J po | yi: Tt A esetewmmain tne eat rn ashe toe Ey auE be ANN Arentrnme Nt NS Seale ney CECS OPENS ; Summer jobs more plent tiful in 1986 THE. SKIES look bright for North Shore student job seekers this summer. . By ROSS MEEK News Reporter °° That is the word from. Louise. ' - Renaud, supervisor..of. the North’. Shore Canada Employment Centre. : for Students (CECS). Her-:' office successfully’ filled 1,485 positions last summer, and Renaud expects more job" orders . than last year, “In fact, since the ‘official open- : ing of the North Vancouver office on May 16, job orders are already up 50 per cent. : “To-May:16 there’ were 297 jobs. registered. with’ the. office,’’: Renaud said. ‘We are expecting to get a certain spin off here on the North Shore from Expo.’ . : The provincial ‘Challenge "86 job. : creation program and-a more op- timistic business climate ‘are also. contributing:'to. the early incréase of job orders, ‘said B.C... and Yukon regional CECS coordinator . Shauna Markham. “It looks like an extremely good year,” said’ Markham.. “Over ,_ 2,100 placements have been made” in B.C. and the Yukon.”’ . : But. she added: ‘I’m a little scared of the figures. There may be the same number of jobs, but they are just coming in earlier.’’ The North Shore also has extra jobs being generated through the opening of_new retail and office space at Lonsdale Quay, Capilano Mall and other smaller develop- ments, Renaud said. While there is a 50 per cent in- crease in job orders, so far there _ has only been an eight per cent in- crease in job placements. ’ But the lack of placements i is not “due toa Jack of. student interest. There are over 450 students regis- “tered with the North: Vancouver . “office, but it is still early and many “of the job orders have not been.’ processed. The majority of the job orders on the North Shore are in the sales, retail and hospitality field, said Renaud. * While the number of job orders” in North . Vancouver. are at: the game level as the ‘rest ‘of Greater. Vancouver, they are 10 per cent below the rest of the province. This was somewhat unexpected, since’ the most economic activity was expected around Expo, said Markham. ’ The CECS offers’ a screening -and referral service for businesses and returning: full-time students in . =, all types of jobs. . “The CECS program, which is ‘run by students and recent gradu- ates,. was started in 1968 and has grown from an off-shoot of Canada Employment Centres to a separate job placement program that found 37,000 students for jobs last summer. Both Markham and Renaud en- courage businesses and students to register with them. West Van essay winners honored WEST VANCOUVER Secondary School student Joanna Harrington placed first among B.C. entrants in the 1986 Commonwealth ' Essay Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Royal Commonwealth Society of London, Eng., is open to every high school student in a public or private school in the Com- monwealth. Harrington’s prize is $300. _ Other | West Vancouver students were receiving commendations Craig Elizabeth-Anne Brown, Madill and David Moen. Meanwhile, three students from Hillside Secondary school won medals for outstanding perfor- mance in Waterloo mathematics competi- tion. ' In all, 53 Hillside students received certificates of distinction. The school ranked fourth in the province, eleventh in Canada and made the top one per cent. the University of - NEWS Obata Te Terry Peters North Shore Canada Employment Centre for Students (CECS) employees Sandra Nobbs (left) and Louise Renault (far right) give Capilano MP Mary Collins (centre) a tour of the North Vancouver CECS. Collins was at the centre Monday to talk to the students who work there and to promote Hire-A-Student week, June 1 to 7. 13 - Wednesday, May 28, 1986.- North Shore News Press Council hears complaints THE B.C. Press Council received 35 written complaints against newspapers from members of the public in 1985, according to its just-released annual report. Four complaints were the sub- jects of hearings and adjudica- tions. The remainder were settled or abandoned before reaching the: hearing stage or were outside the council’s frame of reference. The council’s main purpose is to consider complaints. against the press in the gathering and publica- tion of news and opinion. A voluntary body financed by member newspapers, it acts as a’ medium of understanding between press and public and pledges to uphold press freedom. As well 2s considering com- plaints, the council sponsored two public symposia in 1985, one in Vancouver on the role of newspa- per columnists.and one in Victoria on access to information. All.17 dailies in B.C. and 21 of the province’s weekly. and part- weekly newspapers are.members of the B.C. Press Council. Complaints are adjudicated by a panel of directors. Five, including the chairman, represent the public and four represent member news- papers. Ian F, Greenwood of Burnaby is chairman. Public directors are Joanne Leslie of West Vancouver, Jean Turnbull of Vancouver and Joe Morris and L.J. Wallace of Victoria. : Newspaper representatives are. Iris. Christison, publisher of the Prince Rupert Daily News; Gary Oldfield, publisher of the Vernon Daily News; Murray McMillan, editorial writer at the Vancouver Sun; and Brian MacDonald, editor of the Richmond Review. 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