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Wednesday, March. 11, 2009 Clackamas Print 3 don’t necessarily read Taylor him fackamas Print To install and maintain the pan els cost the Mackey’s a whopping — $42,000 dollars, including tax breaks they received from the government ^Bour typical librarian wears of $8,000. However the money dull clothing or would rather doesn’t concern Mackey. He could on the couch with a good have put his money into a retire ^Btead of doing anything else ment fund that would now be nearly night, then Teny Mackey depleted because of the economic ^Ktel\ not your typical librarian, crisis, or he could invest in the future. donning an array of bright He chose the future. Mackey realizes that the rest of ^B complete with a matching Bdiiispenders, Mackey isn’t all his generation will get money when i^B reading. but more into sav- they get older and retire, but Mackey will never have to pay an electrical ^^Bivironrnent. ^^Hiiig e\ cry b<x>k in the world bill, which he thinks makes it all ^■er been on Mackey’s to-do even. Except with his way, he is j^B though he is the library at helping the world out a little bit Mackey tries to include environ I^Bb U >n in 1 unity College, but ^■tlie^Aiionment better, and ment preservation into his everyday ^B'duiuiv Joi him and his wife life besides the panels. He drives a Honda Insight, the most fuel efficient ^^Binie when saving money is car in the world and tries to bike to ^^Bnority Mackey is proud of work at least twice a week. But, with ^^Bion to install solar panels a 42 mile round trip ride, biking is ^^B roof of his house located not always the easiest option. One ^^Bani. He day both Mackey ^^Bays been and Kitty want to in invest in a purely "7 don ’t like to ^^Bent and electric car, which read, I ’ m lucky preserve they will be able . Always noticable in his brightly colored shirt, tie and suspenders, Terry Mackey works in the to read a novel ^^B. As to charge off of the library. Here he is seen with graduate assistant Amy Stanforth. ^^Bre energy coming out in a year, I just ^H he read of their roof. When he made his decision he 1 through Montana, Utah, Indiana and go j to sleep, they literally turn their wait for the ^^Bbout the I “I can only do was wary about the outcome, but i now Oregon. They have both made 1 house off, unplugging the power j^Bs Pre‘ I movie to come so much,” Mackey realized while working at the library sacrifices for each other, and those strips. They also condensed then- ^^B for the I said about the he had definitely made the right deci sacrifices, he says, have led them to multiple belongings, like clocks. out, ” ^Hlte book I oncoming hard sion. He would see the lawyers com- Oregon, where alternative energy is “How many clocks do you really ■ about how I times with the ing in to do research and would embraced. Terry Mackey need?’ Mackey joked. He says he of the I economy and also always think, “God that could have Kitty makes all of Terry’s cloth always gets to work on time, so two College Librarian ~Bs resources LL environmental ly. been my life. I’m glad it wasn’t” ing including his vibrant ties and clocks are plenty. The family also BJpsi, and it “Global warming B «that the is inevitable; it is ^Bsouickly using up its resourc- just going to get hotter.” Bo years faster than expected. Mackey hopes that he can help fact inspired Mackey to with his solar panels, but worries Kgei s future. about future generations, and what they will have to sacrifice because of his wife of 29 years, ^Hnit for a decade without a the world’s current carelessness. H refrigerator in their house, Mackey started working as the ■fr ted their Great Dane, to librarian at Clackamas Community ^Bagon, to the local grocery College about ten years ago, even ^■d laundry mat Then one though becoming a librarian was Ho. they decided to install never his intention. Hn solar panels on the roof “I don’t like to read. I’m lucky to Hhouse. \Vrth 30 panels, the read a novel in a year. I just wait for B's became the fifth biggest the movie to come out,” he said. Instead, Mackey wanted to be a Hjal electric generator in the tfthegon. The energy coming lawyer. He took all the right steps in Heir house is so strong, that if school to become a lawyer. But then, ■nis to turn off the electricity, just like Robert Frost’s infamous lually have to come to the poem “The Road Less Traveled,” Mackey was forced to make a deci ys house to do it ■electricity coming from our sion about his future - either a one ill knock you on your butt,” way ticket to law school, or working at a law library in Wisconsin. key. Around the same time Mackey suspenders. The only parts of his uses rechargeable batteries to help worked at the library, he and some wardrobe that he buys are his socks, lower their energy use. other associates worked together on shoes and pants. Mackey is not necessarily aver procedure manuals for legal issues. “I think it is sort of her way age. He constantly works to change They would re-enact a divorce or of branding me,” Terry said with a the environment and he describes child custody case as they wrote the smile. himself as an introvert and a hobbit. manuals. The books are still used by He and Kitty have never shied However, he never worries about lawyers all around Wisconsin, some away from doing the improbable, being forgotten. Anytime he goes thing Mackey is very proud of. and spontaneity is no stranger to i somewhere or gives a presentation Besides his passion for saving the them. At one point, they sold all of about < his solar house, he realizes environment, Mackey’s adoration for their belongings and bicycled across the chances of people remembering his wife is clear. When they got mar the country to Indiana where they w hat he said let alone his name are ried they created a mission statement went to graduate school. not high- So he adds a lot of color, to their marriage: we are two playful Currently, the Mackey family and eccentric patterns to his ward otters in the beaver pond of life. This uses 14 kilowatts a day of energy. robe so he will never be forgotten. is the statement they live by, and But, their goal is to continue to low er “No one ever forgets me,” he anytime they need to make a deci that number as time goes on. said. sion they ask what would an otter do, “You start to compete with your and the answer always is that an otter self about your energy usage,” he Editors Note: Caitlin Taylor was would have fun. said. the 2009 Skill Competition winner They met in Wisconsin, while in The couple uses a few simple for journalism. This is her winning an environmental college, and have steps to work on decreasing their article. been inseparable ever since. They are kilowatts used. All of the power both librarians, and have followed cords in their house are connected on each other around the United States power strips, and at night before they 'auty queen inspires education with her music During her high school career, music lessons as a way to reach or Pidasheff was involved in a num to them so they can discover then ber of extracurricular and charitable selves and their hidden talent. The Clackamas Print “(Friends of Music) can reach activities such as Key Club, speech and debate team, leadership pro lot of people, disabled or ofoerwis Look out Miss Oregon City, grams and was involved in a program said Linda McBroom, director of there’s another beauty queen on called “Students Today Aren’t Ready Miss Clackamas Pageant “Julia for Sex.” She even started her own done great things with her music campus. Julia Pidasheff is attending her first orchestra specifically for kids who 1 think she has wonderful potent Pidasheff was inspired to tah term here at Clackamas. PidashetY can’t afford music lessons. Despite went to Clackamas and Oregon City these many distractions, Pidasheff this cause by her younger at brother, Marie Pidasheff. She High spending two years at each got mostly A’s and B’s. Pidasheff only started her pag her brother very much and ws before graduating from Oregon City High in 2007. She then took an entire eantry this year on Feb. 21 and has make sure he and all special year off to work at Panda Express already become Miss Clackamas kids get the help they need. “Just because disabled so she could save some money and making her eligible to compete in decide what direction she was going the Miss’Oregon pageant in July. pie are the minority doesn’ to take her education. What drew her to the pageant are they should be ignored,” sa Pidasheff is enjoying her time the many opportunities it presents Pidasheff. When Pidasheff isn’t p at Clackamas and is working on through its scholarship program, and her AAOT so she can transfer to that the pageant allows her voice to ing in pageants, studying or Willamette or Marylhurst. foe world for the greater t be heard. Pidasheff was bom in the “I want to do something with this enjoys shopping, finding m Ukraine before her parents moved title,” said Julia Pidasheff. rants and “Bubble Tea” s to California where she lived until And, “something” is exactly what enjoys romance movies she was 12. She has a deep love for she has been doing, even before she war movies like “Rambo the United States, saying that she got her title, through a program she Her newest venture is Year took her first steps on American soil started called ‘Triends of Music.” dirt bikes. and wants to do whatever she can to “I have a list of things It’s a music-based therapy program make a difference. for kids and young adults that uses I die,” said Pidasheff. Mick Kornafel eff won the title of Miss Clackamas in ?re she is pictured with her winning tiara, alents are playing piano and singing.
