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Ken Hughes, Bob Rennie, Olga Kempo and Penny Le Couteur.

Caught taking food samples back to the lab for
testing is Biology lab supervisor Chris Sanderson.

English instructor Bill Schermbrucker and College president Greg Lee in
the Birch building atrium. (Photo courtesy of the North Shore News.)
Taking a curtain call below are, from left, John Sayre, Bill Schermbrucker,

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lot of College employees and students woke up much

earlier than usual on Friday, October 23. Some wondered
if they’d be going to work, others wanted to know if mid-term
exams would be cancelled. With the successful 4:30 a.m.
settlement of negotiations between the faculty union and the
College, everything was going ahead as scheduled. Plus,
Mother Nature threw in a beautiful sunny day for good
measure. It all added up to a perfect mix for a celebration and
the College just happened to have one scheduled.

Capilano College’s 30th anniversary and employee
recognition event was held as planned that day and judging by
the reviews, most people really enjoyed themselves. Some of
the comments included:

“Reid always stands out for me . . . what a pleasure to see
Ken Hughes again . . . the video on changing a light bulb was
as funny as any skit from Monty Python .. . all highly
entertaining and humorous .. . I loved the pictures and music
to start and the addition of the faculty skit was hilarious . . .
wonderfully ironic and quite a tonic, given what had seemed
so inevitable only hours before . . . it was very inspiring and a
warm recognition of longtime employees . . . Bill
Schermbrucker’s speech was a highlight for me . . . it was the
most uplifting, positive, enjoyable and well-attended event I
can remember at the College . . . I loved Bill Gibson’s sense
of humour . . . it brought back the early feeling of the
community college once again as we all celebrated together.”

As one of the chefs of the event, I would like to pass on a
few reviews myself. A five star rating goes to Edna Sakata in
Media Production Services and David DeMuynck in College
Relations for all their hard work. They compiled the slide show
with the help of June Hunter in MPS and the Ed Tech Centre’s
Ken Barbour. Edna helped tape and edit the administrators’
skit and David and Edna also worked behind the scenes

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