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NEWS

November 30,1999

World Changes
Continued From Cover

Participants qualifica-
tions are matched to the
needs of various host
countries and are then
sent to the country
where. they will be the
most useful. As of yet
Curteanu, Harrison and
Connelly do not know
where they are going.
“By the end of this
month we will know.”
Explained Curteanu,
“The reason why they
did not set us up with a
country is they tried to
match our qualifications
with a country. Where
ever there’s a need for
our qualifications they
try to match that.”

Although the partici-
pants from the Prince
George region do not
yet know their final des-
tination CC! has nar-
rowed their possibilities
down to Bolivia,

Botswana, the Ivory
Coast, Fiji, Indonesia,
Surinam and
Swaziland.

All participants must
fundraise $2250 for
their trips though their
home community. “Part
of Crossroads is to raise
awareness through the
community about this
organization,” Curteanu
said.

Through dinners,
movie nights and vari-
ous sales around the
community Connelly,
Harrison and Curteanu
hope to _ fundraise
enough money to take
them to their host coun-
tries and to create com-
munity interest in CCl.
Harrison explained that
they selling internation-

30% of the proceeds
being given to CCI.

Participants of the CCl
program also work at a
local level. Curteanu,
Harrison and Connelly
all volunteer one hour of
their week to St. Vincent
de Paul. They share
their volunteer hours
between the thrift shop
and the food bank.

The Prince George
region had the opportu-
nity to send five partici-
pants overseas but only
three are being sent
because of lack on
interest on the part of
the community. If you
are interested in
Canadian Crossroads
International Contact
Jessica Hrechka, the
local coordinator at 564-

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both very excited about working in their host

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_-Photo By Nicole Larson
Campus Cats Need Help

The Campus Cats
group at UNBC is look-
ing for food donations
and minimal volunteer
hours (one day a week)
to help take care of the
feral cat population on
the ground at UNBC.
There are only tree of
us. involved which
makes it difficult to
watch for and feed the
cats over wintertime
when they need us
most.

What we need specifi-
cally is for volunteers to
keep an eye out for cats
and/or cat colonies
around the school. A
couple of cats, including
a beautiful Siamese cat,
have been spotted in
the far parking lot trying
to find scraps of food
our of McDonald’s bags
and other garbage.

We are not the only.

group who does this;
there is. one in Prince
George who sets up
food shelter and then
traps the animals to

bring them in to get
neutered or spayed. We
have two shelters set up
already, out of he way of
human activity, so the
cats can expect a regu-
lar food supply. This is
important, especially in
winter.

There are a lot of peo-
ple who use tow argu-
ments against our
actions; one, that there
are mice and other
rodents around and that
it is not our concern to
feed the cats. This is
wrong because in win-
tertime, especially in
Prince George, food is
scarce and shelter is
minimal. Secondly,
many people might
allow them to repopu-
late when in actuality
we should just let
nature take it’s course. If
this was the case, feral
cats would not be a
problem.

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