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Annual skills contest scheduled ¡Over 250 people are expected to register ■the seventh annual Job Skill Olympics i be held at Cl ack ¿Mas Community College bril 15 and 16. ■he event is being held under the auspices |the Vocational Industrial Club of Ameri- i (VIC£]_which ,s Part °f a nationwide ■pization of high school students who ■raining for industrial-vocational occu ltions. I For the past seven years students have en competing once a year in events like iljinglauto body repair, drafting, brick- ling, extemporaneous speech, carpentry ^commercial art. Trophies and scholarships will be awarded to the top contestants. In addition to the awards the events will give them the oppor tunity to talk to others with similar skills and to investigate job possibilities. The contestants will represent Oregon high schools such as Madras, Estacada, Leb- annon. Rogue River and North Bend. After registering Friday morning they will be visiting various industrial vocational classes at CCC along with their advisors and friends. "As there will be many high school stu- dents and other participants visiting classes and touring around campus, please be good hosts and make them feel welcome," said Gib Bloomquist, chairman of the Olympics. Festival highlights Earth Week I The skill contests will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The awards ceremony will be held immediately following the con tests. Judging the contests will be people from local business and instructors from Oregon State University. Bloomquist and Larry Noonan, co-chair men of the Olympics have been working on the Skill Olympics for the past year along with Bill Hargadine who has helped set up the facilities. "The Skill Olympics is helpful in that it gives those who are tops in their field the prestige to go on and improve or seek jobs, not just in professional college courses but all skill areas," said Bloomquist. Associated Student Government at Clack amas Community Qollege will sponsor the second annual Spring Arts and Ecology Festival, Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23 as part of the college's Earth Week events (April 18 through 25). "The festival will feature a plant sale, exhibits by local artists, environmental sket ches by Schizoid Plus and tours of the Environmental Learning Center (ELC)," said Jerry Bellavita, ASG senator. The Clackamas County Extension Ser vice and the 4-H clubs have adopted this year's state theme for Earth Week, "Plan ning Oregon's Tomorrow," as the theme for a jointly sponsored poster competition. Con test entries from local high schools and grade schools will be on display in the Community Center Mall throughout Earth Week. "I think the theme is an inspirational one," Bellavita said, "and deserving of ser ious thought." Each day at 1 p.m. beginning April 18, Jerry Herrmann will conduct a compost seminar. "Herrmann will turn garbage into dirt," according to Bellavita. Ken Roberts (a CCC student) will moder ate a panel discussion of the Experimental Energy Exposition on Wednesday, April 20, from 2 to 5 p.m. in CC-117. The sympo siumwill be a "group brainstorming session" and will ask the question, "how do we get out of the energy mess we're in?", said Bellavita. Saturday, April 23, the ELC will be dedicated to John Inskeep, former Oregon state senator. The Oregon National Guard will participate in the flag-raising ceremony. Symbolic of the celebration, the green Inter national Ecology Flag will fly over the ELC. The concept of Earth Week is not a new one. On October 15, 1969, over one million Americans demonstrated for a war mora torium. Lighted candles in the major cities of the U.S. proclaimed a "celebration of life." The day was designated Earth Day. Now the war is over. The celebration, like the people, has undergone a change. This celebration draws its fervor from the living. The aim, as Bellavita sees it, is to "reach a sane relationship with our environment." Board of Education hopefuls voice college concerns Elections for two positions on the Clack- mas Community College Board of Educa- m will be Tuesday, April 19. Clackamas County District Attorney Roger Rook is currently on the CCC Board if Education and is running for a third erm. Rook is running unopposed in Zone [Rex Putnam school district. Although Rook has not officially an- )unced his platform, he said he has a con- nuing interest to provide the community lithLeducation through the community ■ege. ■"I want CCC to be made available to the community to use after the regular 8 i.m. to 5 p.m. hours," said Rook. ■Rook would like to make the campus ■pen to the public during the weekend so ■people may use the facilities. Running for the board I position in Zone 6, (Estacada) are Corrine "Bonnie" Jones; Estacada, Ruth Kaser; Molalla and Betty Tuffli; Oregon City. Jones is currently on the CCC Board of Education and will run against Kaser and Tuffli for the four-year position. "I've been on the CCC Board and know enough about it to do more good," said Jones. "I want to see that the college serves the people because that is what it is for," said Jones. 36 GREAT SANDWICHES I CHOPPING BLOCK I Lmu-HÊ CATERING PLACe awJ 'Clackamas Community College centimeters Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab Kaser has never run for a board position but is impressed with CCC and feels that it has come a long way. "We live in the far end of the county," said Kaser, "and some representation from this end should be on the board." Tuffli is also running for a board posi tion for the first time. Tuffli has an interest in education and has taught high school business classes. Tuffli said she wants to be "a voice of the common people who are concerned about their tax dollars and the education of the people of the community."
