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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
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■--------------------------------------- The fourth in a series focusing on local meth use
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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.
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Please see WORK, Page 3