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B,usincss Slhowcase, -WEDNESD, FEBRUARY 249 88W Continuai growth-inDurhamCoileg's20 year In September, 1967,, Durham college, consisted of a -few 'portable classrooms erected to bouse 200 students and Ï4 teacbers. Twenty-years'la ter, tbe college consista of 84 clasarooma, 9. laba, 3 cafeterias, a dining lounge, a bookatore; a4 library, an atbletic complex and a day care centre and accommodates approximately 2,700 post-sec ondary students, 748 skills developrnent students, 800 appren- ticea and more than 12,000 extension course students. The.college was among the firat jr. Ontario to teacb computer-assisted design and computer-assisted manufacturing. It now offers a complete computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) training capability. The college bas received industry recognition for the quality of its CIM training. Durham is tbe officiaI traning centre for GMF robotics, and is currently training jour- neéymen in maintaining new robots and programmable logic con- * trollera. TRe college is tbe official Canadian training centre for Com- putervision (Prime) equipment.' It is also tbe officiai Canadian training centre for Mitutoyo co-ordina te measuring clients. Another example of the " leading edge" in technology by Durbam College ia in the applied arts faculty wbich bas acqured one of tbe firat computer grapbics installations in Canada. This system creates, stores and- displays picture images providing students witb acceas to state?-of-the-art equipment. Recognizing theincreasing use of computers in business, industry and in the home, the college has also ex- panded its computer training facilities with special reference to business, with additional micro- computer labs. Durham'College offers more than 50 programns as well as appren- ticesbip courses and continues to grow to meet the needs of the region . To do this, new program ýop- potunities are identified and put in place. These have recently included early childhood education, retail management, general studies and food and beverage management programs.. Durham graduates are getting jobs. This past year?s placement was an ail-time record number with 95.9 per cent of 1987 post-secondary graduates employed, 84. 8 per cent of which were in course related jobs. ýThe Durham College Ajax cam- pus has doubled ita space and in fact now consists of two facilities. The Oshawa campus bhas ex-' perienced growth as well, witb the addition of 10 connected portables. Durham also offers courses at the PHI building in downtown Oshawa. The faculty of akilis development plays a key role in, meeting the training needs of business and in- dustry in Durham Region. It assista area companies to identify their training requirements, and delivers training programs in both academic skills and tecbnical skills. The em- phasis is on the improvement of the productivity and tbe updating of tbe tecbnological capabilities of the workforce.- Tbe faculty of akilîs development delivera botb federally and provin- cially funded programs including "Futures," Ontario'basic skills, other 'elements of tbe Ontario Trainin'g Strategy,. academic upgrading, Englisb as a second language, office'skills programs, Women into 'Trade!s and' Tecbnology, and apprenticesb-ip and pre-apprenticeshippr'ograms, in various trades. Mano mc btter awaits l'abel aprval f rom U.*S.:ý,, With bis Frui mango natural fruit. juice gradually gaining' popuiity in Canada, Sankar Mani is now iooking eageriy toward the huge U.S. market. "Things haive picked up very NATURAL GRILLING: CAPTURES THE ESSENCE 0F TODAY'S TASTE Grilling over wood or charcoal imparts a delightfuliy different flavor that enhances the food's natural taste. There's no need to use sait, or sauces that mask those flavors. Meals become distinctive! DESERT' SMOKE GOURMET' SMOKING CHIPS4100 Watch for us in your grocery store or ask your local butcher or gourmet shop for our product. . .after ail it pays to have good taste. 713 Bradley Dr,, Wbitby 666,1149 weil," says Mani,. who began processing and bottiing his mango nectar on Industriai Dr. in Whitby last Juiy. "I forecast a very bright futur-e." Sankar only requires U.S. governiment approval for bis labels to begin distribution in the U.S. 'i confident I can get 10,000, to 15,000 cases a month to the U.S.,» says Mani It's going to be a very big fad." A North American taste for niango juice wvas what Mani was counting on when .he decided to into business for himself after working six years for a mango bottier in his native India. Now Mani dlaims, to be the only company on this continent to process, bottie and mnarket naturi rnango juice, using Canadian technoiogy. And he uses only the aiphonso mango, which hie says is the best eating of the "king of fruits," brought in from a smaii area in India where it is grown. Mani says appies- and graâpes aire already big juice, items in Canada, so "We wanted to do somiethi ng neNv." And, he adds, Other mango juices.are not as good as the ones we make." Mani tested the taste buds of'Canadians before he came Up %vithi the proper texture and sweetness for his mango juice - thinner anrd iess swveet than is the juice prefier1 n India ard othier countries as ~l "People hiere like a diffeèrent type- of' bienci," he says of the resuits of bis test marketing.. MVani is encouraged about his U.S. venture since his juice proved to be a bit at U.S. conventions, at which he wvas s ponsored by1 the Ontario 1Ministry of' Agriculture annd, Food. "Our product-is likedby the American. people," he says. He has already met favorable response from 'big buyers" in the U.. His plant, at which he-now produces 300 to 350 cases every day with a- workforce- of two Passion fruit,' peach may be next' fuil-time employees and four part-time, sends iocally 2,000 cases a month to Knob 1Hll Farms, 200 to 250 cases to each of three Highland Farms stores, as well as to Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa. "We've been producing day and night," sa1y s Mani, who anticip.ates an increase in bottling c.-p,-acity« to 600-650 cases per shift, and the addition of another shift by March if plahs work out. "It's just a matter of time, once Iget my labels approved." The futur-e may also bring passion fruit juice -and peach juice, maybe as early as May or. June, in keeping with Màni's preference for "somnething differerîIt."