Where Minds Meet for the young at heart

Douglas College Board
member Ann Kitching and
ESL Coordinator Judy Dale
are on a mission to build

a community for, anda
connection with, retirees and
older adults still young at
heart.

Their program, Where Minds
Meet, is run out of the

Centre for Creative Aging

at the David Lam Campus.
Though Kitching and Dale
have talked about starting a
program for years, it was made
possible early this year with a
grant from the Union of BC
Municipalities.

Visiting a seniors community
centre recently, Dale recalls an
employee there told her one
new retiree remarked, “I don’t
want to do ‘senior things, but
I want to do something.”

Rather than running
programs, Where Minds
Meet will help set retirees
and seniors up with like-
minded people to explore
their interests. For example,
Where Minds Meet has a
request from one gentleman
who wants to find other
musicians to form a quartet.
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Career Exploration Fair
08 a success

Douglas College students wowed employers participating in this
year’s Career Exploration Fair with comportment, demeanour,
poise and presentation skills.

Douglas College’s 18th annual Career Exploration Fair was held
at the New Westminster Campus March 12-13. More than 700
visitors learned about careers and employment opportunities
from 30 employers. Summer jobs for students as well as
permanent positions in policing, health care, service, accounting
and hospitality were promoted to students, alumni and the

community.

“We are pleased with the cross-section of employers that chose
to participate,” says Alumni Officer Andrew Senjack. “Our
students had an opportunity to network with future employers
from a variety of business sectors.”

Some of the participating Companies included: Blanche
Macdonald Centre, Certified General Accountants, CIBC,

 

Fraser Health, Iris Optical, Miles Employment Group, RCMP,
Safeway Canada, Southwestern Company, ‘The Home Depot,

Value Village and WorkSafeBC.

Employers say they were impressed with Douglas College students at this year’s annual career fair

Travel andTourism CMO gets

program and bronzed ae
Instructor win “hot! seco... nae
new award =

stopping media.
A colourful brochure for the Theatre and
Business Continuing Education is pleased to

Stagecraft departments created by the CMO
announce its Travel and Tourism Certificate program earned a bronze Paragon Award last month in

and instructor Lianne Johnston have won the
TRAVELHotNews.com 2007 Award of Merit for

Western Canada. The program and Johnston took the

Savannah, Ga. The awards are presented for
outstanding promotional media by the National
Council for Marketing and Public Relations, the

tourism schools’ and instructors’ categories respectively. organization representing marketing professionals
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The Awards of Merit were launched in December 2007
to highlight the efforts of travel professionals who have
gone above and beyond the call of duty. Candidates
were nominated by readers of the western edition of
TravelHotNews.com, thnwest.com, who then voted
for the finalists. Voting was completed at the end of
February.

from 600 colleges across North America.

Monir Shahir designed the brochure based

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on a concept from Stagecraft’s Ross Nichol.
Mikki Herbold of the Centre for Educational
and Information Technology was principal
photographer and ‘Tracey Denofreo supervised the
project, collaborating with Theatre’s Allan Lysell.

 

The fetching character of this brochure captured a bronze
at the Paragon Awards.