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Issue 16.Indd The Lewis-Clark State College Student Newspaper Thursday LCSC holds Branting Zoom What to New Center for online watch during Arts and History April 23, 2020 presentation Issue 16 graduation quarantine building Page 6 Volume 130 Page 3 Page 4 Page 9 The Pathfi nder is hiring! The Pathfi nder is looking for a business manager for next year! The position pays $2,425/school year, and allows up to 15% commission off of ad sales! This position is a great one for business or accounting emphasis students, and would look great on resumes! The position requirements are handling payroll for the staff of The Pathfi nder, attending meetings, and HELP WANTED reaching out to local or global businesses to buy ads! You will also have access to your own offi ce, computer, and printer for the entire school year! If you are interested, please contact us at thepathfi [email protected]! Or, when school re- opens next year, stop by the offi ce in SUB 228! 2 April 23, 2020 North Central Idaho SBDC at LC State off ers help to small business owners during pandemic By LC State News Idaho Region 2 business owners with and then the blue Register button. information and answer questions Registration also is being accepted of LCSC about federal disaster loans and through email at [email protected], other resources. or by phone at 208-792-2465 and The North Central Idaho Small The May 1 webinar, entitled leave a message. Business Development Center at “30 Steps to Evaluate and Improve Small business owners can request Lewis-Clark State College remains Your Website Action,” will be held free consulting help online from the busy helping Region 2 small business at 9-11:30 a.m. There is a $25 fee North Central Idaho SBDC. They owners access federal resources and the instructor will be Barbara can also get disaster updates and during the coronavirus (COVID- Leachman, director of the North learn about resources available on 19) pandemic and will be off ering a Central Idaho SBDC. The webinar the SBDC website. webinar on May 1 on evaluating and will show how to optimize a website To see a list of the various Idaho improving website action. for search engines and customers. Free Disaster Capital and Federal Offi cials at the North Central Pre-registration is required. To pre- SBA Loan Option webinars, visit Idaho SBDC have received training register, visit the website www. https://idahosbdc.org/covid-19- from the U.S. Small Business lcsc.edu/sbdc and click on the red business-resources/covid-19- KXLY Administration so they can help box that says Workshop Schedule trainings-and-webinars The Pathfi nder Policies The Pathfi nder is the offi cial to visit and share comments and Deadlines for The Pathfi nder are as follows: student publication of Lewis- ideas. If you would like to make an Ads — 5 p.m. Friday (for Thursday release, unless Clark State College, and operates appointment to meet with the editor by prior arrangement) under authority granted by the Letters to the editor — 5 p.m. Friday LCSC Communications Board. or any staff member, please email Press releases and public service announcements Responsibilities for establishing thepathfi [email protected]. — 5 p.m. Saturday news and advertising policies and Staff meetings are held every Articles, columns, opinion, profi les, stories — deciding issues related to content Monday at 6 p.m. outisde of room 228. Saturday at midnight rest solely on the student staff . 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April 23, 2020 The Pathfi nder 3 LC State to hold virtual commencement ceremony By LC State News same as actually walking across the stage, but we are going to do our best of LCSC to honor this year’s graduating class and I hope the entire Warrior family Lewis-Clark State College President Cynthia Pemberton has will join us virtually to cheer them announced the college will hold a on.” virtual commencement ceremony on May 15 at 2 p.m. The ceremony will The virtual ceremony will feature premiere on LC State’s Facebook messages from Gov. Brad Little and page: www.facebook.com/ the Idaho State Board of Education, lewisclarkstate, and faculty, staff , students, parents, alumni and friends an address by Pemberton from the are welcome and encouraged to join Silverthorne Theatre, and a video together virtually in recognizing and presentation displaying photos of all congratulating this year’s graduating class. of this year’s graduates. “We have incredible graduates More details surrounding who have overcome innumerable challenges, including a spring commencement will be available semester fi lled with obstacles, and soon at www.lcsc.edu. we want to do everything we can As previously announced, 2020 to recognize and celebrate their success,” Pemberton said. “I know graduates are still invited to take part a virtual ceremony will never be the in the 2021 ceremony as well. LCSC LC State’s Canfi eld is appointed NVWT state coordinator put up 250 historic roadside markers since the fall of 2008. Her courses non-profi t organizations and state By LC State News nationally. Currently, there are more on U.S. history focus on women’s board and councils, including the of LCSC than 1,000 sites on the Trail that history, American Indian history, Lewiston Civic Theater and Idaho tell the untold stories of suff rage for and public history. She is the Humanities Council. She is also a all women that extends beyond the advisor to the Women In Lasting Lewis-Clark State College history member of the Idaho Historic Sites professor Amy Canfi eld has been passage of the 19th amendment in Leadership Club, and organizer of Review Board. appointed as the state coordinator 1920. Women’s History Month activities Canfi eld holds a bachelor’s degree for the National Votes for Women The organization has 44 state on campus. in history and women’s studies Trail (NVWT), offi cials from The coordinators. Canfi eld will be Canfi eld encourages her students from Idaho State University and a National Collaborative for Women’s working with historians and to be active in civic engagement and volunteers throughout Idaho to to get involved with issues they are master’s in U.S. history and a Ph.D. History Sites have announced. document specifi c suff rage sites and passionate about. During the past The NVWT’s mission is to in U.S. and public history, both from establish historic markers at those four years, Canfi eld has facilitated recognize and celebrate the enormous Washington State University. sites. Currently, the Trail’s digital or held re-enactments of historical In 2019, Canfi eld was honored diversity of people and groups active map does not contain a site in Idaho. signifi cance on civil and women’s with the Idaho Brightest Stars Award in the struggle for women’s suff rage Canfi eld will also have a student rights on the LC State campus. for a Teacher/Professor in the state. in the United States. To do this, it uses research assistant, Meghan Castle, The topics were researched and a Trail, which consists of two parts: help her. Castle is a junior at LC State developed by her students. The award honors those who actively (1) a database with a digital map of majoring in history with a minor in Canfi eld is involved with many volunteer in their communities. She Amy Canfi eld the U.S. and (2) working with the women’s and general studies. community organizations, serving also was a 2019 recipient of the LC William G. Pomeroy Foundation to Canfi eld has worked at LC State on the board of directors of local State Women’s Leadership Award. 4 April 23, 2020 Branting to give Zoom presentation on Normal Hill area on April 29 The presentation is free and open virtual walking tour of Normal Hill Branting will show pictures he has to the public, but preregistration is from the 1870s to the mid-1930s, obtained through the years during By Bert Sahlberg required. To preregister, visit the showing vintage images of homes, his presentation, and there will be a of LCSC LC State alumni website www. businesses, schools, churches, and lcsc.edu/alumni/events and scroll the infl uential people of the time. chat function where participants can down to the red register bar for the Normal Hill was surveyed in 1874 ask questions. Lewis-Clark State College event. Once registered, an event as part of the original Lewiston link and password will be mailed to The event is sponsored by the LC Institutional Historian Steven township, whose southern boundary the participant so they can join the was what is now 11th Avenue. The State Alumni offi ce.
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