RUSINESS BRIEFS HOMEWORK CENTRE A NEW branch of the Homework Centre has opened its doors for teaching in West Vancouver. . Tesi Dembicki, a qualified B.C. teacher with 10 years’ experience teaching elementary school for the Vancouver School Board, who has been tutoring’ with the Homework Centre’s North Vancouver outlet since last October, has now taken - on the chailenge of operating the company’s West Vancouver loca- tion. The Homework Centre is based in Maple Ridge and was originally founded by Marion Wagner. It now has centres on the North Shore, Burnaby, Surrey, Port Co- quitlam and Nanaimo. The latest one is based..at the . West Vancouver United Church. Wagner said the concept of the Homework Centre is to provide students with a quiet environment near home after school where they _ can learn to finish their homework with the hopes of improving their marks. Vf" students - finish homework every week, they’re bound to do better, there’s nothing’ magic about it,’’ said Wagner. their “This service allaws them to complete the homework and they arc ready tc do other things. Stu- dents are under a great deal of Pressure, High school students, in particular, will just quit if things get 100 tough.” She added that the Homework Centre offers qualified teachers as tulors and group sizes are kept small, a maximum of six students and organized according to age when possible. An average student will spend about two hours at the Homework Centre, which charges $10 an hour. “LT belive that the Homework Centre concept is timely and 1 am committed to making it work here in West Vancouver by offering the best possible service for an af- fordable price,’’ said Dembicki. For more information,’ 467-5519, call TRANSLATION BUSINESS KONTAKT TGUR AND TRANSLATION SERVICES has recently opened for- business in North Vancouver. Run by Luis and Christine Alarcon, the new company offers: ® quality translations for docu- ments of all kinds; @ simultaneous and consecutive interpreters; ® bilingual tour guides; @ bilingual personnel to act as hosts. The company will provide pro- fessional: bilingual hosts to wel- come executive guests, offer in- terpreters for business mectings as well as other services. “We live in a multicultural society and everybody in business or private matters needs transla- - tions to be done. We are here to help them communicate,’ said Christine Alarcon.: For more . information, 984-0941. call Blending of meat and sweets. common in Cambodian foods From page 47 - prawns, crab and white pepper in a 4-quart kettle. Cover and sim- mer for 1 hour. Add the remaining ingredients and bring just up to_ serving temperature. Serve immediately. .-.. ‘CAMBODIAN SWEET PORK AND EGG (serves 10-12) The blending of meat with sugar or sweet things is common in Cambodian cuisine. 1 love this easily prepared egg and pork dish. 1 quart water 2 pounds pork spareribs, sawed in half crosswise ¥4 cup sugar 12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled 3 cups peeled and thinly sliced yellow onion 2 tablespoons peeled and crushed garlic Salt to taste Put I quart of water in a 4- to 6-quart pot and bring to a boil. Cut the ribs into I- or 2-bene pieces. Add to the boiling water, cover and simmer gently for 1 hour. Drain the ribs, liquid. Place the sugar in a small deep pot and melt over medium-high heat. Stir the sugar “constantly until it iurns liquid and light brown in color. Set aside and cool a few minutes. Measure out 24 cups of the teserved water and slowly stir it into the cooked sugar. Have a lid ready to cover the pot because the sugar will splatter when water is added. When the sugar and water are combined, reheat the syrup to melt any Jumps if necessary. Return the ribs to the large pot and add the sugar water, eggs, onion and garlic, Cover the pot and simmer % hour more until the ribs are very tender. Stir occasionally so. the eggs color evenly, Salt to taste. reserving the Lecturer discusses change processes VANCOUVER PSYCHIC ESP Fair producer Norma Cowie will conduct a lecture on Saturday, April 3, from 10:30 a.m, to noon at the Silk Purse Art and Cultural Centre in West Vancouver. The topic is ‘Create Changes You Want.” — “Most people are afraid of change,”’ said Cowie, ‘‘but | give processes and techniques to deal with change.”’ These processes help change fear to fun, and help create feei- ings of being in control. _ Cowie, who is best known for her books on Tarot, including Tarot for Successful Living and Exploring the Patterns of the Tarot, has also written a booklet entitled So, You Want to Change Your Life and is currently work- ing on anothing book, The Secrets of Living Happily. 1570 Argyle Ave. Admission is $5 at the door and includes tea of coffee. For infor- mation call 922-2262. Team gets airline co. off ground A TEAM of Capilano College students has proved that .an airline facing deregulation can turn a good profit. In doing so, the students won the best overall award at the B.C. Colleges Business Competi- tion, marking the third con- secutive year Capiiano College has won the prestigious award. The competition consisted of running a computer-simulated airline company. Teams from 14 B.C. colleges began at the same Starting point but used different Strategies to ensure their com- pany survived during a three- year period. At the beginning, the hypo- thetical airline owned three small planes and was struggling to stay above the break-even point. Deregulation had forced major carriers to drop unprofitable routes, which the small company had a chance to pick up. After - three years, the Capilano College simulation led the airline to profits of $300,000 per quarter and ownership of seven planes. The team promoted its com- petitive fares and superior cus- tomer service; changed its employee compensation package and kept maintenance ‘schedules in line with Federal Administration regulations. Population Growth Aviation . NEWS photo Neil Lucente” - CAPILANO COLLEGE ‘business management students again . took top honors at the B.C. Colleges Business Compytition | held recently. The winning team, pictured trom left, is made: up of instructor Anne Watson, Eric Wickham, Keith Goldsworthy,. Ross Haugland, Alice Swanton and. Denise: - Grillraair. : Hurts the ¢ Planet and Peopie Canada's population will stabilize without migration at about 29 million people. currently 27 million. The government's immigration policy is designed to increase our population to between 40 and 50 million in the next 40 years. The environmental consequences are: - continued increases in pollution - continued loss of prime agricultural tand - increased pressure on our forest, soil, water and recreational resources - continued overall environmental decline. Canada is no jonger a frontier nation and is. now overpopulated for its current level of consumption. We need to both stabilize our numbers and reduce our level of consumption. We need national policies that integrate population size, the economy: and the environment. 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