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NEWS photo Neil Lucente
THE FIRST graduating class from the North Vancouver campus of the Canadian International College
recently held a graduation ceremony. A tutal of 213 students from Japan graduaied from the school, located
at 2420 Dollarton Highway. The other campus of the college is tocated in Nelson. The graduating students,
whe are taught English and other academic subjects, started at the two-year college two years ago in Nelson
and completed their final year at the North Vancouver campus. Most of the students enrolled in the college
come to B.C. after having graduated from high shcool in Japan, while others after studying at Japanese col-

leges.

THE CANADA Employment
Centre for Students, located above
the main North Vancouver Post
Office at 120 Lonsdale Ave., is
now open for business.

The centre, whose basic function
is matching students looking for
employment with employers, is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday to Friday and from I to
4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday.

The centre serves both high
school snd post secondary educa-
tion students, as well as homeown-
ers and North Shore businesses.

The centre hopes to _ find
employment for about [,100 stu-
dents this summer with a wide-
range of jobs with salaries ranging
fron $5 to $12 an hour.

For more information phone
986-3404.

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BUSINESS AFTER Business,

Firms get grants

ELEVEN COMPANIES in North
and West) Vancouver are among
the major winners in B.C.’s recent
Science and Technology Develop-
ment Fund-Assistance Grants for
Applied Research (STDF-AGAR)
competition,

Projects were Judged by the vol-
unter peer review cominittees of
the Scicnce Council of B.C. and
were examined on the Sasis of four
criterias setcntifie and techtiical
merit, economic potential, plan:
ning and the applicants’ cspabili-
ties aud resources,

Alliogether 140 0.0. companies
and orpanizations received it tonsl
Of $K.7H million in support for
thelr applied crescarch and devel-
Opmtent projects,

“Hy helping
and oyinizations on the
edge oof technology, atl Beitist
Cohnabians will benefice through
ceoomoute eataneement amd diver
sification,’’ said) Advanced Educa-
tion and bob Trakniog Minister

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MARY COLLINS, Associate
Minister of Defence, Minister
Responsible for the Status of
Women and Capilano-Howe
Sound MP recently announced
that Statpower Technologies
Corp., of Burnaby will receive a
repayable contribution of $218,722
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The federal incentive will go
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Simon Fraser University’s (SFU)
faculty of business administration,

The gift, to be matched by the
provincial government, will make
up a $120,000 component within
the faculty’s Endowment for Ex-
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April 26 at the Douglas Park
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Sponsored by ize Public Legal
Education Society, the class will
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small business, what are the
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