LL a a ee SS, ES Pe ae Events Calendar Noon at New West Free Concert Series Thursdays at 12:30 in the Performing Arts Theatre Jan 11 Tony Sheppard, saxophone Colin MacDonald, saxophone Stephen Smith, piano Jan 18 Uzume Taiko, Japanese percussion Jan 25 Barrie Barrington, piano Ellen Silverman, piano Amelia Douglas Gallery “Monaco” Rita Monaco Jan 8 - Feb 12 Opening Reception: Jan 11, 4-8 pm WomenSpeak Voicing Jewish Women’s Resistance Th, Jan 25, 7-9 pm Boardroom Call local 5440 for tickets. Douglas Development highlights (Register by calling 5440) Empowerment Through Self-Governance at Heiltsuk Th, Jan 25, 10am-12pm Room 1606 Hilistis Pauline Waterfall, Executive Director, Heiltsuk College, describes an holistic approach to learning where life skills and healing circles are incorporated into the regular curriculum. I Briefs za Attention instructors! If you wish to have videos placed on reserve at the Audio Visual counter to ensure availability for student assignments or exams, please contact Theresa Kenkel at local 5185. Please make your bookings at least two weeks in advance of when your students will need to access these materials. ze Wanted (to buy) Floppy disc IBM Writing Assistant program. Call Shelagh Armour-Godbolt at local 5124. ze For sale Two waterfront/water view homes in the Chemainus/Duncan area. Call Shelagh at local 5124. Environmental Sciences ih Action Series showeases suceess stories o students of environmental Ps it can sometimes seem like the only things outnumbering the world’s problems are the number of theoretical solutions to them. “When you’re a student, sitting in a classroom, having people’s ideas and theories poured into you all day, you can lose sight of the real world where those ideas are actually being put to good use,” says Allen Billy of the Douglas College Department of Mathematics and Sciences. “T wanted to try a different approach to presenting environmental sciences; one that would show students where the ideas they’re learning are being successfully applied.” The idea resulted in the Environmental Sciences in Action speaker series at Douglas College. Billy recruited eight environmental experts with success stories about working on issues at the local level. “Some of the lectures, like the Exxon Valdez lecture, are updates of ongoing situations,” he says. “Others, like the upcoming salmonid enhancement lecture, have solid information on how to get involved.” Another reason for the series was what Billy believed to be a public perception problem concerning the role of academics. ‘People have the idea that academics spend all their time thinking, teaching, and basically living in the classroom,” says Billy. “These lectures show the issues that academics deal with in the real world.” If the series has a theme beyond the idea that problems can be solved, it’s that success requires the cooperation of everyone involved. Joe Kambeitz, a community advisor for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the speaker for the upcoming salmonid enhancement lecture, has made a specialty of getting communities involved in long term projects like the restoration of spawning beds and fish stocks. “We've got projects where volunteers have been working all day, seven days a week, for the last ten years,” says Kambeitz. “That doesn’t happen by accident; there are systems and techniques that make it work. Those systems are part of what I’ll be talking about.” Following Joe Kambeitz’s lecture on January 18th, the speaker series with cover the topics of: solar energy, the successful Kootenay Lake restoration, and ways of setting and enforcing pollution standards. Presentations are on Thursday evenings, from 7 to 8pm, in room 2203 at New Westminster. An open question period and refreshments follow each presentation. For more information, call Allen Billy at 527- 5237.1