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October 8, 1997
Cafeteria: New director makes effective changes
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In progress are ideas for a nutritional
menu (some items, such as yogurt, melon
crowns and juices, are already available)
and for a budget menu, featuring low-cost
items like hamburgers and tacos.
Rick Traynor
Director of
dining services
Students and faculty are invited to at
tend food committee meetings with
Traynor monthly. The committee deter
mines new items to be added to the menu,
based on surveys of students and other pro
spective customers. Dates have not been
specified yet, but Traynor expects to have
a meeting with the committee in October.1
In addition to new products, the cafete
ria now offers expanded service hours. It
is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday
through Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Fridays, and on Saturday mornings
from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
The campus cafeteria is stepping up its
efforts to use more environmentally safe
products and to recycle. It has switched
from styrofoam to safer polystyrene and
papercups.
Traynor graduated from Eastern Oregon
University in LaGrande, where he was pro
duction manager in the cafeteria. He is en
joying the change of scenery since mov
ing to Oregon City.
Traynor has made many new friends, but
the drastic change in environmenthas been
difficult to deal with at times. It is still a
big change because he came from a town
that “didn’t evert have a stoplight”
Marcia McCormick, a graduate of a cu
linary arts program in Bend, has been hired
as the new cook The core staff is the same
as last year, and the new part-time student
staff has blended in well. “I’m really
pleased with them,” said Traynor.
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“Sales seem to be at as high of a level or
a little above last year,” Traynor said, add
ing that the staff and faculty of Clackamas
have been great to work with and have
made the transition easy for him.
Traynor invites anyone to come to the
cafeteria and try the new products. He
also welcomes any suggestions. “What
dp you want? We’ll do it for you,” he said.
TIM BELL / Clackamas Print
Rick Traynor is the new director of
dining services for the cafeteria.
Campus buildings
under reconstruction
ROBERT SCHOENBERG
Staff Writer
Repairs on three water damaged campus buildings will be
completed by the end of March, 1998. Administration officials
are confident that the threat of health problems from air-bom
mold spores has been eliminated.
Gary Dirrim, Director of College Services, said that mold
spores were affecting the health of Clackamas staff members
early in 1996. Water has damaged Gregory Forum and Dye
Learning Center, (both of which have been closed) and Streeter
Hall, which is still open for use by faculty and students.
Dirrim said that repairs are'on schedule. Gregory Forum is
due to reopen at the end of December, 1997. Dye Learning
Center is scheduled to reopen in January, 1998. Streeter Hall
repairs will be finished later in Spring, 1998. -
Cause of the damage to the buildings, built in 1991 and 1992,
was attributed to water intrusion under the exterior walls of the
buildings, known as Exterior Insulative Finish System, (EIFS).
After the problem was discovered by the administration,
Clayton EnvironmentalConsultants (CEC), a consulting firm
specializing in microbial problems, tested the EIFS and found
some areas of the wood framing under the exterior walls had a
50% water content The wood had rotted and mold began to
grow. It was spores from these molds that entered the buildings
causing allergic reactions in some people. At least nine molds
were identified during testing.
CEC Continues to test the air in the buildings weekly for the
TIM BELL/ Clackamas Print
Work continues on Gregory Forum.
spores and to identify affected areas of the buildings to be re
moved for repairs, said Dirrim. ’
The repairs require that the EIFS be removed from all exte
rior walls along with any rotted wood of the buildings’ framing
before a new exterior finish can be applied. In all the buildings,
interior sheet rock is also being replaced along with carpets
running along exterior walls.
“Better to replace the carpet rather than clean it up so that the
mold can be completely eradicated,” said Dirrim.
Williams BuildingDiagnostics Inc., a building enclosure con
sultant, has been monitoring the repairs. The buildings were cov
ered with scaffolding and a covering sheath of plastic to prevent
any more damage from rain.
No students have shown any reaction to the airborne spores,
which occur naturally outdoors, according to Dirrim. The mold
problem first came to the attention of the; administration when
Clackamas staff members complained of respiratory problems in
1996.
Some staff members have filed for Workers Compensation
with the State of Oregon and the School Administration has hired
a medical consultant to help with any health problems. Dirrim
does not see any new health problems occurring.
“The air in Streeter Hall has fewer spores now than there are
naturally outdoors.’4
Cost for the repairs by Anderson Construction is guaranteed to
be no more than $3,700,00. Clackamas is seeking repair costs
from the original contractors who built the buildings and the ar
chitects who designed them and are asking compensation from
the insurance companies involved.
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