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Volume 47, Issue 3

Urban Agricultural program proves to be a growing field

Surrounded by lush trees, organic farms and flower-ing nurseries, Clackamas Community College’s horticul-ture department fosters a pas-sion for plants while teaching students the practical aspects of working in the field.

The department’s Urban Agriculture program offers students who want to be in the agricultural industry a hands-on approach to working in organic small-scale farms.

Loretta Mills, administra-tive assistant in arts and sci-ences, helps run the Urban Agriculture program.

“It’s an exciting field,” Mills said. “Urban Agriculture is a growing, no pun intended, a growing field.”

Students can choose between a one-year certifi-cate or a two-year Associate of Applied Sciences Degree in a horticulture career path-way that will enable them to enter into a variety of agricul-tural positions. Additionally, some of the horticulture class-

es transfer to Oregon State University for students plan-ning to cultivate a bachelor’s degree.

The OSU transfer agreement isn’t the only reason CCC is known for its growing horticul-tural prestige. The Professional Landcare Network, a national trade association of landscape industry professionals, based in Virginia, also acknowledges CCC’s horticulture programs.

The college is the only accredited program in Oregon, boasts the department website.

Jamie Korst, one of the Clackamas Community College students looking to turn agriculture into a career, heralds the importance of the program.

“The horticulture classes directly relate to work on a farm,” said Korst.

Chris Konieczka, the new-est member of CCC’s full-time horticulture teaching staff, leads the Fall Food Harvest class, which provides the produce sold in the campus Farmer’s Market which meets on Fridays but ended for the season in mid-October.

Men’s Cross Country wins regional title in dominating performance

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Loretta Mills (left) and Chris Chulos II ran the CCC Farmer’s Market on the Oregon City campus. CCC is becoming more known for its growing horticultural prestige.

The day dawned grey and bleak with the suggestion of rain hanging in the sky, but even the chill morning air couldn’t damp-en the energy of the Clackamas Community College cross country teams as they warmed up for the Southern Regional Championships on Saturday.

Five schools crowded the fields of CCC — Clackamas CC, Clark College, Lane CC, Mt. Hood CC and Treasure Valley CC. The teams were stretching, listening to last minute pep talks from their coaches and preparing

for the big event.Watching Coach Keoni

McHone run through the pre-run setup was like watching a Hollywood director choreograph the moves of actors in a big bud-get film — telling the backup timekeepers, event helpers, and camera people where to stand, when to act and what to watch out for. When asked about the reason for deploying timekeep-ers throughout the course, his passion for the sport is unmis-takable.

“They give the runners their ‘splits’ at the mile markers, so runners know if they are pac-ing themselves appropriately,” McHone said.

Meanwhile, Coach Kaitlyn

Reid checked on the Clackamas runners to give them encourage-ment. Reid has worked with the CCC cross country team for the past three years, the first two years as an assistant coach.

This year Reid was named men’s cross country Coach of the Year. Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, Southern Region.

That wasn’t the only title awarded to CCC at this year’s Southern Regional Championship. The Cougars also earned first place for the men’s cross country 8K run team division, as well as first, second and third place individual posi-tions in the men’s race.

Finishing the 8K run in

under 26 minutes were Badane Sultessa, followed by Jorge Gil-Juarez, with Jackson Baker capping the third place spot, a full 10 seconds ahead of Clark College’s lead runner.

Also finishing in the top 10 of the men’s run, Pake Benthin of Clackamas, came in seventh out of the 45 competitors entered.

Not to be left behind, Courtney Repp finished in the top 10 of the women’s 5K run. Coach Reid went into the meet expecting similar results and with undiluted faith in her run-ners she speaks out on event placement.

“The ladies have been getting a lot of personal bests through-out the season, which is really

cool, and that to me is more important than what place they get. As a team they have really grown from that,” said Reid.

This year Clackamas had a well-balanced mix of women and men running cross country, with 11 men and 10 women fill-ing up the team roster.

Gil-Juarez spoke about the camaraderie that developed dur-ing the cross country season.

“Cross country is more than a sport, it’s a second family,” Gil-Juarez said.

That was doubly evident dur-ing the race as cheers and shout-ing of encouragement fell onto the athletes from the spectators. Family, friends and teammates alike spurred them on.

Alan Ekanger leads the pack for the Cougars in their cross-country regional championship. The Cougar men won the title.

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The men’s and women’s cross-country teams pose with Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Coach of the Year, Kaitlyn Reid.

Like everything grown, the horticulture classes cycle with the seasons. The college Farmer’s Market begins during summer term when some of the spring plantings are ready to be harvest-ed from the campus’ greenhouses and its ⅔-acre garden site.

Jessica McNamara, a student in the Fall Food Harvest class, thinks the horticulture depart-ment in Clairmont Hall is a beau-tiful place to walk through.

“It’s like its own little world over here,” McNamara said. The rare flowers and trees growing around the building certainly give credence to her sentiment.

Her classmate Jess McNaughton adds her voice to the growing list of reasons why people need to keep an eye on Clackamas’ horticulture program.

“They have plant sales, rough-ly quarterly, where you can buy flowers — cheap,” McNaughton said.

Mills encourages people to follow the CCC horticulture program, and see what is grow-ing from their love of all things planted.

“Check out our Facebook page, Horticulture at Clackamas Community College,” said Mills. “There is some great stuff out there.”

Although the fall term Farmer’s Market ended Oct. 25, look for its return in the coming summer as CCC students con-tinue to hone organic farming methods that will survive past the fields of the college.

When asked how to get the word out to students interested in agriculture, Jessica McNamara suggests they stop by Clairmont Hall.

“The college’s Horticulture Club meets Mondays at noon,” McNamara said.

And, of course, students are always encouraged to take a hor-ticulture course.

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AGRICULTURE: Classroom to plate

As fall starts to set in, the days are characteristically short-er and quite a bit colder than just a few months ago. On Nov. 3 we’ll hit Daylight Savings, meaning it’s time to “fall back” an hour. Clackamas Community College’s Director of Public Safety Suzy Isham offers these tips for the shift in time, to keep

us all safer as we move away from summer.

1: Slow down! The roads are well known for being slicker during this time of year, due to the added leaves on the ground and all the oil coming to the surface with the rain. By driving slower you’ll increase your stop-ping distance, making it much safer for the students and staff on campus and decrease your chances of sliding and crashing.

2: Don’t forget to keep your car and valuables safe while on

campus, along with yourself. Because it’ll be getting darker much sooner, the lights will be turned on much earlier to keep the parking lots safe. Please do not walk alone after dark if you don’t have to. Campus Safety conducts walk outs if you don’t have anyone to walk with. Call 971-563-0101 and they will be happy to walk you to your vehi-cle. Also, always lock your vehi-cle and keep your electronics and other highly valuables out of sight when they’re unattended.

3: Wear the right shoes. The outside ground on CCC is often uneven and covered in leaves, making it easy to trip and fall if your shoes are inappropriate. Please always wipe your feet when you walk into a build-ing, because wet floors are often an ongoing problem during the wet months. By properly wiping your feet, you help the entire community avoid hazardous falling situations on already slick floors.

Fall back on safetyErin CareyNews Editor

The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is hold-ing an event in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center for their National College Fairs program. The event will pro-vide students the chance to talk with college admission representatives from a wide variety of colleges, includ-ing the Art Institutes and ITT Tech, amongst many others. On Nov. 1 doors will open at 9 a.m. and stay open till noon, and Nov. 2 doors will be open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.,

with a variety of activities and booths for information on the long list of colleges participat-ing. There will also be work-shops available, along with counselors present to help with choosing majors, finan-cial aid and much more. For more information and the list of colleges represented at this event, please visit NACAC’s website at nacacnet.org. To register to attend, please visit gotomyncf.org.

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Left to right: Jessica McNamara, Matt Bergio, Lauren Hollander and Jess McNaughton of the Fall Food Harvest class. The Fall Food Harvest class helps harvest produce for the campus Farmers Market — which will return this summer.

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Real Health

All across the world, hundreds of thousands of people are get-ting ready: sharpening pencils, stockpiling Halloween candy — and perhaps even cleaning up their desks. They purchase fresh typewriter ribbons and cross the days off their calendars in breath-less anticipation of Nov 1.

It’s not the apocalypse they’re preparing for, although there may well be zombies involved. No, these eager masses await the beg-inning of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. At this time every year, the ink and the coffee start flowing and it won’t stop until December. All strive toward a common goal: to write 50,000 words in one month’s time. Many won’t make it to the finish line, while others will surpass it. Regardless, all will come away with something special — it’s up to each partici-pant what they will create.

All genres and skill-levels are welcome. Many participants return year after year, every-one from school children to sea-soned wordsmiths. Every year many college students also take

the plunge. According to Steven Genise, NaNoWriMo events and development associate, last year around 133,000 participants were between the ages of 18 and 29. There are even people here at CCC who — in the coming month — will be diving head-long into writing a novel.

Among these is faculty mem-ber Tae Gordon, who heads up the writing club here at CCC. Although she pointed out that NaNoWriMo has its potential weaknesses, such as emphasiz-ing quantity over quality, she said that NaNoWriMo can be an effective tool for many people because it helps one get used to writing regularly.

“Like anything, writing has to be practiced,” Gordon said, “[NaNoWriMo] is good for keep-ing you on schedule.”

Some might question the sanity of such an endeavor as NaNoWriMo. While challeng-ing, it’s far from impossible, and some notable published nov-els have come from the event, including the book “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen, to name just one. Through local write-ins, word-count trackers and online forums, NaNoWriMo provides external motivation and community support to ambitious novelists, and can be a very use-ful writing tool, not to mention a ton of fun.

There’s nothing quite like knowing that you’re writing a novel in 30 days at the same time as 341,375 other people, which was the number of people who participated last year. That’s not even counting the 82,554 oth-ers who participated through the Young Writer’s Program for ages 17 and under.

If you’re interested in novel writing, NaNoWriMo is an inter-esting program to look into. More information can be found at nanowrimo.org. In the mean-while, there are many resourc-es for writers here on campus. Many different writing and liter-

ature classes are offered at CCC, as well as the Writers Club and a mini writing conference which takes place every spring. Trevor Dodge, who teaches fiction writ-ing, shared some of his advice for fitting regular writing into a busy schedule:

“Just make your mind up that you’re going to do it,” he said. “There are a million reasons, and a lot of times really, really good ones, not to write… But the pri-mary reason that trumps all those other million reasons is that you want to do it.”

Eric Bronsen is a member of the Writers’ Club and takes classes at CCC. He has created four full-length works of fan fic-tion and over 60 short stories to date. He adds that it’s important not to “allow [your writing] com-mitment to upset you. Writing is hard work, and too many people give it up when it becomes even a small burden.”

Dodge uses tools like daily word prompts and email remind-ers to keep himself going, and Tae Gordon recommends reading as much as possible. She con-tends that “to write a novel, you need to have read a hundred.” Fundamentally though, Gordon, Dodge and Bronsen all agree; making time to write every day is vitally important.

Jesse HenningerArts & Culture Editor

Cancer strikes

National Novel Writing Month frees the minds of writers and readers alike Sequoia Allen

The Clackamas Print

“To write a novel, you need to have read a hun-dred.”

Tae GordonHead of CCC writing club

The long-awaited spooky holiday is upon us! To cel-ebrate, Associated Student Government (ASG) has planned a costume contest to get the campus in the spirit. Time to break out the cre-ativity and show what you’ve got! Come sporting your hilarious, thought-provoking, creepy and creative get-ups and receive the bragging

rights that go with being named Clackamas Community College’s Costume Contest Champion. Look around cam-pus for the flyers and sign up this week. For anyone want-ing to witness the showdown, come to the Community Center from noon to 2 p.m. Halloween day.

One third of all women and one half of all men will develop cancer. For an unfair percentage of our world populous, the opportunity to knock on Heaven’s door manifests as one of many forms of cancer.

Cancer has become the norm. Outranked by heart disease and smoking-related illnesses in annual death tolls, cancer remains prevalent worldwide. Cancer is evolving into an everyman topic. We are all familiar with the major cancer types, including some practically untreatable can-cers. How has cancer affect-ed your life?

Whenever I get sick, I react. Visiting doctors, buy-ing medication and taking every additional measure I can to aid in a swifter recov-ery, without infecting others. These kinds of measures are imprinted in our brains and become reflexes as we age. Ailments like colds, sinus infections, strep throat are quickly and easily treated. But when the diagnosis is indeed cancer, time stops.

We are thrust into an uncomfortable limelight, both foreign and potentially terrifying. A diagnosis of this magnitude will often shake a person emotionally. Why? Well there are only two can-cer routes available: the route that leads to recovery and the route where cancer prevails.

If you are able to fight the cancer, there are many additional challenges within the battle. Should the cancer be untreatable or have pro-gressed past a treatable point, then specific challenges also exist.

It can also be a catalyst for new understanding, acceptance and change in our lives.

How do we make sure that we come out on top?

One simple answer: Be prepared. Not one of us is impervious to the butterfly effects that come from life’s “impossible” challenges.

The information is available. All the steps are mapped out already. The steps to prevent illness (as best we can) have been there, but we haven’t bothered to apply them, at all. Being prepared has become more simple just by being able to know your family his-tory and genetics and check out books and newspapers for the newest treatments and alternative treatments. The Internet is your friend, everything you could want to know about cancer preven-tion methods and numerous agencies of support for those in need are available.

Cancer (or any other scary, life-threatening ill-ness) does not need to be the depressing, daunting, fear-mongering monster any-more. Becoming responsible for our own health through education, prevention and actually using our resources is the best prescription for a healthy being, with or with-out cancer.

ASG Halloween costume contest The Clackamas Print will be running a

special section during Winter Term.It will feature pieces of writing from stu-

dents and community members.

Submissions accepted Oct. 30 thru Dec. 15

The categories are: Poetry: 10- 300 words

Short Stories/Creative Writing: 200 or 400 words

1 entry per person per category

Please submit to: [email protected]

Winners for each section will be pub-lished in The Writers’ Club publication in addition to being published in The

Clackamas Print’s special Section.

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- Compiled by Marissa Nwerem

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Thursday night was an intersquad exhibition. Each team was coached by an assistant coach. Navy Coach Bret Born vs. Scarlet Coach Rich Vigorito.

The Scarlet team won 22-21. At 125 Josh Johnson defeated

Jared Cash (Dec.)125 Stevan Knoblauch

defeated Kamron Day (Dec.)133 CJ Palmer pinned Urmas

Yanis.“I pinned him,” said Palmer.

“I like Urmas. It’s gonna’ be a rough season wrestling allot of D1 guys, they do this for four years, they got allot more time.”

141 Peter Shea defeated Jordan Brewer (Dec.)

141 Lawrence Otero defeated Robbie Rizzolino (Dec.)

141 Daniel Leonard defeated Jared Sublet (Dec.)

149 Kenny Martin defeated Dylan Holcomb (Dec.) 10-4.

“It feels good to wrestle this first match, it’s been a while, I felt like I was able to maintain a good pace,” said Martin. “It’s a new experience, I was kinda’ nervous, I heard this was a good school to go to, I feel like it’s done me justice so far, I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life right now.”

157 Eleazar DeLuca defeated Elijah Taylor (Dec.) 6-3.

“I have allot of things I need to work on, so it was a good

match to open-up what I need to work on,” said Deluca. “Coach Rhoden’s a really good guy, all the coaches have a killer mental-ity, they want to win and I really like that.”

157 Nikko Veltri defeated Brandon Davidson (Major Dec.) 13-4.

165 Kyle Bateman defeated Tyler White (Dec.) 8-2.

174 Dustin Harris defeated Kolby Mays (Dec.) 6-1.

184 Adrian Salas defeated John Morin (Dec.) 5-1.

197 Dustin Johnson defeated Ihoughwama Odigizuwa (Dec.) 8-7.

The Cougars head wrestling coach Josh Rhoden comented on the evening.

“I thought it was pretty good, we got areas we can improve in, most of them it’s gonna be a little shock to the system so we got some adjustments to make, but overall it was pretty good,” said Rhoden.

The Cougars will com-pete against NAIA Simpson University in Redding, Calif. next Saturday.

The first home competi-tion will be on Nov. 9 against Division 2 Simon Fraser University in Randall Hall at 5 p.m.

-Compiled by David Beasley

Last Wednesday the Cougars volleyball squad brought down their opponent the Chemeketa Storm.

The match was a competitive fray of defense and offense with a few long-winded volleys.

Bre Gibbons played a very active game with some solid blocks, well placed tips over the net, 12 kills and 17 digs.

Taylor Balkan served an excel-lent scoring ball in the second set, she had 20 assists throughout the game.

Megan Minke got her hands on a few really nice plays in the third set.

“It feels good to be playing in the middle again. Getting a kill in the middle is more intense and fast paced than the outside,” said Minke. “I think that were starting to get

back in the groove, were on the uphill. Hopefully the goal is to win NWAACCs and to come out on top in league.”

Hannah Olson set up some good plays from a couple nice serves, she had 10 kills and some good tips over the net. Chemeketa attempted to return one of her serves in set three, but it was blocked by the double wall of Gibbons and Minke.

“I have a hurt shoulder right now, so it was pretty good, it was one of my better games,” said Olson. “We are working really well together, it’s nice to have a team that gets along.”

Chemeketa tried to come back in the third, bringing the score danger-ously close at 24-21, but the Cougars won the third set and the game was theirs at 25-20, 25-15, 25-21.

The Cougars head coach Kathie Woods was impressed by her squad’s hard work so far this season.

“Were ranked seventh right now, were 24-10,” said Woods.

Dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, the Cougars competed over the weekend at the Mt. Hood Dorian Harris Halloween Classic.

The Cougars won on Friday against Edmonds and Tacoma. They won again against Columbia Basin.

In the semi-finals the Cougars lost to Olympic College and placed third in the Halloween Classic.

The Cougars play SWOCC Friday in Coos Bay at 6 p.m.

Wed Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. will be the last home game.

The Clark Penguins kept the Clackamas Cougars on ice for 86 minutes before finally allowing a tying goal. Neither team was ahead at the end of the match with a final score of 1-1. The Cougars retained their undefeated at home turf sta-tus. It was the final home game of what has been a great season for Clackamas.

A cold afternoon with light rain set the stage for a long grinding game between two of the NWAAC’s top teams Saturday at Oregon City High School’s Pioneer Stadium. Both of the playoff bound teams resorted to physical play and presented fans with an exciting game despite the lack of scoring.

The Penguins were first to strike 12 minutes into the match as an assist from LeeAnn Lauritzen gave Alexandra White a clear look at the Cougars’ goal. This, however, was the only score the Penguins could muster as Clackamas goalkeeper Melanie Trumbull was on top of her game for the rest of the match. She collected four saves including two spectacular dives to deny any more Penguin shots to find the net.

The Penguins learned from their 2-1 loss to the Cougars earlier in the season. They emphasized a tough defense that kept the Cougar offense frustrated by denying them many scoring chances. The Penguins posi-

tioned four players far back. Through most of the match the Penguins were able to keep the ball out of their box and quickly clear any penetration back out to mid field.

Coach Janine Szpara substituted-in midfielder Hope Butler in the 33rd minute, a move that received a loud cheer from the fans. The adjust-ment energized the Cougars’ offense as they developed two promising scoring chances. Unfortunately those opportunities were revealed to be teases. The first shot rebounded off the crossbar and the second was scooped up but the Penguins goal-keeper Victoria Fulton. The Penguins excellent play in goal was a thorn in the side of the Cougars as Fulton picked up seven saves through 90 minutes of play.

The second half of the match upped the intensity of both sides, the wet grass proved to be a challenging surface to tread on. Heavy contact throughout the game made for sev-eral injury scares from both sides. The official awarded yellow cards to Clackamas players Tori Roberts and Butler, also to the Penguins’ Cristal Ruvalcaba.

The Cougar offense pressed hard-er as the minutes ticked by in the second half. As usual, the Cougars played possession soccer, keeping the ball off of the Penguins’ shoes for most of the match. Fast-paced and accurate passing kept the Cougars competitive while trailing late in the second half. Roberts showed excel-lent dribbling skill as her fancy foot-work was able to beat defenders and draw appreciation from the crowd.

Pressing hard, the Cougars even-tually broke through the Penguins’ defensive wall and Claudia Flores powered a shot into the net after 87 minutes to tie the game. After the game Flores was proud of her team.

“They played all the way to the end and didn’t stop,” said Flores. Trumbull was also proud of her team-mates, calling them hard workers at the end of the match.

“I’m glad my team stepped up,” said Trumbull.

Trumbull is hungry for retribu-tion after last year’s disappointing loss in the NWAAC championship. This being her last year playing for Clackamas she only has one goal.

“I want to come out and win the NWAAC,” said Trumbull.

The 1-1 tie clinched the NWAAC South region championship for the Cougars, giving them a first round bye in the 2013 Women’s Soccer playoffs. The Clackamas team has the potential to come out as the champions this year but will need to play hard to beat the best teams in the league.

“We have to work on our play in the first half,” said assistant coach Miriam Coto.

Coto noted that the team played better in the second half.

“We have to play hard from the beginning,” said Coto.

This week wraps up the regular season as the Cougars play on Wed and Sat, traveling to Lane and SW Oregon community colleges respec-tively. The NWAAC Championship tournament will be held on Nov. 16-17 in Tukwila, Wash.

Chris BrowarskiThe Clackamas Print

Cougars and Penguinsbalance on thin ice

Olivia Thoroughman gets a head on the ball. The Cougars remain unde-feated at home for the season.

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The red fi lters through

Clackamas volleyball beats the Storm

Kenny Martin controls Dylan Holcomb at Thursday night’s Navy vs. Scarlet intersquad event. Martin won the match by 10-4 decision.

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Cougars rally between sets. The Clackamas volleyball team wins on Wednesday against the Chemeketa Storm. They also earned three wins in the Halloween Classic over the weekend.

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