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------------ — — Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 ----------- Holocaust survivor to share his story with By Mandie Gavitt CCC staff fined for breaking election Arts &c Culture Editor “My little brother 'at- the age o f eight was taken to Auschwitz. W hen I take a shower every day I look at the showerhead I say to myself, “W hat went through the mind of my litde brother, at the age of eight when he was taken to Auschwitz, and pushed into a gas chamber- ana instead of water, cycline B gas choked him to death/ How much-did that little boy suffer?” Hplocatist survivor Alter Wiener is no stranger to the cfu; elty mankind is capable o f com mitting. Thirteen when World War II began, W iener spent three years in concentration and labor camps until , he-was liber ated at the end o f the war. Wiener will visit Clackamas C om m unity College on Thursday to tell his story. At the time o f liberation, Wiener weighed only 80 pounds. young hoy. He needs a mother.’ - They slapped on her face, she fell unconscious arid they took me away. I . never saw her again. ,” said Wiener. Rachel was mur dered in Auschwitz along with Wiener’s eight-year-old brother. In total of 123 members of Wieners, family were murdered during World War II; most o f .these family members lived in the same town as Wiener. Today ■ .Wiener lives ‘ in Hillsboro, in a sparse one-bed room apartment. His .home is pristine, with minimal belong ings. There’s a television, but Wiener said it is really only used to watch the news. Newspapers on his table range from The New YorkTimes to Willamette Week. A blender sits out on the kitchen counter. He couldn’t live with out it" as. it prepares most of. his meals; he has no teeth lefts most — W le tf^ r was» th e s o le su rv iv o r o f th e m w e re k nocked, o u t w h e n . o f .his immediate family. .His he was punched by a German. mother had died when Wiener At the age o f 85, Wiener was a young hoy »and his father knows about Facebook and was murdered on Sep. 11, 1939 email, which helps him speak to ,ar the start o f the war. younger generations who grew After the death of his father, up with online communication. Wiener was raised by his beloved He travels to various middle stepm other > Rachel. W hen schools, high schools, churches •Wiener was 1.5, Nazis stormed and even prisons to share his his home, taking Wiener with story of what it was like, to .sur vive the Holocaust. them, “ My stepmother pleaded with Germans: ‘Don’t take him Please see WIENER, Page 5 away from me, he is such a Above: A lter Wiener in Tel-Aviv, Israel on August 4, 1959. Below: À fa m ily photo o f W iener’s uncle M a x ’s fu n era l in Haifa, Palestine in 1959. Right: A current photo o f Wiener. . Alter Wiener will speak in the McLoughlin Auditorium Thursday Oct. 27 from noon to 2 p.m. Electric vehicle charging stations come to CCC Page 2 By Patty Salazar News Editor “Briefly, from a moral, philosophical and religious perspective,» I believe and that in order for the greater good to be achieved in our society, our organizations, especially government as represented by its officials, should follow and.play by the rules. It is important to avoid potential conflicts o f interest. Moreover, it is incumbent upon citizens to be watchful,” said Hugo Grimaldi, an accounting instructor at Clackamas Community College. C C C staff members were fined by the Oregon Secretary o f State’s office for breaking election laws for the $139 million ballot bond measure in May. “I hereby request an investigation into these links since they appear to clearly violate. Oregon state law regarding neutrality in bond election information,” stated the complaint filed to the Secretary of State by instructor Dean Darris, his wife Tara Darris, his former student, Mario Smith and Grimaldi. Now, five months later, the Secretary o f State office has fined Joanne Truesdell, the president o f C C C ; Tamera Barry a commu nication specialist; Janet Paulson, the public relations official for CCC and Shelly Parini, the dean o f college advancement. They were all notified on Thursday. Truesdell, Barry and Paulson were fined $7.5- Shelly Parini was charged $175. As dean o f college advancement, Parini was in charge of over seeing and. coordinating bond information activities for the May bond election. Please see FINES, Page 2 Cougars volleyball spikes Multnomah Page 6
