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Z The Clackamas Print newsed@ciackamas. edu W e d n e sd a y , O c t. 1 2 , 2 0 1 1 News Clemans recovering from July fourth trauma By Patty Salazar News Editor Brian Baldwin Clackamas Print C lem ans sits p a tie n tly in the com m unity center. H e is one o f seven B o a rd o f E d u ca tio n m embers a t CCC. T he next C C C Board o f Education m eeting is O ct. 12 in C C -127 at 5 p.m. Clem ans is expected to be in attendance. “It really is a miracle that he is alive,” said Karen Martini, execu tive director o f the Clackamas Com m unity College Foundation, about Board o f Education member and College Foundation member, Chuck Clemans. During the Fourth o f July week end while everybody was celebrating Independence Day with a barbeque, fireworks and good old family fun, Clemans fun came to a screech ing halt when he fell on his head causing him to be knocked uncon- •scious. Clemans wife Nancy Hungerford called the paramedics. They arrived to Clemans breathing and with out a heartbeat. O nce doctors at Willamette Falls Hospital realized the seriousness o f his head injury, they rushed him to Oregon Health Science University for further evaluation where Clemans was in the Intensive Care Unit there until Aug. 2. W hile in ICU, Clematis had sev eral surgeries; along with getting rid o f a hematoma, he had a defibril lator planted in his chest and had a titanium plate placed in his skull to protect his brain. “H e was always there but just couldn’t express himself,” said Jack H am m ond, Foundation m em ber and longtime friend. H am m ond explained that the first visits were difficult for com munication. Clematis was unable to talk due to a tracheotomy which led him to use hand signals to com m unicate w ith visitors. H e was given a, voice box to use while H am m ond was visiting. “All o f a sudden he was there and was talking like we used to /. It was back to normal times.” “I give my wife big credit, because when you are in the hospital some body else has the key to your room, you want to make -.sure that some body else is someone you can lean on and trust and that would be m y wife Nancy,” said Clemans. Clemans has been a. part o f the Board o f Education for C C C for more than eight years and last spring Clemans and former C C C Student, Mario Smith, went head to head for the Board o f Education seat. Clemans ultimately beat Smith, making it Clemans’ third term on the Board o f Education. Now, three m onths after the acci dent, Clemans Is back to attending Board o f Education meetings, foun dation meetings and even going to rotary with friends. u A ll o f a sudden he was there a n d was talking like we used to... ” Jack Hammond CCC Foundation member Though his injuries have created some setbacks; Clemans explained his priorities have changed after his accident. H e now has to decide where and when he can accept speak ing invitations, and he is more careful on what he agrees to do. Clemans is sporting a few new scars such as a dent on his head that could not be repaired. Although it has been a long process it is clear to see he has made great progress and is striving to get back to the way his life Was before the accident. CCC student rolls the dice on Portland mayoral election By Brian Baldwin Editor-in-Chief W h at w ould a 19 year old do after high school? Take some college classes, w atch sports or hang o u t w ith their friends. Lincoln H igh School graduate and current Clackamas C om m unity College student M ax B rum m is giving his post high -school life a m ore political approach by pu ttin g his n a m e in to t h e 2 0 1 2 m a y o r a l r u n f o r P o r t l a n d . Brum m is a baseball player here at Clackamas and right now is getting his pre-requisite classes o u t o f the way. H e’s been a college student for two years now, m aking the switch to Clackamas after he found out that none o f the Portland area com m unity colleges had a baseball program . A nd w hen he isn’t in class, conducting interviews, gathering supporters or playing baseball, he enjoys spending tim e w ith his friends and playing D ungeons & Dragons as a reckless warrior character. B rum m was always politically m inded, though he didn’t necessarily approve o f the way things were being run. O ne day after baseball practice he had an epiphany. I f he felt he could run the city better than current Portland m ayor Sam Adams can, w hy n o t do it? H e gathered friends and fam ily and m ade a team that he hopes will help w in him the m ayor’s office.’ I sat dow n w ith B rum m and discussed w hat issues he w ould face as m ayor and w hat his plans w ould be. T h e C lack am as Print: W h at m ade you decide to go for Portland m ayor at 19? M ax B rum m : Well I’ve always been involved in politics. Like m y grandparents, they worked for W ayne M orris for Senator. TC P: Now, w hat m ade-you do it? W hat was that last straw? M B: I was in the car on the way to baseball practice from Lincoln [High School] going to Gabriel Park and som ething came on the news, I think it was 2008, about the Sellwood Bridge and the city was going to rebuild it. M ultnom ah C ounty owns and operates and repairs all o f the bridges. A nd I said ‘T h a t’s ridiculous. W hy is the city paying the m oney to do that? It’s a county issue. T he m ayor shouldn’t do that. I can ru n the city better!’ It was kind o f like a joke w ith m y team m ates and then it evolved into ‘Hey, th at’s a great idea.’ Like people always say, if you w ant change or you w ant to do som ething go do it yourself. TC P: W h at do you say to those th at m ay say ‘W h at expe rience do you have to run the city? W h at makes you th in k Staff Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and professional man ner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 you can do it?’ M B : I say back to them , ‘W h at has experience gotten Us? W h at experience have politicians given us?’ T C P: W h at can you do to prove to voters th at they should vote for you? M B : T he big thin for me basically is the ideas o f a candi date. O th er candidates are raising a m illion dollars for a job th at only makes $180,000 a year. T h a t’s n o t a very sm art investm ent. I th in k th at the political system has become corrupt in the sense that m oney buys elections and the idea that if you throw enough m oney at som eone you’ll get their vote. T C P: H ow are you getting your nam e o u t there? M B : By being everywhere I can. I ’m going to neighbor hood association meetings, every street fair, every event that goes-on in Portland and make an appearance thete, just get ting out there and w ith the people. I don’t th in k the other candidates are really doing th at m uch to get personal and interacting w ith people. Every tim e I m eet som eone new I ask them w hat they think the city needs to change,and they always tell me som ething different each tim e. I’m trying to get a feel for w hat the people living there want. T C P: W hat are some o f the m ajor issues they are really caring about? M B: Basically funding and how som e o f the city projects are funded. TC P: W hat benefits w ould you try to bring to Portland? M B: I have a couple ideas on how to fight gang violence in the Portland area. I w ant to get 500 scholarships for Portland schools and house the students there- w ith city housing w ith urban renewal money. T h en each o f those students is required to w ork 80 hours in different bureaus in the city getting job experience while getting a bachelors or associates degree, whichever is needed for them to becom e a m iddle class or taxpaying citizen. A nd also parks. M y idea is for m ulti-purpose parks for year round play everywhere in the city. Suburbs all around Portland have their own m ulti-purpose parks. W e’re closing fields and canceling games because o f the am ount o f rain we get in O regon. T C P: I f elected you’ll have the job as mayor, you’ll have baseball and you’ll have college. H ow are you going to m an age your time? M B: I f I becom e elected m y job will be the mayor. I ’ll continue m y studies doing night classes or online classes, and then p u t off baseball a couple o f years. TC P: Tell me about your cam paign staff, because I noticed that a lot o f them were either family or friends. M B: Yeah, there are a lot o f friends. M ost o f them are from Editors Editor-in-Chief: Brian Baldwin News Editor: Patty Salazar Arts&CuIture Editor: Mandie Gavitt Sports Editor: John William Howard Associate Sports Editor: Katie Aamatti Photo Editor: Hillary Cole C opy Editor: Katherine Suydam Web Editor: Anna Axelson D esign Editor: James Duncan Ad Manager: Brad Heineke Writers & Photographers Dachabre Dixon Tyler Eheler M att Senn Isaac Soper Chris Taylor m y 2010 high school baseball team . I developed a great rela tionship w ith them . T hey know m e and I know them well and I trust them to bounce ideas off them .T hey’re all pretty sm art kids too and have great ideas to help m ake a change. B rum m also wants to get young voters his age to becom e m ore active and m ore politically savvy. “W e’re going to be leading the next generation and if there is no one interested, it’s just going to be a struggle,” said Brum m . For m ore inform ation about B rum m or where he is going to be next, visit ww w.m ax4m ayor.com . Contributed by M ax Brumm M a x B r u m m surveys the d o w n to w n P o r tla n d streets. H e hopes to w in the m ayoral race in 2 0 1 2 . Production Assistants Contact Information Dan Bailey Mollie Berry Joshua Dillen Járonte Goldsby Telicia Juliano Hicham Kerkour Ellen Niles Fred Ramsey Emily Rask Mireille Soper chiefed@clackamas.edu newsed@clackamas.edu aced@clackamas.edu sportsed@clackamas.edu photoed@clackamas.edu admgr@clackamas.edu webeditor@clackamas.edu 503-594-6266 Adviser: Melissa Jones
