Conference examines foreign trade opportunities Foreign trade opportunities for local businesses is the focus of a two-day conference scheduled for Oct. 4 and 5 at the Sheraton Inn Portland Airport. The conference, titled ‘Ex tend Your Business to the Pacific Rim,” is co-sponsored by Clackamas Community College, the Business Center of Clackamas County, and Portland; Samuel Naito, presi dent of Norcrest China Co. and Direct Imports, Inc. (Im-„ port Plaza); and a high rank ing foreign affairs official of the People’s Republic of China. The conference will also feature presentations from local merchants involved in the import/export market. Scheduled workshops will use a case study approach to ex plore such topics as market dall and the McLoughlin Hall assessment, government trade building’s. regulations, credit and During the 1983-84 school finance, cultural factors, year the College spent $900 in locker repairs and only receiv ed $150 revenue, student ac tivities reported. With the addition of a new Students interested in ren MV 10000 mini-computer in ting a locker should contact the student activities office in early 1985, Clackamas Com the Community Center Mall. munity College administration Mt. Hood Community College Small Business Development Center. Featured speakers include Lloyd Anderson, executive director of the Port of Student Activities sponsors locker rental for students Clackamas Community College students will have the opportunity to rent lockers on campus this year through the student activities office. “AU the students need to do is bring us (student activities) $3 for the locker and $2 for the key deposit, a total of $5 for the whole term,” Debbie Baker, student activities ad visor said. At the end of the term students can re-rent the lockers for another $3 or they can return the key and get back the $2 key deposit. “We have a map of the lockers so students can choose their locker,” Baker said. There are lockers in the Com munity Center Mall, Pauling Center and Clairmont, Ran- preparation for shipment, and how to find help. Registration fee for the con ference is $60. This includes a banquet Friday night, lun cheon Saturday, and a chance to win a 10-day trip to the Orient donated by Milwaukie Travel. Special room rates are available for conference par ticipants at the Sheraton Air port. For information and to register for the conference, call the Business Center at Clackamas County at .657-4447. Board buys computer will now have a faster and more efficient managing system. Approved during the Sept. 12 Board of Education meeting, the new computer will cost $287,154. Data Pro cessing Operations Officer Tsuyoshi Inouye, recommend ed to the Computer Resource Committee that the new com puter be accepted. He said, “The new computer will replace the old one. It will be able to do all of the functions that the old one could do. It also can prepare budgets, be used as a word processor and speed up information for the assistant deans.” Inouye said, “The addition of the computer will basically be an upgrade to the existing system.” The College will re tain the old programs and ter minals, resulting in minimized conversion costs. The two main goals of the new system will be to make the administration more efficient and to minimize the need .to hire new personnel, Inouye Note takers needed Notetakers are needed each day for any class taken by han dicapped persons. Notetakers are paid $3.50 per hour and may be asked to replace other notetakers from time to time. Students to assist the han dicapped in notetaking are still in demand at the college through the Handicapped Resource Center. Students who don’t mind helping the handicapped by giving them a little of their time will be greatly ap preciated. Anyone interested should contact Debbie Kerr at the Handicapped Resource Center, ext. 317. Clackamas Community College D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer Density 10 11(A) 12 13 -0Æ0 0.23 •¿75 0.21 -l’06 Ï.13 14 ¿28