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THE CLACKAMAS
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April 24,1991
A week of events honor Earth Day
Jane G Wilcox
Staff Writer
The John Inskeep Environ­
mental Learning Center (ELC),
in conjunction with the city of
Oregon City and many other local
groups, has planned a full week of
events to commemorate Earth Day.
The first of these was Saturday,
April 20, and began with the dedi­
cation of the Oregon City entrance
sign at the Metro South Transfer
Station. Tasks accomplished that
day were a ceremonial tree plant-
Cities Clean Industry tour will be
held at Smurfit Paper Corpora­
tion. Smurfit is the world’s largest
paper recycling mill, and recently
Smurfit gained the capability to
recycle magazines and high grade
paper.
“The process used is extremely
efficient and can remove the print
from pages as it breaks down the
clay used to give magazines that
high gloss look,” according to Jerry
Herrmann, executive director of
the ELC.
This Thursday at noon will
be the dedication of the Newell
Creek Canyon Natural Area ac­
quisition effort. Last Saturday, a
volunteer force of 15 people built
800 feet of trail, 300 feet of which
is graveled, in just three hours.
This trail will be used to hike down
into the canyon for the release of
10,000steelhead into the creek. A
proclamation by Mayor Dan
Fowler on the importance’of pre­
ing at Singer Hill, a city-wide Arbor serving urban streams will be made
Day clean-up effort, free waste before the release of the fish.
disposal for Oregon City residents,
“We raise 100,000 fish a year
and the building of an 800 foot here, 50,000 of those are salmon
path into Newell Creek Canyon. and steelhead raised in ditches
Yesterday, a sign marking the using runoff water from the ath­
viewpoint for Goat Island was letic fields. The others are bass,
installed. Goat Island is the state’s crappie, sturgeon, and rainbow
second largest great blue heron trout raised in the ponds,” said
rookery. After the installation of Herrmann.
the signs, a marine patrol boat
This Saturday’s efforts include
gave dignitaries a boat tour of Goat additional clean-ups. The South
Island to look for Herons.
Metro Transfer Station wetlands
Today, at 10 a.m., a Historic enhancement project will be from
9 a.m. to 3 p.in., where Boy Scouts
will install plastic lumber benches
and interpretive signage. There
will also be the Clackamas River
access trail project on Agnes
Avenue near the Tri-City Sewer
District Plant.
The week will wind up with a
Heritage Cities Tour of historic
home districts, 1-4 p.m. on Sun­
day. The tour will encompass the
Clackamas County Historical
Society’s Trails’ End Heritage
Center, Willamette Falls Locks,
area mills, and wildlife viewing
areas.
As an additional effort to make
people aware of the environment,
the Associated Student Govern­
ment, the Environmental Club,
and the ELC will place a stencil of
a fish accompanied by the warn­
ing “dump no waste, drains to
stream” on manhole covers in the
Clackamas Community College
(CCC) area.
“We really want people to be
aware of what they put in the water.
CCC is the source for Newell Creek;
the creek starts here. People need
to know that by polluting the stream
here, the whole stream is affected,”
said Randy Hodgins, environ­
mental activist and CCC student.
Weather permitting, the
manhole cover effort will be
launched May 3rd.
For more information on any
of the Earth Week activities con­
tact the ELC at657-6958, ext. 351.
Mulino Flight Center home of pilot ground school
Students go airborne in new CCC classes
by David Harrison
Staff Writer
Mulino Flight Center is a
mobile home-sized building
that provides a variety of services
to smaller planes including fuel­
ing, flight instruction, aircraft
rental, and pilot supplies (such as
the M & M’s underneath the glass
counter). It also happens to be the
home of two new classes for CCC
students who want to fly.
Jim Rooney, the instructor of
the private pilot and instrument
pilot ground schools, explained
that the two classes would help
the student pass the first of four
vital steps towards becoming a
pilot. Taking the course would
enable the student to pass the FAA
written exam, the first vital hurdle
in the race to enter a challenging
career. After the test, three more
steps, including a physical exam
and detailed flight training, re­
main.
One reason why people are
attracted to flying and join the
class is the mystique. “It’s an elite
club,” said Rooney. “Pilots are a
notch above everybody else, be­
cause they’ve worked hard for
something.”
Flying experience also comes
in handy for those needing to get
places fast and cheap, such as
businessmen, and Rooney said that
recently much of the drive into
the flight industry has been headed
by large corporations.
If you are either too busy or
too poor to go into flying with
both feet, Rooney strongly rec­
ommends an introductory flight.
With just one and a half hours of
your time and $30, you will get an
abbreviated ground school and a
half hour of pure, unadulterated
flying. College students would be
“surprised how much they’d like
the introductory flight. It opens
up a whole new world,” Rooney
said.
One of the small side benefits
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of flying is the thrill. But for those
looking for a fun, easy ride, Rooney
counsels to think twice.
“You’ll never put yourself into
anything in your life as challeng­
ing as an airplane,” he said. Life
above the clouds is not meant for
the soft.
Understandably, the weather
here in Oregon is a unique chal­
lenge to the beginning flyer. Ac­
cording to Rooney, the novice will
find that he is grounded for much
of the winter months due to treach­
erous weather and an occasional
thunderstorm. But the scenery is
something else.
Most of the land east of Mulino
is farmland and grazing pastures.
But Rooney recommends a flight
west towards Portland, with for­
ests and a spectacular night view
of the bridges and glowing lights
of the Rose City.
It’s not too late to get into the
class, if you are prepared to do
some catching up in an already
challenging class. Private pilot
ground school runs Tuesdays (until
June 4) from 6-9 p.m. in Room 11
of Mulino Grade School. Instru­
ment pilot ground school is sched­
uled for Wednesdays (through June
5) at the same location. The cost
for one of the schools is $80 plus
$85 for class materials. For the
brave few willing to soar, it will
definitely be an unforgettable
experience.
Flying is, according to Rooney,
“the last real free state... You are
loosened'from earthly bonds. You
are not tied down to roads, you’re
not tied down to curbs, you’re not
tied down to any restrictions. You
are the master of your own des­
tiny.”
Women
celebrate
women
by Jennifer Soper
News Editor
You have the opportunity to
“celebrate you” with 120 Other
women at the third annual Focus
on Women retreat May 3-5 at
YMCA Camp Collins.
“The women’s weekend isn’t
about men. It isn’t about not
wanting them there. It’s about
women enjoying being together. I
think there is a difference,” ex­
plained Linda Vogt, a coordina­
tor of the weekend.
“Women get out there and
find that it is really kind of neat to
leave their children or partners or
other things in their lives and just
get away,” Vogt continued.
Participants will have the
opportunity to attend workshops
on women and weight, relation­
ships, becoming your own hero,
abuse and addiction, sexuality,
massages and symbols. The $100
fee includes all workshops, meals,
lodging and a T-shirt to commemo­
rate the event.
All the workshops are led by
professional counselors, therapists,
or specialists in their fields.
“The workshops offer up
experiences that help women feel
good about themselves,” Vogt said.
“We try to balance things about
the body, the mind and the spir-
tual or emotional.”
In “Feeding the Hungry Heart:
Women and Weight,” counselor
Leslie Black will explore the rela­
tionships between food, weight and
nurturance.
“We will experience ways to
‘feed ourselves’ through a diet of
compassion, forgiveness and self­
acceptance,” explained the Focus
brochure.
Mental health therapist Mary
Fitzgerald, a returning speaker,
will examine the stages of love,
ways people communicate and the
role feelings play in developing
intimacy.
Oregonian columnist Jann
Mitchell will talk about becoming
your own hero. The focus will be
on defining who you are and what
you believe in, and getting in touch
with dreams and following them.
“The thing that really makes
this successful is the energy put
into this by different women,” said
Vogt.
“The most valuable part isn’t
the program. It’s all the other stuff.
Getting to know you,” Vogt con­
cluded.
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