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PCC's Willow Creek project is on schedule

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Remember the Willow Creek project? That’s the facility to serve unemployed and underemployed Oregonians. It’s being built on the MAX light rail line in Washington County, and the walls are going up, even as we speek.

During the 2008 supplemental session of the Legislature, lawmakers granted PCC $7.5 million in matching funds for Willow Creek. That’s why we were able to jump on this project during this school year.

We’re taking another capital construction funding request to the 2009 Legislature: This one is for a building dedicated to careers in education, to be built on the Cascade Campus.

Pictured above are Linda Degman, right, PCC facilities planning manager, and Jillian Detweiler, TriMet senior planner (and, not for nothing, but a classmate of mine at Lewis & Clark College). Photo by Jerry Hart.

Want to know more about Willow Creek? Check out the Spring 2009 issue of PCC Communities, which hit mailboxes the end of last week. It also can be found on the campuses, in regional libraries and elsewhere.

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About Dana Haynes

Dana Haynes, joined PCC in 2007 as the manager of the Office of Public Affairs, directing the college's media and government relations. Haynes spent the previous 20 years as a reporter, columnist and editor for Oregon newspapers, including ... more »