamas
County agency which will
operate the center.
“There will be a little less
flexibility with the new pro­
gram but it will still be profes­
sional,” Carolyn Knutson,
department head of human
and family services, said.
The Child Care Center is
located in the Orchard Center.
The center accommodates 48
children and serves approx­
imately 70 families. The
children who attend the center
are provided a morning snack,
a lunch prepared by the Col­
lege’s cafeteria and an after­
noon snack.
“We have a unique
developmental education pro­
gram for the children. It’s not
a baby-sitting service: We keep
in mind the child’s individual
needs. We also screen the
children for hearing, eyesight
and speech problems,” Knut­
son said.
“I just hope the quality of
the care continues and I hope
we can still meet the parents’
needs,” Melody Burchyski,
employee of the center, said.
“We will all work
together to make sure it is a
good program,” Knutson add­
ed.
Clackamas Community College will be
holding a series of workshops designed to help
students fill out their 1984-85 financial aid forms
(FAF). The times for these workshops, which
will all be held in CC101, are as follows:
1/11
1/12
1/16
1/17
1/18
1/19
11 a.m. — noon
3 -— 4 p.m.
11 a.m. — noon
3 -— 4 p.m.
11 a.m. — noon
3 -— 4 p.m.
WE
NEED
YOU!
TO: All CCC students and faculty
FROM: Associated Student Government
SUBJECT: To make plans for the
March levy election
TIME: 2-3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18
PLACE: CC 101
Come and let your voice
be heard
For more information contact ASG
at ext. 247
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TOMORROW’S ARTISTS—Child develop­
ment center students Katie (left) and Julie
(right) enjoy getting their fingers into modeling
clay. Thanks to a Clackamas County agency,
the center will still offer services despite being
cut from the College’s budget.
Photo by Joel Miller
Retiree Kepler aids bookstore
By Heather C. Wright
Of The Print
In 1969 Clackamas Com­
munity College started con­
struction on Clairmont Hall.
During this period of time the
College hired two Clackamas
County Sheriffs’ Reserve Of­
ficers to protect the construc­
tion site and equipment at
night. Ed Kepler was one of
the security officers.
Kepler retired from the
Clackamas County Sheriffs’
Department 10 years ago. He
is 65 years old and still works
part-time for the College.
Each term Kepler works in the
bookstore, controls traffic and
gives out information to
students.
“Ed is an asset to our
operation,” Doug Shannon,
bookstore manager said.
Kepler was a 1935"
graduate of Thunder Hawk
High School in South Dakota.
At 17 he enlisted in the army,
where he remained for six
years. He then returned to
South Dakota and married his
first wife.
Kepler has a long list of
work experience; he’s worked
for a gold mine corporation,
the Forest Service, and a car
body shop. Kepler remembers
his job at an electrical plant as
being the most interesting.
“When I moved to North
Ed Kepler
Port, Washington, I worked
for an electrical plant and I got
to run the world’s largest rock
crusher. It was 60 feet
across.” Kepler went on to
say, “while I was working at
this plant World War II broke
out and I went in and signed
up. I wanted to go, I could
have gone in as a commander,
but the electrical plant had me
deferred.”
After Kepler quit his job
at the electrical plant he went
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to work for an automobile
dealership, which eventually
led him to Portland in 1961.
Kepler’s wife died soon after
moving to Portland, leaving
him with three boys to raise on
his own. “I was always tough
with my boys. When I went in­
to my own business, I made
them help me. The boys really
enjoyed helping me with my
construction business,”
Kepler said.
Kepler married his second
wife on August 22, 1983. Lor­
raine is 36 years old and has a
four year-old child from a
previous marriage. “She’s a
wonderful woman. There’s a
lot of old tunes left in this old
fiddle,” Kepler said.
“I worked for a lot of
people in my life. Doug Shan­
non and Stan Johnson are the
best bosses I’ve ever had. They
always seem to get the
cooperation
of
their
employees. I am proud to have
been working with these great
men,” Kepler said.
Clackamas Community College