May 22. 2013
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CAREERS Special
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College Planning Starts Early
Big Brothers Big
Sisters kids earn
savings award
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The Oregon College Savings Plan
has donated $1,000 college savings
accounts to 15 children in the Big Broth
ers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest
program.
The awards were the result of the
Start Something College Savings Ad
vantage, a program designed to help
Big Brothers Big Sisters kids start think
ing about college.
Five of the winners, 5th graders at
Vernon Elementary in northeast Port
land, are Dorine Cadet, Kobe Glass,
Leonardo Johnson, Alyssia Max
well and Kae’lyn Wright.
The Start Something competition
invited children in grades one through
12 to creatively describe what they
hope to achieve after college.
Participants worked with their men
tors to submit entries in a number of
creative formats, including essays, vid
eos, drawings and books. A panel of
judges selected the 15 entries from a
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Dorine Cadet
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Alyssia Maxwell
Kae’lyn Wright
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Honored for
Mentoring
Construction Students Focus on Safety
In honor of Building Safety Month, Gresham’s
City Building Division received a second floor
addition for its educational, small-scale model
home constructed with students from the ACE
Academy for Architecture, Construction and En
gineering.
Building Safety Month focuses on the need for
modern building codes and a well-trained
workforce to ensure public safety.
The model home lets residents see the under
side of many home construction systems and
learn why and when building codes and inspec
tions are required for safety.
City inspectors will host a demonstration of
the home at the Gresham Farmers Market, on
Saturday, June 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Mt. Hood Community College has an
nounced that Landra Glover has been named
the National Head Start Parent of the Year.
The mother of a 5-year-old son who is
enrolled in a Head Start program, Glover has
a “commitment to achieve goals, despite all
barriers,” says Jane Adams, National Head
Start Association director of projects and
partnerships
Glover has worked to increase positive
male involvement with children in associa
tion with Portland area organizations, includ
ing MHCC’s Head Start program and the
Healthy Birth Initiative.
Glover’s inspiration for being an advo
cate is personal.
“As an adult, I now see how not having a
father figure in my life played a huge role in
everything I do. I love and appreciate my
mother, but I still needed and longed for my
father,” Glover says.
Glover’s book on the subject, “The Arms
That Are Needed - Daughters Reflect on
Fatherly Love,” features 37 interviews with. Landra Gloverisrecog
women age 16 to 83 who talk about their nized for her advocacy of
relationships with their lathers.
Gariy childhood education.