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Staff Writer
Clackamas County "Fill a
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tmps stockings to needy
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tmps socks available on
us and is encouraging
am as staff and students
tidipate in the program,
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lea through Dean of In-
tion Dian Connett in
w hairroom 213, English
rtnpent Chair Emily Or
in ptreeter Hall room 131,
iglish Department Secre-
l ita Dale.
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te ge group ranging from
I >orn to senior citizens.
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lata the stockings. The socks
Id be returned by Dec. 14.
rding to Orlando, a rela-
y small effort by those
: fortunate can make a
d of difference to someone
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so much
to people who have
nothing,” she said.
Orlando suggested such
stocking stuffers as soap,
toothpaste, a hairbrush, or co
logne, and fun things like fin
gernail polish, beanie babies or
movies pass.
“People don’t realize how
powerful their actions can be,”
she remarked. “Filling up a
sock with ten bucks worth of
stuff means so much to recipi
ents.”
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ganizations.
The Oregon
City
Chamber of Commerce contin
ued the project until last year.
The program is now a separate
organization with non-profit,
tax exempt status and runs all
year in preparation for Christ
mas giving.
“The program grew so big,”
said Orlando. “Last year we
gave out 1500 stockings and
still didn’t have enough for
emergency socks during the
Christmas rush for people in
shelters.”
The campaign is run com
pletely by volunteers, accord
ing to Orlando. Local busi
nesses and people of the com
munity donate material for the
socks, gifts to use as extra fill
ers, money and time to help sort
and distribute the stockings.
About 800 yards of material
is needed to make the socks
and most of that is donated.
The Busy Bees, a fundraising
group for the Oregon City Pio
neer Community Center, sew
the socks for $1 each and the
money goes back into the com
munity center.
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Goal is 2000 stockings
Recipients of the Christmas
socks are needy people known
to such local agencies as the
Annie Ross House, Clackamas
Women’s Shelter, Healthy
Start, and Centro de Canby.
This year’s goal for the cam
paign is to distribute 2000
stockings to those who will be
facing difficult times during
thé holidays.
“Poverty is hidden but real,”
Orlando explained. “This is the
time of year that is filled with
excess— too much to eat, too
many presents. This is the only
Christmas the recipiants have.”
The "Fill a Stocking, Fill a
Heart campaign" first started
with Willamette Falls Hospital
staff who donated gifts to
Community is generous
“The entire community has
been so generous in support
ing the campaign,” said Or-
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Emily Orlando, English department chair, is helping with
this years 'Fill a Heart campaign'providing filled Christmas
stockings to needy people in the community.
lando.
The "Fill a Stocking, Fill a Heart
campaign" needs volunteers as
well as generous donations, ac
cording to Orlando. The last two
weeks before distribution involves
600 to 800 vounteered work hours.
Each sock has to be emptied,
checked for use or inappropriate
items, refilled and sorted. They have
found used candles, half-filled bottles
of lotion and socks filled only with
nuts, according to Emily Orlando.
"Volunteers are an essential
part of the program," she says.
“I’m hoping that some people from
the college will come help being little
Santa elves. These little things make
such a difference in somebody’s life.
More than you know.”
SIG recycling effort provides Clackamas with new recycle bins
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lt; MAGGIE JIRASEK
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Feature Co-Editor
1S recycling effort organized by
, Associated Student Govern-
io
al (ASG) will bring new recycle
JnClackamas’ classrooms and
■making it possible to raise
ial money for the environmental
and |for textbook and childcare
s askveil.
shortage of recycle bins became
rent this fall term, after most of
Id recycle bins were removed
o current fire codes.
O'ou cannot have bins in certain
hallways because people could trip
over them in case of fire emergen
cies,” explained Jaime Craig, envi
ronmental senator. “The fire
Marshall came in and took most of
the bins out.”
This scarcity of bins in hallways
and classrooms is making it impos
sible for students to successfully
support a recycling,program.
“We want to make sure that there
is at least one bin in each classroom,
whether the Fire Marshall wants it
or not. We don’t need fire codes for
the class rooms,” said Craig.
In order to supply all buildings
with the right number of bins, an in
ventory has to be made to decide
where to place them in hallways and
classrooms.
“We have blueprints of all the
buildings on campus and right now
we are going through the buildings
one by one to see which rooms have
bins and which ones don’t,” in
formed Craig. “Our goal is to put
both pop can recycle bins as well as
glass recycle bins in as many class
rooms as possible.”
Not all buildings on campus have
the same need for recycle bins. Sci
ence buildings, for example have
their own recycling program.
“The special chemistry glass over
in the science buildings is already
being recycled and shipped off some
place else,” said Craig. “Most of the
labs don’t allow food and drinks, so
we don’t have to worry about that—
which is kind of nice.”
It has not been decided yet who
will be in charge of picking up the
cans and making sure they will be
recycled.
“In the past, different clubs and
student groups were going around
in their little areas, picking up the
cans, recycling them and using the
money for their purposes. In my
opinion, ASG or the environmen
tal club should be able to go
around once a week, collect all
the cans and use the money for
grants, since we are the ones
providing all the bins,” argued
Craig.
Approximately $4000 will be
appropriated by ASG to buy as
many bins as possible. The one
time cost per bin is about $50. If
things are going well, most of the
classrooms and hallways will
have new recycle bins by the end
of this term.
hi Theta Kappa
!ui Xi Zeta chapter - Clackamas Community College
I■ DANA PALMER
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a Staff Writer
llackamas is home to the Al-
, Xi Zeta chapter Phi Theta
pa, a national honor soci-
thlit recognizes and pro-
eslacademic achievement
/ell as school and com-
lity involvement of
-year* college stil
ts.
_dvjsed by Dave Arter
Kate Gray, Alpha Xi
i works to benefit both
community and its stu-
t members. Students en-
edlat Clackamas who wish
oin Alpha Xi Zeta must
e a cumulative 3.5 grade
it average and be carrying
ea?t three credit hours. In
lition, students need to
e completed a minimum of
■
12 credit hours prior to appli
cation for membership. Clacka
mas’ honor club students are
diverse, and include high
school graduates, parents re
turning to the college environ
ment and students working to
update their skills.
Alpha Xi Zeta is commit
ted to the values of leader
ship, scholarship, fellowship
and service. In addition to
maintaining their academic
schedules, club members re
ceive the opportunity to
serve the community, the college
and Clackamas students. Mem-1
bers recently participated in the |
Loder Road clean up near cam-1
pus.
For information about joining .
Clackamas’ honor society, call
Dave Arter at ext. 2210.
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