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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1987)
Renegade skate swallows Oregon City See by Dean Grey f ViDTD r Editor It was really more than anyone could take, just being a student and never really having seen any death or destruction. I knew that as a reporter it was my obligation to follow this thing out. But I never thought that I would be in- stramental in the destruction of it. As a matter of fact I never thought that it could be destroyed. However, I cannot take all the credit. If Bret Hodgert hadn’t timed the jump accurately it would have never been destroyed. I suppose I should start at the beginning. That would have been about 5 o’clock in the morning on friday the 28 of March, that’s when I first heard the noise. I remember I was sitting in my office when I heard it. What it was is the biggest’explosion I have ever heard, only only it wasn’t an ex- plosion as I found out later. I jumped out of my chair spilling warm tea in my lap, ran out the door, and into Stan Johnson, who also had a wet spot on his ¡lap. “Scared the piss out of me too,” said Johnson. At first I didn’t understand what he meant but as I recall I now know. Together we raced toward the noise, stopped short of what used to be the Communi- ty Center. What was left would take decades to explain what- I can tell you is that there was nothing left. At this point Johnson left to do what it is that police do in an emergency. I don’t know what that is but I’m sure that it helped. As the dust settled and the smoke cleared I noticed a large shape moving off in the direction of town. I walked over to where Paul Kyllo’s office was and saw left him only this time he was or fear I couldn’t tell. About him standing with two alone. From him I learned that mid-jump I dropped the bomb “gentlemen” in black three piece the Skate had received a large and blew the Hell out of the suits and dark glasses, each dose of radiation from some creature. smoking a cigarette. As I neared, plutonium that the botany After we landed I went to in Kyllo looked at me with a semi students were experimenting pleased expression and said “I with. Of course I didn’t quite put vestigate the remains and noticed that there was a bunch of little was just curious.” this all together until he mention-1 I walked past him and hurried ed that some of the kids were '■embryos inside the into town to see what it was that really C.I.A. implants. caused all this havoc. The going Realizing the seriousness of was easy because the thing had this situation, I called Hodgert to cleared a path for me to follow. I ask some advice. He drove down caught up with the thing at with some explosives and we rigg Burger King just in time to see it ed up an impact bomb. Obvious go through the drive through and ly, we didn’t have the knowlege into the main dining room. I got to do this right off so we con a good look at it and was shocked sulted the library. to realize that it was that We came upon the radioactive “harmless” Skate that I had writ skate near the end of the Oregon ten about earlier. Qty limits. Off to the left of the With nothing to fight the Skate monster there was a ramp so Bret with I went back to the college to raced his car toward it. As we left question Kyllo and the men with the ground I remember him him. I found him standing as I screaming, whether in pleasure. WSeTan^îTaNemâaHezen?^ housing and housekeeper for singles/ f>y Heleen Veenstra News Editor by Mary Prath they leave their children with the sitter will no longer be felt. Monday at the opening The maid/housekeeper will be ceremony at Clackamas Com provided with a car (by the munity College, it was announc state) to enable them to drop off ed that free housing will be pro children at school and do the vided for single parents beginning grocery shopping. “Single parents no longer have an ex fall term 1989. “If these mothers have the cuse not to better themselves determination to juggle work, with an education. We (the col motherhood, and college, the lege) have taken care of all the least we (the college) can do is to excuses we have heard for the provide free housing for two past 20 years: years,” stated Bernie Nolan, I don’t have transportation. coordinator of the PROJECT. I can’t afford the tuition. Clackamas is the first communi . I can’t afford child-care. ty college to provide such a ser I live too far away. vice. “The housing project will I don’t have a high school eliminate the most frequently diploma. used excuse many welfare reci I «wouldn’t have the time to pients, “I don’t have a way to study. I school.” The college Will be in John Keyser, President of their backyard. The location of Clackamas Community College the project will be on the hill stated “Why wasn’t this thought next to the parking lot by the of before?” child-care facility on campus. The participants for this pro- The parents will be able to walk their small children to the sit ters, then walk to school as well. An education is a way out of the poverty that many single parents experience. A single I parent is forced to work twice as I hard as a nuclear family. The ¡The house payment is still the same whether two parents live there or not. The PROJECT will consist i of 40 apartments, each with two bedrooms, dishwasher, washer and dryer, and a live-in maid/housekeeper. “We want to make life as simple as we can I for these people so they can concentrate on their homework,” says Bernie i Nolan, coordinator of the PRO- | JECT. The maid/housekeeper will be required to be a registered nurse. The guilt that many single parents feel when Staff Writer gram will be required to sign a contract consisting of ten pages of rules in order to be eligible. A few of the requirements are as follows, the student will need to .maintain a 3.00 GPA, only miss 6 classes a term, spend 3.5 hours of quality time with their children each night, (big sister) a camera will be placed in each home and monitored from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. each night. If the contract is broken the recipient will be ask ed to leave the state of Oregon and never return. “The rules may seem strict, but this is a privilege that we do not want abused” I stated Nolan. Clackamas wants to make life as easy as we can for the single parent. For more information contact Bernie Nolan at ex. 666. ^^^cent/meters Pol '111 >11lr11 J* * g g Hx H 49.25 -0.16 0.76 SN: OL0055 Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab Wel vreemd om zo een artikel te schrijven, niet wetende hoeveel mensen dit kunnen lezen. Alle Nederlanders, maar ook Duitsers moeten dit kunnen begrijpen, en echt, ik heb geen idee hoeveel dat er zijn. Ik zou het dus erg leuk vinden om reacties hierop te krijgen zodat ik enig idee heb wie dit allemaal begrijpt. Als nieuwsredactrice zou ik eigenlijk nieuws moeten schr ijven, maar dan van de andere kant, wie wil er nou nieuws lezen in een 1 april editie. Voor dit artikel is een grenseloze fantasie nodig. Hoe krijg ik anders een inch of 10 (of meer) vol? Omdat m’n plicht het nieuws verzorgen is doe ik dat dan toch maar. Het nieuwe telefoon systeem hier op campus werkt niet zoals het moet. De College krijgt tele- foontjes uit Arabie. Er is een plan om high school verlaters hier wat bijscholing te geven. Het colleg wordt misschien van tijden veranderd. De reden daarvoor is dat er een betere beschikking komt op de klas lokalen. Iets anders is dat Studenten willen meer ‘liv ’ pop- muziek en dat wordt niet dooriedereen gewaardeerd. Dat was het dan wel zo’n beet- je. Er is nog wel veel meer, maar als ik alles nu opschrijf blijft er voor de andere edities net veel over. Het idee voor dit ko* rgrioof ik bij Inge vandaan, rr ir zeker weet ik het niet. In iedej »eval zal ik eerst even de groetjer joenaan K.P. en Sybren. Bij leze dan jongens! Ik heb onwijs veel lol met jullie gehad. Voor de rest doe ik ook de groeten a i al m’n vrienden in Ned. land en Amerika. Nu geen slap geschrijf meer. Het is nu dus het nieuwe termijn, en de tijd van klassen uitproberen en schema’s veränderen. Het is ook het laatste tenr'jn voor de zomer vakantie en v- d zon. Ik eindig deze oi in nu maar eens. Ik wens iederet veel succes en plezier het laats; i termijn en hang in there until summer vaca- • Fearless Flyers Join the Fearless Flyers of CCC! The world’s only flying army operating at a community college. Famous for protecting the college from invasions by enemies foreign, domestic, and alien. To join call X623 and begin the training that will make you one of the Fearless Few! 1
