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Snowpocalypse 2014 closes campus
Donny Beach
News Editor
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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
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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
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