V.W'O >UVI R COMMUNITY COLLEGE nis.i :ty College sty Centre Library kJj West Pender CITY CENTRE NOVEMBER 28,1994 'KOi'ves R C. x'' ,,«/ * y i-t * r • fMV CARE AND SHARE isdmpoftant^to look after the people who'mSan the most to us right here in our College City Centre's Care and Share fund (started by George Clark) has been bringing holiday cheer into the lives of needy students at City Centre community - mr students. for the last dozen years. We STATIONERY hope that this year will also be very successful. As you stop at the Second Cup or pass by the Library, you will see volunteer staff/Faculty selling stationary and raffle tickets. All proceeds go to the Care and Share Bursary fund. During this festive season, please consider contributing generously to help needy students and their children. Be sure to join in Terrific prizes (a list will be available soon) are being contributed by our Hospitality Division and other Departments. Jackie Sandy and the Care and Share Committee would also be pleased to give books of raffle tickets to anyone willing to help sell them. It For Reservations call v( 871-7040"" ASAP . ^acltte ~SanJij HOLIDAY Beautiful Holiday Stationery printed by our Printing Production Department will be on sale in the lobby, by "Second Cup", from November 23, 1994 to December 14, 1994 Cjoilltl SELF DEFENCE WORKSHOP other "Care and Share" ; activities such as the ^ ' Decembef 15th singing and action and the lasagna lunch! Limited to 15 women December 7, 1994 12:00 NOON - 3:00 p.m. City Centre Room 100 , (in the Counselling Area) All female students and employees are invited to attend. Learn how to get away safely,'learn how your fears .can help you; learn what to say and what not to say and do; learn last resort disabling mov0s<. Please, tell me your name, phone number or local, and if you are a student or employee. Co-Sponsored by VCC Human Rights Coordinator, Health and S atety Coordinator, KESA-Women's Centre and CCS A. Janice, _JyLuij(>n GINGERBREAD MAKING December 10/94 10:30 p.m. - 12:00 Noon Room 213 1 Gingerbread House per family. $20.00 includes Gingerbread House, lunch and gift fiom Santa. Tickets limited to the first 30 Staff Members (1 ticket per family) Contact: VidL f r fonu^nij 443-8389 1 CITY CKNTRK PINE/INTERNET SESSION person can get a poor first impression of this campus. December 8, 1994 Thursday Although the Counselling and Advising Centre does not 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. operate a reception service for the campus, we are I.M.S. STUDIO If you wish to attend this usually turned to for help because we're right there by session, please contact the entrance. We do what we Christie Wagner at Local 8368 or email cwagner@vcc.bc.ca. Seating is limited. Refer to "Electronic Mail & Internet Services on pages following. Way net FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE IMPORTANT can in these situations; we attempt to provide answers and direction. However, it would make things much easier for us if we could quickly direct the enquirer to the information he or she needs. you used this opportunity to improve or correct youi brochures. Thanks for responding promptly. If we didn't hear back from you we will assume that you reviewed your program brochures and decided they were O.K Thanks for the cooperation. tl^hh/i.UnCj (ettlr. At the Pender Street entrance there is a map and a weekly list of events with their room OPEN HOUSE UPDATE locations. Please use it to announce the location of your "event" If you put up separate notices, please date planned for Thursday, April them. Notices with no date will be removed because they for someone thinking of enrolling here. When they confusing clutter of outdated eventually become a information. We appreciate your cooperation in creating a creates that positive first positive first impression for this campus, and in giving the best service we can at the impression. front end. As you know, Open House is 6, 1995. A memo went out in September with most ot the details to date, but it appears that many people did not see the memo. So, forgive the repetition, if you have seen some of this information before. 1995 marks the anniversary of VCC's 30 years of service to the community. Open House affords an opportunity to celebrate this achievement. am!.iin6uiq C^enlre From our vantage point at the Pender Street entrance we also see when it doesn't work. When someone arrives for a course, for an interview, for a test, and doesn't know which room to go to, or doesn't know how to find the room, and doesn't know how to find out, that Centre programs gets out to prospective students, so we aim to ensure that each brochure is correct, up-todate, and effective. Many of uic) We believe that. We are front line people, and we are often the first campus contact contact us, our goals is to make them feel welcome and to demonstrate organized competence. And when we're successful, it works - it are one of the major ways in which information on City CITY CENTRE PROGRAM BROCHURES We will be using as our main theme the slogan we have used successfully before - EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD. Recently the Counselling and Advising Centre asked each department to take a look at its program brochures currently in use. Brochures Both campuses will be wide open to our VCC community and to the general public All areas of the College will be involved and everyone is encouraged to participate. For students and employees this will be considered a regular school day on which alternate learning activities will be scheduled. Regular attendance by all is expected. Proposed learning activities for the day should be discussed with Deans and whiz by, so we really want to have plans well under way International Professional. before the New Year. We In total eleven (11) medals and one (1) Certificate of will keep you apprised of developments, but we would like to ask you to give thought to how you would like to present your area or how you would like to participate in the day. Sarah cjCucai Participation were awarded to our hard-working students in the College and Apprentice category and two (2) medals to one Culinary Arts Instructor in the Professional category. Associate Deans. Here are the winners • and plans are coming WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE SHOPPING together. There are six subcommittees who meet and VCC Employees are eligible Derek Wong & Bernice Da report back to the Steering for membership at PRICE Rosa/ Menu Gastronomique, The Open House Steering group has met several times Group. Many of you responded to our request for volunteers on these subcommittees, but in case there are others who are interested, I have listed the subcommittees and their Local 7130 Publicity/Posters/Videos Sarah Lucas Local 7158 Photos/Handout Package ??????????? Food Steve Stafford Local 8396 Activities/Events Moira Macleod Local 7024 Decorations/ S ignage Tricia Hughes Local 8599 Invitations/Alumni Liaison Gail Rochester Local 7057 The next two months will Category: CULINARY ARTS: COSTCO wholesale warehouses. If you are interested, please pick up an application form from the Reception Desk in Administration or call Doug Nahirney at 435-6695. contacts below: T ours/Security/Access Larry Waddell Students and Apprentice Bronze Medals; Mike Stone & Andy Chong / Buffet Platter, Gold Medals; Bill YardleyUndividual Plates, Silver Medal; Winnie LamUndividual Plates, Bronze Medal; Veronica Maud & Ian Reynolds\ Restaurant Platter, CONGRATULATIONS GRAND SALON Certificate; Allyson Price & Larry Smith CULINAIRE '94 \Hors d'oeuvres, Bronze Medals. Congratulations are in order to all the Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry Arts students who participated in the B.C. Chefs' Association Grand Salon Culinaire '94 held on Sunday, October 23, 1994 at the Delta Pacific Resort and Conference Centre in Richmond. The Culinary Competition included one hundred (100) entries from all over British Columbia entered in the following categories: High School, College and Apprentice, Professional and BAKING AND PASTRY ARTS: Debra Thomas & Farhad Mossovat\Wedding Cake, Gold Medals; Anthony Ewing, Hilary White & Kurc Regan\ Bread, Silver Medals. PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY: Glen 0'Flaherty\Dessert, Bronze Medal; (Culinary Arts Instructor^ Showpiece, Bronze Medal. Thanks must also be extended FOR SALE to all the faculty who willingly donated their time filled as openings become and expertise to coach these vehicles from faculty, staff, worthwhile student efforts. Those included from Culinary Arts: Settimio Sicoli, Acting students, and/or general Fold Apart Couch or could be used as 2 chairs $100.00 public. There is no labour or offers. Department Head, Instructors: James Hutton, available. We work on charge on work done in our shop. Harold Bonkowki, Keiju Yanagawa, Bob Feist, Glen O'Flaherty and Wayne Baxter and from Baking and Pastry Arts: George Rudolph, Department Head, Wilhelm Liesch, Luzia Zemp, and Elizabeth Ko. Please leave a message with Cecilia at 7426. Again, thank vou for your 'IJccIIL fyjonltgtuj 60" round table white arborite $50.00 Contact :'M';' ¦ ¦ ¦ -. -.. -. ¦•¦. '.¦ ¦¦ % .. s<^ ¦ -.¦¦ . '¦ ¦. '¦ ¦¦•. :¦ -. •-.¦•.:• "¦•'%•' .^::?:::::^y;-:: ¦!" ¦-.v1^. •:..>••' %v%.•'•¦ :•'. ¦:¦ ::>•• December 6,1994 National Day of Remembrance and Action on the Issue of Violence Against Women Memorial and Dfspfays Main Mall, Glty Centre Campus, VCC Please join us and take the titm to Remember Season's Greeting Cards When you send your greetings with VCC Alumni Association cards you help a Vancouver Community College student at the same time. Every penny of each sale goes into an endowment fund to provide financial aid to a deserving student. There are two designs, each designed by one of VCC's own Continuing Education instructors. Packages of 12 cards and envelopes are $9.95. Greeting reads: Wishing you a wonderful holiday season. Tree Starry Night VCC ALUMNI ASSOCIA TION SEASON GREETING CARDS Older place by: Phone: Address: Card design Tree of Life: # packages:_ Starry Night: # packages:_ Total order: @ $9.95/package of 12 cards $_ For more information or to place an order please call Veronika Metchie 871-7173 Please make cheques payable to: VCC Alumni Association 1155 East Broadway, PO Box 24700, Station F, Vancouver, BC V5N 5VI Also available through the KEC and City Centre Bookstores ( VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE Electronic Mail & Internet Services City Centre The Information and Computing Services department at V C.C. now provides electronic mail and Internet services for faculty and staff members These services may be accessed by existing terminal users, and for new users via dial-up modems Dial-up Access ( Access to these services at City Centre is provided through two telephone numbers, one for on-campus use (8900) and the other for external access (681-8655). There are currently two modems attached to each of these lines. These are U.S. Robotics Sportster 14,400 Bps modems. Your commumcatioms software should be set to 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity. We suggest using vtlOO terminal emulation. *** Please try to keep your connect time to a minimum during peak hours (8.00 - 16 30). There are many people sharing these dial-up lines. E-Mail Applications for a user ID and e-mail address are available from the I C.S. department. The electronic mail program we are providing on our system is called "pine" It is an easy to use, menu driven program, developed by the University of Washington. An instruction booklet is available from the I C S department. File Transfer Files may be transferred to and from your Unix account and your PC using the kermit, xmodem or zmodem file transfer protocols Disk space is LIMITED on the Unix computer, please keep the size of your Unix account to a minimum Internet The Internet (or "Infobahn") is now available to our faculty and staff members ' There is a wealth of information out there, and here are the tools we currently provide to access it: Archie Archie (archive searcher), developed in Canada by McGill University, is a command line utility used to search archives of data by file name which can be retneved using ftp. He Ftp (file transfer protocol) is a utility used to transfer files between computer systems on the Internet. Ftp can be used to retrieve such resources as public domain and shareware software (be careful of VIRUSES), documents, image files and sound files Gopher Gopher is a utility that provides a menu based view of Internet resources, guiding you to a vanety of locations on the Internet and permitting you to view or retrieve documents or files. Hvtelnet Is designed to assist users in reaching all of the Internet-accessible libraries. Free-nets, CWISs, BBSs, & other information sites by telnet. It uses a hypertext style interface and provides login and other information about these sites. Lynx Lynx is a character based interface to the World Wide Web. Information within the WWW is cross-linked to other information sources using what is called Hypertext technology Highlighted words or phrases in a Hypertext document "point" to other documents on the same computer system, or anywhere around the globe. Telnet Telnet provides you with the capability to connect to and run programs on other computers connected to the Internet. There are many locations on the internet that you can connect to, and use without charge. Education There are many books available which will help you access the Internet We strongly recommend purchasing one for yourself or your department if you are considering using the Internet for the first time. If sufficient interest is indicated, I.C.S. will run workshops on using E-Mail and the Internet, and the tools used to access it. To register your interest in courses please contact Christie Wagner (8368). MEADOW LAKE TRIBAL COUNCIL HEALTH & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BACKGROUND: The Meadow Lake First Nations are now into the third year of Health Transfer. The Health team is guided by the Meadow Lake First Nations Health Development Plan and individual First Nation Health Directional Plans,. We are implementing a health care system that is PREVENTIVE, HOLISTIC, INTEGRATED and COMMUNITY BASED. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to review existing health and-^pcial development programs and participate in developing strategies that focus on meeting community needs and provide for integrated program delivery. The individuals contracted will be encouraged to work as members of the Health and Social Development teams. As part of meeting these goals we INVITE APPLICANTS for the following challenging and exciting full-time term positions (up to 3 years): INSTRUCTORS/FACILITATORS: Who have the ability to deliver all of the following 12 courses, utilizing a generative curriculum model. Completion of these courses will result in students achieving a University Extensions Certificate in Community Counselling, and will enhance and enable Community Human Resource Teams, front-line workers, and community members to more effectively provide and deliver holistic counselling services within the community. SW AE19 Eueotitis of writing ind researcb AE20 Interpersoul Communication 390 Communication skills in Social Work Practice ED PSYCH ED Pjycb 382 Introduction to Counselliog 384 Ddveiopment & mainteiunc« of self help groups. SW SW 200 Introduction to Social Work 414 Childrea's Services SW SW 421 Human Orowth U Development 437 Social work with families INST SW 100 Introduction to Indian Studies 411 Spcial Work with Victims of Abuse INHST HJ 100 Introduction (o Indian Heaitb Studies 332 Justice and Indigenous Peoples. Location: Courses will be taught on location in all nine (9) of the Meadow Lake First Nations Communities, with co-facilitators and instructor - helpers available from the MLFN's and MLTC Health and Social Development Staff. Qualifications: Instructors must meet the minimum requirements of the University Faculties involved, in particular the Department of Indian Social Work, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College. A Master's Degree, MED or MSW, with extensive experience providing education and training to First Nations individuals and/or communities is expected and preferred. Time Frame: We hope to provide four (4) courses each year for three (3) years beginning January, 1995. Salaiy Range: $40,000 - $50,000 per year contract plus all directly related expenses. Closing Date for Applicants: October 31, 1994.(Maybe extended to Nov. 30, 1994) Please send a comprehensive resume directly to: Rebecca Elder, Director Health & Social Development Meadow Lake Tribal Council #313 - 1st Street East MEADOW LAKE, Sask. S9X 1E7 Phone: (306)236-5817 FW (30