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V^fresdAy, MAy 1, 2002
Children have fun, explore future opportunities
• Internet scavenger
hunt and ELC
activities entertain
kids and adults
during annual
event
FRANKJORDAN
News Editor
The 10th annual Take Our
Daughters To Work Day took
place on the Clackamas campus
last Thursday, April 25, with girls
and boys following their parents,
grandparents, aunts, uncles and
friends through a fun-filled day.
The event, sponsored nation
ally by Ms. Magazine and locally
by the Clackamas Community Col
lege chapter of the American As
sociation of Women in Commu
nity Colleges and the Ms. Foun
dation, helps celebrate “the girls,
parents, mentors and communities
that have helped girls stay strong
and confident over the last de
cade.”
The children who took' part in
the event got some idea what the
grown-ups in their lives do at work,
and how they can explore the op
tions for their grown-up lives.
Although most of the children
were still young enough to wait a
few years before entering
workforce, there were a couple of
teenagers in the group, and at least
one has already accomplished
some of her goals.
Mandy Caldera, daughter of
welding instructor Sue Caldera,
has already picked up an
Associate’s Degree in Automotive
Technology.
“I’ve had a really good time to
day, watching all that goes on in
my mom’s life here at the college,”
said Mandy. “It’s not quite what I
want to do, but my mom loves what
she does.”
Next year, the name of the event
nationally will change to Take Our
Daughters and Sons To Work Day,
to help include boys who may have
felt slighted by not being named
in this national event. That was
never the intent of the event’s na
tional organizers, thus the change
in the title for next year.
“We had a pretty good turnout
this year, probably not as good as
in some years past,” said Linda
Durham, an instructor in the Young
Persons Opportunity Program at
the Family Resource Center. “We
usually fill the room for the lunch,
but we still have a great group of
people this year.”
In all, 37 people enjoyed the
pizza, salad and beverage lunch
put on by Fine Host. The kids took
part in an Internet scavenger hunt
in Streeter Hall earlier in the day,
and after lunch, the kids and
adults alike went over the Environ
mental Learning Center for some
more hands-on activities.
Lynn Ahem, a horticulture stu
dent at Clackamas, brought her six-
year-old daughter, Carley, to the
luncheon and to the ELC after
wards.
“Carley was not feeling very well
today, but she really wanted to
come to this,” Ahem said. “It was
really neat for her to see what her
mother does here at school, and to
see what kind of opportunities the
future does hold for her.”
To reach Frank Jordan e-mail
fmj68@hotmail.com or drop by
B-104.
Lynn Ahern (front right), Clackamas horticulture student, helps
her six-year-old daughter, Carley, with her art during the lunch at
the Take Your Daughters To Work Day gathering in the Gregory
Forum last Thursday.
Local fundraisers scheduled to help find missing girls
SALENA DE LA CRUZ
Design Editor
May 9 will mark four months
since Ashley Pond vanished on
her way to the school bus stop and
two since Miranda Gaddis disap
peared, and still there are no solid
leads in the ca'se.
But it is not without great effort
that the search continues. On
findmiranda.com
and
findashley.com, users are banding
together in throngs to plan events,
fundraisers and show support to
the families of these missing girls.
On April 27, a pancake feed was
held to raise money for the fami
lies. A concert with Christian mu
sic will be held Saturday, May 11,
at 7 p.m. at the New Hope Commu
nity Church, located at 11731 SE
Stevens Road just off Sunnyside
Rd at 1-205. The featured acts in
clude Ten Talents from Corvallis,
Joshua Rocks from Portland and
Rescue from Portland, which has
been voted the best Christian a
cappella group the last two years
in a row. They are well known lo
cally, and are becoming well known
across the nation.
In a continuing effort to find the
girls, volunteers will be getting to
gether on May 4 to again search
the surrounding area of Newell
Creek Apartments. During the
search that occurred on April 20
remains were found pf an adult.
The remains were found to be of a
white male, approximately 30 years
of age and 5-foot- 9 inches tall. The
remains is suspected to be at least
one year old, and tests are still be
ing conducted to determine the
identity of the remains.
The searches will continue ev
ery other weekend until the girls
are safe at home, according to Billy
Crabtree of PC Projex, who has
worked diligently and closely with
the families to update people on
the forums and help search out tips.
Since the forum opened up, there
have been more than 35 tips that
have been forwarded by Crabtree
to the FBI.
Volunteers are needed to make
donations and participate in the
searches. For more information go
to
findmiranda.com
or
fmdashley.com.
To reach Salena De La Cruz
e-mail
wonderwoman41477@vahoo.com
or drop by B-104.
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