by Janeane MacGillivray Since one very painful decision the Board of Directors was forced to make last June, in dealing with the 15% reduction in funding from Secretary of State, was to reduce the amount of monies available to networks by half, Yukon is beginning to search locally for additional operating funds. One positive response was to hold a very successful membership drive in which we increased our membership by 500% to 39. Three of our new members are already contributing to our work in the territory: Madeline Sauve, a high school teacher, is working on adding a women's studies unit to the high school curriculum; Linda McDonald, vice- president of the Yukon Indian Women's Association, wrote a piece on the native post-secondary education budget cuts for the last issue of WEdf; and Liz Lane, Yukon's CRIAW representative, presented a workshop on our 1986-87 mentoring project at the CRIAW conference held in Yellowknife in November.
Early in the summer, CCLOW - Yukon held a thank you dinner for Julie Cruikshank, who has allowed her name to be associated with the Yukon bursary. We held a first-ever annual general meeting in October to mark our 10th anniversary and awarded the $200 bursary and a CCLOW membership for the second year. The recipient was Diana Leonard, a student enrolled in College Prep at Yukon College. Diana is a single parent and is excited to pursue her own educational goals now that her children are teenagers. We invited Heather Thompson, an elementary School Principal, and Elsie Netro, Coordinator of Native Curriculum Development in the Yukon government, to speak at our AGM on the theme of "returning to learning." We also had great fun bidding in Liz McKee's auction to raise money for the bursary. She gathered an amazing array of "educational aids" to sell, including an original Dick and Jane poster.
by Sheila Curran Our network participated in a "Dialogue on Education" organized by the Provincial Department of Education and the Economic Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, in order to represent to them the special learning needs of women. We are now on the mailing list to receive ongoing information in the Dialogue. On November 18 we sponsored a workshop with Susan Wismer. The WISE program has received provincial funds to continue running until April of this year. Sources for further funds are being investigated.
by Shauna Butterwick CCLOW-B.C. members received in September a network newsletter, the first in several years. We held a potluck network meeting with Marcia Braundy, Marcie Cohen, and Susan Witter to hear about their experiences of working on the federal Labour Force Development Strategy task groups. About 10 members came out to the pro- choice rally on October 14, the national day of action, and we proudly carried our CCLOW banner. On November 22, we co- sponsored with the Pacific Association of Continuing Education a workshop on self- employed adult educators where items such as income tax, marketing, and contract negotiations were discussed. Brenda Dafoe is the new B.C. Coordinator. She is interested in establishing networks outside Vancouver and in increasing the membership. |
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