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Wednesday, December 6,1995
News/Feature
Pipe break floods Harmony
Brad Zimmerman
Staff Writer
The Harmony building was
closed Nov. 22 due to a break in a
water pipe.
The 1.5 inch diameter pipe,
buried underneath a concoction of
rebar, cement and concrete, suf
fered from electrolysis, according
to Dean of College Services, Gary
Dirrim.
Maintenance was able to lo
cate and repair the problem over
the weekend, and the Harmony
building was reopened on Mon
day.
This isn’t the first time this
has happened, however. Dirrim
said that CCC experienced a simi
lar problem two years ago. Most
pipes, when they do need repair,
are easier to get at than those at
Harmony, since the Harmony
College
students
clean up
Amy K. Hanson
Managing Editor
A group of Clackamas Com
munity College students helped
with the Phillips Creek Clean-up
on Saturday Nov. 18.
An activity sponsored by
Americorp and Green Corp, the
clean up was an effort to improve
the water quality for the Mt. Scott/
Kellogg Creek Watershed and to
restore the creek to its natural eco
system.
The Americorps National
Service is President Clinton’s an
swer to Peace Corps. It is fund
ing Neighborhood Green Corps,
who in turn works in partnership
with the Oregon Student Public
Interest
Research
Group
(OSPIRG) and National Wildlife
Organization to conduct the
StreamWalk project.
The purpose of the
StreamWalk project is to provide
communities with resources and
opportunities to improve water
quality and to clean up local wa
terways.
Organized by Ken Eshelman
of the ASG legislative committee,
a group made up of 10 students
and one staff member contributed
to the cause by cleaning an area
near 82nd Avenue by Clackamas
Town Center. They were 11 of the
65 volunteers from local colleges.
“One of the focuses is to
make it fun,” Eshelman said.
The next event of this type
will be in January carrying an
environmental concern and the
Americorp slogan, “Getting
Things Done.”
To get involved volunteers
are invited to attend Environmen
tal Committee meetings each
Tuesday from 12:30 to 12:50 p.m.
in Dye 103 or contact Ken
Eshelman at ext. 2245.
Eshelman thanks students
Bonita Daniels, Helen Dunlap,
Jacob Boenisch, Linda Nguyen,
Shannon Gadbury, John May,
Kelly Sullivan, Katie Folliard,
Maggie Chapin and staff member
Moana Wegesend for volunteer
ing.
building was built approximately
50 years ago and has its pipes run
ning underneath the building, as
opposed to the more modern
a
This isn’t
the first
time this
has
happened
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method of putting them overhead,
for easier access.
“Kirk and his staff are going
to develop a plan that will ulti
mately go overhead with all the
AUTOTECH
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program. The latest donation is
a 1995 4-Runner that has body
damage. Essig explained that
Toyota does not want any
wrecked vehicles sitting around
Umpqua’s campus, so CCC has
agreed to repair the damage at
its cost. In return, Clackamas
will be receiving a new four
door station wagon for the train
ing program.
“There’s $28,000 sitting
right there that the manufac
turer is giving to us to teach on,
because they want technicians
to know the latest,” Essig said
about the 4-Runner. “They
could care less about them
working on a Mustang or an old
Chevy pickup or something.
TACT
pipes...that’s something we’re
going to have to do down there,
as a long term solution to an ag
ing problem,” said Dirrim.
After staff informed Dirrim
of a possible break, Dirrim or
dered the water to be shut off and
classes to be canceled until it
could be determined what the
problem was. An “emergency lo
cator service” was called in to lo
cate the break point, so mainte
nance crews weren’t wasting time
by digging in the wrong spots.
Maintenance started working on
the problem late Friday and were
able to finish on Saturday.
The only other place in any
danger of flooding right now (due
to the recent period of rain) is the
Arts building and measures have
been taken to prevent such occur
rences.
They want them to know what’s
going to happen when they walk
out in the field the first day.”
Although the college does
not yet have any students regis
tered, Essig anticipates having
two to three starting winter
term.
“I’ve already approached
all the dealers in providing stu
dents,” he said. “I’ve turned in
two already, a student from Or
egon City and a student from
Molalla.”
Essig believes that upon
completion of this program,
technicians can be earning from
$30,000 to $40,000 a year in less
than three years.
Essig can be contacted in
the automotive department in
Lower Barlow Hall or by phone
at (503) 657-6958 ext. 2511.
these technical programs. By the
fall of ’89, Wight was working at
the center part time.
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Shuffling between designing
skills.
“Overseeing the TACT Cen a program for voc. rehab and the
ter,” explains Wight, “uses every center kept Wight busy until the
spring of 1990. When the ap
thing I’ve ever learned.”
The center was designed in proval of a Voc. Rehab, grant
came through for
1989 to offer
the Center, Wight
people with dis
became full-time.
abilities full ac
“Some students
cess to comput
attend Clackamas
ers. Wight en
just for this pro
rolled in the cen
gram,” Wight ex
ter March of ’89
plains. “Voc. Re
as a suggestion
hab. sends stu
from her counse
dents who have
lor,
David
MS, severe emo
Campbell. She
tional disabilities
knew nothing
and pnysical limi
about computers,
tations to the cen
but needed assis
Photo by Josh Kehler
ter.”
tance in her Ca Jan Wight created and
“The TACT
reer Opportunity manages the TACT Center
Center is a won
class.
“I had never touched a com derful opportunity for students
puter then,” she revealed. Look with disabilities to demonstrate
ing past her desk at eight fully what they know using assistive
compatible computers, it is obvi technology and to learn what they
ous that she learned quickly. With need to know to bypass their dis
her background as a bookkeeper ability,” said Cyndi Andrews, di
and secretary, it did not take her rector of the Learning Resource
very long to master the keyboard. Center. “The supportive atmo
Wight got restless and bought sphere goes hand in hand with the
herself Wordstar and Wordperfect assistive technology in order to
for the lab. She taught herself and help students succeed.”
The TACT Center is located
purchased a variety of other soft
in the Dye Learning Center. It is
ware programs.
With her Bachelors in Psy open everyday, from 8 a.m. to 5
chology and Occupational p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays
Therapy, it was natural for Wight and Fridays, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
to teach other students how to use Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Student canned food
drive helps needy
Lora Wahrgren
Staff Writer
Two weeks before Thanks
giving break the students attend
ing classes in the Dye Learning
center collected canned food to
donate to a local food bank. All
350 cans collected were sent to
the Oregon City Methodist
church.
The group of students that
took part in the canned food drive
were GED/ High School and
Adult Basic Skills students. Ad
visor Cathy Yamamura stated that
she and the students, “just wanted
to give back to the community.”
And what better way than collect
ing canned food for the less for
tunate around the holidays?
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Keep informed during inclement weather
with the following radio stations. These radio stations
will be notified in time to broadcast the information prior
to 7 a.m. (for day classes) or 3 p.m. (for evening classes):
FM Radio
Stations
KGON 92.3
KXL
95.5
KISN
97.1
KUPL 98.5
KWJJ
99.5
AM Radio
KINK 620
KXL
750
KWJJ
1080
KEX
1190
KUPL 1330
KFFX
1520
KKRZ
KUFO
KINK
KKCW
KXYQ
100.3
101.1
101.9
103.3
105.1
For those who commute long distances, the most
up-to-the-minute information on college closure will be
available by calling 503-657-6958 for the recorded mes
sage. “College Closed” signs will also be posted at
each of the two entrances to the main campus and at
the bus stop.
CCC has never been closed during exam week but,
in the event of a first daytime closure during the Mon
day-Wednesday schedule, exams will be moved to the
same time Thursday. A second daytime closure will be
moved to a like Friday schedule, and evening closures
to Friday evening at the same time.
Final exam schedule
Mon.
12/11
Tues.
12/12
Wed.
12/13
MWF
Classes
8-9
8-10
9-10
10-11
8-10
10-12
11-12
12-1
10-12
12-2
12-2
1-2
2-3
2-4
3-4
2-4
TTh
Classes
8-9:30
8-10
9:30-11
10-12
11-12:30
12-2
1:30-3
2-4
3-4:30
4-6
Conflicts
4-6
4-6