TRin CITY CENTRE From THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY of Current English (Seventh Edition): CENTRTCITY n. 12 a. at or of the centre; hence centremost (-erm-) a, [ME, f. OF centre or f. L. centrum f. Glc kentron sharp point] ^oVANCOUVEr.voWioNAimsrrfuTt LIBRAP'Y .j I 3 tSB The Dental Assisting/Reception Department writes to say that they have two new faculty members: MARGARET DENNETT whd comes to them from private practice but has worked with the program over the past couple of years. DEBRA LYTLE comes from Regina and. has been teaching in the Dental Assisting program at Wascana Institute. WELCOME TO THE NEW CITY CENTRE NEWSLETTER!! It's been an inordinately long time in coming - but it's finally here (Almost anti-climactic at this point!) Centricity was conceived by BARB Not exactly new on campus, but in a new position is IAN FORSYTH who is the acting Department Head of Counselling, while DALTON KREMER takes up his new position as President of the VIA for a year. CAMERON and JACKIE GELLING and gestated far longer than anticipated due to a multitude of complications. However Drs. Also a big "Welcome Back" to SUZANNE PATERSON and CONDY LEUNG. Suzanne DOUG GORDON and KURT GISLASON has been away on fourteen months maternity performed wonders and here we are the final product: the new look for the new name and the new decade. leave and Condy has been up in the wilds of the Yukon (well, in Whitehorse) for the past year. Nice to have you both back! From now on Centricity will be appearing every second Monday. If you have any news items just put them in Jackie Ceiling's mailbox on the Administrative level (or give me a call at 237). SCHEDULE OF CAMPUS SOCIALS Mark your social calendars!! The following social events have been scheduled for VCC City Centre: ...and WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF WHAT'S NEW ON CAMPUS: Friday, May 04 - City Centre Day/Social GILLIAN nUNT is Dick Stracuau's now Friday, Ociobcr 12 - Opening uf the Tourism secretary and down in Counselling they have four Hospitality Centre new staff members: HILARY PEARSON and EILEEN STEPHENS are working full-time and Friday, December 14 - Christmas Social < MAGGIE FEIST and SUSAN MORRIS are part-time. Welcome Gillian, Hilary, Eileen, Maggie and Susan. VOLUME 1 Number 01 February 05, 1990 J. Gelling - Editor (Local 237) THE MINISTRY CONTINUES TO ! FOLLOW ....DID WE HAVE A LOT OF POWER OUR OUTAGES LAST FALL?? LEAD... - Did you know that we also have a new Minister tor, our new Ministry? ^ the Hon. "BRUCE ' STRACHAN was recently appointed the Minister of Advanced Education, Training and Technology. • -, i . n —; ' ...AND SOME taCE WORDS FROM THE MINISTER: L" * The Hon. Bruce Strachan wrote Dr. The "Tooth Fairy Godmothers" of the Dental Assisting Department are thrilled to hear that DOTTIE DUDLEY is pregnant! "Mini-Dot" is due May 1, 1990. Not to be outdone by the Dental Department, MOREAH HAMEND of the Long Term Care and Allied Health Department is 6£pectmg in June...and not to be outdone by the Health Sciences Division, ADRIENNE ST. CYR of the Admissions Department is expecting in August. Congratulations to all the first time GALLAGHER to say how "impressed" he was "with the enthusiasm and innovative approaches shown by faculty^aiid administration to meiet the mothers-to-be. diverse needs of the students." ' JUST WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR: THE HYDRO HORN ACROSS THE STREET! ! He w^nt on tC)' say "the luncheon provided at City Centre was most enjoyable'' and he wanted to "extend a special' thank you to the instructors and students who prepared and served it9 MOR£ NEWS FROM and MORE ACCOLADES FOR THE DENTAL ASSISTING DEPT. JOHN VANDENAKKER tells us that the new B.C. Hydro building will be constructed in the block adjacent to City Centre. A corporate head office, with approximately fifteen floors, will be built facing Dunsmuir Street with the main entrance being on the Dunsmuir/Homer side. The building will be set back approximately 75 feet and will have a landscaped plaza in front • Congratulations go to the Dental and running along Dunsmuir. Another building, to house the downtown service department, will Assisting/Reception ' Department be built on the east side of the block between ' whose Dental Assisting Program the Del-Mar Hotel and the back lane....yes, the owner of the Del-Mar did not bow to the enticements of wealth beyond his wildest dreams, /CqTSM i received • full Approval / A \ Accreditation Status (five years) \/~~ from the Canadian Dental ' j, Association. The Department and the hotel will continue to stay just were it has always been! ; " 7 coiild' like to thank Dr. MARVIN LAMOU&EUX, LINDA MARTlN, ANN DAHL AND STEPHANIE JEWELL for their help and support. , ^" 114", 1 top of the Hydro building at Burrard - will move 1 i, To wake us up - just as we're starting to nod off around noon, the diesel whistle now residing on t LINlDA/'MARTlH writes ' to tell us that R^ICHELE kOSKO ' of the Dental' Assisting Department, and JEANETTE I&cKAY and KEN directly across the street from us - are you ready td hear the' opening bars of "O«Canada" every noon for the rest of your life??? -> TiWnrWritT'r^T Y » ^ -ai?"' ai._' ' rv m- -/-L?- ./ ui uiG i^caidi icuuuumi/ Another building will be built facing City Centre T^entiirist' Department have recently graduated from' tlie; P^ovftjci&i Instructor Diploma Program. that will house a small day-care centre (25 infants and toddlers). Construction will start in Congratulations to Michele, Jeanette, and Ken. the Spring of this year and will be completed (it is hoped) by July of 1992. KATHY POPOFF will be moving to Castlegar in the Spring." The Department is happy Kathy's husband has such a great new job - but will find it hard to say goodbye to Kathy. The Department also tells us that their faculty, staff and students made a substantial contribution of toys to the Christmas Bureau through the Certified Dental Assistants' Society of B.C. CLASSIFIED ADS Wynn Keenan is moving and is selling her living room, dining room and bedroom furniture, also her ladies 5-speed bike. Give Wynn a call at local 200 if you're interested. "WITH A SMILE OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY GREAT CASEY'S VISAGE SHONE" RECIPES, RECIPES* -ANYONE , GOT ..AtfV RECIPES?? , !' i\^ Once again those keen, keen, keep-fit types Tom Meikle over .at Langara .writes-ito. saythat WYNN KEENAN and SANDRA JONES are Pacific Rim! Magazine i&' still i looking foe recipes trying to get us all to be healthy, hale and hearty. This time they're trying to form a VCC Softball team to play in a VMREU sponsored to > "flesh .'OUtf ! fMce :tum of -, phrase .thirk Tom!) one of jhe articles; in the: upconiing,edition, league (however, you certainly don't have to be a VMREU member to be a team member). They will be playing teams from the Parks Board, If there are any instructors who can urge their st.udents' i from ^ Asia-Pacifie I countries { to submit a few recipes, Tom and company r,will 'do City Hall, the Police Department, etc., etc. If the translating if needed. you're interested give Wynn (local 200) or Sandra " Or'1 t , ' v r 'V" t. ~ i'„ jv r ' 'J1;: ^-4 -J- EXTRA!EXTRAS.READ; ^ALL ' AttOUT IT...MICROWAVE. HELD FO^R: RANSOM I'' / /'i f * w > L - ,*rr The\v microwaye, ill >.tHe.>!>Busin^ss ^p^parti^ept disappeared .one night.'and, the.nesft .,m^rnipg'ihe following ransoitt note wa^recei^ed^1 ^ ' 'V * tx ^ Y-VnC "Now listn up you guys. I got the microwave and time is runing out. Ya, it's okay but it mite not sta that wai for long if ya get my/m^antng. \ I know you liked that link box arid i'mistye you'd be reel sorry t(f\flnd \Wt that U htidlmet with >a little accient. Say a pulled wire or a broken front pant Not that, I'm saying anything has happened yet That'littlej baby banned up a Hot dog last night like nobody's business. But'listn teal close or AND WHILE CASEY MAY BE SMILING, THE FOLLOWING WILL (no doubt) MAKE YOU that, box, .Won't be ablelto warni up a btiri in a bonfire.,' , FROWN.... Put $178.00 in- Small bills, it^. a brown bag and then NORMA WALKER tells us the bad news that parking at the Queen Elizabeth will go up by $10 a month effective March 01, for a total of $70 a month parking. Meanwhile, not to be put the brown .bag) in, av.gree^ jar. Put the green jar in a, carboaritbot and Map. the box Ah masking tape. Them. put the box in. a! blakcVtrtink. > New has announced that Lot #2 will go up to $6Q,a put the trunk in a yellow Chevy witch you'll find in the staff parking lot at 3:10 a.m. thisi Thursday. Drive the car to the Capilano fisk 'tyachry antfywait month effective February 01. • in, the canuntil.you're contqetM by ctj gity. nahyeti outdone, Downtown Parking Corporation Ltd. Orvab r OrVal will Mte yqu •for'jf,: Ijtf^ri^e and < _ t ' , ' ' then dron ,vou off later. Don't worrit. ,- Orv/iL is a SCULPTURED GARNISHES AND COLOR STRIPPING nie guy. Just don^t say 'the; wQrd^^llcf'. ft. Oryal no matter what ,you do., * i,t 'pidfes (P^k JUNE HILLMAN in the Library advises us that the latest videos to have arrived there include: "Sculptured Garnishes", "Cut Garnishes", Heart Attack", "Colour Stripping 1", "Plates and Platemaking", "Scanner Operation and Colour Theory" and "Typesetting and Basic Pasteup". Go see June if you're interested in any of these videos. crazy. , ;i V J ii i ! i -j.i.[ f-,; _ u<' ¦ Yud better do wat I say and dont 'cqli the cbp's pr I'll blow that micrwave higher than a' hippy at Christmas time." >; i-V " ¦ w '54 i s;;' ' SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, MORE GENERAL NEWS TO FILL UP SPACE: PRESENTATIONS, and oilier assorted mkcellniiea The Mensa Canada Scholarship Program offers financial support for higher education and is A CELEBRATION OF NEURONS - open to ail full-time residents of Canada without ErtucatioEal Applications of Recent Brain Research sponsored by the Pacific Association for Continuing Education (PACE) Friday, March 02, 1990 - 12.00 - 4:00 a£ VCC City Centre. Call 681-8111 iocal 435 for details. restriction. The sole eligibility requirement is that, for the 1990/91 academic year, applicants VfLLAGH DEVELOPMENT IN THAILAND - be enroled in a full-time program at an acc/edited institution of post-secondary education. Winners must provide proof of acceptance or enrolment. Applications can be obtained from the Dean of Instruction. A faculty seminar sponsored by Norfhwcst Inieraationai Education Association. For more mforaiation on this trip to Thgjlaad contact Joan Horsley at Langara (324-5375), NEW DECADE, NEW JOB?? To be held in Charlottetown, P.E.I. - May 2630, 1990. For more information contact CO-ORDINATOR 1 (Beginners Level) - English Language Skills - KEC Closing Date: February 09 - Contact the Director of Employee Relations for details. Lawrence Coffin of Holland College (902) 5669660. DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTION - Malaspina RENDE^jVOUS'^ - The annual conference of the Association of Canadian Community CoUeges. EDUCATION IN THE WS : LOOKING AHEAD - The Tenth Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Centre for University Teaching and Learning - McGill College - Nanaimo for more information contact the Director of Personnel, Malaspina College 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5S5 (or FAX them at 755-8725). DEAN CONTINUING EDUCATION University University. June 16 to 19, 1990. If you're interested in of Winnipeg presenting a paper call (514) 398-8063 or (514) 398-6648 for details. the President, the University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9. Write to Ms. B. Archibald, Executive Assistant to FOCUS ON LIFELONG LEARNING : The 1990 Conference of the Canadian Vocational Association - to be held in Halifax from S^^b^r 20 to October 03. For more AND THE SUGGESTIONS ON LOSING WEIGHT CONTINUE TO COME IN... inforuiation contact M.E. Lamoureux. KAY HEWER has fouad out that Weight FLIGHT PLAN '90 : Instructional Computing Watchers will conduct an "At Work" program. Symposium - Simon Fraser University March 1416, 1990. For more information contact SFU Computing Services at 291-3234. This would be a ten-week program costing $85 (there is also an eiglu-week program costing $68). A minimum of 25 people is required in order for weight watchers to conduct the program and money has to be prepaid in SHIRO, MARILYN and OTHERS advance. The Consulate General of Japan will be Meetings are held once a week, usually at lunch. sponsoring three Japanese feature films on Friday, February 09 at 6:30 in the Media Centre If you're interested in forming a City Centre Weight Watchers group contact Kay at the in Robson Square. switchboard.