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Earth Support and water bottle recycling events will be held at the two campuses
Photos and story by James Hill
The Rock Creek Campus is hosting “Earth Support” from Jan. 27 to 29 in the Building 3 mall. Get information about greening the campus and the planet. Go on a Loop tour to find out about the closed loop system on campus 1:30 to 3 p.m., Wednesday Jan. 28. Meet behind the café of Building 3.
Attendees can also tour the Environmental Studies Center from 1 to 3 p.m., Thursday Jan. 29 also behind the café of Building 3. This is a natural area within the Rock Creek Campus that is considered to be an important natural history area by both the Portland Audubon Society and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Organizers will be recycling aluminum bottle tops to make magnets, old cell phones for domestic violence victims, tennis shoes to make basketball courts, tracks, fields or playgrounds, batteries and fluorescent lights too.
Get into the show! Bottle art work to be judged
ASPCC Cascade would like to invite faculty and students to participate in the first Take Back the Tap Water Bottle Art Contest! To help bring awareness to the consequences of using bottled water, ASPCC is hosting a H20 fashion show at 11:30 a.m., Jan. 28 in the SC Building cafeteria. The winners of the TBTT Water Bottle Art Contest will also be announced. PCC staff and students are encouraged to enter their own creative works of art.
The Details: Art must incorporate at least five water bottles; entries must be finished and entered by Jan. 22 to be voted on. There is NO size restriction; art will be judged based on how well the piece represents these areas – Most Creative, Most Useful, and Overall Scope.
For more information please email Sonrisa.sonnleitner@pcc.edu.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »