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New Rules Making It Easier For BCC To Meet Training Needs Of Business BY SI SAN USHER Brunswick Community C'oiiegc can now otter workforce training tailored to the needs of all lo cal businesses, whether a company has 10 em ployees or 1.000. whether it is new. expanding or simply changing, and whether it has employees who need basic ^kilU education, training in a new technology, or both Cilvnda Lawrence. associate director of evict ing business .md industry for the S v." l\* partmert of Co ? Co .-ges. believes that flexibility m meeting workforce training needs is more .t.vi: :h.\n c\? to Noith Carolina .is its c.v; *o .V dvl better, taster . ?>.* . N." Jirvr- rv.l.- :V." .ww.tvr! around the C ' S.xjiWint y'- i yrcxKits: nveting at ih> wws. . ? . . . p. . ve v'..: 11%-*. "*?J40 * V *CS " *c !**?% V 'I'.*. If V;?\* % Jj\ I \J j.*?. .''.v.* '"!C <XJ?C :m; ?h. *l"i. ri v ** **. * ? v ^ %CC> to li-?I? hisitw\? Jir*. x'I.n * sMtiihi;r? :? *\yvxws\ iWtUbiltt> ot ?"iiiiuiK Jir*; ,u.j ? . i"v "*"v-v :h vvm .nmio> ? i:k m '.ViV" c oc rvLvating. she ???i. j,'c -? . .v--;v > the north ,jx ji*c ?Jx tocv.j are ookmg at North ? 'j *4. - vj : N - Ca-.- -a ? nor --ion u right :o-work state ? arc '.rat's particulariy attractive." To . rc'tr. \e. she said the state's I'onpj":.'* tremendous investments" in >. .ipita! outlay "They ar. retooling and upgrading equipment. " Whatever you need, we feel we can provide it." ?Anita White, CASAS Trainer l'hc second challenge is to train or retrain their workforce for a new workplace." l or companies and their workers, she said, "the ability and willingness to change is impor tant to long-term survival." Companies are telling the state they need em plo\ccs with basic skills, people who can read with understanding, compute, write with clarity, '.rouble-"hoot and solve problems, work in a team settilic. and arc w illing to retrain as circumstances demand. "International companies looking here, such as the Japanese, want a workforce with communi cation ??kills I"he\ expect workers to be able to not onl\ put the widgets together but to think crit ical anil be a part of the decision-making team. Critical thinking i>- what links the basic skills and the technological skills together." \cross the state, it is estimated that in the year 2(KX> there will be 158,(XX) jobs opening up in the state. Of those. 73 percent will be to replace exist ing workers and 27 percent w ill be new jobs. By that time the state's population is expected to sta bilize at around 7.4 million, up from 6.6 million now. and the median age of the workforce to be at 34. up from 34.4. Women will continue to out number men in the workforce, up to 65 percent from 59 percent. The service and trade sectoss are expected to surpass manufacturing by the year 2005. New rules adopted by the Department of Community Colleges that drop minimum class sizes and other restrictions are making it easier for BCC and other campuses to customize work force training for any size of business. BCC Dean of Continuing Education Jerry Thrift indicated. "Now we pretty much can address those needs." The college offers a range of basic skills train ing, including adult basic education using a com petency-based curriculum known as CASAS. and job training for new, expanding or existing busi nesses. "Many times even though workers have achieved their (JED (high school equivalency cer tificate) they haven't kept up with skills they need such as critical thinking and communication," said Anita White, a CASAS trainer, and BCC's workplace literacy and compensatory education director. Job- or situation-specific workplace liter acy training can be developed, such as efforts to help Purolator workers in Fayetteville to read and understand work-related safety brochures. "Whatever you need, we feel we can provide it," said White. Sponsored by the Southport Rotary Club, the breakfast was intended to introduce small busi nesses to the employee training services available through BCC. Velva Jenkins, assistant dean of continuing education, attributed the small turn-out to the Easter holiday. ATMC Partner In Venture To Bring Information Highway To Rural Areas Want to get on the Information Highway? Atlantic Telephone Membership Corp. (ATMC) and 13 other inde pendent telephone companies across the state are pooling their resources to become competitive in making a wide range of services on the fiber optic based North Carolina Inform ation Highway available to their customers, Russell Price, general manager of ATMC, said this week. "We wanted to have some inde pendence in this thing and not be dominated by the big players," said Price. "We want to make sure the Information Highway is deployed in rural areas the same as in urban ar eas." Their new company, InfiNet Multimedia Services, could make available video-conferencing, inter active services and video-on-de mand. among other options. InfiNct's member companies will have access to centralized high speed transmission equipment that will allow each telephone compa ny's customers to participate in the highway, liach telephone company will be connected to central hub lo cations primarily by linking member companies' existing Tiber optics net works. InfiNet will work also with member companies to research and develop products and services to travel the information highway, and provide technical support services. The 14 member companies serve more than 330,(KX) access lines in 32 counties, approximately 10 percent of the state's total access lines. They also represent seven of the first 100 plus sites the state intends to link to the highway in August, including West Brunswick High School and Brunswick Community College. Price said the company is expect ed to directly create 15 to 20 new jobs within the next five years, as well as help the communities they serve to attract and retain new busi nesses. "This is an example of the kind of economic development that the North Carolina Information High way can bring," said Gov. Jim Hunt in a prepared statement. "This new company leverages the abilities of many small companies to pool their resources to help their customers all across the state of North Carolina." Gene Gabhard, former chief exec utive officer of SouthernNet, is chairman of lnfiNet. Broadband services offered over the network will "change the way most North Carolinians work, learn and play in the near future," he said. He described North Carolina as in "the pole position" among states in efforts to deploy the Information Highway, with the potential of "tre mendous economic benefit to the state". The highway is expected to create a number of opportunities for stu dents, state employees, medical pro fessionals, businesses and the gener al public. Brunswick Food Service Establishments Graded Environmental health specialists with the Brunswick County Health Department inspected and graded numerous food service, lodging es tablishments and schools during March, as listed below. Grades are based on a perfect score of KKt, with points taken away for infractions of state health stan dards. A score of 40 or better repre sents an A; XO-89, B; 70-74, C. Establishments with a score below C would not be allowed to operate. Establishments on the list with their grades are: Restaurants: Bald Head Island Clubhouse, 90; Betty's Waterfront, Varnamtown, 94.5; Big Nell's Pit Stop, Ocean Isle, 96; Brunswick County Bowling Center. Shallotte, 83.5; Brunswick County Complex Cafeteria, Boliv ia. 94. Buigei King, Shallotte, 90.5; Calabash Seafood Hut, 91; Chart House, Southport, 94.5; Crabby OddwatcfS, Sunset Beach, ">4.5; Derbster's, Calabash, 86; Dockside, Calabash, 94.5; Dong's Garden, Southport. 93.5; Ella's, Calabash. 93; Food Ser vice I in Snack Bar, CP&L, 90; Haley's. Calabash, 95; Hardee's, lx land. 94.5; Hardee's, Supply, 94; Jane's. Ilolden Beach, 91; Jones Byre! Clubhouse, Sea Trail, 76; Joiks Seafood House, I x>ng Beach, 93; Jumpin J s Pizza, Ocean Isle, 96; Lam s Seafood Barn, Calabash, 90 5; Lockwood Folly Halfway House, Supply, 91.5; Ix>ng Beach Pier Restaurant. 93.5; Lucky Fisher man, Long Beach, 94; Market Express, Shallottc, 92.5; Maxton's, Varnamtown. 97.5; Mc Donald's. I.eland. 93; N.C. Baptist Assembly Conference Center II, Caswell Beach, 94; Ocean Crest Windjammer. Ix>ng Beach. 93.5; Pirates Cove, Yaupon Beach, 90.5; Pizza Country USA, Seaside, 99; Pizza Shack, Long Beach, 93.5; Port Charlie's, Southport. 'K); River Pilot Cafe, Bald Head Island Marina. 93; Roberto's Pizza, Ocean Isle, 94; Sandfiddler, South port, 94.5; Sandpiper, Ix-'land. 92; Seafood Barn. Ilolden Beach, 93; Seafood Peddler. Ilolden Beach, 95.5; Service America, Dupont, Ice land, 92.5; Service America, Dupont Fiber Division. 92; Shamrock. Southport. 90; Sharkey's, Ocean Isle, 96; Ship's Chandler, South(Kirt, 90.5; Silver Hill Grill, Ilolden Beach Road, 96.5; Sizzlin Sirloin. Shallotte. 94; Tho- Citizen Nutrition Site, Long Beach, & Deli, Calabash, 98.5; Island mas Restaurant, Calabash, 97; Wes- 87.5; Senior Citizen Nutrition Site, Chandler Deli, Bald Head, 93.5; tern Sizzlin, Southport, 92.5; Wil- Southport, 85.5. Jones/ Byrd Snack Bar, 98; Peli's son's Deli. Shallotte, 94, Wu May's Cell's Pre-School, Poolside Bald Mead 94?; West at Lockwood Supply, 94; Y s ( ate. sh"lo,fe Poi ior; D Care B?c^J,gh.^tc^-5 Southport. 91.5. for T.ny Tots, Long Beach Road, su- r L inspect,ons' Gray ?School lunchrooms: Bolivia ?? n..Tr.? n.,, Gull Motel, 96. Elementary 97; UtarfI Middle K',pr'L sup^,io,; Geraldlnes ?"?' ?""J"' 'bS?S ?-? ?? " High. 93.5; Soud, Brunswick Midlc, S f mim. I IHIV Wilson'sHIL91. 96.5; Soulhpon Primary. 93.5; Sup- prov*isionul. Littk w?rlli of u.ar: ?Residential (foster) rare: Ben 9, 7 Head Start Center, Longwood, supe- HKi.st/nursinK homes: Autumn ?School plants: Lincoln Primary, Sninhrwirt^iireriar'101* ^are ?f Shallotte, 94.5; Cardinal <X)5 Wee World. Southport, superior. Carc Shal|ottc ,X); Qccan Trai, ?Catered nutrition sites: Senior HFood stands: Calabash Bakery Convalescent Center, Southport, 911. Shopping for a Mortgage? Shop and compare...and then see us for the rates and terms you want. 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