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KARIN PLATO

Blues vocalist

Friday, December 15

Capilano College Performing Arts
Theatre

8 p.m.

OH SUSANNA

Folk singer/songwriter

Saturday, December 16

Capilano College Performing Arts
Theatre

8 p.m.

FOREVER PLAID

An Arts Club presentation
January 9 and 10

Capilano College Performing Arts
Theatre

8 p.m.

€ Capilano
Cem College

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Informer

Squamish campus supervisor, Inge
Oord (left), with Casey Dorin.

Instructor Ron Damon, left, with a
Trades program student.

Open house showcases a healthy
partnership and quality programs

Ihe Squamish campus of Capilano

College held an open house for its
latest Trades program on Friday,
December 1 at the West Coast Railway
Heritage Park’s newly-opened station.
Campus program developers have been
following the change of economic
direction in the community and have

recently offered this new program which

provides students with practical
knowledge and classroom-based
instruction.

The College and the West Coast
Railway Association have formed a
partnership to provide employment
opportunities to people in the Howe

Sound region, as well as to showcase the

rich railway history of the area. While
initial start-up funding was provided by
the Ministry of Advanced Education,

Training and Technology, the College and

Railway Association will work together

to secure future funding opportunities to

continue the delivery of trades
education training.

“Tt’s an exciting partnership that once
again brings together the community
and the College,” says Continuing
Education director, Lynn Jest. “We
know how important this event would
have been to our former dean of
College and Community Partnerships,
Stephanie Forsyth, who was so
dedicated to community development in
the Howe Sound Corridor.” Stephanie
has since become president of B.C.’s
Northwest Community College.

Event organizer and Squamish
program developer, Casey Dorin, sees
the partnership as a win-win situation as
the College needed space and the
Association needed work and projects
done around the Park.

“Instructors Ron Damon and Steve
Brooks, with the help of others,
basically built the shop from scratch in