A new workforce training skills center and student residential hall are now complete on The Dalles campus of Columbia Gorge Community College.  The “Chinook Residence Hall” is named for the college’s mascot, and school officials say it will emphasize affordability.  There are 12 units with four beds each, as well as two studio apartments for residential managers who may also be students.  Each four-bed unit has a study area, bathroom and kitchenette.  There’s a common kitchen on the first floor and a student lounge on the second floor, and a laundry on each floor.  Rooms on the south side overlook the campus; those on the north overlook the Columbia Gorge.  The skills center will offer new career-technical programs to provide students with family-wage skills.  It will emphasize dual credit training for high school students as well as high-demand training for people of all ages in fields such as welding and construction.  Classes begin fall term and housing applications are open now.  Ribbon-cutting and public tours will be on September 11.