Geary St. Wreck

Two cars collide Wednesday, 9:30 am, on Geary St. in front of Carino's Restaraunt.

An elderly man hit the tail end of a younger woman's car. Six firemen helped to get the young woman out of her car.

Carried on a stretcher into the back of an ambulance, the woman is taken to urgent care.

Traffic is blocked momentarily as the wreckage is cleaned up.

LBCC philosophers; sign up and start the first philosophy club at LBCC

Karyn Chambers is a religion and philosophy teacher at LBCC who is looking for students interested in creating and maintaining a philosophy club. LBCC does not yet have a philosophy club and Chambers is in the process of collecting signatures to give to the board members in the life and leadership department to get permission to create the club.
Students interested can contact Chambers at her e-mail address; http://cf.linnbenton.edu/wed/dev/chambek/web.cfm?pgID=807
Be sure to leave your first and last name, phone number, and e-mail address and that will be collected as a signature to join the creation of the philosophy club.

"The club will be a forum where members will get a chance to discuss what matters most and it will be ran by the students," says Chambers. "There is also an opening for a club president and vice-president."

Students will get to bring in videos to share and some modern day philosophers will get a chance to visit and share their insights at LBCC.

There will be a meeting set up providing a chance for the students who gave signatures to get together and discuss what they would want out of the club and how the leadership roles within the students will be established. The meeting will be held on a date that will be announced soon.

LBCC's pre-school teacher shares story time at P.C.D.C.

At the Periwinkle Child Development Center, pre-school teacher, Connie Lenderman, shows what it takes to keep pre-schoolers active and eager to learn. While reading a story in the classroom about a squirrell, she shows the young students an acorn demonstrating what squirrells like to collect.

Lenderman mentions how it is a joy for her to be a teacher at the LBCC campus and to give the children a fun learning environment. She also mentions how children are more willing to learn when they are in a group interacting with one another. Lenderman keeps the classroom very bright and fun the entire time she is teaching.

Along with Lenderman, there are other staff members who aide in teaching, interacting, and being silly with the children. Other curricular activities include songs and dance while learning alphabet letters, animal sounds, counting, and so forth. All the pre-school children have a wide variety of art and craft projects to create along with a playstructure outside to explore.

"P.C.D.C. has been finding ways to raise funding to go towards better playground equipment and what we need for the children who are in kindergarten classrooms." says Lenderman

Lenderman also explains a little about her teaching experience;

"You have to bring out your inner-child and not be afraid to act goofy and fun, it's what children crave and they love learning things that way." says Lenderman

LBCC's BBQ celebrates a new school year, raises funds

Cary Reike serves hamburgers at LBCC's BBQ celebrating a new school year for new and returning students on Oct. 6.

Meat and vegetarian burgers were available along with chips and soda.

A hamburger meal cost $3.50 per student and $4.50 per employee.

"The funds collected from the BBQ will go towards the Periwinkle Child Development Center Parenting Club's attempt to raise money for new playground equipment," said Reike, who is a member of the club.

Along with the hamburger meals were free mini golf and music. Information tables were set up giving students a chance to explore the activities and programs that LBCC has to offer.

One of the culinary art students in the LBCC campus kitchen.

Bill, the humble librarian at LBCC.

This is Bill. Bill works very happily in LBCC's campus library.