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Clackamas Print New dean has fresh ideas, llexandria fallelunga pie Clackamas Print Shelly Parini-Ringe is the ¡w dean of college advance ent and executive direc- f at Clackamas Community ollege. Parini-Ringe has been work- g here for about two months, er job consists of raising oney for the campus through jiolarships and endowments. Jis year, she’s working hard on 10-year foundation campaign, iefive major goals of the cam- iign include raising money and ipport for the Harmony campus jiits new nursing program, as til as for scholarships. In addi- p,. she hopes to aquire funds [the Environmental Learning alter, and professional trades il manufacturing. Parini-Ringe is married and ns in Clackamas County. ie enjoys hiking, walking and king. She has a 20-year- i step-daughter, who irently attends the liversity of Alabama, Jan 11-year-old son, exander, who par lâtes in Tae Kwon i. She also has a jnamed Misty that partially a Jack sell Terrier. Born siston, Idaho, kini-Ringe fed off in [«immunity liege, later insferring I i Arizona [ate liversity pur- sue a B.A. in Theatre and Communications, and a minor in Business. She has always been a grand ma’s girl. In fact, after college, Parini-Ringe decided to move to Oregon to be closer to her grandmother. She loves living in Oregon and enjoys the rain. In the past, Parini-Ringe has worked for Clackamas County, as well as Mt. Hood Community College. She was an active mem ber of the Portland Chambers of Commerce, and the economic and community development manager in the city of Gresham. She dealt with business and industry affairs, social concerns and local industries - in fact, she helped develop Pioneer Place. “I never thought I would work for a local government,” she said. Parini-Ringe encourages stu dents to take advantage of all the * Feature 9 Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006 vl i « opportunities community col leges have to offer; to take their time and enjoy their academic experience, as she really appre ciated hers. She encourages students who don’t know what they want to do career-wise to find some thing that brings them joy and happiness. “Choose a program that suits your personal passion and interest,” she said. This is Parini-Ringe’s third career, and she treasures all of her academic experiences. “There’s the creative side, and the side that needs to pay the rent,” she said. “Money will follow if you do what you love” is her motto. She also believes that stu dents should back up what they love with experience and a solid education. Specifically, she would like to know how she could work with her team to better market to 18 to 26 year olds. A few questions to which she’d love to hear student reactions are “Are we getting the right message out?” and “How can we do a better job promoting the community resources?” In addition, she is also looking for spokesper sons for fundraisers. Parini-Ringe has an open- door policy, and her office is located in the Barlow building. “I wish more students would come in and visit,” she said. Photo collage by Jeff Sorensen, Elizabeth Hitz and Adam J. Manley Clackamas Print Halloween 101: Celts, cakes and turnips I Andrea Simpson | The Clackamas Print Halloween - the day children dress up in cheap costumes and go house to house demanding candy from complete strang ers. How did this odd, yet beloved, tradition come about? About 2,000 years ago, in the area now know as Ireland, the Celts celebrated a holiday on the eve of the New Year (Oct. 31) called Samhain (pronounced sow in). On Samhain, it was believed that the souls who died the previous year came back to find bodies to inhabit during the New Year (Nov. 1). During the 800’s, the influence of Christianity spread through the area. Pope Boniface IV designat ed Nov. 1 as All Saints Day or All Hallows Day, and Samhain became known as All Hallows Eve, .and even tually as Halloween. The holiday spread to America in the 1840s when Irish immigrants fled Ireland because of the potato famine. Trick or Treating was believed to have originated in the 9th century with a practice called “souling.” On All Saints Day, chil dren walked from village to village, begging for “soul .cakes,” square piec es of bread with currant. The more soul cakes they received, the more prayers they promised to say on behalf of the cake givers’ dead relatives. At the time, it was believed souls lin gered in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer could quicken the process _____________________________ ther uses for leftover pumpkins well. For example, many farm animals, such as sheep, cows and horses, eat pumpkin flowers Hit Clackamas Print because they are edible. Don’t throw pumpkins away after they have It would be so much easier if the recycling been carved. Instead, consider putting them in i picked up the pumpkins on the street cor- the compost heap because they may make a good fertilizer. Other options include burying j after Halloween, but they don’t. Aside from throwing pumpkins at cars, blow- them in a garden so that they will decay rapidly |them up, or setting them on fire, one of the and enhance the soil. There are many things people can do with ■gs people may consider doing with their npkins is eating them. According to pump- their pumpkins, but there’s some things people fiatches.org, “pumpkins provide 53% of our just shouldn’t do with them. Do not store the pumpkin in the attic for next Halloween. unin A, 20% of our vitamin C and 564 Keep this advice in mind: Aftonapple. I of potassium.” ' com reports, “We don’t recommend If a pumpkin ends up lying around cooking a Halloween pumpkin that tr Halloween, people should think had a candle burn mt simply cooking the squash since ing in it because npkins are low in calories, fat the flesh will Isodium. Pumpkins are have a smoky ohigh in fiber, and taste.” a good source Avoid Vitamin B, using tein and iron, pumpkins lipkinpatches. door I states that ops, npkins are keep- tty, full of [¡-oxidants, them I in fiber indoors, as [protein.” In they will ftion, people rot and stain roast pump the heeds and eat floor. p as a healthy Lastly, ttk. Pumpkins do not > use [also used to make pumpkins in cold fusion Rs soups, pies and Illustration by Alexandria Vallelunga Clackamas Print Ms. experiments - as per think about pumpkins in relation to pumpkin fusion has k’ Pumpkins are used to feed animals as been disproved. of a soul’s journey to heav en. Costumes were worn on Samhain because it was believed that spirits came back to possess the living. In hopes of not becom ing the victim of a posses sion, villagers dressed up in ghoulish costumes and paraded around the town, wreaking havoc and creat ing noise to deter spirits from looking for bodies to possess. Jack O’ Lanterns came from a folklore involving the devil and a man named Jack. The story goes that Jack, who was known as a drunkard and trickster, tricked the devil into climb ing a tree. He then carved a cross into the tree, trapping the devil in it. He made the devil promise that, if he let him down from the tree, the devil would never tempt him again. When Jack died, he wasn’t allowed into heaven, and the devil turned him out of hell. He sent Jack to wan der the cold, dark Earth with a single ember to light his way. Jack then carved out a turnip and placed the ember inside it to make it last longer. The Irish used turnips as their “Jack lan terns.” But when immi grants came to America, they found that pumpkins were in abundance and worked far better for hold ing a flame. This holiday has come a long way from its Celtic orgins of lighting bonfires and wreaking havoc dressed in wolf skins. Do not take for granted the gift of half melted Hershey bars and the dreaded healthy apple on this night of tradition and terror. llexandrla Vallelunga "It's great to participate in courses where the material you leam is applied, then discussed by the whole group. There are many times people share perspectives that I've never considered." 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