INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEG®

QCTOBER 30, 1990

 

 

 

 

You’re Invited

To an open tea/coffee in the Douglas Room
October 31 — 2:30-4:30

Students, Faculty and Staff are invited to meet noted Swedish
Educator AGNETA HELLSTROM, Director of Early
Childhood Special Education for Sweden's Ministry of Social
Welfare. She is in Vancouver to speak at the Inclusion Con-
ference which will be held here November 1, 2, & 3.

 

 

  

Can You Help?

An elderly couple in failing
health hope to find a loving home
for their cat to ease their move into
a long term care facility. The cat is
a short-haired, affectionate, 8-year-
old, neutered male. He is complete-
ly house-trained, doesn’t scratch
furniture, but must be able to go
outdoors. If you can help, or know
someone who can, please leave a
message for Gordon at local 5421.

 

 

 

The Women’s
Volleyball team and
their
plastic feathered
friends.

 

 

Birds raise bucks for women’s volleyball team

he next time someone you

know has a birthday, anniver-
sary, or any sort of special oc-
casion, think pink!

Fifty pink flamingoes are a gift
they won't soon forget, says
Douglas College Facilities Super-
visor and women’s volleyball
coach Dave Dalcanale.

"It’s a gag gift. People phone
us, and tell us who the lucky per-
son is and where they live. We set
up fifty pink flamingoes on their
front lawn," he says. "The person
wakes up in the morning, and

there are all these flamingoes."

Dalcanale says the money will
be used to offset the women’s vol-
leyball team travel and equipment
expenses. "It’s a dollar per flamin-
go, and all the money goes to the
team," he says.

And because the money goes
to a non-profit organization, a por-
tion of the cost is tax-deductible,
says Dalcanale.

Denise Rutherford, Secretary
in Physical Education at Douglas
College, started the service a few
years ago, calling it Pink Brothers.

But she was too busy for the bird
business, so she sold it to the
women’s volleyball team as a fund-
raiser.

And they’re already gathering
their nest egg. "The women have a
4:30 call tomorrow morning," Dal-
canale smiles. But the service is
not limited to lawns, he adds. You
can fill a colleague’s office full of
flamingoes too. "We'll go
anywhere in the lower mainland,
and within Douglas College," he
says.

 

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