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Clackamas hosts a day of competition and hotrods
In a race against the
clock, automotive
teams test their skills
DIANA SCRIVNER
Associate News Editor
Students looked on as 20
high school contestants re
paired 10 new “bugged” Ford
cars in the lower courtyard dur
ing the 51 st annual Ford/AAA
Student Auto Skills “hands-
on” Competition last Friday.
The competition, hosted by
Clackamas’ automotive depart
ment, has been held at
Clackamas for many years.
“It’s been a tradition we’ve
had since the 70’s,” said Ray
Conklin, automotive depart
mentchairman.
“It’s
good publicity and we need the
practice.”
At 10 a.m., the high school
seniors from schools through
out Oregon began to de-bug
the cars, which had been
planted with identical malfunc
tions. Each team was given 90
minutes to find and fix as many
of the malfunctions as pos
sible.
Clackamas auto service stu
dents served as team judges.
Their role was to give good
parts to the team in exchange
for the bad parts. George War
ren, who has been part of the
event since 1957, trained them
for 45 minutes before the event
on the competition rules and
regulations, so that no team
would have an unfair advan
tage.
The team finding the most
bugs in the shortest amount of
time was the winner.
“The emphasis is on quality,”
said Conklin.
The winners of the competition
were Tim DeBoer and Scott
Ussing from Vale High School,
Top: Teams line up waiting
for the signal to start.
Center: The team from St.
Helens checks under the
hood in a race against the
clock to find ail the bugs.
PHOTOS BY JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print
Clackamas hosted a hot-rod show open for
student and staff to vote for the best roadster.
who finished in 27 minutes and
found all of the bugs.
Vale High School, instructed
by Merle Saunders, has won this
event 13 times since 1986. They
also have won the national event
three times in the past 10 years.
As the winning team, the Vale
students received expense-paid
trips to the national (50-state)
competition in Washington D.C.
in June, plus $500 spending
money.
They also each received two-
year, “full-ride” scholarships to
Mt. Hood Community College’s
Ford Training program; a Crafts
man Tool box set; and a multi
media CD ROM package.
Vale High school had previ
ously won the award for the writ
ten part of the competition which
was held in February and quali
fied them for Friday’s hands-on
event.
“His students consistently are
Team St. Helens does one last check for
problems.
achieving high scores on the
test,” said Conklin.
Approximately 15 schools from
across Oregon participated in the
February written examination. At
that time, one (two-person) team
from each of the top ten schools
was chosen to compete in the
Clackamas hands on competi
tion.
The names of all schools com
peting last Friday were entered
in a drawing to receive a free
training car from Ford for a year.
Vale was drawn randomly and
won that prize too.
Concurrently with the auto
skills competition, Clackamas
hosted a hot-rod show in the
main garage of Barlow. It was
open for students and staff to
vote on which car they thought
was the best. The winning hot
rod was a 32 Ford Roadster,
owned by Keith Strohecher of
Portland.
ASG holds first success dinner for child-care recipients, fund-raisers
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Staff Writer
A success dinner for Asso
ciated Student Government
member«, Foundation board
members and child-care recipi
ents and their children will be
held May 19, 6-8 p.m., in the
Gregory Forum.
“We want to encourage
child- care recipients and other
people who are listening, and
we want them to get the feel
ing that they can be success
ful,” explained Glorianne
Muggli, ASG officer for child
care and vice president-elect.
“It’s also a thank you to the
Foundation board members
who raise all the money being
used for child-care grants.”
This is the first ASG success
dinner. Entertainment as well as
food will be provided.
“The children are going to
have a little party, we are go
ing to think of some games to
entertain them; for the adults,
there should be some musical
entertainment,” Muggli said. “
We have corn dogs for the kids
and marinated chicken as well
as some vegetarian alterna-
tives to offer,” Muggli contin
ued.
Approximately four speakers
will address the attendees, in
cluding ‘Punky’ Scott, a Foun
dation board member; Brian
Fuentez, ASG president-elect;
and two child care recipients.
ASG members are hoping for
a nice turnout and good atten
dance.
“Hopefully it will turn out the
way we wanted it to and we will
have a really nice program,”
Muggli finished. “If it turns
out, we will probably do it
again, next year.”
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