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
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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
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ther uses for leftover pumpkins
well. For example, many farm animals, such as
sheep, cows and horses, eat pumpkin flowers
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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.
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Keep this advice in mind: Aftonapple.
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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.”
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using
tein and iron,
pumpkins
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Alexandria
Vallelunga
Clackamas
Print
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experiments - as
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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.
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