DESIGN TALENT...
Matinée Fashion Foundation
will showcase eight of
Vancouver's top designers in
Matinee Fashion in Motion
‘96, June 4 at the Hyatt
Regency, 655 Burrard St.
Vancouver. Since *93, the
foundation has supported
Canadian design talent
through the dispersal of
grants that to date total $1.7
million. Last year’s Western
Canadian recipients will be
honored, including North
Van's Feizal Virani, and this
year’s winners will be
announced. Also featured:
Chandra Abdurahman,
RozeMerie Cuevas for
Jacqueline Conoir, Yoel
Farzan for Poorboy, Patricia
Fieldwalker for Arabesque.
Nancy Lord, Zonda Nellis
and Carole Sinclair for
Cinema. Net proceeds will

Photo submitsad
VIRANI’S. signature
style will be in the
spotlight June 4 wher
Matin Fashion
“Foundation stages a
runway show at the
Hyatt Regency.

be donated to the Bear
Necessities/Grizzlies
Foundation. Tickets, $25,
through CBO at 280-2801.

COSTUMES COL-
LECTED... Clothing, tex-
tiles and memorabilia are
needed for an exhibition that
illustrates Jewish ‘contribu-
tions to the textile and fash-
ion industries in Germany
and Austria prior to the Nazi
persecutions. The Original
Costume liuseum Society
is producing the exhibit, to
open January ‘98 at the
Holccaust Education Centre

on West 41st Avenue in
Vancouver. The exhibition is
curated by noted local histo-
tian Ivan Sayers and will
feature the collection of
Claus Jahnke, whose gar-
ments and research date
back to 1740. The collectors
are searching for additional
material from this era,
which may include fashion
illustrations, posters and
magazines from Austrian
and German Jewish design-
ers and manufacturers. To
loan or donate items. call
Sayers at 872-1230.

STORES OPEN...
Banana Republic opened its
first two Vancouver stores
Friday. The Pacitic Centre
and Oakridge Centre foca-
tions may be the first of
many if the American retail-
er succeeds in cupturing the
same market share us The
Gap, its parent company.
Stores on Robson and at
Park Royal may be next.

— Layne Christensen

Cancer survivor

crusades for cure
BY LAYNE CHRISTENSEN
Community Reporter

JACKI Ralph Jamieson has bat-
tled cancer. She's fought the dis-
ease not once but three times.

In 1990 doctors told her she had
ovarian cancer. Less than 18 months

' later, she was diagnosed with breast

cancer, just three days before her wed-
ding. She returned from her honeymoon

‘to endure surgery, and eventually a

mastectomy, only to have the disease
disrupt her life again in '94.

Today, at 51, she is cancer-free, and
has been since November ‘94. But she
will never be truly free of the disease.

“Every day, you live with breast can-
cer,” says the West Vancouver resident.

“It is such a devious form of cancer.
You think you are fine and then out of
the blue, Pow! You don't feel sick, you
look healthy ... There’s one rogue cell
and it’s not until it’s big enough that it’s
discovered.”

Sitting in the sunny kitchen of her
comfortable home she is the picture of

See Voices page 18

orth

College Pro’s call unanswered

BY ROBERT GALSTER
Contributing Writer

DAVID Notte is looking for a few

good men (or women).

The 24-year-old West Vancouver
Secondary school graduate is the
College Pro Painters’ North Vancouver
franchise manager and he can’t, for the
life of him, find anyone to hire.

He has advertised for people in vari-
ous publications as well as at Capilano
College and both Lower Mainland uni-
versity campuses.

“I’m at a loss, [ don’t know why
(people haven’t answered the ads),”
said Notte. “Youth unemployment is a
huge issue... it just amazes me that I
haven’t been getting a good response
from my ads.”

When he started out with College
Pro. Notte assumed his biggest chai-
lenge was going to be locating and
finalizing contracts, but as it turned out,
he’s got more than he can handle.

“ve got enough work now. to keep
six people going tll the end of the sum-
mer, five days a week, full-time.” said
Notte. At present he has two painters
and says he can easily find enough

work for eight.

Megan Gilgan, coordinator of mar-
keting and promotions at North
Vancouver's Student Employment
Centre, reacted with surprise when told
of Notte’s plight.

“We have more students coming in
than jobs for them,” said Gilgan.

She added that student unemploy-

_ment levels this year are at 14%, wel]

above the working adult figure and up
from 13.6% in 1995.

“Our sense of it from what Pve
heard is the number of postings is
down,” said Gilgan. “The economy
isn’t growing as fast as it did last year.”

According to government statistics,
118,000 student positions will be creat-
ed in 1996. That figure represents an
increase of 3,000 over 1995.

But, cautions Gilgan, the increase in
the total number has to be held up
against the number of students retum-

See Plight page 24

COLLEGE Painters’ David Notte
has been looking for six student
painters, but so far he has been
unsuccessful in his search.

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

4 roth sa Al Sumer sl apht on sgth ods

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