Author: Sabrina Dedek

Practice Makes Perfect

The Healthcare Occupations Center in Lebanon held a phlebotomy program lab Saturday, where students drew blood from volunteers, getting hands-on experience locating veins and using their sterile needles to draw vials of blood from...

50 Years of Nursing

Since 1972 the college has offered a nursing program, which is open to applicants once a year. This two-year program requires an additional rather intense set of prerequisite courses before one is able to...

Underpaid and Undervalued: Celebrating Women

In honor of March, Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, Institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion hosted a Zoom presentation and discussion on “Underpaid and Undervalued: How Inequality Defines Women’s Work.” Speakers included faculty...

Lost Hikers Trading Post

 A Self-Care Personal Narrative My journey into the education of self-care is a wild one. It started with caring for others. I was working as an elderly adult in-home care provider before I was...

Oregon March for Life Rally

Salem, ORAnti-Abortion protesters gather in front of Oregon State Capital Building. SALEM – A rally organized by Right to Life called “March for Life” was held Jan. 29. The group of hundreds gathered in...

Revealing A Second Spirit

Native Indigenous American Culture: Two Spirit Who are the Two Spirit people? A Two Spirit person is a Native American, an Indigenous person who transcends gender roles. A Two Spirit person is born a...

Renee And Clay – Making An Impression

In a farming community in the middle of nowhere, and in a family of German homesteaders in the flat plains of the midwest, is a community where everybody knows everybody. If a roof needs...

Downtown Corvallis Trick-or-Treaters Returns

Downtown Corvallis Association welcomed Trick-or-Treating from 1pm to 5pm on Friday October 29th in downtown Corvallis. Businesses handed out candy and goodies outdoors to costumed children to celebrate Halloween. COVID-19 safe masks were required...

Roadrunner Explorers Club

 Saturday October 16th at 10am Roadrunners Explorers Club met for their first adventure at Greens Bridge Garden in Jefferson, OR. Beth Lyons and Sky Wheeler are the club advisers who plan each meet up....