WedNEsdAy, F eóruarv 14, 2001
ThE ClAckAMAS P rìnt
Automotive department keeps your car rollin’
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Feature Editor
To fund student scholar
ships as well as purchase new
equipment, the automotive de
partment at Clackamas has es
tablished a program where do-
nated vehicles are being re
paired and sold while giving
automotive students work ex
perience.
Ever since the car
donation program
started five years
ago, people have do
nated vehicles primarily as
tax deductions. After inspect
ing a donated vehicle, a deci-
sion has to be made whether
the car is worth being fixed. A
careful inspection is necessary.
“We take the vehicles that
are decent enough and do any
minor or sometimes major re
pairs, whatever is- necessary,
and then sell the vehicle,” said
Ray Conklin, automotive de
partment chairman. “We get
more cars than we can accept.
People often times want to give
us vehicles that would cost
more in repairs than they are
worth, then we have to say no.”
Sometimes they
don’t always know the extent
of a car’s needed repairs.
“Really old cars with low
value don’t even come here.
Occasionally, we make a mis
take in accepting a car," said
Conklin. "We had two cars
where we discovered that we
couldn’t really do anything
with them and they have been
sitting around for awhile.
Sometimes we scrap the cars
ourselves and use some of the
parts for our training program,”
he said.
When a vehicle is sold, a ma
jority of the money goes into a
schnlarshij^account, and some
is used to buy new
equipment.
Don ate d
vehicles are
not
only
used for the
purpose of being re-
paired and sold, but occasion
ally for training as well.
“Once in a while, we use a do
nated car for training. Most of
the time they are not appli
cable. We try to keep our train
ing vehicles as new as pos
sible,” said Conklin.
Beside s
working with
donated
cars, the
a u t o m o -
tive depart
ment runs
their shop
just like a regular auto
repair outlet.
“People call us all
time because they are having
trouble with their vehicles. We
don’t charge for labor," ex
plained Conklin. According to
him, only parts are being
charged for.
Being involved in the auto
motive program requires a sense of
responsibility and a good working at
titude.
“The first day of class, we tell
our students that this isn’t so
much a class but rather a job. We
make the assumption that the
students are here be
cause they want to
become employ
as
tech-
n i -
dans,”
said
Conklin.
“It’s a pass-fail
class and we’re very strict
about it. In order to pass the class,
you have to have at least 80 per
cent attendance, and you can’t be
late for class more than four times,”
he said.
Anyone interested in donating
a car or buying a used one can call
Ray Conklin at x2320.
Heimowitz serves as ELC’s new education coordinator
CORINNE RUPP
Opinion Editor
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
Alison Heimowitz is the new
education coordinator at the
Environmental Learning
Center.
Since the beginning of the win
ter semester, Alison Heimowitz has
taken the reins of the Environmen
tal Learning Center’s education
programs as its new education co
ordinator.
It has been a smooth transition
for Heimowitz, who came to CCC
after 2 1/2 years as a coordinator
atOMSI.
“I have a good foundation to
build on,” she said.
Native to Arizona, Heimowitz
came to Oregon with her husband
to attend University of Oregon
where she received her second
bachelor’s degree in science edu
cation.
“I’ve gone from being a desert
rat to being a duck with wet feet,”
joked Heimowitz.
While her sense of humor hasn ’ t
been dampened by the wet weather
in the Pacific Northwest, she does
take her job very seriously. While
Studying for her first bachelor’s
degree at the. University of Ari
zona, Heimowitz had an epiphany.
“Somewhere around my junior/
senior year, the light bulb went off
and I thought, you know, to really
make a difference in terms of con
servation it comes back to educa
tion. You have to teach people why
the environment is so impor
tant.”
Science education is not new
for Heimowitz. After receiving
her teaching certificate, she
moved to Washington ,and
taught eighth grade science be
fore moving back to Oregon
with her husband and children.
A resident of Oregon City,
Heimowitz is thrilled to be
working in her own neighbor
hood.
“I wanted to work in the com
munity that I lived in,” she said.
The opportunity to work lo
cally will be even more present
after spring break, when she
will begin coordinating student
volunteers from the education and
science departments to work with
school kids in the Oregon City
School District. The district re
ceived a 21sl Century Grant from
the government to expand science
education. Heimowitz will be train
ing volunteers to go out to the
schools and educate kids in vari
ous environmental science fields.
“It’s a great opportunity. The
more experience they can get, the
better,” she said of the student vol
unteers.
This work study program is in
its fourth year here at CCC.
“It is an incredible resource for
the students and the college,” she
said.
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‘agree’ with ‘Mike’ or some
other name. It’s not that I dis
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group member) espouses. It’s
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dha” would they be allowed?
Would we think the campus
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agreed with Shiva? Well, the
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is, the REAL MESSAGE got
lost in the quirky ad campaign
and Paul...that is a crying
shame.
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