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THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C.

Summer job seekers and
employers can find a match at the
local Canada Employment Centre
for students.

The Peninsula Community
Association office, 9751 3rd
Strect, houses the centre.

Student placement officer Tif-
fany Potter started visiting local
employers last week and, in three
days, had a list of 40 possible jobs.

She also has a file of 150
students secking work.

For employers, Potter will screen
available students and send three
or four who meet the employers’
requirements for interviews.

Students are shown a list of
possible jobs, with no business
names attached, and asked to iden-
tify jobs in which they might be
interested.

Potter will then check the stu-
dents’ qualifications against the
employer’s requirements before
sending the potential employee for
an interview,

She places college, university
and sccondary school students.

LOCAL MATCHMAKER for
students and jobs is stu-
dent placement officer Tif-
fany Potter, 22, who is
based at the Peninsula
‘Community Association
office on 3rd Street.

Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me a job

Many of them, she notes, have
worked part-time since they were
15 or 16 and have a range of work
experience.

“It’s just amazing, the skills and -

experience some of them have,”
she said. ‘‘Students do make really
good workers. They are so enthusi-
astic.”

She can help students prepare a
resume and learn job scarch skills.
She will also conduct mock inter-
views with students, so they learn
how to handle the expericnce.

“Being interviewed is a skill.
You can learn to present yourself
as well as you should be pre-
sented,”

She also offers a casual job
registry. Homeowners planning
summer projects like painting or
landscaping, or businesses requir-
ing temporary help can hire stu-
dents on an occasional, part-time
basis.

Last year almost 300 students
registered in the Sidney employ-
ment office. From those, 87-found
full-time jobs and 37 found part-
lime jobs through the centre.

“It’s a pretty good ratio. If you

walk through the door you have a
one in three chance of getting a
job,” Potter said.

She urges students and employ-
ers to call her at 656-0851.

“T have 40 jobs waiting for the
night students to walk through the
door,” she said. “And I have 150
students seeking summer jobs.” »

_ proof. the. Peninsula — and-has.

‘A new task force wants to drug-

~ $35,000 to. put into the project..

~ By VALORIE LENNOX —
Review. Staff Writer.

An education program directed

at young people and familics is the
first step for the Peninsula Sub-
‘stance Abuse Prevention Task
Force. With $35,000 in provincial
Community Action Program. fund-.
ing, the group plans to hire a
coordinator this weck to. organize
the prevention program...

“We want to make people
responsible, give them cnough
knowledge so they:can make
responsible decisions. and look
after themsclves, instead. of
expecting an agency to do il,” says
task force member Don MacKin-

Pon of North. Saanich.

Anitially the program will oper-
mae in Sidney and North Saanich,
gradually extending tothe rest of
the Peninsula,

On the task force are probation
officer Neil Pearce, MacKinnon of
the family court committes, parent

representatives Maureen Kirk and

Verna Popejoy, native court worker

Grace Adams, Sidney ROMP staff

stance abuse.

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‘Spt, Jim Wilson, Peninsula Com-
tunity. Association representative
Laurie Branner and school district

staff Mark Notte, Anne Mais.and >

David. Hardcastle,

The task force was forined fol-

lowing a January meeting at Park»

land Secondary to discuss.sab-) i
Members were
> drawntrom the 18 different groups

at that-meeting to form the task

farce, Dallas Soctety: substance»
abuse prevention specialist C olin

Ross advised the group:

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men were called out twice the fast
week. in May Wut both calls wore

brief.
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Nash Place, There was no damage

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“The goal of the program ‘is to
prevent problems related to alco-
hol and drug abuse,” said Ross.

Once problems start, there are
limited treatment programs availa-
ble. It is better to prevent drug or
alcohol abuse than to try to treat it.

““We want to focus on a healthy
lifestyle, on wellness rather than
on picking up the bits,’’. said
MacKinnon. .

Information on. substance abuse
-is part.of the. program, as is
teaching life skills: and. new alli”

~ tudes, . 4
-Popejoy’s children are in middle

- school.::Among .their..peers, in.

~ Grades: 6 to 9, are children who.’

drink alcohol.” —

“There isa generalized ‘accep-
lance even by. teens who. do: not
drink. that going out and drinking

to excess: occasionally is OK for.;

teenagers,”..she said. .
MacKinnon,.a high school prin-

_ cipal for 25 years, has seen the

drinking age drop. “It was almost
unheard of for children below

Grade 9 to be drinking, Now they.”

are: ‘drinking in grades six, seven
and eight.”

Ross cited a 1987 province- -wide
survey which showed 1) per cent
of the students in Grade 8 used
alcohol weekly. ;

The problem is more wides-
pread than teenage drinking, Sub-
stance abuse, cither alcohol or

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drugs or both, figures in family
breakdown, juvenile delinquency
and increased assaults.

Drugs may also be abused by the
elderly: seniors misusing prescrip-

tion drugs, mixing prescription —

drugs with alcohol. or using alco-
hol to ‘blunt the edge of. their
loneliness or pain.

Just as individuals with sub:
Stance abuse problems often deny
the problem, a community. often
“denies the existence of ‘substance
abuse. .

We | must make peapie: more

aware there i is.a problem and make

. the: community: responsible: for its
own: problem, stressed Mackin:
“non,

The cost of substance. abuse to

the community is high, as is the ~
cost. of. treatment.’ Popejoy notes. .

there: are limited treatment facilit-

tes: available and none on the |

Peninsula. .
“You'll always’ be doing acatch-
she said, « If

not learned by the community,

. MacKinnon predicts. increased

health care costs and social disrup-
tion.as the present level of cocaine
and crack use-in the United States
filters through to Canada,

Changing attitudes to reduce 7

substance abuse is a-project which
can involve the whole community.
Task force ‘members hape more

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. volunteers will participate.
Anyone interested in-the project .

can contact Popejoy .at 656-1875
or Maureen Kirk at 656-4646.

“Any number can play,’’.}
innon concluded.

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