Community Music School Student Recital Noon at New West Scholarship Winners An Evening of Jazz Dues Band, Night Band Choral Society Concert with Coastal Sound Music April 7 7:30pm, Chandos Pattison Events and Vocal Jazz Concert Academy, West Coast Theatre (Surrey) April 20 Ca lenda r April 3 April 6 Symphony and For more information call 2pm, room 3221 8pm, Performing Arts 12:30pm, Performing Arts professional soloists 527-5495 All events take place at Theatre Theatre conducted by Clyde the New Westminster Campus unless otherwise noted. Tickets $8/$5 at the door Mitchell Bowbrick visits College to discuss future of education Leave your legacy in a College garden \ The College community is invited to put down roots in one of the new s Legacy Gardens at Douglas College. ®S “We've received $19,465 towards the Legacy Gardens through the Canada Millennium Partnership Program,” says Dean Lorna McCallum, Legacy Gardens Committee Chair. “Two thirds of our financial assistance, however, must come from people in the community and the private sector.” To this end, the Legacy Gardens Committee invites you to participate in this project by attending the openings, making a personal or department-level donation or by purchasing a tree or a legacy bench to Vm grace the gardens. “It’s appropriate that our first donation is a tree from the Geography Department,” says McCallum. “They are challenging other College departments to meet their donation.” Small trees for the David Lam Campus Arboretum are $80, Speaking in the Douglas Room on March 13 2000, Minister of Advanced large ones are $500, and both include a recognition plaque. Education, Training and Technology Graeme Bowbrick told his audience of Douglas College students and employees to expect the post-secondary tuition freeze to continue for a fifth year. “I can guarantee you this — when budget day comes two weeks from now, you will see more money going to post-secondary education in this province, again,” said Bowbrick. Referring to BC as the “education province," Bowbrick, who took over the $1.7 billion portfolio at the beginning of March 2000, told listeners that the average cost of a year of university-level education in BC is $2,280, compared to $3,680 in Alberta and $3,880 in Ontario. Boworick, a former member of the Douglas College Board and New Legacy benches are $1,200. Tree donation forms are available at your faculty/department office. The festivities begin in April, with the openings of the David Lam Campus Arboretum on April 15 at 10:45pm (located by Lafarge Lake) and the Thomas Haney Campus Naturescape butterfly and bird garden on April 16 at 9:30am (located in a campus courtyard.) The New Westminster Japanese Garden opening will be held November 3, 2000 at 3pm during Open House 2000. For more information, please contact Lorna McCallum at local 5284 or Val Schaefer at Westminster MLA, said the government has increased funding for post- secondary education by $300 million since 1991. local 5224. Start planning now for Open House 2000 Open House 2000 is coming soon, so start your planning now! Display information forms have been distributed and should be completed and returned by April 14 in order to confirm your display topics and spaces. The Open House, held November 3-4, 2000 at the New Westminster Campus, will feature special events, interactive displays by College departments, Briefly Summertime, and the canoe and pickleball living is easy... court. July and August $375/week, September to June $300/week or $50/ night. For more Get away from it all and rent a three-bedroom cabin near a sandy beach, close to Sechelt on the information call Jean Sunshine Coast. Fully Hammer at 939-5777. equipped kitchen, barbeque, fireplace, large Cruisin’ in style For sale: 97 ThunderBird, living room, sundeck, performing arts presentations, community sports and other features. It will also feature an Exploration Fair on Friday November 3 from 9am-3pm with scheduled information sessions that provide the kind of learning activities that make it more useful and worthwhile for school districts, their students and community visitors to attend. Your completed forms will reserve your space for a booth in the concourse as well as space for mini- classes, lab activities or specialized events. Please return your completed forms to Walter Melnyk in the Communications and Marketing Office, room 4700, by April 14. Display spaces not confirmed may be assigned to other departments. 70,000 hwy km, 4.6 litre, Collins in Financial Aid at sport suspension, speed Evelyn Terada retires April 30 while in Health Sciences Heidi Hornung David Lam Campus, sensitive steering, CD, A/ CG, laser red (looks like candy apple red). Asking $16,000. Call 859-9617 after 4pm. winner of February’s 60/ 40 draw. Wendy wins $824.40 and student aid increases by $549.60. will take early retirement, also on April 30". In Personnel, Lisa Pinoni moves from auxiliary to Staff Moves In Child Family and Community Studies, permanent as Benefits Wendy’s a winner! Clerk, while in Commerce Congratulation to Wendy and Business Dana Wakabayashi moves from auxiliary to permanent in Co-operative Education. In Systems and Computing, Roman Piotrowski joins the department as a new Computer Technician. INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketing Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Send text-only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Campus; email to winterst@douglas.bc.ca; or call 527-5325. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop.