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Page 2 THE CLACKAMAS PRINT NEWSj/FEATURE May 29,1991 Essay contest winners selected 'Impossible Years' ends Sunday Director Jack Shields and cast will be presenting The Impos sible Years in the McLoughlin Theatre this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. A performance is also scheduled for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children and free for seniors with reservations. Contact the Communications and Theatre Arts Department at ext. 356. Athletes awarded Hie college athletic department named this year’s scholar ath letes after reviewing the nominees who each had accumulated 60 credits with a minimum grade point average of 3.0. Greg Hess was named the male recipient of the award named after former Dean of Students Jim Roberts. K.C. Jones and Jacquie Romine were named co-recipients of the Carol Petersen award, named for thecollegeath- letic director. College garden project underway The “Green Fingers Community Garden Project” is currently underway. The college is preparing the land; gardens will be as signed and watered twice a week. There is a $10 fee to register. Contact the Community Recreation office at ext 211 for more information. Graduation June 7 Graduation announcements are available in the college Bookstore, which is temporarily located in Streeter Hall. Nursing announcements are also available. The ceremony will be June 7 at 7 p.m. in the Randall Gymnasium. Caps and gowns will be available free of charge through Student Activities now through June 6. Graduating Phi Theta Kappa members can see Annette Andre in M-251 to pick up order forms for stoles and/or tassels which may be worn during the ceremony. New art exhibit open The student art show is open in the Pauling Gallety. More than 100 students have their paintings, drawings, ceramics, jewelry and photography on display. The exhibit will continue through May 30. For more information contact the Art Department at ext. 35Î. Rafting trip offered for disabled The program “Rivers of Life: White Water Raft Trips for Personal Growth” is being sponsored by the Clackamas Continu ing Education Department. The focus will be on water safety and recreation. They are said to be great for the individual who lives in an adult group home or has developmental disabilities. The $29 fee includes the pre/post trip sessions on May 28 and June 4 and the trip on June 1. Call ext. 324 for more information or to register. Tennis tournament this weekend The spring singles tennis tournament is scheduled for May 31 from 5 to 10 p.m. and will continue June 1-2,9 a.m. to 10 p.m.. There are five divisions with ability levels for men and women. It is a single elimination tournament and all matches will be played to the best 2 of 3 sets. There is a $5 fee. Contact the Community Recreation Office at ext 211 for more information. Concert set for June 3 The Clackamas Music Department will present a variety of voice and instrumental numbers in their concert slated for June 3 at 3 p.m. in the CC Mall. The event is free. Call ext. 434 for more information. Big Band Ball on Friday Dance to thé unforgettable tunes of Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey and others from the Big Band era this Friday as the Clackamas Music Department presents the Big Band Ball under the direction of LeRoy Anderson. Tickets are $6 per person or $10 a couple. This event is all the more special because Anderson is retiring after this year. Contact the Music Department at ext. 434 for more informa tion. ’ biiwiliOsi -7:-' Volleyball tournament tomorrow The co-ed three-on-three volleyball tournament is tomorrow in the Randall Gym. Interested teams can sign up on the intramural bulletin board in the lower level of Randall. The champions will receive T-shirts compliments of the CCC Intramural Department. A local essay contest was sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa. Five high schools and two grade schools participated, and the winners were selected in May. The essay topic was “Our Civilization At Risk.” President Joyce Olver and Advisor Annette Andre or ganized the event. Grade School Winners: Sarah Thompson, first place, is in the fifth grade at Carus School.Her story is based on keep ing the beaches earth-safe. Holly Williams, a fifth grader at Carus School, won second place for her essay about recycling. Third place winner Nikki Ferchland, a fifth grader at Carus School, feels recycling is file an swer to problemswith the ozone layer. First Place High School Essay: TWO ROADS, ONE FUTURE Imagine a world that is peaceful and beautiful, where a golden sun shines its rays down upon giant, healthy trees, creating wildflowers among the patches of green grass lining the clean sidewalks. Everyday, its inhabitants leave their solar- powered homes, inhale the fresh, clean air, and occasionally stop to look at the beauty of their world as they walk briskly to their places of business. In this world, joggem smile and wave as they pass each other, children pedal their bicycles to school, racing with the wind in their hair, and passers-by are smiling, contented with their lives. It is a world of joy and good health. It is the world of the future. It is the road to the right. There is also another road, a world of commotion and carelessness. Here, the scenic route is brown, barren, and dead. The ground is wet and poisonous from last nights fall of acid rain, and the smog covered sky envelopes the barren earth. Angry, horn honking maniacs drive their cars and buses, creating thick, black clouds of carbon-monoxide smoke as they speed past graffiti covered buildings, through gutter-filled streets and side walks cluttered with McDonalds wrappers and mountainous piles of poly-styrene. The inhabitants of this world run to their mail boxes with mask-covered faces, for they fear inhaling the deadly remnant of last year’s nuclear leak. It is a world of joyless faces, covered in bleak darkness. This world is the road to the left, and it, too, is the road to our future. Robert Frost, in his poem The Road Not Taken, presented the dilemma of making a choice between what one feels is right and the pressures of society. Like Frost, we too, have a decision to make. We must decide what path, the rocky or the smooth, we take to our future. Unfortunately, the trend today is to travel the easier, more convenient, popular road, and it is leading us to a world as horrible, and as dark as the one I have just described. Despite the warnings of our government and groups ;of environmentalists throughout the country, the people of this great nation are still refusing to recognize the threat to civiliza tion that they are causing. They continue to ignore worldwide problems such as non-biode- gradable products like polysty rene, life threatening acid rain and carbon monoxide caused by man-made pollutants, and the dangers of using nuclear power. Even the walls of our great cities are covered with distasteful graffiti, displaying our lack of care concerning pur environ ment. The real enigma is that a large percentage of our popula tion isn’t trying to help the situation. They are inconsider ate of a future generation of people that will see the effects of our laziness. These problems are not impossible to solve. In fact, most of these problems have rather simple solutions, and new scientific developments are being made every day to solve those that do not For example, the dilemma caused by non-biodegradable products such as polystyrene could be solved by using the biodegradable products avail able to you. Instead of going to McDonalds for a Big Mad and fries at lunchtime, brown bag it or visit a restaurant‘that doesn’t use plastic products to serve their food. Instead of writing a check to Fred Meyer’s for your next box of Pampers, order the help of a cloth diaper service. To reduce carbon monoxide in our atmosphere, since car exhaust is the main cause of smog, walk or ride a bike when you can instead of driving. Encourage the use of solar power to generate electricity and heat instead of gas and oil. Not only would these few suggestions improve the health of the earth, you may find your own health in considerably better condition. It doesn’t take much. A little cooperation in preserving our world now will pay off much more in the future. Both of these roads, the right and the left, the world of beauty and the world of black ness, have been offered to us. Which world represents our true future? It is our choice. Our every action, each decision, affects the choice that we must make. Whether our future existence consists of a world of significance and beauty, of one overshadowed in darkness is up to us. As in the case of Robert Frost, there are two roads before us. It is time to choose our way, and we must remember that even though it requires a greater effort, and as yet is not the most popular route; though it is the road less traveled by, it may make all the difference. Tonia G Boyer Oregon City High School We need you. American Heart Association^^ —.— SIGN UP FOR THE WEEKEND PAPER. Weekend College atMarylhurst is good news for people working full time. 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