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Clackamas Print
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Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
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Construction expands programs
Kyle Steele
The Clackamas Print
Construction isn’t a new
thing for Clackamas.
In the last few years, we
have seen the building of the
Niemeyer Center and the remod
eling of McLoughlin Hall, but
the work on the new addition
to the Harmony Campus will
be one of the most important
builds in Clackamas history.
Construction on the three-
story building will bring about
a difference for Clackamas’
English as a Second Language
(ESL) and health sciences pro
grams. The building, which
is scheduled for a July dead
line, will be the new home of
both growing departments at
Harmony.
“Structural steel is being
erected,” said Director of Plant
Services Kirk Pearson.
The frame of the building
will soon be complete, and then
work on the steel flooring on
the second and third floors will
commence.
“We’re on schedule,” said
Pearsori. “Next summer, mid
July, is when we are shooting
for.”
The new facility will house
the ESL and a bookstore on
the first, floor, and the top two
floors will be the new resi ing nurse is 53 years old, so we
dence of the health sciences are going to have a lot of retir
program.
ing nurses,” said Mitchell.
Many of the programs will
“We will be starting class
es there fall 2008,” said Dean try to bring new nurses into the
of Health Sciences Maureen field. One such program is the
Workforce Improvement with
Mitchell.
The Harmony facility will Immigrant Nurses (WIN) pro
triple the space that the Health gram, which retrains immigrant
Sciences Department current nurses to help them reenter the
ly has in DeJardin Hall. The medical field.
building will also hold high-
The 2008 school year will
tech labs that the department see no changes to the programs
needs in order to better train offered through health scienc
the developing medical and es, for the sake of making a
dental programs in the near smooth transition to the new
future.
building, but more programs
“It’s going to be a real crisis. will be offered during the 2009
The average age of the practic school year.
ABOVE: Builders continue work on the recent addition to Harmony Campus.
BELOW: Structural steel is erected, serving as the backbone of the new building.
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effective cannabis laws and policies,
and educates, registers and empow
ers voters to implement these poli
cies.”
Because of Voter Power’s suc
cess in Salem, the city took away
the organization’s building permit,
Bemhoft said. The level of legal
marijuana traffic was considered a
potential risk to the city’s permitting
system.
“So many people were coming
in and out of the building that they
had to shut them down because of
the fear that it would look like the
city was supporting illegal drugs,”
he added.
According to Bemhoft, Voter
Power is less than pleased with the
city of Salem and, as a result, are
bringing cameras to the forum
“They’re going to be filming it
and putting it on television. It’s going
to be pretty big,” he said.
The Democratic Club believes
that individuals should have the right
to use marijuana responsibly.
‘To really legitimize the pro-mar
ijuana movement, you have to have a
responsible approach to it,” Bemhoft
said. “It’s every person’s responsibil
ity to ask themselves, ‘How does this
affect other people?”’
The Democratic Club stresses
that if the legalization of marijuana
means something to someone, then
he or she must do something about
it
“Know your rights, and if it’s
not important to you, then leave it
that way,” Bemhoft said. “But if
it’s important to you - like it is to a
lot of people - activism, activist
activism. And that doesn’t inclut
radicalism; that just includes beir
knowledgeable and voting.”
The event will take place on No
14 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 pjn., i
Gregory Forum.
“There’s going to be so muc
intense information in two and a ha
hours,” Bemhoft said. “You won
have any other choice but to fe
obligated to do something about it’
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