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Artist, writer, and Crafton Hills College (CHC) Visual Arts professor Yuki Toyooka Smith held an artist talk and reception for her exhibition SKIN X BONE, currently on display at the CHC Art Gallery. Providing insights into the overlap between science and visual art, the talk was part of the 2022 STEM Speaker Series presented by the CHC STEM Center.

The Crafton Hills College Undocumented Student Action Week Planning Team hosted a virtual panel to educate students, parents, staff, faculty, and community members about the Crafton Hills College DREAMers Scholars Program. A DREAMer is an immigrant youth who qualifies for benefits of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAMers Scholars program will support the higher education of undocumented (i.e., Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)) students and those from mixed status families.

SBCCD invited award-winning organizer and speaker Rosa Alicia Clemente to speak as part of the closing event for Hispanic Heritage Month. Clemente is a prominent Bronx-born, Black-Puerto Rican, scholar- activist combating anti-Blackness within the wider Latinx community.

Another successful CHC Three Peaks engagement activity was held on Sep 30. Twelve students, their family members, and friends summited the Mount Baden-Powell peak in the San Gabriel Mountains along with CHC guides Mike Strong and Larry Cook.

The CHC Community Garden had a fall vegetable planting party. Dr. Janine Ledoux guided volunteer faculty, staff, students, and community members in planting lettuce, kale, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, and root vegetables. Ledoux made sure to get nutrient rich vegetables that students and their families would enjoy eating.

Since its 2018 opening, the Veterans Resource Center (VRC) at Crafton Hills College has connected veterans with educational services as well as a place to unwind.

A Roadrunner is one of our newest San Bernardino County Superior Court judges.

The Crafton Hills College Theatre Department performed OPEN, by Melissa Harkness -- for the first time anywhere. Theatre Arts Professor Paul Jacques directed the cast of four. Sophie Ball played the lead role of Hollywood actor Judy; Sebastian Hernandez played Gil, Judy's husband; Jacob Brantmeyer played Marcus, a stereotypical hotshot director; and Bella Sequeira debuted in a Crafton Theatre production as Judy's supportive best friend, Natalie.

Fog and mist blanketed the Crafton Hills College campus Saturday, Oct. 5, but the weather didn't dampen the spirits of those assembled for the Run-for-the-Hills 5-K run/walk, another event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the College and raising funds for the CHC Foundation. In fact, the weather was a plus for the runners Crafton Hills College Holds Run-for-the-Hills 5K Run/Walk Career Fair Connects Students to Employers and Major Exploration by helping them remain cool as they challenged the campus hills.

Crafton Hills College partnered with the City of Yucaipa Office of Emergency Services to provide Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training at the campus Oct 19-21. CERT is a program that prepares attendees to help themselves, their family, their neighbors, and in this case, the Crafton Hills College community in the event of a disaster.

Children at the Crafton Hills College Child Development Center had a great week learning about public safety with visits from the CHC fire academy cadets, paramedic program students, and officers from the SBCCD Police Department.

Deanna Krehbiel, Workforce Development Manager for the San Bernardino Community College District Economic Development & Corporate Training Center, and Dan Word, Dean of Career Education and Human Development for Crafton Hills College, presented a session at the California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCAOE) conference on October 6. Their presentation focused on the creative and collaborative ways to blend the not-for- credit, noncredit, and credit curricula to develop new career education programs.

An estimated three hundred Crafton Hills College students attended the career fair in the quad on October 12, hosted by the College's Career Center. Students had the opportunity to visit the forty-eight booths set up across the quad, thirty-seven of which were sole employer booths. These included Symbiosis, a local healthcare company specializing in urgent care, ambulance transport, telemedicine services, and event safety. The company brought its original 1972 Cadillac Ambulance, which it still uses for basic life support service. Other booths represented the College's academic departments, student clubs, and student services.

When Forrest Greek's morning commute to Redlands would take him near a little community college on the hill, he would marvel at the institution's work educating the next generation of teachers, future leaders and first responders.