The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019, February 12, 2014, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texthttp://www.theclackamasprint.com Snowpocalypse 2014 closes campus Donny Beach News Editor W as it an om en? Clairvoyance? Or just a perfectly tim ed coincidence? O nly M other N ature will know fof sure but on the after noon o f W ednesday, Feb. 5, Campus Safety issued a release o f the newly adopted Emergency Response Guide. By 1 p.m. Thursday, the inclement weather guidelines were enacted. While students and faculty were ram p ing up for mid-terms, Clackamas Comm unity College was shut down under a blanket o f falling snow. The Harmony campus was the first to close, w ith the Oregon City and Wilsonville campuses following suit an hour later. Classes and activities were cancelled as the “snow day” con tinued throughout the weekend, ending Tuesday. Tri-M et suspended all bus service from the Oregon City transit center to the college between 8 p.m. Thursday and noon Monday. Walking onto campus Friday m orning was like entering a winter wonderland. Snow drifts I A m Clackamas. .........t..*...... A./... "... ........... x ....... , Snow started Thursday afternoon and by Friday morning campus was a winter wonderland. The snow attracted locals who used the hills on campus to sled. r h h g ih g fr o m o n e io th r e e in c h e s turned CCC’s Oregon City cam pus into a white wasteland o f cold beauty. A few fam ilies from the neighboring housing complex braved the winter weather to sled down a snow covered hill behind the Barlow Hall parking lot. Farmer’s market offers healthy ideas for families Donny Beach News Editor Oregon City Farmer’s Market offers healthy ideas for families on fixed budgets. The Kids POP (Power o f Produce!) Club is the brainchild o f Jackie Hammond- Williams, the farmer’s market man ager. The free-to-join POP Club is for kids 5 to 12 years old. Each enrolled child has their “Passport to Health” signed and is given $2 in wooden tokens to shop for fresh produce and food plants every time they gb to the farmer’s market. The market gives special prizes to chil dren for every 10 stamps they get on their passport. There are also special events like “tastings” to get kids to try things they haven’t before and “favorite farmer day,” where the children make buttons to give to their favorite vendor. “[It] is meant to empower kids to make healthy food choices by introducing them to fresh seasonal produce and the farmers who grow it,” Hammond-Williams said. The Kids POP Club began when the farmer’s market received a HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) grant from Clackamas County in May 2011. It was the first program o f its kind in the nation. Since then, the program has been funded by grants and dona tions from many different avenues. Apart from the county, funding has come from: Clackamas Community College’s horticulture department, Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District, private donors and the sale o f handmade items at the market. But kids aren’t the only focus o f the fanner’s market. The farmer’s market has a SNAP (food stamp) funds matching program. The mar ket will match up to $5, once a market, per card. The SNAP matching funds pro gram is subsidized each year with money from grants, and is provided until die money runs out. Please see MARKET, Page 2 New degree would help English majors, offer unique focus on comics Patty Salazar Editor-m-Chief T h e r e is som ething new brew ing in the E nglish depart m ent at C lackam as C om m unity C ollege. The E nglish depart m en t has been w ork in g to fuse tog eth er an A ssociate o f A p p lied S cience in E n g lish degree, AS in English. O n th eir ow n tim e and w ith little to no funding, they have been w ork in g on clu sterin g existing classes on cam pus to create an um brella that cov ers four focuses specifically in E nglish studies. S u san M ach , E n g lish departm ent chair and in struc Roses Are Black & W hite tor, along w ith her colleagues saw the struggles th at students face w hile attending CCC and not having a focus. “S o m etim es i f th ey d o n ’t have a focus th e y ’ll ju s t drop ou t,” said M ach. M ach w as also seeing that students w ould start at CCC w orking tow ards an A ssociate o f A rts O reg o n T ran sfer D egree. A nd then going on to a four-year college but once stu dents got into the four-year col lege they w ere having to do an extra y ear o f classes to m eet the four-year college requirem ents. W ith the new AS in E nglish students w ill have the opportu nity to p ick one o f four focuses — literature, creative w riting, com ic studies and publishing. A long w ith one o f these four focuses^ students w ill also be taking their core classes such as m ath and science. M arylhurst U niversity is the first college to be on board but the departm ent is w ork ing vigorously to get O regon State U niversity, U niversity o f O regon and P ortland State U niversity on board to also accep t the AS in E n g lish degree. M ach ex p lain ed th a t the “sticking point” is w hat class es each college w ill accept as their ow n classes. You m ight be asking y o u rself w hat is the difference betw een this degree and the A A O T? Please see DEGREE, Page 2 SfâtuS update : QtrlPriend e xcite d t h a t I ÙJ3S ’’oping green" v jitin o rig a m i rose. O u t of- o>d <£dnooi p a p e rs #poor-|tfte.