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Posted in 2005

PCC, partners kick-off Killingsworth project

PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Community College, Portland Å·ÖÞ±­¾öÈü¾º²Âapp_Å·ÖÞ±­×ãÇòÍø-Ͷע|¹ÙÍøment Commission, Portland Office of Transportation, Humboldt Neighborhood Association and local businesses are hosting a kick-off celebration for the $5 million of construction improvements on three-block area of North Killingsworth Street, between Michigan and Borthwick Avenues. Posted August 17, 2005

Training new employees for circuit board companies

PORTLAND, Ore. - It was a day to remember. A dozen graduates of Portland Community College's Entry-Level High Tech Skills Training program performed songs and presented cultural skits to a crowd of family and high-tech industry representatives during a one-hour graduation last month at the Capital Career Center. In return, they got a certificate and a whole new career. Posted August 12, 2005

PCC admissions staff will be at Lloyd Mall Sept. 10

PORTLAND, Ore. - On Saturday, Sept. 10, the Admissions Offices of Portland Community College will staff information booths at the Lloyd Center Mall (2201 Lloyd Center Mall) to answer questions and offer guidance to prospective students for registering for fall term classes. Posted August 10, 2005

Signature building nears completion at PCC-Cascade

PORTLAND, Ore. - The final piece to the Cascade 2000 construction bond puzzle is nearing completion the Daniel F. Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building. The facility is named after former PCC President Dan Moriarty, who retired from the college in 2001 after 15 years at the helm of the states largest institution of higher education. Posted August 10, 2005

PCC-Pay helps students take care of bills quickly and cheaply

PORTLAND, Ore. - Students now have a safer, cheaper and faster way to pay their bills at Portland Community College. Posted August 10, 2005

Sign of the times: PCC, Marylhurst partner up

PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Community College and Marylhurst University have signed an articulation agreement to guarantee admission and junior status at Marylhurst to PCC graduates with an associate of applied science degree in sign language interpreting and deaf studies. Students who transfer from PCC to Marylhurst with a concentration in sign language interpretation will be accepted into the university's human studies program. PCC's sign language interpreting program is based at the Sylvania Campus (12000 S.W. 49th Ave.). Posted August 10, 2005

Small Business Connection: Taking New Heights to New Levels

When business started picking up at New Heights Integrative Therapy, owner Kevin Poe was both excited and worried. Poe and his partners Kellie Barnes and Donna Gramont were spending all of their time with clients and little time thinking about the direction of their growing enterprise. Posted August 10, 2005

Board of directors meeting cancelled

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Community College Board of Directors meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 11 at the Sylvania Campus has been cancelled. The next business meeting is set for Thursday, September 15 in the Conference Room of the CC Building at the Sylvania Campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. Posted August 8, 2005

Students build weather station, future careers

PORTLAND, Ore. - High school students from around the area were not only building a weather station, but building their future. Posted August 2, 2005

'Door Lady' helps close chapter on Cascade work

PORTLAND, Ore. - Tracy Onchi literally opens the door for thousands and thousands of people. "Some people call me the door lady," she said. "That's okay. I like to make people happy." Posted August 2, 2005