Satellite learning 3
Fact book 4
$5 million campaign 5

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college

 

$5 million man. Foundation Executive Director Mark Crozet discusses the
largest fund-raising project in Douglas College history, the $5 million Capital
Project for the Pinetree Way Campus (story page 5)

 

More College parking available

le often been a tight squeeze around
the New Westminster campus, but
Facilities Services Director Terry Leonard
says the majority of parking problems
should now be solved thanks to 262
additional college-only spaces in the new
building at 720 Carnarvon St.

College employees and full-time, paid-
up students can now apply for new
parking passes at the Facilities Office
(Room 4800)

Currently the College's on-site parkade
accommodates 697 spaces, but at peak
times many are used by College
employees with permanent cards. To help

ease the situation, the College offered
overflow parking at 7th and Queens and
4th and Columbia.

“Now the addition of these new spaces
should alleviate a considerable amount of
the student concerns about parking,” says
Leonard.

Parking in the new site will be rented
by the semester. Douglas College card-
holders will access the site by a college-
only entrance off Carnarvon St.

The latest addition to the New
Westminster skyline is a project of S and
B Contracting and contains seven levels
of parking, as well as commercial and
residential space. I

 

Nursing posters 7

THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER & AUGUST 1995

RASHIDA ISMAIL RECALLS
AIR INCIDENT

Emergency
landing

Axdist-minute change in travel plans
led to five minutes that Administration’s
Rashida Ismail will never forget.

Flying out of Fort Lauderdale-
Hollywood International Airport during
her vacation on July 15, Ismail was a
passenger aboard Canadian Airlines
Boeing 737 forced into an emergency
landing after activation of a fire-indicator
light.

Ismail and her husband had booked
onto the Toronto-bound flight only hours
earlier. The couple had originally been
scheduled to fly the following day but
decided to leave early to attend Toronto’s
Imamat Day Celebrations.

The flight took off at 11:25 a.m.

“We had been up in the air for 10
minutes and the plane was still ascending,
I remember my husband was reading
something out of an article in Reader’s
Digest, when the plane reduced speed and
that drew my attention,” recalls Ismail.
“Then I heard the pilot calling the air crew
to the cockpit. The plane tilted to the left
and then to the right, and then I heard the
pilot saying there was a fire on the plane
and we were commencing an emergency
landing.”

While crew members started
familiarizing everyone with emergency
procedures and exit locations, the
passengers of Flight 295 silently waited.

 

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