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Prince George Fire Centre reports that there were 37 new fire sparked over the long weekend including a huge 350 hectare blaze just north of Fraser Lake.

The fire, located at Peta Mountain, 20km north of the north shore of Fraser Lake is being worked on by multiple airtankers and helicopters, along with a substantial ground crew to control the blaze. Smoke from the fire has reportedly been seen as far away as Ft. St. James.

The Prince George Chamber of Commerce has begun a new ad campaign to encourage newcomers to Canada to “Consider Prince George” as a place of residence. Aimed at new Canadians in the lower mainland and on Vancouver Island, the campaign uses TV, print, radio and social media to encourage immigrants to move to Prince George.

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Everything is On Fire!

South of PG, there is a fire in the Stony Lake area. As of the 6th it was a reported to be approximately 30 hectares in size.

Crews, helicopters and airtankers have been on-site to protect “forestry values.”

At print time it was reported that crews have left the fire to burn itself out for now.

Most of the other fires in the area have remained small and mostly to the south and west of PG. A lightning storm Saturday night has likely lit several more fires, but there was no official release from the fire centre at print time.

A key focus to the campaign is recruitment for the push for additional resource development in the north.

Some of the top desired professions for the campaign are skilled tradespeople, equipment operators, and engineers.

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Part Two: Tsar Shane’s Campaign

Kael Walske, Contributor.

I could only ask

I could ask what?

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cold, where was it important? it was bombs suffocating thought dropping, intentionally, the conversation was as I told Shane

when it was just a song it made me feel like the world

when it was dying it showed but wasn’t able to tell he replied: we all become teachers who can only ask without hearing.

Examine each line as though it is a fingerprint: the paintbrush of life preserving each memory, carefully folded into each crevice.

Every time your son laughed, or the first time your daughter rode around the block without training wheels; all of this is there, along with the years of toil in the form of sweat that has stained your skin, the way that labour has strained your hands and feet.

You can trace each trajectory like a rut in a local’s only back road in an out of the way town that isn’t dear to everybody, but sets the rhythm of a heartbeat for many.

While some would sing the praises of botox and collagen this is my ode to the wrinkle!

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Erin Bauman, Contributor.

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that one, as opposed to failing the whole course. Some of the things you keep an eye out for in EDCO. And pre-reqs, you used to have two, all the sudden you have six, not cool at all.

GS: Have your experiences contributed to your current position, education or job etc?

Making the Difference An interview with Leila-Soila Abubakar about serving on the Education Council and Board of Governors at CNC The Confluence - Feature

The Education council and Board of Governors are essential to the functioning of CNC, and both have seats set aside for students. Leila Abubakar has been a member of one or another for the past few years, as well as serving on the CNCSU executive council, sitting on the CNCWomen’s council and serving as an organizer with International Education. She is also a full time student and works part-time. Interview by Garett Svensen.

GS: Can you tell me a little bit about your experience with the Education Council?

LA: My experience on the Education Council was, overwhelming. When you start out you have like two piles [holds fingers about 5cm apart] you have to go through.

Because everything’s like 300-400 pages and of course, when you’re new you don’t know what’s what.You don’t know what the important facts are and what aren’t and you put in like three nights just trying to get through it all. And there is no prep whatsoever then, for anyone who’s been elected into EDCO, there you go. It was a little overwhelming.

GS: How does it compare to Board of Governors?

LA: Board of governors, completely different. There was a whole day of prep. So they went through the history, and what’s expected of you and asked if you had any questions. And you asked questions from the president himself. He came in, it was scheduled and they went through it all with us. They made it a little bit more comfortable. You went into the first meeting knowing what to expect, as opposed to EDCO. GS: With your time with EDCO, how were you able to advocate for students?

LA: With EDCO, it was more difficult. EDCO does not have the final say. It still has to go through the board of governors so EDCO is essentially a go-between, you can do as much as you can, but you don’t have the final say in anything. So I would probably say EDCO is basically centered around programs. It’s about creating programs, making them easier, making them harder. You always want them to be fair to students. So you keep an eye out for what’s going on.

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When I was there, they were trying to change the ESL program, and I didn’t think that was very fair. They used to grade you every time you were tested, but they wanted to change it to pass-or-fail. So you’d do like 9 exams, then they’d tell you if you passed or failed. I was like “that’s not fair.” How about, maybe you failed one, you can retake

LA: Definitely. I’ve always been outspoken, but now I guess I can be diplomatic. I know how to maneuver the system, I know how to work the system, I know how to work with people. It’s easier for me to say this is wrong, because of what these people might think. I’m better at research because of EDCO, because you had to do a lot of research before you stood up there. Because the faculty knew everything about every program. You can’t come in and say “no, it’s like this” because they’ll go “no no, it’s not.” I feel like I can be better at any job I do now, because of that, because of all the work I had to do for the meetings at EDCO. GS: What would you say to any students considering joining the Education Council?

LA: It is an awesome opportunity. It’s great for network with the education council and the board of governors.

Especially the board of governors. 60% of the seats are occupied by members of the public, so people who work for council, or CKPG and all those industries outside school.

You get to be a student, sitting with CEOs, when does that happen? You get to see their perspective on things, you get to be so comfortable in your skin, you get very articulate. You get to know how to talk to these people. It would be so easy for walk into an interview and say “this is what I’ve done.” It’s very good for your resume as well.

Anybody wants to try it, should. It’s a great opportunity, you’re going to be intimidated for two months, but then after that, you’ll feel awesome.

GS: Sounds like a great confidence booster.

LA: It is a great confidence booster. It’s awesome for your experience: You’re at school, what are you going to do? Hang out with friends? You’ll want to make a difference with EDCO, it’s a great way to do it.

Paul Strickland, Contributor.

For me many places can provide inspiration to write.

In the fall of 1977 I was writing in my journal in a coffee shop in the hamlet of Chilcoot, Calif. Up to that point I had had exactly two columns and a letter published in the University of Nevada-Reno Sagebrush, the student newspaper. The two columns represented by first paid work. People in the coffee shop looked at me and saw how intent I was in writing my journal. “He’s a writer,” a man said. The emphasis was on the word “writer,” and the tone was a mixture of skepticism about an occupation he evidently thought was impractical and admiration for someone who had found his calling and was sure of what he wanted to do.

In Medicine Hat in late 1981 I took refuge from late nights writing articles about agriculture and the long meetings of the southern Alberta equivalent of the regional district board of directors by retreating to the lounge of Smitty’s Restaurant in Medicine Hat Mall. I would have a couple of beer to take the edge off fatigue from seventy-hour weeks and too much coffee during the day and write in my journal or philosophical notebook. A man took note and said I was treating Smitty’s lounge like a European-style bistro, such as where European philosophers talked and wrote. This, too, provided an indication of what I really liked to do and the kind of atmosphere I would be able to accomplish this in.

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This happened at a bar in Fuerth, Germany, in January 1977. I had had to deal with panhandlers and unfriendliness in some regions of Spain and then had an awful bus trip from Madrid to Munich.

There had been some missed connections with some prospective travel companions, and, because of the unfavourable exchange rate, I was starting to go broke and contemplating having to fly home sooner rather than later. I was essentially hiding out in the bar in Fuerth, reading the International Herald-Tribune and Frankfurter Allgemeine and adding to my travel journal to distract myself. A group of young men were talking at a nearby table, and one came over to my table to ask in broken English if I needed help. I was skeptical, said no and turned back to my reading. Actually, in retrospect, the young men were probably just trying to be friendly to a lone traveller and might have provided good tips about cheap places to stay or where the inexpensive but good restaurants were.

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topics unrelated to my writing can be time-consuming. On the other hand, I have sometimes, especially in strange cities or in foreign countries, reacted to culture shock or an unpleasant travel experience by hiding behind a book or burrowing into my writing in such a way as to shut out people who were trying to invite me to join their group and I didn’t immediately understand because of a language barrier, etc.

In Prince George there seem to be few places where one can have a quiet beer and write. Too often in pubs one is blasted out with ear-splitting noise and given a bad headache. There may be a couple of quiet lounges, but they are just holding lounges for adjoining upscale restaurants.

It’s good to meet people in a place like Second Cup and keep up contacts. However, if I have limited time to get something done, conversation with acquaintances about

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In his book of reflections, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, the novelist Larry McMurtry points out even a fast food restaurant can be a place to write My apartment is cluttered and fairly small, and I don’t like to spend too much time or have a philosophical discussion with writing there. I prefer independent coffee houses, but, if they aren’t available, I go to friends. A Dairy Queen that opened in Second Cup or a Starbucks. Their large windows allow looking out at the changing sky Archer City, Texas, McMurtry’s home when I take a break from writing and daydream. However, I sometimes write at the town, in the 1960s was the first place public library, the CNC library or the UNBC library, or even at a Husky coffee shop. where people from that community could meet for something other than a strictly I like to find a retreat to think and take stock. Some criticize this as an excuse for business conversation, he recalls. Writers perpetual indecision and failure to swim in the main current of river rapids in life.

Maybe this is so, but writers need time away from the tumult of the workaday world to who want to get out of the house have find just the right words for a description of a scene or situation. In the early fall, when to be resourceful in finding places with a mosquitoes have died down, I sometimes have done writing while resting on a rock on good atmosphere carrying on their work, the shore of a mountain lake such as Cameron Lake in Waterton Lakes National Park or especially in a community that doesn’t view imaginative writing as real work. at Elkwater Lake in Cypress Hills Provincial Park when I was still living in Alberta.

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The College of New Caledonia Students’ Union (CNCSU) is the collective voice of all students attending the College of New Caledonia. The CNCSU provides services, events, campaigns and advocacy for students’ rights locally, provincially and nationally.

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The CNCSU is also a founding member of the Canadian Federation of Students, Canada’s national student movement.

Your Students’ Union provides many opportunities to get involved: joining committees, volunteering at events or advocating for the rights of students everywhere. Whatever your interest, your Students’ Union has an opportunity for you.

If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, e-mail us at info@cncsu.ca.

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Student Advocacy

Advocacy is the primary function of your Students’ Union. The CNCSU can support and assist you through grade appeals, student complaints, provide advice and offer assistance with any issues you might face as a student.

The CNCSU also lobbies for fair, affordable and fully accessible post-secondary education on the municipal, provincial and national government levels. Contact us at info@cncsu.ca to find out how you can help.

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It’s not often that you see hitchhikers on the road, but for this author, that did not seem to be the case. I experimented with hitchhiking in New Zealand with positive results so I figured I would attempt it here in Canada, and compare notes. The paranoid fear that people emit when you say “I went hitchhiking” is a conversation for another time, but what I want to point out is that it seems that all hitchhikers pick up hitchhikers as sort of an unspoken rule which promotes the tradition unto itself.

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Like in 1969, I believe we have an issue to contend with and I hope that we can find one voice. I propose that, perhaps, it is time for us all to let the childhood anarchist in us loose for some peaceful protest in an attempt to promote some change in corporate policy; especially, when considering the global community and Iceland’s/Portugal’s success in their recent government policies. Free education sponsored by corporations would be a great start here in Canada. I would like to end this statement like my hitchhiking trip ended, with a great song for a united peaceful movement of place and time.*

It seems this mentality creates its own ipso facto underground culture maintained only by people brave enough to bear their thumb out there. An anarchist sentiment if I had ever known one. Defection from control and attraction to it seems to resonate from early childhood unto parent hood, from communist to liberal, and from I would like to thank anyone reading and hitchhiker to hitcher. The often misinterpreted view of anarchism as being a violent alternative to our current political state is not a valid issue, as all true anarchists vie for I would love to hear from you if you have any responses or rebuttals, you can reach peaceful existence, and through all three of my conversations, with the drivers who me at bikerman_67@hotmail.com. happily drove me to my destination, there seemed to be a level of discontent toward our current political corporate policy. *Attached to this document was a link to Bob I think we can all agree that there needs to be some change in that regard or at least Marley singing “One Love.” Go and listen to it. taxation. However, we must be careful and take into consideration the words of Dr.

Noam Chompsky & The Open Road

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Kael Walske, Contributor.

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Hitchhiking With Chomsky

Noam Chomsky who is quoted as saying, “building a movement concerned with social change, perhaps revolutionary change, is important. But I think one has to be careful to avoid opportunism and to try always to find principled issues rather than issues which happen to be convenient at the moment” (Noam Chomsky, on the student movement during the Vietnam war [1969]).

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made sense to her. She decided to follow this cumulative sense, composed of many senses. Strangely, she did not experience it as a sort of ‘cacophony’ but this was clear to her like a sound of a single bell. It made sense

The Crash in the Desert

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Chris Trampowski, Contributor.

Alice was very, very lucky. Her plane crashed and she was the only survivor. What seemed sickly unlucky in these circumstances was the fact that

the plane crashed not in her beloved environment which is very rich in fresh water, floating openly and freely in either some river, lake or creek. And likely, either of these can be reached without any seriously strenuous walk. This is only on the surface but there is much more underneath! But no!!! This crash had to happen on a dry, heat scorching desert. Her plane was ‘scooped’ very suddenly down into this waterless region, without ‘offering’ her back not even a drop of fresh water, only the extremely strong impact which caused all the containers to fall instantly apart and the ‘thirsty’ desert soaked all the remaining liquids right away. Nevertheless, she experienced almost (if not really) a religious moment. Everybody was gone but her! She was the only survivor and yet nothing was broken insider her. Actually and amazingly, Alice was OK! Except, for a few minor bruises and a shock of sudden and very ‘unpleasant change. This shook her rather powerfully and she had remained shaken through.

Though contrary to the usual symptoms of shock, her reaction was different. She decided to crawl out of the plane right away and face the desert, the sun and the heat, trying, at the same time, to find some liquids.

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During the last couple of days, Alice went through much more than enough. But she managed to go on and was able to reach her third day without any drink and only a bit of food. She was barely making and yet her determination not to waver to the right or the left but maintain one direction, pressing straight ahead, seemed almost unreal.

Like a bird, following a mysterious navigation device that could be inside her, she kept on going straight. This movement seemed to be going on, and on, and on, mimicking in this respect the ‘notorious’ Energizer Bunny that could not quit. Once, she saw this Energizer Bunny on a commercial. That was long time ago but this memory seemed to be going too, and going, and going, almost forever. She was aware that this ability was not within any of her singular sense which she learned about in her biology class.

But on the other hand, it was possible that these senses in the moment of deep crises like this reinforced each other in a special and different way, giving her a cumulative sense which she was not aware of before. This was almost like the only choice that

She was more than exhausted. Alice had to rest quickly, very quickly, finding some shade of huge dune behind her. She found some temporary relief and started relaxing. That brought the memories of her parents. They were not on the crashed plane. It was a huge relief to her. She mentally jumped into her early years, head first, like in a deep fresh water. Her childhood was tough but she was able to find happiness there. This happiness was spiced with the real moments of inspiration which used to carry her mind for miles, and miles, and miles, at the time. Her father, French-Canadian, had never stopped saying “tabernac.” Her mother, English-Canadian, to complement her husband, had developed a habit of saying “shit” but only during very special occasions. And, when she did it, she was not shy about it at all. For example, she used this strategy when she tried to solicit (successfully) from her husband the stories about his travels around the world that he did before he married her. This worked like a mental battery charger, helping to start one of his stories. Alice liked to listen to these stories very much. Before her father settled down, he was a bachelorworld-traveler and he did this rather very quietly. He crossed world without breaking any records, like doing it under 80 days or so. Actually, he was not even trying to attempt this, taking deliberately, more or less, few years. There was a very mundane reason why. He did not have the means to complete his travels fast and because of that he was not in a hurry at all, engaging himself in different works to continue. But when he ‘assembled’ his family, it called for a very different approach and he was seriously in a hurry to provide efficiently for his family. Alice for some reason which did not ‘percolate’ completely to her consciousness yet, even at the time of the crash, had liked the story about Zaporozhcy the most.

Her father stayed for some time with this Scythian-descendant people, the Zaporozhcy. Some Zaporozhcy women used to wear colorful folk clothing and some of the men grew long ‘skull’ locks that were centrally located and surrounded by almost perfectly shaven heads. They taught her father the real meaning of “Nostrovia.” This was like

She started to focus even more, trying slowly and carefully to readjust her vision and get a close up on this white stuff… Invigorated by her discoveries, she started processing this visual input more intensely. She concluded this object was blue, round, elongated, small container.

The white thing on top was some kind of inscription. She looked at it again. She did it very, very carefully, like nothing else would exist but only this inscription.

Suddenly she got it! Also suddenly, the humongous and overwhelming wave of relief entered her entire being, like the unexpected and powerful flood. She was saaaaaaa…fe!!! The white inscription was in a very familiar script and she was able to decipher: “College of … Students … water is a human right!”

Not realizing before that she actually has still something left insider her, Alice began to move slowly and steadily towards the blue container. She looked like a majestic tanker, moving carefully, ready to be filled with this precious cargo. Before even opening the container and using what it contained, she was able to start thinking more straight than before and began to reason. Amazing! She thought. All this time, this container was sitting here and waiting for me to start focusing and look at it. But then again…I can not drink it all at once. She remembered this from her safety course that she took not long ago and also she remembered this from her favorite story, told by her father long time ago. This seemingly benign liquid might kill me or at least injure me if I just soak it like a ‘thirsty’ desert, all at once. I have to apply it appropriately, letting my system getting used to it…Having already in her head a plan how to proceed, she formed her words in a comprehensive stream and let them out through very chapped lips: “…that’s how to do it Baby, Nostrovia!” and grin become to surface on her extremely (but only temporarily) dry face.

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eyeballs. This something was blending with the environment in colour but not in shape. It was horizontally flat with sharp endings, not curved at all like everything else around her. Was that a flat roof of some rather large building? Then, she got back to the first intriguing object which was much, much smaller but it was much closer too. This object was left in a sand as if someone dropped it by accident.

Its colour stood out sharply against the washed-out-dirty-yellow of the desert. It was refreshingly blue and something white was on this blue…

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to focus, got to focus…” She gathered everything that was still left insider her rapidly shrinking ‘hump’ of severely shrank stomach. Shaking and swaying, she slowly uplifted herself again from crawling to upright position. But her consciousness did not stay with her for long. She started drifting again. Her dehydrated finger, dried to the bone, disconnected and pulled down by the gravity, dropped to the extremely hot sand of the desert, but she did not hear the sound of this dropping.

The half carat, one solid diamond ring that she received from her fiancé went to the sand as well, still being ‘miraculously’ attached to this shrank and disconnected finger. It was just a pinky. This ‘revelation’ came to her. The state of the art, modern medical treatment can replace this minor finger with the sophisticated bioengineered prostheses, to the point that it will be almost unrecognizable from the normal distance...But the ring!? If she gets through this, her fiancé will get her even a bigger one, otherwise tough luck…and…not for me but for him! This sudden explosion of stubbornness brought her back again from drifting and kept her going over the depression between the two huge dunes. Then, exhausted, she drifted again before reaching the peak of another dune. Though practically being detached from her mind, she still pulled herself up and forward, as if being on an She grew up with her father’s “tabernac” automatic pilot which did navigation for and her mother’s “s” word but she did not her. She moved to the top of another feel ‘squizzed’ between those two very dune. Completely exhausted and not different words, on the contrary. Her able to move ahead anymore, she started mother used this magic “s” word more like to look. She extended her head and a ‘fertilizer’ for getting the ideas out than her gaze reached the distance of many, the actual swearing. And her father used many miles…rather easily. She was his ‘word’ more or less like a tobacco, and not gifted with excellent hearing which he was not a frequent user too. some musicians call a perfect pitch. Her singing followed similar pattern too. And Alice muttered “Shit…tabernac.” This for that reason, this singing was rather a helped her to kick again her extreme self-determination. Technically, the tears singular and isolated affair though when some karaoke ‘machine’ backed her, could come too but they did not. It was she did…ok. So the singing and the very dry around and she was very dry as well. This quick relief of muttering couple hearing were not her ‘secret weapons;’ of words gave her a push for another few but her vision was. It was an astonishing gift. Before even hearing a fly, she could crawling steps. Though, Alice could not spot it right away; while others could see it fully yet, the direction she chose hear it but would not see it. The clinical to was leading to her health. The lesson description was above the scale. Her from the Zaprorxhcy story started very slowly putting on the colours of budding vision could be described as 21x21 if that understanding in her heat scorched mind. was possible. Alice moved her lashes few times up and down and then she looked And very slowly, step by painful step, she was going towards her health. To my carefully straight ahead. She spotted something and then she looked even health, she thought, you better believe farther. There was something else there it! And then she did another few painful too. She started moving her lashes even steps. faster and with more determination as “Shit…tabernac…got to focus, got if trying to take the desert dust off her from another space and time. “Nostrovia,” literally meaning, to your health, was not the excuse to harm yourself by applying potentially harmful substance in the quantities and ways that could be dangerous if not applied appropriately; but on the contrary, it was the a way to once health if application of this potentially harmful substance was done appropriately.

Some people tried it and did not succeed but others did. Alice liked this story more than any other. The world travelling collection of her fathers’ stories included also the encounter with the ferocious tribesmen from Papua New Guinea who tried to have her father for… he was actually not sure what for, but instead of the unsuccessful attempt at something they ended up chewing the mangos (or some other similar thing). Though very entertaining, it did not trumped the Zaporozhcy story. It was the one that Alice had always liked the most. For some reason, she sensed that there was some kind of deep wisdom in this “to your health” story but she could not yet grasp it entirely or understand where the ‘treasure’ was hidden. This went on for many, many years. She was not ashamed of that because she knew deep down that this eventually will surface and it did, in the very unusual and dangerous circumstances, following the crash in the desert…

U-Pass (Transit/Pool Pass)

- Bring your student card by the CNCSU office, room 1-303 to receive your U-Pass sticker which entitles you to unlimited access to Prince George Transit and both Aquatic Centres in Prince George.

- The U-Pass sticker is available 2 weeks before your program start date and lasts for the duration of your program. For Fall Semester classes starting September 3rd, U-Pass stickers are available August 20th.

Board of Governors & Education Council

Influence the school and see how things are run.

The Board of Governors and the Education Council have seats available to students. Students are elected for one-year terms.

Elections are held in the Fall semester and nominations require 5 student signatures. For more information: www.cnc.bc.ca/Attending/election.htm

Lockers

- Lockers are available for rental from the CNCSU office, room 1-303.

- There is a $5 lock deposit and lockers cost either $10 per semester for a large size locker or $5 per semester for a small size locker (Cash Only). Rentals are per program term, up to three full terms (1 year).

- Locker rentals begin two weeks before the start of your program. For the September 3rd start of the Fall Semester, you may rent a locker starting August 20th.

- Students must be registered in at least one course to rent a locker. Bring your student card or CNC registration.

Student Food Bank / Reciprocity Shelf

- Located in the CNCSU office, Room 1-303.

- Food, contraceptives and feminine hygiene products available.

- School supplies and other goods available depending on donations.

MEET THE 2013-14 CNCSU EXECUTIVE & STAFF

Roxanne Quock Chairperson

Joshua Balsom PG Campus Representative

Arnold Yellowman Secretary

Patricia Obasi International Students’ Representative

Leila-Soila Abubakar Womens’ Representative

Mick Frazier Treasurer

Chantelle Quock, Aboriginal Students’ Representative

Teleah Old (Staff) Services Coordinator

Garett Svensen (Staff) Communications and Office Coordinator

Robert Chavarie (Staff) Executive Director