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Ds...? age 6 ïackamas student publication free H ibjiary 23, 2005 ❖ Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR ❖ www2.clackamas.edu/theprint Volume 38, Issue 13 Art takes center stage LEFT: A painting by Clackamas Art Instructor Yuna Kim was on display on Saturday night. BELOW: After a perfor mance of the play ‘Twelfth Night’ put on by the drama department, CCC President Joe Johnson thanks those who donatedjinoney to the Niemeyer Center. vriidn'iliter Night’s main is a successful wration I Katie Wilson he Clackamas Print ■ A pproximately 330 ■LA people gathered ■ kto help the college lleprate music, art, the- iland the completion of te Niemeyer Center for the ■munication Arts. ■he event held in the ■never center was titled “A ■winter Night’s Dream,” at felt more like mid-Spring, nth a warm wind and gor- bous sunset. Rttdent Travis Nordurft— ling a jester costume and face painted white—enter- led the line of guests wait- IIo be let into the building jr juggling while balanced ;op a large purple ball. ■uests entered the Coffman pbby of the Niemeyer Center lund tables, art, and music lent Jonathan Butler on S taicony above the LeRoy ■erson Band Room with is I flute providing back- Bnd music. ■he evening kicked off ■ a silent auction and hors d’oeuvres in the band room. Art piec es by faculty, tickets to one concert of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and dinner with Oregonian colum nist Jonathan Nicholas were just some of the items up for auction. Those not immediately inter ested in the auction got a preview of the first art exhibit to come to the Alexander Gallery. The exhib it was composed of art by fac ulty artists David Andersen, Rick True, Christopher Dreger, Junko Iijima, Una Kim, Smith Eliot, Marlene Bauer, Heidi Schwegler, Katy McFadden, Nora Brodnicki, Anothony Bemert, Gene Flores and David Reese. ■ The auction closed with a trumpet blast from student Jessicah Hodson, and dinner fol lowed close behind. The guests ¿enjoyed roasted pork loin with mushroom cream sauce, grilled apple over spin ach with blue cheese topping and a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, French petite baguettes,: baked chive duchess potatoes and grilled asparagus. Please see MIDWINTER, • Page 2 Target: Meth I ■--------------------------------------- The fourth in a series focusing on local meth use —---------------------------------------- On the road to recovery Program helps people back to work . Shannon Armstead Ibn Maras jfnos Editor Editor ’s Noté: fflowgA in the world of E-ltep meetings, only Irai names are use for Beatification, for the l/jwe of this article, Bl fames used herein are- Keudoi’iyms. This article mains language which pmi readers may find ■sive. liTT1 I’m I—I Jenny, JL Aand I’m In addict,” says a short [Oman wearing glasses itting in front of a bright- y lit room somewhere in lackamas County. The lorn is surrounded on tree sides by floor-to- jeiling windows, the blinds open, showing |eHarkness outside. Seated in a circle are B-something people of various races, ages, ind lifestyles, all sipping coffee, and until low chattering amongst themselves. I “Hi. Jenny,” they all say in unison. This .sn’t scripted, but they all know what to say k they’ve been through it before. Sitting around these tables, they are all drawn together by one common theme: they are all »covering users of methamphetamine. ■The group has no membership fee, no secret handshake, and only one requirement Io be a member: the want to stop using ■tai meth. Like clockwork, the group recites the 12 steps to recovery, and the 12 traditions of the meetings, and joins together [for the “serenity prayer,” which is meant to evoke the protection of any greater power in my crazy ass, they wanted in my panties, or in my pocket, or in my dope,” Alice said. “So it was me and my husband against the world.” Alice continued life on the streets, punctu ated by time in jail for drug possession charges. During her first trip she experienced her first taste of recovery, something which would drive her later on. “I just got real tired of going to jail,” she said. “I went to the treatment part of the jail to kiss a little ass ... but when I was there, I accidentally got some recovery going on.” After many more times Photo Illustration by Joel Gaynor Clackamas Print in and out of prison, in different states, she was forced with the realization that her hus their fight against addiction. A black-haired, tattooed woman, who band was being kept in for life on burglary identifies herself as “Alice,” begins to charges. Alice tried to commit suicide by speak, telling her story of where her battle shooting a gram of heroin into her femoral with drugs got her. After running away from veins — the only ones she has left after home at 14, her drug use spiraled out of years of intravenous drug use — and she control. She then began moving across the felt no effect. She soon began to have painful swelling United States, keeping one step ahead of in her leg that no prescription drugs to treat. warrants and enemies from eoast to coast. After overdosing in New York, Alice Constrained to a wheel chair, she convinced found herself rolled in a carpet and thrown a needle exchange to give her treatment, and in. a dumpster by her friends, wanting to upon operation it was discovered that she avoid New York’s criminal charges of being had a blood clot in her leg from the top of her thigh to her knee, one inch in diameter. with someone who has O.D.’d. After many trips to, jail, she made her Alice’s use left her alone with her hus band, living in a subway with bags of drugs, first successful attempt to stay clean. “I didn’t mean to get clarity,” she explains. stockpiles of guns, and a stack of encyclo “I was perfectly happy not giving a fuck pedias. “I figured if anybody wanted to be around Please see METH, Page 3 11 The Clackamas Print he Workforce Development department, with its new, convenient location and connections with local employers a human services resources, is working hard to help participants find their place in the world of work. The workforce development program is funded by the federal government through the Workforce Investment Act, which was designed with the focus of putting people to work and using strategies to create and sustain a highly skilled and well -educated workforce. “We open doors for people and start them on the career ladder,” said Program Director Dave Griffiths. The program works in conjunc tion with the Oregon Employment Department, Oregon Department of Human Resources, and Job Corps as part of the government’s efforts for a better workforce. “We all work together to make the best use of our resources,” said Roni Wilhelm, compliance and operations officer for the program. Resources are used differently for each individual participant who enters the program, depending on their per sonal needs, barriers and skills. The program helps participants find a job suited to their needs by pro viding job search and resume assis tance, career assessment and plan ning, internships, skills assessment, funding for short-term employment training, and supportive services such as childcare and transportation. T Please see WORK, Page 3
