22 - Friday, December 22, 1989 - North Shore News

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BCIT PROGRAM

NV. Van resident top|
mechanics student :

A 27-YEAR old North Van-
couver resident has been
named this year's top stu-
dent in the Heavy Duty
Mechanics program at the
British Columbia Institute of
Technology (BCIT).

Martin William den Dek-
ker, a ‘pre-apprenticeship
student in heavy duty
mechanics, won a $250 cash
award from the Canadian
Association of Equipment
Distributors (CAED), B.C.
group as the year's top stu-
dent.

The CAED award is pres-
ented annually to the heavy
duty mechanics student who
is considered by faculty to be
the most advanced and to

NORTH Vancouver resident
Ben Main... awarded a
FEL-PRO Automotive Pro-
gram scholarship.

Local
receives
automotive
scholarship

BEN MAIN, a resident of
North Vancouver, has been
named a recipient of a
scholarship from the FEL-
PRC Automotive Scholar-
ship Program.

This scholarship is design-
ed to help students interested
in becoming professional
service technicians to further
their education, and to help
meet the demand for quali-
fied service personnel. Main
will use the scholarship to
attend classes at Vancouver
Community College this

year.

FEL-PRO, which is one of
the leading manufacturers of
mechanical gaskets and
chemical sealing products
for the automotive after-
market, has long taken an
interest in the education of
automotive technicians. This
scholarship program awards
money for use towards tu-
ition to qualified students in
college-level vocational/
technical programs.

The scholarships are ad-
ministered by the Citizen's
Scholarship Foundation of
America, an independent
organization.

FIGHT THE
LUNG

have made the greatest pro-
gress during the academic
year.

den Dekker maintained an
average of 95 per cent on
written examinations during
his pre-apprenticeship course
and an average of 91 per
cent on practical work.

Before coming to BCIT,
den Dekker worked as a
chokerman and a mechanic's
helper at Whittaker Logging
Company in Britannia
Beach.

den Dekker received his
award at a luncheon cere-
mony at BCIT’s Burnaby
campus recently. The award
was presented by Lucille
Johnstone, CAED national
president.

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Photo submitted

CONGRATULATIONS WERE at hand for North Vancouver resident Martin den Dekker, who was named top student in the
Heavy Duty Mechanics program at the British Cotumbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Pictured are (left to right) John
Watson, BCIT president, Lucille Johnstone, national president of the Canadian Association of Equipment Distributors
(CAED) who presented the $250 award, recipient Martin den Dekker, and John Hopper, national executive vice-president of

CAED.

GET THAT SLED READY
‘CAUSE HERE COMES
DICK IRWIN'S GREAT, GREAT
YEAR END SALES EVENT

See Wednesday's N.S. News for details

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