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A HELPING HAND: Wanda
Lamoureux helps three-year-old Alec Titan place his poppy on the cross at the base of the New Westminster cenotaph following the Remembrance Day service at city hall on Saturday. Hundreds of people turned out for the event, which included a First Nations welcome by Stacey Ferguson of the Qayqayt First Nation and a memorial address by Gert Heijkoop, Consul General of the Netherlands. For more photos from the ceremony, including photos of the march from the Armoury, see page 3 and visit www. newwestrecord. ca. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
DOUGLAS COLLEGE LEASING FOUR FLOORS
Growing college moves into Anvil Centre By Theresa McManus
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Douglas College students will be calling Anvil Centre home in 2018. Douglas College has announced it’s adding a second campus in downtown New Westminster at the Anvil Centre office tower.The college will lease 66,000 square
feet of space in the building at 11 Eighth St. to support anticipated growth in enrolment during the next three to five years. “Douglas College is growing and growing.This expansion comes just in time,” Douglas College president Kathy Denton said. “It’s an exciting chance to develop new learning opportunities for our students through our degree, postdegree and diploma programs. It
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also gives us space we need to upgrade our existing campus in New Westminster and plan for the future.” Douglas College Anvil Centre will open mid-summer 2018 and will welcome students for the fall semester next September. Covering four floors, the campus will include 21 new classrooms, a host of new studentcollaboration spaces and a
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simulation lab for “financial and Amazon-style supply chain management modelling” that will expose students to the pressures and realities of these fields. According to Douglas College, the new space will also include flexible collaboration rooms that transition to the needs of individual instructors, and quiet study and group project areas for students, as well as faculty
and administration offices. “The Anvil Campus Centre will be a wonderful new space that will draw students from every corner of the province to Douglas College,” Advanced Education, Skills and Training Minister Melanie Mark said. “This expansion helps Douglas College continue to provide the Continued on page 7
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