Retired Person's Exhange gives
Costa Ricans chance to visit CCC
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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)
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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)
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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.
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'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