Golf for Literacy

Who’d have thought that hitting a
little white ball around could benefit
literacy? On the Sunshine Coast, it can.
On Saturday, July 23, the Festival of the
Written Arts will host the first Sunshine
Coast Literature/Literacy Golf Tourna-
ment at the Sechelt Golf and Country
Club. The $100 registration fee includes
18 holes of golf, a pancake breakfast,
lunch, a salmon and rib barbecue dinner,
plus a chance to bid on a golfing partner
from a number of literary celebrities.
Prizes include a 1994 Mazda 626 and a
three-day Canadian Holidays Golf
Package in Las Vegas.

Part of the proceeds will go to the
establishment of the Sunshine Coast
Community Learning Centre. The Centre
will coordinate literacy and education
upgrading services, bringing together
educational agencies, service providers,
employers, arts and church groups.

The Centre will provide resource
materials, coordinate assessment and
referral services, seek funds and develop
proposals for new educational programs,
house a small resource centre, provide
linkage to Open Learning Agency
programs, convene employer groups and
coordinate services.

To register, call The Festival of Written
Arts office at 885-9631 or fax 885-3967.

Violence Prevention
Citations

Capilano College received Honour-
able Mention in the group category in
the 1993 North Shore Violence Preven-
tion Awards. The award recognizes the
College’s work in providing greater
security for students and in raising
awareness of the causes of violence and
how to deal with it.

Lucy Goncalves, a student in financial
management at the College, was one of
several people cited for her work in the
individual category. After an attack in a
public bathroom, Goncalves organized a
panel discussion on coping with violence
and encouraged a workshop on the topic

ALA AS LE RN NT EE REE ES ANT SE RE,

Joan Acosta Named to
Order of B.C.

ESL instructor
Joan Acosta has been
chosen to receive the
Order of British
Columbia for her
work in literacy. The
editor of the
Westcoast Reader, a
13-year-old newspa-
per dedicated to adult
literacy and English
as a Second Lan-
guage training, will
be presented with the
prestigious award at
a ceremony at
Government House in Victoria on
June 16. Joan, who dedicates most of
her time to the paper, modestly says,
“I’m a little overwhelmed. The other
recipients are such high profile
people.” Among the other 11 named to
the province’s highest honour are
Haida artist Bill Reid and UBC
chemistry professor and Nobel prize
winner Michael Smith.

Along with working on the highly
successful Reader, (its circulation has
climbed from 10,000 in 1981 to
75,000) Joan runs workshops and

Summer Sports
Camps

Give your child athletics training and
a delightful summer experience at the
summer youth development camps
offered by the Sportsplex. Intended for
students in grade 5 through high school,
the camps in badminton, basketball,
rhythmic gymnastics, soccer, and
volleyball begin July 4. Call 984-4977

at Cap. for more information. wonderful.

Joan Acosta, photo courtesy
of the North Shore News

May 19/94

makes classroom
visits, helping
students with their
own publications
and offering expert
advice on commu-
nications.

Joan started at
the College as an
ESL instructor in
1979. She took
over the job of
editing The Reader
after its first year
of publication. She
says it is unique in
Canada because it is the only such
publication edited by an ESL instruc-
tor. Others are government produced.
Joan has also written A Guide for
Newcomers to B.C. which is in its third
printing and Learning About the Law;
British Columbia’ s Legal System. She
is working on a book for ESL students.

The award is one of several recog-
nizing Joan’s contributions to literacy.
“We’re going to have to move to a new
building,” quips colleague Nick
Collins. “Her awards don’t fit on the
wall here.”

History, Live

Bob Fuhr, history instructor, met
Jimmy Carter last month at the Organi-
zation of American Historians’ annual
conference in Atlanta. They exchanged
a few words at a book signing.

Bob has met a number of U.S.
presidents over the last few years. He
says it always adds a little something to
his classes on American history when he
mentions, “J met Richard Nixon five
times,” or “When I ran into Bush ...”
Bob says Carter’s speech on current
affairs and his presidency was insight-
ful, and he adds that the former presi-
dent (who will be 70 soon) looks