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The Press, Tuesday, September 2,1980

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Capilano College Principal Paul Gallagher got
the key for his new Sechelt classroom building
Tthirsday, and the Sunshine Coast's postsecondary education program got a substantial
boost.
Cap College's new satellite campus is a
4,557-square-foot building at the northern end of
Inlet Avenue. I t includes three classrooms, a
library, reception area and office space.
Le Baron Estates, headed by Bhl Van Westen,
owns the building which has been leased to the
college.
A p r i l Struthers, the college's local community
* services assistant, said the new facility v i l l have
immediate fulltime use with four credit classes,
Twn vocational programs and several non-credit
workshops scheduled for this fall.
The credit courses were chosen from responses
to a local survey conducted in June. They will run
from 6 to 10 p.m. one night a week and include:
Business Management 210, Education 155,
Geography 101 and English 010.
The vocational programs include business
office training — an eight-month fulltime course
in such skills as book>;eeping, typing and office
procedure — and da\1:ime and evening high
school upgrading — self-paced, basic training in
skills development.
The college will also offer non-credit courses in
creative vTiting and fashion sketching and
non-credit workshops in development of strata
titles, selling your own home, genealogical history
and felt making.
As the community services assistant, one of
Struthers* primary, jobs is the development of

non-credit courses which utilize the resoT^^-ces of
the college.
She said the college's offerings would be
distinct from the program of the local Continuing
Education division in that the college courses
' ' w i l l be less oriented to leisure time activities.
They'll be things the college already has its
fingers i n . Personally, I ' d like to see courses here
in Slings like forestry and marine biology."
She encouraged people who are interested i n
seeing p a r t i c u ] ^ courses started here, or who
want more information about any of the above, to
contact her at the college, 885-9310.

THURSDAY WAS AN auspicious'day for Capilano
College's Sechelt branch as principal Paul Gallagher
received the key to the college's new building on
Inlet Avenue from Bill Van Westen, president of Le Baron Estates, owners of the building.
From left in fore ground are:
George White, vice president of Le Baron;
Gallagher; Van Westen and April Struthers,
community assistant. At rear from left are Brian
Hodgins, School District No, 46 trustee and a
member of the Capilano College board, and Merv
Boucher under whose administration the project
was begun.