Sunday, June 28, 3, 1992 ~ North Shore News ~ s1 .

Society bridging job experience gap

EVERY SUMMER youths
face the age-old conun-

drum: they can’t get a job .

because they don’t have the
experience. But they can’t
get the experience unless
they have a job.

By Barbara Black
News Reporter

Solution: Take a course that
gives you the experience and get
the job next time.

The Deep Cove/Dollarton
Community Services Society is of-
fering a Leadership Training Pro-
gram for 14- to  17-year-olds to
help bridge that infamous experi-
ence gap.

It is designed to help youth de-
velop the personal and practical
know-how necessary for getting a
gocd summer job. Spsc‘fically, it
will train youths in how to be a
future daycamp feader in their
own community.

Laura-Gene Pardae (‘‘just call
me ‘LG’, as in the radio station,
sne grins,"') will .be leading the
course, which will accommodate
about 15 people.

First off, she would like to
make it clear that ‘‘This is not
school. There’s no pass or fail.”
She describes the course as ‘‘a
healthy element of fun with small,
easy assignments.’°

One of the best ways of learn-
ing, of course, is to try things
yourself. So the group will be
testing ovt on each other al! man-
ner of crafts, games, songs, sports
ard anything else deemed suitable
fun for daycamp programs.

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By actually doing the activities
they can discover witich age group
they are suited to, how to adapt
them and how best to give in-
structions to explain them.

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

INSTRUCTOR LAURA-GENE Pardoe gives some tips on how to construct an egg carton puppet tc
Jordie Kirk and Beva Smith as part of the Leadership Training program offered by the Deer
Cove/Dofiarton Community Society. in the course, kids aged 14. to 17 wili learn demonstration:
teaching and public speaking skills to prepare them for a day camp jeader position or other jobs.

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