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VICTORY NEVER IN DOUBT FOR MSS The Mission Roadrunners defeated Earl Marriott
THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 2011
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LIFE WITH EPILEPSY Lisa Martin underwent a radical surgery in 2006 which has made her condition more manageable. PAGE 3
University of the Fraser Valley’s chair of the board of governors Laurence Stinson (seated, left) and UFV President Mark Evered sign the documents which will bring a flagship graphic arts program to the Mission campus. Looking on are Mayor James Atebe, one of UFV’s first employees, Sharon Syrette, and Catherine Marcellus, long-time Mission resident and receiver of an honourary doctorate. JASON ROESSLE PHOTO
Flagship program coming to UFV Graphic and digital design offered at local university campus by September 2012 BY ADRIAN MACNAIR Mission Record
The University of the Fraser Valley is launching a “flagship program” in graphic and digital design in Mission, thanks to a $500,000 funding
partnership with the district. The two-year, 60-credit diploma program will begin in September 2012. “Today marks the beginning of the day we can call ourselves a university community,” said Mayor James Atebe at Mission’s UFV campus, adding that post-secondary education is an economic and community developer. “I look at this as an investment,” he said of the partnership. UFV’s provost and vice president academic, Eric Davis, said the program has been a project two years in the making.
“What better place than Mission, with its dynamic arts community, to launch this program?” The diploma program is flexible, and will allow students to pursue a bachelor of fine arts with their credits. Davis said the district’s capital investment will allow UFV to renovate the Mission campus, purchase the latest equipment and software,
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SMART METER DISCUSSIONS Smart meters and P3 water projects were two issues raised at last week’s UBCM convention. PAGE 4
SUIT FILED A notice of civil claim was filed Monday by a Mission business against a municipal councillor. PAGE 4
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