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Adult-to-adult tutor program makes learning computers less scary for seniors BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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Tutor Leona Polnau (left) and Betty Cosgrave working on computer skills.
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here was a collective sigh of relief at the RCMP’s Pacific Regional Training Centre (PRTC) Tuesday morning as it was formally announced that the guns will go silent. The disruptive sound of gunfire from the PRTC’s current open air range has long been the bane of the University of the Fraser Valley EB IRST (UFV) students First reported on and faculty, Vedchilliwacktimes.com d e r C r o s s i n g residential neighbours and Rotary Trail users. “This has been a long time coming,” Supt. Michel Legault, officer in charge of PRTC said about the $19 million in federal dollars to build the new indoor firing range. C h i l l i w a c k- F r a s e r C a n y o n MP Mark Strahl was at PRTC to announce the funding for the stateof-the-art facility on behalf of Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Steven Blaney. “That noise will be a thing of the past,” Strahl said. The 4,000-square-metre building will have two 16-lane, 50-metre
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hilliwack senior Betty Cosgrave is no chicken. When her children left home, she travelled the world—mostly on her own—and even at age 79 she wasn’t afraid to go ziplining through the jungles of Chile. Her new laptop, however, was a different story. It sat unused for months after the 86-year-old marched into the Source to buy it a year and a half ago, determined no longer to be left behind by the wave of technology sweeping the world farther and farther from her reach. “Everybody else has computers, kids have computers, what’s wrong with me keeping my brain working?” Cosgrave said. But once she had bought her laptop, she was stuck—held back by a lack of basic know-how and worried she’d make a mistake that would mess things up. “I just looked at it, and I wasn’t up to any thing,” she said. “I had to have a teacher.” Enter Leona Polnau, volunteer with the Chilliwack Learning Community Society’s (CLCS) adult-to-adult tutoring program. Matched with Cosgrave about a year ago, she now has the independent senior flipping open her laptop with confidence, surfing the web and sending emails. “I love the email,” Cosgrave said. “It keeps me communicating with other people, you know. I live alone, so I just email people and, sure enough, I get messages back from them. It’s fun.” Besides connecting Cosgrave to the online world, Polnau is also helping her connect with her past. { See TUTORS, page A3 }
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