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Jim Minkler resigns

Red Nations annual pow wow

The CCS Baseball team wins in dramatic fashion when Mithcel Cox made a game winning RBI in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday, April 23.

The team is feeling encouraged after the win and believe they have a shot at making it to the playoffs.

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Vice President of Learning Jim Minkler announced that he will be taking a new job as President of Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen.

Though only his diparture is covered in this article, there will be a follow-up in the next issue detailing the full contents of his interview.

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April 26, Hillary Clinton pulled further ahead of her opposition all but sweeping the five states holding primaries.

Pundits say that the math is imposible for Sanders, but he says he is dedicated to seeing the race through.

Critics believe he is doing so to get his ideas of a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for all, and free college tuition on the democratic platform.

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We want your contributions As the new editor-in-chief at The Communicator I am making every attempt I can to gain participation from the students here on campus.

We want to hear from you. We want you to feel like this is your newspaper as much as it is ours.

Every three weeks for the last two years I have watched a group of five or six outstanding young people, come together and bleed for a newspaper, never knowing for sure if anyone is reading.

The dedication I have seen from everyone here on out staff is unmatched by any experience I have had in my 35 years of life. we want your contributions. We want you to send us the things that you bleed for. The things that you stay up late at night, trying to create, and never really knowing for sure if anyone appreciates it.

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Like you, we want to know what other people think about what we are doing. We are always striving to be better, and are more than willing to listen to critisizm no matter how trivial, angry, or apathetic it may be.

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W

ith all the remodels that SFCC buildings are undergoing, the information on how much these remodels cost is publically available at the Washington Office of Financial Management. The cost of the remodels to students is $0 because they are covered by several governmental project funds.

Minor Capital Project (MCP’s) and Repair and Minor Improvement (RMI’s) are biennium (given every two years) finds given to the school by the senate for improvements. RMI’s are funds to be used by colleges for things such as remodels, emergencies and capital repairs such as emergency reserves,

Collin Masteller | The Communicator “MCP The school is allowed to submit a proposal to identify what project we would use the funds on and use a voting process to determine which project gets done,” said Pitcher.

When it comes to running the buildings the MCP also includes funds for running those buildings but is not entirely government-fund dependent.

code/regulatory compliance and minor improvements.

“Faculty and staff request that money… and are not utilized by any student fees,” said Darren Pitcher, Vice President of Student Services. “They all come from state legislature.”

This biennium is the building 16 remodel.

After the head start center went in the site was deemed in need of a remodel.

“When you get that money you have to spend it in the biennium or else they take the money back.”

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“Usually when we get a project like this they work in some Operation and Maintenance (O&M) money. The state knows the square footage of the building and when we remodel we don't add on any square footage so we can maintain those buildings.”

Spending all the money is important to the school because using all of the money for a quality project is the main goal of every new renovation.

“When you get that money you have to spend it in the biennium or else they take the money back.”

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Gender and sexuality Changing attitudes in the LGBT community Pride parade Odyssey Youth

We are often expected to learn it as we go.

We are misinformed We need to stay learn how to stay healthy and safe.

We need to know how to set boundaries.

We need to respect others boundaries.

We need to know the difference between preference, fetish, voyeurism, and an unhealthy cycle.

We need to recognize that opinion and attitudes toward sex, sexuality, gender change and evolve.

All this and more will be discussed The SFCC Alliance Club Presents: Sex A Seminar

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TA is creating a plan to build a bus station on SFCC campus.

This past January, 28 individuals, including several SFCC students, agency staff, and facilitators got together to begin planning for the project known as the Fort George Wright Dr/SFCC corridor area.

“STA improvements are completely subject to the city of Spokane rebuilding Fort George Wright Drive,” said Brandon Rapez-Betty, STA Senior Communications Specialist.

“The city of Spokane is looking at rebuilding Fort George Wright Drive in four to six years and so we’re looking to coordinate with that timeline,” said Kathleen Weinand, STA Transit Planner.

The chosen plan will benefit not only those who ride the bus, but also students who drive, walk, or ride to school.

One component of the plan involves changes for Fort George Wright Drive including a bike/pedestrian path on the South side and reconfiguring the road into two through-lanes with a center turn lane.

Another feature of the plan is that it will

include a traffic light or pedestrian signal at Elliott and Fort George Wright Drive.

“We’re working with the community to see what concepts they like and want, and at the end of the project we will have some cost estimates,” Weinand said. “Once the concept is completed we’ll be looking for grants to fund the project hopefully in that three to four year timeline,” The proposed plan will bring retail and other developmental opportunities to the area.

“One of the goals of the project is to get some more retail in the area, people mentioned coffee shops, pizza shops, somewhere to hang out in the neighborhood and on campus,” Weinand said.

Community members are invited to a meeting on May 17 at SFCC in the Student Union building from 6-8 p.m. to review and give their input about the proposed plan.

“Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come, we would love it especially if students would come,” Weinand said.

FCC will soon be without a Vice President of Learning indefinitely.

On April 22, current VP of Learning Jim Minkler announced that he will take the President position at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen. He said that the position would remain unfilled for at least a year.

As the VP of Learning of the college, Minkler ensured that the college remained accredited, that instructors were properly certified and qualified, and that SFCC courses met universities’ transfer standards.

“One of my jobs is to make sure that we are compliant with all the commission requirements,” Minkler said.

“There is a lot of work that has to be done regarding making sure that students are supported in the proper way: that we’re fiscally responsible, that we have the facilities and the learning environments that’s conducive to learning.”

Though Minkler has been at SFCC for 17 years and has served as both a Dean and Vice President of Learning, being President of Grays Harbor College was the logical next step for him.

“There comes a time, like everything else in my life, when I get comfortable with it, and as soon as I get comfortable with something, I start to get a little bit … ‘What’s the next challenge?,’” Minkler said. “So I found myself doing that at North Idaho College. What was the next challenge? Well, that was becoming the Dean. The next challenge was becoming the Vice President of Learning, and now the next challenge is the next step up for me, and that’s being President.”

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There are roughly 100 to 125 veterans on the Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC). The Veteran Resource Center is in place to provide support for those students.

The VRC is on the lower level of the library just across from the Copy Shop. Garrett Stenehjem is one of the people in the VRC; he was in the Air Force for six years. He assists in the VRC answering phones and assisting anyone that comes into the center, including Severns whom he has seen on a few occasions, utilizing the center’s resources.

“There’s a lot of different programs that kind-of run through the school... like Vocational Rehab which is specifically for veterans with disabilities,” Stenehjem said. “It extends their GI bill and it helps them basically obtain jobs and get higher education; our school participates in that.

“There’s of course the GI bill, which everyone is using...also there’s a veteran’s club here on campus, which is cool. I’m part of that. It’s not too bad; we can all get together. We tend to have busy schedules.”

The VRC does a lot of activities for veterans and is consciously active in

the veteran community.

“We do a lot of stuff for veterans,” Stenehjem said. “In fact, we’re doing a flag ceremony. We do suicide awareness events, and then we hold a Veteran’s Resource Fair, every year on November 5th. It’s resources from the local area that are for veterans.

“The people that have those resources basically represent them. Usually we’ll get about 20 to 30 vendors that are just representative of different programs in the community. We also get therapeutic groups where they help veterans with PTSD, all kinds of stuff.”

Students, staff, faculty and veterans interested in any of these resources or information on what the VRC does, visit them in the lower level of the library any time during normal business hours of Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. They have quiet study space, couches, coffee and other amenities.

“I like how quiet it is. Some veterans don’t do well in crowds. It’s nice to have your own little place to study,” said Nick Ellinson, veteran and SFCC student.

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the smallest branch of the military within the United States Armed Forces.

In 2012, the Coast Guard had approximately 42,000 men and women on active duty, a workforce that does not come close to the size of the Costco workforce, having over 200,000 employees worldwide. The Coast Guard may be small, but it is not small by mistake.

“The Coast Guard is tiny, meaning that you’re held accountable for your job, and you’re given a lot of responsibility with that too,” said Petty Officer Craig Sears 1st class.

The USCG is arguably the most difficult of the services to get into, It is the smallest branch of the military and can afford to the most selective. Just because recruits meet the minimum ASVAB scores does not mean they are guaranteed enlistment.

“We’ve got opportunity for everything and everybody. You can be saving lives, you’ll be doing regular law enforcement, you can make big drug busts. It just comes down to you, if you want to work for it,” said Sears.

As for the physical requirements, Petty Officer Sears said.

“Coast Guard boot camp is credited as the second most difficult physically, second to the Ma-

rine Corps.” said Sears. “Marine Corps instructors teach at the Coast Guard’s boot camp at Cape May, NJ, and Coast Guard instructors teach for the Marines.”

USCG boot camp is directed towards being a circuit workout, working out non-stop from 5 in the morning to 10 at night. As part of the training, swimming is not a huge aspect in the USCG.

“Swimming is not really that important, unless you’re a rescue swimmer,” said Sears. “For rescue swimmers, that’s all they do. They live in the pool for about five hours a day, and then they go train out in the ocean. But other than that, it’s a good cardio workout.

That’s why we wear lifejackets.”

There is a total of 19 job categories available in the USCG, each branching off into specialty jobs.

Including aviation mechanics, air survival technicians, intelligence specialists, and many more.

For anyone considering the USCG, Sears says,

“Enjoy your time. Go try to experience new things. Volunteer for different opportunities. Just get out and experience life. That’s what it’s really about.”

For more information visit the United States Coast Guard website at www.coastguard.com

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8518 E. Green Bluff Rd. Colbert, WA 99005 509-238-9548 Open daily April 1 - December 23 Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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The aroma of lavender and sandalwood permeate the atmosphere before walking through the doors of Green Bluff’s High Country Orchard.

Handmade candles line the shelves at first glance. Decorated sections full of handmade scarves, teas, lotions and an assortment of other wares are displayed around the country store.

A person who wants to get out of the city for the day, approximately 20 miles from downtown Spokane, is a little town called Green Bluff. High Country Orchard is a place that caters to people of all ages and from all walks of life.

Kathy Fischer has been bringing her daughter to High Country Orchard and Green Bluff since she was tiny girl. She now continues the tradition by bringing her granddaughter.

“I never in a million years imagined I’d be able to live here,” Fischer said.

Amanda Opsal, Fischer’s daughter, comes to Green Bluff to visit her mother.

“I love to get away from the hustle and bustle of Spokane,” Opsal said.

High Country Orchard offers customers a country setting to enjoy a meal or listen to live music. They have a playground for the children and a petting zoo of baby goats, donkeys, chickens and other animals.

The café offers an assortment of madeto-order sandwiches and drinks as well as pies and other treats.

“The environment is so beautiful,” Piper Hutchinson, a cafe employee said. “Customers are always in a good mood.”

Karen Weiss and her 18-year-old daughter, Bailey Rollman, are visiting from Olympia.

“We’re here for parent weekend at Gonzaga,” Weiss said. “Bailey is enrolled in

the fall and I wanted her to see what’s on the outside of Spokane.”

Rollman has been to High Country Orchard once before to visit the owner’s daughter.

“They had a swing dance in the barn and all the kids from high school were here,” Rollman said. “It was a lot of fun.”

Angie McDermott is the wedding coordinator and runs the register in the middle of the store. She speaks to each customer as if they were her old friends.

“It’s comforting being around all the families,” McDermott said. “Coming up to Green Bluff is just something people do

yearly.”

By June, the apples and pears will be overflowing onto the well-decorated front patio. Growers from surrounding orchards

“I never in a million years imagined I’d be able to live here,” Fischer said. and farms will bring their fruits and vegetables to be laid out in an array of colors.

“People are pretty particular about their fruit and vegetables,” McDermott said. “They want it from Green Bluff’s local growers.”

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SFCC’s Red Nation presents the19th Annual Powwow Allie Raye sfcc.allie.raye@gmail.com Native American tribal dancers travel to SFCC for the 19th Annual Powwow competition, hosted by The Red Nations club.

Tribes from Oregon, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Washington and Canada will travel to Washington to participate. Local tribes, such as Spokane, Kalispel and Colville will also be participating. The event is open to anyone who wants to enter, no matter what culture they come from.

“If someone wants to compete, all they have to do is ask what regalia they need to wear,” Stefanie Reuben, an SFCC student said.

Regalia refers to the outfits a dancer wears.

“Worn with pride and a deep sense of honor, elements of this treasured dress are often gifted to the dancers by tribal elders or special people in the dancer’s life,” as stated on Prairieedge. com’s website.

“It’s offensive when people go out there with their hatchets and fake leather suits because it’s not real,” Reuben said. “It’s a stereotype.”

Every pow wow has a Head Man

and Head Woman dancer. Jordan Yazzie will be the Head Man. Anna Eaglebear, who comes from Arizona and belongs to the Navajo tribe, will be the Head Woman Dancer for this competition.

“My clans are the Cliffdweller clan born for the Edgewater clan,” Eaglebear said.

“The regalia as a whole is special to me in its entirety.”

There are five categories of dancers; tiny tots, juniors, teen, adults. Dancers 60 and over are called “golden age.

“When golden age is out there, you always need to stand,” Reuben said. “People don’t usually know that. That’s how we show respect.”

It is also customary to show respect and stand at the opening and closing ceremonies.

Each category has the same types of dances: The grass dance, fancy dance, jingle dance, traditional dance and

prairie chicken dance.

“Their graceful dance flows like the rippling prairie grasses,” Circletrail.com posted regarding the grass dance. “The steps and movement are carried out in time with the drum and are unique to each dancer.”

Some of the participating tribes are Flathead, Lapwai, Nez Perce, Yakima, Kalispel, Warm Springs, Salish, Navajo, Kootenai, Colville and Spokane tribe.v

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The SFCC International Film Festival kicked off April 19 and runs until May 7. CCS students, faculty and staff are admitted free; all others pay a general admission fee of $5.00. Films are shown at 7:15 p.m. on five consecutive Tuesday evenings at The Garland Theatre.

The festival is an event largely funded by students and student groups such as the Spanish club and the Alliance club. Since 2005, the festival has brought award-winning nationally pro-

duced films to the Spokane area.

Gabriel Valenzuela, an SFCC Spanish instructor, helped coordinate the event and encourages students to engage in the diverse cinema experience.

“We try to select international films that have done well at other festivals,” he said. “We usually always try to have Spanish and French films. When we meet in October we’ll decide if there is going to be a theme, and we’ll try to select films around that mold.”

Giving viewers the chance to view

international films is a unique opportunity to see a different perspective on a shared art form. Valenzuela and other coordinators worked within the community to advertise, using websites such as Spokanearts.org to spread the word throughout the visual arts community.

“A majority of viewers are CCS students and faculty,” he said. “This year we’re hoping to fill more seats and gain exposure.”

“We don’t always have access to

these type of films, so having a film festival is a wonderful opportunity all artists should take advantage of,” said Kendra Sherrill, a film graduate from Eastern and current instructor at SFCC. “It gives us opportunities to open our minds and view different world perspectives. If we solely focus on what is being created here, we are doing a disservice to ourselves because there is so much we can learn from art around the world.”

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The Lilac Bloomsday Run, is iconic within Spokane. With almost two decades of history, this annual event brings rich excitement into this small city.

Bloomsday has been going on since 1997,; a city event founded to promote health and fitness through running. The health and fitness concept was not popular culture back then as it is now. But with the growing concept of running and health, this planned occasion was succesfully created by Don Kardong, the founder and current race director of Bloomsday.

“When we started here, we sort of tapped into some interest in health and fitness that was new,” said Kardong. “At first there were almost no big running events in the world.

I went to one in the summer of 1976 where there was about two-thousand runners.”

Bloomsday now receives around 50 thousand entries yearly. Bloomsday attracts so many people locally as well as internationally.

“Bloomsday is a great community event,” said Kardong. “People love to get together.

It’s an elite race with some of the fastest runners in the world.

“It’s also a wheelchair race. We have

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corporate teams that compete, and a lot of people go with family and friends just to enjoy themselves.”

If you cross the bridge over the Spokane River on the way to school, you have seen the recent construction on N Pettet Drive. For Bloomsday runners, this is known as doomsday road, a monumental part of the track. It is the longest uphill section of the race. Whether this construction will be affecting the run or not has been unknown to many people.

“We’ve talked to the construction com-

pany and they’re aware of what we need.

They’re going to move their stuff out of the way and sweep up the road so it will be a nice clear shot,” said Kurdong.

Unfortunately, spectators that are used to standing and watching near that point are going to have trouble finding a spot.

“They will still have all their equipment on the side of the road,” said Kurdong.

After all, nothing seems to ever stop this run from taking place.

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far. We have had 82 degrees, and we’ve seen snow on the ground in the morning,” Kardong wants anyone running for the first time to know that participating in the event does not have to be competitive.

“The important thing is that although we call it the Lilac Bloomsday Run, primarily most of our people are walkers,” Kardong said.

“We hope the people understand that you don’t have to be a great runner to participate.

“There are some very serious runners, and some not very serious runners out there, but everyone is welcome.”

Bloomsday also offers awesome volunteer opportunities for anyone who does not prefer running. Mathew Schaffer, a student here at Spokane Falls Community College, volunteers almost every year.

“Volunteering is fun. I usually do t-shirt distribution or handing out water to the runners.

We’re usually handing out maybe 100 to 150 gallons of water.” said Schaffer.

Volunteering helps out the Bloomsday event a lot too, and according to the Bloomsday website, if you volunteer you’ll be joining an award-winning race crew! There are ten different opportunities for volunteering including help at the start line, all the way to the finish line.

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Upcoming games April 30 Walla Walla CC @ Walla Walla, 1:00 p.m. (DH) May 4 Big Bend CC @ SFCC, 1:00 p.m. (DH) May 7 Blue Mt. CC @ Pendleton, OR, 1:00 p.m. (DH) May 11 Wenatchee Valley College @ SFCC, 1:00 p.m. (DH) May 14 Treasure Valley CC @ SFCC, 12:00 p.m. (DH) May21-22 NWAC Regional Playoff @ TBA , TBA May 26-30 NWAC Championships @ Longview, TBA

Jeff Gregory | The Communicator Mitchell Cox (#13) is congratulated following his game winning RBI in the bottom of the 9th inning of a 3-2 victory over Columbia Basin College.

Imani Guillory sfcc.imani.guillory@gmail The CCS baseball team has had a winning season so far, and they plan to continue bringing home more wins for our school.

With a record of 18 wins and 12 losses. The batting leaders on the team include: Kasey Kelly, Jordan Ross, Tyler Huck, and Kadin Beller; who is leading the team with the highest batting average of average of 4 out of 10. Players like Evan Douglas, Jared Smith, Enrique Martinez, and Tyler Huck have all been key factors to the team with their outstanding efficiency focus, and hard work. CCS’s most recent game was against Columbia Basin College where the team came home with a win of 2-3.

The team plans on moving higher up in their standing since they are ranked sixth in their conference. Their latest winning streak will move them higher in the ranks.

“If our guy’s could clean up their accuracy and aim, it would make a huge difference overall. Getting the ball to base fast, with accuracy, is something we definitely need to work on in our defense”, Bobby Lee said, CCS head baseball coach.

Other baseball players made comments as well, including Alex Reece, pitcher for CCS, and Mitchell Cox first baseman.

“When things don’t go our way, or when things go south, a lot of us get it in our heads and it shuts us out mentally, so that’s something I think we definitely need to work on, is teamwork and getting over obstacles,” Mitchell Cox said. “Because we’re a good team and when things are going good for us, we start playing better baseball so I think overall we need to use the team commodity to increase the amount of wins and improving our abilitie on and off the field.

“I guess one thing our team could do better this

year for making the playoffs would be taking care of the little things on the field, ya know, like walks and hit by pitches, stuff that we can control and can clean up,” Reece said.

Overall CCS baseball plans on finishing the season strong, and taking care of the little things to help them bring home more wins and go further in the playoffs which take place May 26 - May 30.

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