November 14

The Therapeutic Recreation Department and the Centre for Health and Community Partnerships present Enhancing Health: Exploring Meditation

Noon, C1025, David Lam Campus

Free admission

November 20

The Arts at One presents Student Showcase

ipm, Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre

Free admission

Info: 604-527-5723

November 21

The Therapeutic Recreation Department and the Centre

for Health and Community Partnerships present

Enhancing Health: You ARE What You Think

Noon, C1025, David Lam Campus

Free admission

November 26

The Douglas College Music Department presents Douglas College Concert Band 7:30pm, Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre

Free admission

Info: 604-527-5723

November 27

The Arts at One presents Student Showcase

ipm, Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre

Free admission

Info: 604-527-5723

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From left, Bianca Spagnuolo, Becca Strom and Kelsey Wood play working girls in The Early Girl at Douglas from November 7-15.

Experience life in a 1980s Midwest brothel and a Southern ’6os diner in

the same month with two upcoming productions by the Douglas College Theatre and Stagecraft departments: The Early Girland When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?

The Early Girl tells the

story of seven women who work in a brothel in a small Midwestern American town in the 1980s. But rather

than sensationalizing the lifestyle, The Early Girl takes a deeper look at the individual women in the brothel and the circumstances that brought them there.

“We thought the characters would be a good stretch for the cast. It’s a very challenging ensemble piece,” says director

Cheryl Swan. As the story unfolds, the

characters deal with the reality of living and working in close quarters, with interesting and sometimes hilarious results.

“It’s a comedy-drama,” says Swan. “It’s surprisingly

funny.”

When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder’, set nearly 20 years earlier, is another comedy with some serious undertones.

From brothel to breakfast this month at Douglas

Kimmie Kid and Jordan McChesney play it for laughs in When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? at Douglas from November 14-22.

Set in 1968, the play depicts the events of a single day at an American diner in a sleepy Southern town. Business

is anything but usual at

the diner when a troubled Vietnam war vet shows up for

breakfast, looking for trouble.

“The late 60s was a time of big change. The core of the play is the Vietnam vet who shows up and enacts change upon the people in the diner,” says director John Cooper.

Though the play takes place 40 years ago, Cooper says

its themes, such as fear of change, are still very relevant today.

“Tt gets quite dark at parts but it is a comedy. It’s hopeful at the end,” says Cooper.

“It's a comedy... with teeth.”

The Early Girl runs November 7-15, with matinées on November ro and 15. When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? runs November 14-22, with matinees on November 17 and 22.

Warning: both productions have coarse language and adult subject matter. Tickets can be purchased through the Massey Theatre box office at 604-521-5050.

Brodie Osborne-Campbell Memorial Scholarship

awarded

Criminology student Lisa Bellano (second from left) was presented with the Brodie Osborne-Campbell Memorial Scholarship by, from left: Associate Vice President of External Relations Hazel Postma; Brodie’s father, Douglas Criminology instructor Colin Campbell; and Brodie’s mother, President of Legal Affairs at Simon Fraser University Judith

Osborne.

Criminology instructor Colin Campbell and his wife Judith Osborne presented

a scholarship in memory of their son, Brodie, to its first- time recipient last month.

Campbell and Osborne established the Brodie

Osborne-Campbell Memorial Scholarship to honour the life of their son, who died

in April 2007 at the age of

15 of a bacterial meningitis infection.

Criminology student Lisa Bellano was presented with

the $1,000 scholarship, along with a commemorative plaque on Oct 2. A second plaque will be hung in the New Westminster Campus Criminology department

and will list the names of all future recipients of the Brodie Osborne-Campbell Memorial Scholarship.

Campbell and Osborne hope that in addition to helping students at Douglas, the award will raise public awareness about meningitis and the risks it poses to children and young adults.

In an April 2008 interview with the Vancouver Sun, Campbell explained what invasive meningococcal

disease (IMD) is.

“There are multiple strains of IMD ~ groups A, B, C, Y and W-135 and four of these strains are preventable.

Indeed, Brodie had been

vaccinated for meningitis

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C but died from the group Y strain that could have been prevented with the appropriate vaccine. There is no vaccine for the B strain and only the Maritime provinces currently fund vaccinations against the four preventable strains.

“In coming to terms with the loss of Brodie, my wife and I believe it is imperative that all parents be aware that immunization programs in British Columbia protect only against meningitis group C. Furthermore, parents should be aware that IMD typically infects not only infants and teenaged youth but also young adults well into their 20s.”

For more information

about the Brodie Osborne- Memorial Scholarship, please contact Douglas College Foundation at 604-777-6176 or via email foundation@ douglas.bc.ca.

Occupational Health and Safety News

Do you know who your Health and Safety

representatives are?

Do you know who to call to request an assessment of your workstation?

Do you know what the College “working alone” procedures are?

Do you know how to access WHMIS training?

Find the answers to these questions and much more on the Occupational Health & Safety website: douglas.bc.ca/services/ facilities/healthsafety

Learn more about Health Information Management

The Health Information Management (HIM)

Program celebrates Health Information and

Technology Week from November 3-7. This year’s theme is The Strength of Technology, The Power of Care.

Medical information continues to evolve from the paper to the electronic world and so does the role that professionals play in terms of harnessing this technology, says HIM Program Coordinator Laurie Kenward.

“Health information management professionals facilitate access to quality health data so that health care providers can safely deliver care to the public, while the general public becomes more involved and knowledgeable in managing their own health care,” says Kenward.

While doing this, health information professionals must also balance protecting the privacy of individuals with making information available so the general public can benefit from the best health care possible, Kenward adds.

To learn more, visit the HIM Program display in the atrium of the David Lam Campus, featuring posters, balloons and other materials November 3-7.