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QUOTE of the MONTH

® Canada has never had a major civil war. After
hockey, Canadians would probably

have found it dull.

Jim Brosnan, American baseball star, 1963

 

 

June 7, 1994

The Douglas College Newsletter

 

 

 

 

 

 

These two junior trash-pickers were among the crew of vounteers who helped clean up
the Renfrew Ravine on Saturday, May 28. The clean-up was organized by Douglas
College's Institute of Urban Ecology and the Collingwood Neighborhood House in

Vancouver.

College cleaning up
ravines throughout
Lower Mainland

Clean-up plans for 25 Lower Mainland
ravines have been announced by the
Institute of Urban Ecology (IUE) at
Douglas College.

Ravines in Coquitlam, Port Moody,
Surrey and Vancouver have been targeted
for clean-up this summer through
volunteer efforts organized by the
Institute.

IEU project coordinator Mona Keffer
says the first was a May 28 clean-up of
the Renfrew Ravine in Vancouver, and
was followed by five ravines in Surrey on

the weekend of June 4 & 5. The new
project is funded by Environment Canada
and is part of a five-year plan unveiled by
the Institute, which recently became the
first permanent body of its type at a
Canadian college due to a $250,000
endowment grant by the Real Estate
Foundation of B.C.

Interest from the $250,000 grant will also
fund the ongoing operations of the IUE,
whose goals include integrating the
expertise and activities of Douglas

Ravines continued on page 2

 

College needs to
assess Skills Now
package

The Ministry of Skills, Training and
Labour announced its $200 million Skills
Now initiative on May 3 and will unveil
specifics about programs in the two-year
skills training plan during the upcoming
months. As outlined by the provincial
government, the major goal of Skills Now
is to create new partnerships with
business, labour, educators and
communities to improve skills training in
the province.

In response, Douglas College President
Bill Day says groups within the College
should begin assessing the Skills Now
package and developing strategies to
respond to its forthcoming training
initiatives.

“The provincial government has
introduced some important programs to
meet the training and educational needs of
British Columbians. These should assist
the College to respond to those needs in
innovative ways,” says Day.

“The College is already in the forefront of
providing some of the types of programs

Skills continued on page 4

 

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