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CAPILANO COLLEGE'S INTERNAL NEWSLETTER

Advanced Education Minister Visits Lynnmour Campus

Giving the dogwood—and C Building—an auspicious start: Nancy

Farley, President of the Capilano College Board, helps plant a flowering dogwood, Vancouver’s centennial tree. Tom Perry, Minister of Advanced Education looks on.

C Building Opening

Tom Perry, Minister of Advanced Education Train- ing and Technology, paid his first official visit to Capi- lano College to view a variety of College programs and to open the college’s $5.6 million C Building. The C Building ceremony Jan. 14 also celebrated the con- struction start of the College’s $10.9 million Library expansion project.

“It is important to have new classroom buildings,” said Perry to more than 70 people who had gathered outside the C Building. He added that while the prov- ince still needs increased access to post-secondary education, better facilities lead to better education.

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Advanced Education Minister Tom Perry watches student Candice Larscheid demonstrate the SARAW Program.

The SARAW Program -

When Advanced Education Minister Tom Perry visited Capilano College this month, he met many students. One of them could barely speak, but she had a lot to say.

Actually, Candice Larscheid, 23, talks a lot more than some of her fellow students in the Speech Assisted Reading and Writing (SARAW) Lab. But you have to listen to her carefully, because she has cerebral palsy and must concentrate hard to control the muscles of her tongue. However, Candice, during the SARAW demon- stration Perry attended, was able to say she was using SARAW to learn spelling and to welcome Perry and

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