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It’s the pus places: Selkirk Aviation, the Open Leaming cen- P i tre, the new dorms, and Ootischenia school. 7 Hall and Fitzpatrick collect the tins, bottles, glass, and While Selkirk redirects a portion of its recyclable waste _ papers, and then sort the items back in their basement head- from the disposal stream, two members of the quarters. The truck is then loaded up, and the materials are Kootenay Society for i Community Living “ye! hie Matt the pielen It’s wonderful the college are learning vital social has let us in... it’s the best and marketable job skills. The recycling @tmosphere that we could expect.” project employs two adults with mental challenges, Carolyn |. Hall and Keith Fitz- patrick. : Donna Popoff, a ' Community Options Support Worker for Community Living fy who works with the B project, said that breaking through the eq barriers society places between itself and the | fq) se ‘ “ mentally challenged is 3 < SS "4 aa one of the project’s |? r,' - Na u 4 main tasks. : se A the college to take on the recycling program.” Positions,” Popoff added. In accomplishing their goal, Popoff said that She has seen that happen at the college. In the cafeteria, when Hall and Fitzpatrick taken to the Regional Dis- trict of Central Kootenay Recycling office in Nel- son. To date, over 550 apple-boxes of recyclable material have been taken out of the waste stream by the project. Any stamps are cut from envelopes, and donated to the Trail Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for fundraising Monies received from bed the tecycling depot, plus a $150 stipend per month from the college, provide Hall and Fitzpatrick’s wages. “This is where the goals are being met. Our goal is to move into the commu- “To keep them socially integrated, we asked _ nity, with the support staff moving into less and less visible “We'd like to take them from this to another job,” Popoff there is a lot of education that has to be done. _ said. “The skills have been trained, they have done the work. It would be nice to take them into the work force.” first started there was a lot of division between them and the students. Though some barriers } still exist, she said staff and students will now say ‘hi’ to the workers. “As the staff and students get more familiar | with them, they get more comfortable,” she added. “The college has a very ing atti- pung “It’s wonderful the college has let us in...it’s the best atmosphere that we could expect.” She also hopes that some of the advantages will be more long term, and that students will take the more accepting attitude with them Among the books, Recycling Program Worker Keith Fitzpatrick collects _ into their post-college lives. o paper from the Selkirk College Library. The program has been a success. Their ini- tial eight-month contract, which began last September, has been ded to a 12-month contract, and it will be renewed again in the fall, Popoff said. The two recyclers are responsible for collecting and sorting Story by Jason Keenan & Photos by Brendan Halper SUOL HStixeisd Dwarved by the ceiling-high cardboard boxes are, front to back; Community Option Support Worker for Com- . ig larrnd > olyn Hall sorts paper before it is sent to Nelson. Fitzpatrick and Lorette Kinakin. , =) munity Living, Donna Popoff, Program Workers Keith