| WOULDN'T EXACTLY CALL THIS A FAMOUS QUOTATION, but Chuck Davis had an interesting bit

* & * o& *& MARCH 30, 1981 * * * * x

Well it's almost April and everything

is growing: the flowers, the grass,

the new building, piles of garbage...

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of news in a February column: ''The University of Colorado has added a new course to its
It's called World and Regional Geography.
students were not aware that
is a continent rather than a

curriculum.
officials discovered that some
pendent

INFO * NEWS

On Friday there were 18 happy graduates
from Capilano College receiving their dip-
lomas in the Lounge. No, they weren't aca-
demics granted an early reprieve -- these
were women ranging in age from their early
20's to late 50's who finished the 12 week
Homemaker Program. The program was taught
at Queen Mary School with field trips to
adult day care centres, the G.F. Strong Re-
habilitation Unit, Lion's Gate Hospital,
and handicapped people's homes. The stu-
dents, who are now qualified to look after
handicapped people, the elderly, young mo-
thers, alcoholics, stroke and heart attack
patients and others in their own homes have
plenty of jobs out there waiting for them.
Hospitals and extended care units are very
crowded and the prov. govt. and Victorian
Order of Nurses need people to take care
of those needing some assistance and keep
them in their own homes. Or, to look at it
the other way, if you were sick or elderly
wouldn't you prefer to stay at home rather
than go to hospital? At any rate, the 18
homemakers say the course was just fantas-
tic and now they're out to make themselves
a living. Congratulations to the graduates
and their hard working instructors Monica
Mogg, Terry Adler and Elizabeth Wilkes and
good luck with the new jobs.

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Harold Kirchner will be in Sechelt Satur-
day the 4th talking to the Sunshine Coast
Women's Program's conference on the Chang-
ing World of Women and Work. His panel is
"Training in the '80's''.

of the United States, and that Africa

It was added after university
Canada is a country inde-
country."

NEWS *_ INFO

Our Sechelt Centre may be seen on the new
Knowledge Network one of these days. April
Struthers gave Cable 10 TV a guided tour
of that facility and the program that it
was included in was picked up by KNOW. Now
all you need is a TV converter.

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The March 12 Board meeting in Squamish has
to be a record-breaker. Roughly 65 people
attended, says Rachel Aarons and they said
they like our services - in fact they want
more. The Women's Advisory Committee urged
expansion of the Women's Centre, students
requested more academic courses, an E. In-
dian man spoke ion behalf of his wife about
the value of English classes, the Chamber
of Commerce and logging industry expressed
a need for more career/vocational courses
as well as basic education, and Whistler,
Pemberton and Mount Currie residents were
there expressing hopes for college of-
ferings in their areas. As Rachel put it,
"All indications are that Capilano College
has tremendous support in the Squamish
satellite.'' Now that's great feedback.

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Our Ex-Chairman of the Board, Dr. Lalit
Srivastava made a headline in the SFU Week
last week. He has been researching seaweed
growth and harvesting techniques for about
ten years and has just been awarded the
first license to harvest and process kelp
in B.C. His company, Enmar, will be har-
vesting kelp in the Porcher Island area

south-west of Prince Rupert.