Sunday, October 11, 1992 - North Shore News - 33

launched to help older workers

brings confidence and a sense of purpose back to their ciients.

Waste reduction month marked
with youth poster competition

OCTOBER IS Waste Reduction
Month in the Greater Vancouver
Regional District, and the North
Shore Recycling Program has plans
to celebrate.

Students from kindergarten to
Grade 12 are invited to submit
. their posters on the theme of

- Keeping the World Clean for
judging in the recycling program's
upcoming poster contest.

Winners in five age categories
will receive an annual pass to
Maplewood Farm (kindergarten to
Grade 1), a family membership at
the aquarium (Grades 2 to 4), a

family pass to Science World
(Grades 5 to 6), or $100 (Grades 7
to 9, and Grades 10 to 12).

Posters should be no larger than
15 by 18 inches and reflect any
environmentally aware solution to
keeping the planet healthy. They
can be turned in (by Oct. 15 at 4
p.m.) at any North Shore
municipal hall or the recycling
program office at 148 East 2nd
St., North Vancouver.

Also of interest to gardeners
and others wanting to reduce their
waste output is the return of the
recycling program’s Great Com-
poster Sale.

Locally-produced film seen Tuesday

IMPOLITE, THE winner of this
year’s New Views Competition, is
screening Tuesday night at the
Ridge Theatre.

The locally fiimed movie was
produced by West Vancouver’s
Raymond Massey. [t just returned
from Toronto’s Festival of Festi-
vals and New York, where it
played to packed audiences.

Wisden as Jack Yeats.

DON’T SMOKE

Organizers of Tuesday's event
must fill 800 seats, so all North
Shore film buffs are encouraged
to attend the 9:30 p.m. screening.

If you miss the Tuesday date,
try the Vancouver Centre Theatre
on Oct. 15. impolite is one of the
guests at this year’s Vancouver In-
ternational Film Festival.

Photo submitted

AWARD-WINNING film impolite can be seen this week with stars
that include Suzy Joachim as Catherine Sienna and Robert

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CAREER FOR Clder Worker's manger David Haniey (left) and counselling therapist John Gauger are
hoping the innovative program they have helped create for North Shore unemployed older workers

Last spring, the program sold
2,100 composters for $25 each;
now, 1,000 are available to North
Shore residents at the same reduc-
ed rate.

Order forms were printed in the
Sept. 18 and 20 editions of the
North Shore News, and orders are
first come, first served. For in-
formation on the poster contest or
composter sale, call the recycling
program at 984-9730.

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THE INAUGURAL launch of an
innovative new project aimed at
helping unemployed older workers
teturn to the workplace is sched-
uled for Oct. 12.

By A.P. McCredie
News Reporier

The North Shore pilot project,
sponsored by Canada Employ-
ment, is open to men and women
over the age of 40 who are collect-
ing Unemployment Insurance
benefits.

Careers for Older Workers of-
fers a unique combination of ca-
reer counselling and exploration,
direct introductions to employers,
four weeks of on-the-job work
experience, recreational program-
ming, English language training
(ranging from basic literacy to
advanced usage) and a Job Fin-
ding Club.

The program is staffed by a
small team, but professionals
from a wide range of specialties
will be contracted to deal with in-
dividual cases.

“This program is differert
because it provides the time and
the expert assistance to explore all
the options and alternatives that
are out there,’’ said project man-
ager David Hanley. ‘‘Rather than
doing dry and tedious research,
we'll be out in the real world, be-
ing practical and, | hope, taking
some more enjoyment from life.’’

This last comment is a key to
the 20-week program.

One part of the four-stage pro-
gam has been designed by a recre-
ational therapist to shore up the
spirits of the participants.

‘*Many of the people we will be
helping have never been in the
position of having to go out into
the labor market,’’ project de-
signer and counsellor John Gauger
said. ‘‘They will feel despondent
about their future and about their
self-worth.”

Gauger said that a main ingre-
dient in the recipe for finding

-work is answering the question
“How will I be known?’’. All that

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when approached by an older
worker is the age of the applicant.

The course has been designed to
give three things to partici-
pants: a structure to their job
search, meaning to who they are
and what they have accomplished
in the past, and a sense of com-
munity within their own peer
group.

“We are in the business of cut-
ting off the isolation many older
unemployed people feel, and in
assisting them in networking.’*

Hanley has extensive experience
with North Shore businesses and
is personally putting together a
unique program that will allow
prospective workers a chance to
meet prospective employers in a
no-pressure, information-based
meeting.

Rather than an interview for-
mat, Hantiey believes the chance
for older people to converse with
employers on this level will benefit
and educate both sides; the pro-
spective employees will find out
what qualifications are needed for
the job, and employers will be
able to see how ar older worker's
experience and training can
benefit their company.

Catherine Dawson, the Canada
Employment officer responsible
for the pilot project, calls it a

“non-traditional solution to a
non-traditional problem.’”’
She also noted that the

original idea for the project came
as @ grassroots request for service
from the Nerth Shore Canada
Employment Centre.

The project was developed and
is being operated by the Canadian
Centre for Educational Develop-
ment, a non-profit society
dedicated to promoting literacy
and economic opportunity.
Capilano-Howe Sound MP Mary
Collins is the MP reponsible for
project funding.

For further information on how
to enrol in this promising pilot
project call 984-2581. Careers for
Older Workers is located at 311
W. Ist St. in North Vancouver.

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