“ Bé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 17, 1998 4 "she ae aa eee «,, and his beautiful new bride, Vanessa Auriat, on their , wedding day, April 11. - Career courses help kids get jobs , CALEDONIA’S CAREER > Prep courses are more popu- :. lar than ever because they *. give students the work expe- <2 fience they need to get jobs. ‘, “The program is growing :' said Cam McKay, , Caledonia Secondary “-School’s career planning * teacher. ‘I’m placing kids 2| for next year already.” Since most employers will % only hire employees who * have work experience, the * apprenticeship and work ~ experience programs pro- * vide students with the + hands-on experience they ; need to gel hired, McKay s. Said. “These programs are the *. best thing going,” he said, « “It gives kids a chance to * explore, and it gives *: businesses a chance to be a *" part of the learning sys- * tem,”’ «For the past four years, 2 and average of 30 students * enrolled in Career Prep » courses. This year 50 stu- “dents enrolled, and next x year 90 students are starting ~ the program. ‘ “Small businesses are the ones putting ‘out. They are very * community-minded. » Large corporations > don’t have _ the flexibility to train » young people.” 1; That means McKay has to * find businesses that will * take them all. » After grade 10, students ») can choose to take either an } apprenticeship — program, * where they are paid, or a *. volunteer work experience ', program, where they aren’t ‘. paid. McKay said if is often ' hard to get large corpora- '; tious to take students in the '» apprenticeship program be- cause they are union-based. »» The unions simply won’t al- *’ low students in. : “Small businesses are the ‘ones putting out,’? be said. » “They are very community- minded, Large corporations ‘don’t have the flexibility 10 train young people,” : McKay said these large ': corporations often complain vfhat there isn’t enough Skilled labour in Canada. - Bul, instead of training "young workers themselves, “they pluck skilled workers "from outside of Canada, He ‘said they aren’t giving young Canadians a chance v-to learn. . Students enjoy the pro- ; grams because some of ‘them get jobs afterwards. They can also use their » employers as references for : other jobs. » Businesses like the pro- y grams because of the free ‘labour and the opportunity mto add to the education of youth, a lough pig AB EGE Celebrating a wedding and birthdays I WOULD LIKE to send out a big apology to Cesario Ciffolilli Jr, and his beautiful new bride, Vanessa, This lovely picture of them wasn’t printed along wilh their story in the May 27 newspaper. So now, again, [ would like to say congratula- tions to both Cesario and Vanessa, and I wish them many years of happiness _ YVONNE MOEN HERE 'N THERE June 10; Ann Hampton June 16: Lucy Denicola together. Don’t they make a «| beautiful couple? So June 20: Anne Green young and beautiful, June 26; Bea Davies Also for this week is a June 28: Maria Dasilva list of birthdays for June. Jane 30: Rosa From Terrace View Seabrooke. 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