Satellite News

Squamish: Open House cooks along

Despite "blistering heat", the Open House
at Squamish last week was considered a
definite success. Close to 100 people
showed up during this year's shorter

hours of 3:30 to 7:30, and the event
received excellent coverage by Mountain FM
radio who were on location at the Open
House. Among the Lynnmour types in
attendance were Janet Morris, Nancy Lynch,
Patty Groves, Louise Cantin Orr-Ewing,
Ruth D'Hollander, Graham Forst, Carolyn
Price, John Wilson, Paul Casselman, Dave
Jones, Louise Krohn and our Board Chairman
Hilda Rizun. Diane Staples of Sechelt was
in attendance at the Squamish event in a
sort of exchange program with the other
satellite—Bev Hill from Squamish went to

Sechelt's Open House.

The Squamish Open House was followed at
7:30 by a champagne and cake reception

for Janet Morris as a thank-you for her
work in Instructional Services. With the
reorganization this summer, she is now in
the Career/Vocational Division. Actually,
she will be doing just about the same job
as before, but thank yous are always in
order. (And so are excuses for champagne. )

Sechelt: Open House quiet

"T was quite surprised," is April
Struthers' comment about the Sechelt Open
House which was held last week.
Unfortunately, what she was surprised
about was the fact that only about 65
locals showed up for the event, down from
250-300 last year. "It's been growing in
attendance every year up to now, so I
really can't explain it," said Struthers,
suggesting that perhaps Capilano College
was not much of a draw against hot weather
and Expo. "On the positive side, most of
the visitors were new faces—people who
hadn't been to the college before," she
pointed out.

Attendance from Lynnmour, however, was
very good. Among those who made the
pilgrimage by B.C. Ferry were Patty Groves,
Bev Harnett, Janet Morris, Louise Krohn,
Brenda Soeder, Mieneke Mees, Mark
Battersby, Karen Waugh, Pat Pope, Carolyn
Price, Ruth D'Hollander, Paul Casselman,
Bob Bagshaw, and last but certainly not
least, our Board Chairman Hilda Rizun.

Aquaculture students finish

(This article is reprinted verbatim from
the Coast News, August 18/86. )

Twenty students completed the first three-
week course sponsored by the Sunshine
Coast Aquaculture Resource Centre at
Capilano College last Friday. Unfortunately,
only four of those students were from the
Sunshine Coast.

After trying everything possible to
interest local people, advertising was
done in the Vancouver papers at the last
minute in order to fill the course,
according to Steve Marsh of the Resource
Centre.

The course was designed to provide
training for people interested in the
aquaculture industry with an emphasis on
salmon culture, although oysters,
shellfish and kelp were also covered.

The Aquaculture Resource Centre was set up
last December at Capilano College in
Sechelt to provide an information source
for fish farmers. As new research is done
on various aspects of the industry, the
results are made available through the
Centre.

The office also acts as a referral centre,
and Marsh is optimistic about employment
potential within the industry.

“This year there are about 36 farms with
fish in the water," he says. "For next
year there are already orders in from
approximately 80 farms for 29 million
eggs." Most of these farms are located at
the north end of Vancouver Island, Prince
Rupert and on the Sunshine Coast.

Graduates from the course will be
monitored as they search for employment
and their success or failure will be a
deciding factor on the timing of the next
course. Marsh has no intention of flooding
the industry with workers until jobs are
available.