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NORTH Vancouver's Capilano College has been

awarded . $233,000
Education’s Local

through
Economic

the Ministry of

Renewal and

Development (LERD) fund.

Doug Jardine, acting
principal for the college, said
four proposals made to the
ministry have been accepted
under the scheme.

“We are very pleased.
There is some debate as to
whether’ education monies
should be put into
stimulating economic
development, but if those
monies: are being made
available, we, as a college,
want to’go after them and go

SLIPPERY : road ‘conditions ; were partly to blame for an accident
Christmas Eve, when a station wagon landed in the front yard of a North
“Yancouver residence. The wagon went through a fence and came to rest

after them aggressively.”

Approximately $5.8 mil-
lion has been budgeted in
this first year of the riovin-
cial government’s LERD
program.

Ministry of Education
spokesman David Reilley said
Tuesday that the program
was launched in May and is
‘exclusive to the province’s 16

colleges. -

‘net college

The program was initiated
both to get colleges involved
in stimulating local
economic renewal and to
enabie them to contract out
research for local industry as
the province’s three univer-
sities currently do, he said.

The $233,000 represents a
four-fold increase in LERD
monies approved for Cap
College over those alloted to
it earlier this year in the first
stage of the program, and a
two-fold increase over the
$100,000 it received during
the summer to set up an
aquaculiure centre in con-
junction with Mataspina
College.

the fence.

at the front steps of 785 William Avenue. The driver apparently lost con-

Jardine said the increase
shows that the college is now
on the right track in making
proposals that would appear
to have good prospective
economic spin-offs for the
community.

IDEAS WELCOMED

“After we got $50,000 in
the first and $100,000 in the
second round, I thought,
hey, we’re not doing very
well,’’ Jardine said. ‘‘Some
other colleges were getting
$150,000 to $300,000. We
were just not coming up with
any good ideas.”’

The solution, Jardine said,

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was to solicit local com-
munity organizations for
their support and input into
“formulating proposals that
would enhance focal
economies with business
training programs set up by
the college. i

That support, he added,
has been instrumental in the
college’s recent LERD suc-
cess.

BUSINESS TRAINING |

The largest chunk of
Cap’s $233,000 total is a
$100,000 award given to the
North Vancouver college for

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trol of the vehicle on the icy street. No one was injured in the accident,
which caused approximately $300 damage to the car and $75 damage to

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grant fund

a proposal to: establish a
North Shore smail business
centre.

Taken from a similar cen-
tre now running successfully
at Washington State's
Everett Community College,
the idea, according to Jar-
dine, isto establish a centre —
for budding entrepreneurs.

In Everett’s case, an emp-_.
ty warehouse was. converted «
to provide space and training
expertise for the develop-
ment of good, original
business ideas.

“Business space and train-
ing are given to new
businesses with different
ideas, not just improvements
on old businesses and we
would be looking to set up
something along those
lines,’ Jardine said.

Staggered rental fees for
neophyte businessmen begin
at no charge for the first
year and increase over the
next three years. In the
fourth year the business _
leaves the centre to either fly
or flounder on its own.

ALTER PROPOSAL

The acting principal added
that because the $100,000
was less than half the
$213,000 originally requested
for the project, the proposal
would have to be altered
somewhat.

In addition to the business
centre, Capilano College was
awarded $35,000 for a Howe
Sound area tourism
development program;
$64,000 for a Whistler out-
recreation prograny;
and a further $35,000 for an
International Dogwood
business program.

Jardine said the Dogwood
program would be directed
at developing B.C.'s interna-
tional business ties with
Pacific Rim countries by en-
couraging Canadian com-
panies to sponsor scholar-
ships for students from
countries such as China to
study in B.C., thereby
strengthening both social
and business relations be-
tween the participating
countries.