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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.

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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