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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
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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
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Editor-in-Chief: Brian Baldwin
News Editor: Patty Salazar
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Sports Editor: John William Howard
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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 .
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