Tour company partners with Douglas Co [ leg e By Matthew Steinbach, Acting Associate News Editor Daw College, through the Office for New Students, has partnered up with West Trek Tours. They have come together to offer cheap trips and other social activities for students. Through this partnership, a student could take a trip to the Rocky Mountains, go to a Canucks game, or join one of the intramural leagues. This was supposed to be offered during Welcome Week this year, but because West Trek did not have all the materials provided, it should be ready by next week, at which point there will be a display on campus. According to Kyle Baillie, manager of the Office for New Students, the board will “probably be outside the welcome centre” when the time comes to start this new service. What is the involvement of Douglas College going to be in this scheme? They will provide the platform for this service, but West Trek will be providing and managing it. This is the most cost efficient way to deliver the service to students, and the savings will be passed on to the students. Land Survey Authority Looking For N@W RECTUIES 5 sisieskeanosi, Neos Bae some background in real estate or in a legal environment will likely already be familiar with many of the concepts. The LTSA is spread right across the province with offices located in Kamloops, Victoria and right in New Westminster as well at Suite 300-88 6" St. O; the many career options to explore, there may be one that has barely registered on the radars of young people of college age. That is the job of examiner of title for the Land, Title & Survey Authority of BC (LTSA). The LTSA is an independent corporation accountable to the Province of British Columbia and has recently announced the expansion of their Examiner of Title Training Program. It’s a program that runs two years and provides a practical and theoretical learning experience that will qualify successful trainees to register land titles, address property boundary disputes and to issue crown grant documents for the transfer of crown land into private hands. As Susy Lischka, deputy registrar at the Land Title Office and also a trainer, explains, the timing of the expansion illustrates the problem of an aging workforce that British Columbia faces into the future. “We needed to deliver quality training to help us deal with the practical problem that many of our most knowledgeable and highly valued examiners will be retiring in the next few years,” she said. “Bringing new Examiners up to speed quickly is critical to the LTSA’s future performance and to meeting our statutory obligations.” Lischka pointed out that “recruits don’t have to have any particular knowledge of land surveying; however, they do have to be able to grasp the concepts and the language and be keen on learning and up to the challenge.” However, recruits who have had NEWS SHORTS Nikalas Kryzanowski CSI: Crime Scene Investigators in Real Life at Conference ‘The CSI effect’ as it is known, thanks to the popular crime investigation show, has caused victims and juries to believe that forensic science can answer far more questions about a crime than it actually can. Now a conference is being held to educate the public about real- life forensic science. It is sponsored by the B.C. Society of Laboratory Science in partnership with the new Centre for Forensic Research at Simon Fraser University and is being held on October 4" 2008. Attendees can register at www. besls.net and follow the link to The Real CSI. Seating is limited to 200. Vancouver's Injection Site Slammed by Former NYC mayor Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani was in town last week and had harsh criticism for Insite— North America’s only supervised injection site. “] think heroin is a very deadly, very deadly drug,” he said to reporters before an economic development conference. “I don’t think anyone should be encouraged to use it or assisted in using it. I think that’s a terrible mistake.” Those in favour of the injection site say the facility is doing more good than harm. “People don’t die if they inject here. It means if something happens to them there’s a nurse there that can help,” said Mark Townsend of the Portland Hotel Society to CTV. Insite provides needles and offers supervision to almost 800 heroin injections a day. New West Firefighters Shave Heads for Charity 17 New West firefighters won’t have to worry about singeing their hair while keeping New West safe. They let their hair grow out for five months then shaved their heads to raise funds for cancer research by taking part in the Great Canadian Head Shave. The group raised $4500 for the cause. The New Westminster Firefighters Charitable Society also donated $1800 to the cause, and the firefighters raised donations to increase the total. “We are pretty thrilled with how it turned out,” Tom Schneider said to the Royal City Record. “It was a great day. It was fun. It was great to see that many guys out. It started out with a couple of us.”