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Clackamas Community College
Yellow alert
Type 0 blood needed
by Heleen Veenstra
Editor
“The reason we are on alert is
because people are afraid to
donate blood. There is no way
you can get AIDS from donating
blood. We use sterile equipment,
which is only used once,” said
Janna Kinkade, Red Cross
representative.
Clackamas Community Col
lege will have a blood drive, in
the community center, Wednes
day Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. ’till 3
p.m.
Kinkade expressed she would
like to see many donors, since
the Red Cross is on yellow alert.
Yellow alert means that only
50%-80% of the red blood
order will be delivered by mid
night, to supply the regional
hospitals.
The yellow alert was issued
Oct. 5, still being short 250 units
of blood. September 30 the
blood supply was on red alert.
The blood inventory was 800
units below the optimum level
of 4,800 units. On red alert
hospitals only received 50% of
the blood orders.
The American Red Cross
needs to collect 540 units of
blood each weekday and 135 on
Saturday to meet the patient
needs in the Northwest.
Two thirds of the shortage
was type O blood, which is the
most used type. Type O blood is
used in emergencies and given
to infants who need blood.
Type O blood can be used as
back up for any other blood
type. Out of 100 people 38.4 are
O positive, which is the most
common used type. “That’s
what we need the most of,”
Kinkade said.
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that there is a 97.6% chance
that a person living to the age of
72 will require a blood transfu
sion. Red Cross statistics show
that only 5 % of the population
donates blood.
"There is no way you
can get AIDS from
donating blood. ”
All the donated blood goes
through five tests, which are:
H.I.V. screening (Aids testing),
Hepatitis screening, Syphilis
screening, type and RH factor
screening’ and Antibody screen
ing. Every unit of blood goes
through these screenings. It
doesn’t matter how often the
same person gives blood, it will
go through those tests each
time, Kinkade said, to point out
that donating blood is . not
dangerous for one’s health.
“We have blood mobiles go
ing everyday and the blood
center is open six days a week.
And then we have six teams of
nurses who are on the road
throughout
the
region
everyday.”
The blood mobiles go around
in Multnomah, Columbia,
Yamhill, Washington and
Clackamas county. Every cou
ple of hours somebody picks up
the blood collected in the
mobiles and brings it to
Portland for processing.
“We draw blood in high
schools and colleges, which are
mainly the places we get our first
time donors.” The first time
donors are very important
because young donors will see
donating blood is a natural thing
to do, Kinkade explained.
“I’ve been working for the
Red Cross for a year and a half
and I’ve been doing this job for
three weeks. I handle Clackamas,
Yamhill and Columbia county
and set up blood drives.” Before
that Kinkade was a phlebotomist,
the person who draws blood.
The blood center is located at
3131 N. Vancouver Ave.,
Portland. It is open Monday
through Thursday from 10
a.m.-6 p.m., Friday from 8
a.m.-3:3O p.m., and Saturday
from 7:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m.
Student nurses help man
by Michelle Walch
Staff Writer____________
Three Clackamas Community
College nursing students were the
first to arrive at the scene of an
auto-pedestrian accident.
Karen Hamilton, Marie Yager,
and Sharon Wartel were coming
back from Providence Hospital
in Milwaukie, when they saw
26-year-old Ronald Spendahi of
S.E. Portland lying on the road
in front of a car. The car was
driven by Mark Allen, and
passengers were Michelle
Moreland and Monica Allen. The
accident took place Monday,
Oct. 7, at 12:50 p.m., at the cor
ner of Johnson Road and Lake
Road, in Milwaukie.
“We were coming back from
Providence, when we saw a man
in front of a stopped car. We
covered him with our lab
jackets, and asked if anyone
called paramedics. We checked
his pulse, respiration, and for
any bleeding, and comforted
him until paramedics arrived.
He was in a lot of pain.”
The car was moving at 30
m.p.h., and apparently Allen
was watching the traffic and
unaware of Spendahi, who had
the right-of-way. Spendahi had
a fractured pelvis from a motor
cycle accident six months prior.
The Clackamas County
police and a Willamette Falls
Hospital ambulance arrived and
took him to Kaiser Hospital.
Spendahi had minor injuries,
and Allen was issued a citation
for failure to yield to
pedestrians.
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Baker new press liaison
by E.A. Berg
Staff Writer___________________________
“It’s real strange. You have to
look at things completely dif
ferent,” said Nancy Baker on the
difference of being a reporter and
the college’s News Service Coor
dinator.
Baker, 30, was hired in
September to serve as a liaison
between the college and area
newspapers, radio and television
stations. She replaces Ken Koop-
man, who resigned in June.
From 1985 until her hiring
here, Baker covered higher
education for the “Charleston
Gazette” in West Virginia. She
covered education and city
government for the “Chandler
Arizonian” in Arizona after ear
ning a Masters of Arts in Jour
nalism from the University of
Oregon in 1984.
Baker graduated from Indiana
University in 1979 with a
Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science. She worked as a
paralegal and served as a
volunteer editor with Amnesty
International,
both
in
Washington D.C.
Baker currently writes
freelance stories for “Oregon
Magazine.” She interned there
during the Summer of 1983.
“My goals are completely dif
ferent here than as a reporter.
Here I work for the college. My
job is to promote the college,”
said Baker. She also added that
she is busier in public relations
than she was as a reporter.
Her current work is more
varied as well, Baker said. “1
have a much greater range of
responsibilities,” she said, “I can
learn more about publishing,
advertising, and colleges.”
Baker said she accepted the job
here to move back to Oregon, not
necessarily to leave reporting.
“The college is the most com
fortable environment I’ve work
ed in,” She said, “I really like
the people.”
Financial Aid requests increase
by Caret Hussey
Staff Writer____________________________
You say you haven’t heard
anything about your financial aid
yet? This delay is due to the fact
that the Financial Aid Office has
received, as of Aug. 30, 1067
Financial Aid Forms; that’s 187
more applications than were
handed in during the entire
1986-87 school year.
Part of the reason for this in
crease are the changes in Federal
Student Aid Programs due to the
Reauthorization of Higher
Education that took place in
Congress in October 1986. Some
of these changes require students
who apply for Guaranteed Stu
dent Loans to apply for Financial
Aid on a Financial Aid form
prior to completing the GSL ap
plication.
The Federal Financial Aid
funds sent from the U.S. Depart
ment of Education in the form of
Supplemental Educational Op
portunity Grants (SEOG),
Perkins loans (NDSL) and Col
lege Work Study funds have not
increased significantly, so
students whose applications were
completed from mid-August on
have been placed on waiting lists
for Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grants and College
Work Study funds. Sometimes
other students decline these funds
so additional awards are being
made to students on waiting lists.
Students are awarded on a first
come first served basis by date of
completed application.
Money is still available from
Pell Grants, Oregon State Need
Grants and Guaranteed Student
Loans. Students must be enroll
ed in at least six credit hours to
qualify. Applications for
Federal Aid (FAF) and
Guaranteed Student Loan ap
plications are available in the
Financial Aid Office. The
Financial Aid Office also has
scholarship applications so that
students can look at funding op
portunities that may not be bas
ed on federal requirements.
The Student Financial Aid
Office is located next to the
counseling department in the
Community Center building.
They are open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday.
The phone number is 657-8400
ext.422.