10 - Friday, September 4, 1992 - North Shore News

-Fourth-year

BCIT term

jeopardized by benefits ruling on student loans

From page § institutional training for people who were drawing UIC benefits. . The funding program allows students to collect unemployment insurance and go to school. - ‘The: conditions of the training x ‘sponsorship are that the job, or “course, the applicant .is pursuing must lead to full-time employ- ment“ upon completion of ‘the _work or school term. The:.applicant. must. also apply or the program before the. course gins. :. ‘Which is. where Motta’s prob-

She- fi nanced : the. -first three ‘terms: of her~four-term course -i: through... student “and personal loans’ and: is therefore not quali- ‘fied-.to:. receive: UIC. funding ‘for . cher final term) ~ “Ef have. been told by both B. (on lydro -and ‘B.C.’ Tei that if I complete the BCIT. course, I will have.an excellent chance of being ° hired, since _I-am a woman,” said ‘the frustrated, Jamaican native. : :

in her first year at BCIT, Motta

as: one ~ of. five--women in the program in a lass of . 300, StU. d : 4

Employment -: “and can Jones Bt

‘Canada; °:. the application Tules not. be .ben

id: : he. ‘act that ‘prevents.the | fa. student ”

ctusing their investments orn they’ can pay far tess as guide will provide you h

é6]1n her first year, Motta was

one of five

women in the

program in a class of 300 students. 99

Motta: has -approached North. Vancouver MP Chuck Cook, but has been told by his office that there is nothing Cook can do to change the legislation.

Motta said her interest in elec-

- tronics has been lifeiong.

“Ie staried from when I was a child.’* she recalled. ‘“‘My family operated a -stereo store in Jamaica, and I used to pull stuff apart to see how it worked.”

' Motta has enrolied in the fourth term of thé BCIT ‘electronics

* course,’ begivizing on Tuesday, but

if) her’ funding’. does” not - come through, she faces having to do

‘what “she. has-been doing § everything in her: power to avoid: & applying for UIC and looking for .§ another temporary job. a

“For ¢ Child Safety!

Fashion! - an approved “Personal “Floatation Device; ‘but remember. 2 floatation device. Must never: replace | adult: supervision: - .

: ‘Red ‘Cross Society

DINING: ‘AND-BEDROOM SUITES, OFFICE “DESKS, BOOKCAS ES,” LOOR LES, CHAIRS;

Police launch crackdown on speeders

THE THIRD of this year’s crackdowns on speeding drivers began Sept. 2 and will run to Sept. 8, as police on the North Shore and throughout the pro- vince are determined to make B.C. highways more expensive for lead-footed motorists and safer for holiday drivers.

Super on 15 yeare

September: 5, 1992.

‘and sidewalks.

During the crackdown, the police will be stepping up en- forcement of speeding laws, setting up additional checks at high-accident loca- tions, and being less tolerant of

drivers who exceed speed”

limits. During the first two speeding

i Lawn sprinkling will be allowed as Flos .

speed —

enforcement campaigns this year, the police throughout the province handed out more than 25,000 tickets for speeding and more than 1,000 tickets for ex-

‘cessive speed (40 km over. the” — mit).

More than |15,000 _written warnings were also issued.

These revised restrictions will remain in place until further notice.’

City of North Vanceuver

. C.M. Gale, P. Eng. f City Engineer Te

District of North Vancouver oe Ej. Bremner, P. Eng. © ; Director, Paz’ ks & Enineering Services" ~

The City of a Vancouver

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