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Retired Person's Exhange gives Costa Ricans chance to visit CCC Continued from page 1 River and Mount Hood'.. They will go home Nov. 2 after a fare well dinner at the Raven’s Nest Restaurant at Timberline. The Retired Person’s Ex change Program is currently cel ebrating its eighth anniversary. Each year a group from Costa Rica comes here in October and a group-from Oregon goes there in January. The program is un der the Oregon Chapter of the. National Partners of the Ameri cas, which was founded in 1964 under President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress agenda. The Partners of the Ameri cas is the largest volunteer or ganization in the Western Hemi sphere and exists to promote in- ter-American friendships, coop eration, understanding, and so cial and economic development. Within the organization each state is grouped with a Central American, South American, or Caribbean country. To date, Oregon is the only state to have created a Retired Person’s Ex change Cultural Program. Applications are now being offered for a trip next spring, go ing to Costa Rica. There aré no major requirements to become a host family. They just ask-that the hosts treat the visitors as family and either provide trans portation to even or make ar rangements for car pooling. If you wish to be involved now or in the future contact the Holleys at 639-3346. CCC participates in 'Shop for a Job1 Amy K. Hanson Managing Editor Looking for part time work for the holidays? Clackamas Town Center (CTC) will be host ing “Shop for a Job” from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on October 21. A variety of businesses and Organizations will have tables and booths set up for information on applying for seasonal jobs. CCC will have its own booth set up in the Cedars Area. General information about the college will be available, as well as microskills assessment, a 15 to 20 minute test of interests and preferences, that aids in un derstanding career goals and di rection. CCC will also be offering four workshops, one each hour, beginning at 11:30 a.m, These workshops will include job search techniques, job interviewing, re sume writing and how to fill out a job application form. Workshops of this type are also available at CCC each term through the Career Development Center. The Career Development Center, located in the community center, is a source for career and job help and information. Current job listings, Career Information System (CIS) and much more can be found. The Career Develpment Cen ter will be holding a career mar ket in the Gregory Forum from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 21. A variety of professionals will be available to talk to about their oc cupational fields, including a law yer, journalist and broadcastor. A new Resume Work Station has been added. Available to all students, staff and community members, the station provides access to Word.Perfect 6.Q, easy- to-use resume writing software, a laser printer and resume paper. For more information on ca reer workshops or job finding as sistance contact Ethel Swanson, Career Resource Specialist, in CC108 or by calling ext. 2396. The Clackamas Print Staff Editor-in-Chief: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2576) Managing Editor: Amy K. Hanson (Ext. 2576) Feature Editor: Jon Roberts (Ext. 2578) Sports Editor: Jesse Sowa (Ext. 2578) Photography Editor: Josh Kehler (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Vicki Welch (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Brendon Neal (Ext. 2576) Business Manager: Cori Karget (Ext. 2578) ♦ ♦♦♦ Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Dan Anderson, Megan Friedow, Lora Wahrgren, Linda Barr Batdorf, Andrew Beck, Pamela Sirianni, Nikki Fuller, Paul Ulman, Lisa Marie Secretary: JoAnne Gale (Ext. 2309) Advisor : Linda Vogt (Ext. 2310) The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty or The Clackamas Print's advertisers. Products and services ad vertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication distributed every Wednesday except for finals week. The adver tising rate is $4.50 per column inch. All signed letters to the editor will be considered for publication and must be submitted by 1 p.m. the Friday prior to the next issue. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045; Barlow 104; (503) 657-6958, ext. 2309. E-mail: cccprint @ clackamas.cc.or.us Photo by Josh Kehler The Environmental Learning Center, located here on campus is also home to a nature park, Birds of Prey exhibit and the Haggart Observatory. The new director, Vaughn Brown has begun to place more emphasis on the nature park and recycling program. ELC changes focus of programs Pamela Sirianni Staff Writer The Environmental Learning Center is redirecting its focus put ting an emphasis on its nature park and recycling program. The ELC has a new Execu tive Director, Vaughn Brown. Brown is doing some long range planning and addressing the needs of environmental educa tion. Brown says that over the past few years ¡the ELC has spread its branches as far as possible and now it’s time to narrow the focus. One focus is the John Inskeep Nature Park. In the nature park people from the community and beyond have the opportunity to see native plants used in ways to support animals and help the en vironment. Brown says that the nature park can be considered a footprint of a larger ecosystem. The ELC presents classes that identify native plants and explains ways to use them in home landscapes. These classes offer hands on demonstrations for children and adults. The ELC has a nursery that sells native plants to those inter ested in native landscapes. This gives people the opportunity to take a class on native plant land scapes and be provided with a place to purchase the plants dis cussed in the class. The other major focus of the ELC is its involvement with re cycling. In the past the ELC was one of a few places that took recy clable materials. Now recycling has gained popularity and a vari ety of places accept recyclable ma terials. Brown says that he is happy to see so many people re cycling. The ELC is now moving for- ward with recycling by creating products made*of recycled mate rials. The goal is to find prod ucts that have appeal to the pub lic. The ELC is experimenting with picnic benches made of re cycled plastic and plastic-wood composition. Brown says that he would like to see ELC help manu facturers get involved with mak ing products out of recycled ma terials. The ELC had moved its fo cus from collecting recyclable materials to creating products with those materials, but it still accepts recyclable materials with an appreciated $3 donation; The ELC is also the home of Oregon’s largest public observa tory, Haggart Observatory, and the Northwest Birds of Prey Program. If you have never been to the Environmental Learning Center or just want see what is going on there, drop by and check it out. ----- Commentary----------- ----------------- —--------- —------ 1,1 'Print* advisor reflects on student spirit Linda Vogt Advisor Coming back after a year of sabbatical leave is a little like getting off the airplane after an 11 -hour flight to Rome: it’s dis orienting, and there is immedi ate culture shock. As I wound up my year of sabbatical and contemplated coming back to Clackamas Community College^ one thought kept recurring: there are good people here, and it is a great place to spend each work ing day. That, and I realized that even though I hadn’t missed the weekly deadlines of the student newspaper, I had missed the in teraction with the dedicated group of student editors and writers who crank this paper Out. At a gathering of journal ism educators last weekend, what we all seemed to marvel about is the spirit with which our students approach this ma jor task of creating a newspaper each week. As one of my col leagues here told me ten years ago when I began at Clackamas, “Journalism is the only program on campus where the students’ work is regularly collected and published for all the rest of us to read!” She’s right - and that puts a great deal of pressure on those students; they handle it with grace. What I see here in Barlow 104, the Publications Lab, is 17 people who spend nearly every “free” moment in their daily lives as students to work on this paper. They interview, write, edit, grapple with the computers, shoot photos, develop film in a tiny darkroom, figure out how to use the scanner, check their Email, learn the fine points of desktop publishing in PageMaker, discuss editorial ideas, work late into the evening Monday and all day Tuesday to put out The Clacka mas Print. They also leave many, many phone messages for faculty and staff members, and wait pa tiently for a call back. As with journalism staffs everywhere, these students do this because they seem to love it: the weekly deadline pressures, the opportunities to interview inter esting people, the chance to be at the center of a controversy, the power that lies with the writ ten, word. And, I suppose, they do it because they can have some fun with it once in awhile, too. These next two days, the members of The Clackamas Print staff will be on a two-day retreat - planning, creating ideas for future issues, playing “Scruples” (so we can find out if we have any - you know what people say about the Press) - and just having.some time to get away from the pressures of be ing’ a student. We hope to come back energized and ready to do a quality paper. By the way, these students' names are all listed on this page. If you know any of them, mention once in awhile that you’ve read their work or noticed their photos; those remarks help balance out the calls we get when we mis spell a name! Thanks for reading The Clackamas Print
