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A partnership in bloom
How an employment program is paying dividends at a local garden centre
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Cloverdale Country Farms Garden Centre manager Monika Reinhold, left, chats with employees Roger Buck and Julya Hutton, while employment specialist Veronica Cowan looks on proudly.
By Jennifer Lang Buck, a quiet fellow of few words who puts in two, two-hour shifts each week, likes workIt’s a sunny morning at a garden centre in Cloverdale, and the day’s first customers have ing with plants. It turns out he has a garden yet to arrive as Roger Buck quietly sweeps the at home. “He’s a perfect employee because he never floors, pushing from view the petals and dead complains,” Cowan smiles. leaves that have fallen overnight. His Milieu colleague Julya Hutton, 24, also Depending on what needs to be done next, he’ll start pricing plants – or maybe stack flats enjoys working with plants, demonstrating an obvious enthusiasm for learning and containers. the names of the different varietWatering the thirsty merchanies and using a deft touch when dise is another chore that can’t “They’re coming out it comes to deadheading flowers be ignored; there’s no shortage and removing browning leaves. of jobs that need attention at a of their shell.” Like Buck, Hutton, has a bustling garden centre in early developmental disability, but summer. At 34, this is his very first paid - Veronica Cowan through the support of Milieu and partners, she volunteers at position. “I like it,” he nods. the food bank, and works at a gift And, since he started working store in addition to her shifts at at the garden centre at Cloverthe garden centre at Cloverdale dale Country Farms, it seems the Country Farms. plants aren’t the only ones in bloom. “This is one of my favourite jobs,” she grins. “He’s come a long way,” says Veronica “What I like about it is learning everything,” Cowan, an employment specialist with Mileu she says, pointing to a favorite new variety of Family Services, an agency that supports tree she’s discovered. people with disabilities, helping them find Candidates like Buck and Hutton don’t and keep a job by working closely with curundergo a formal job interview, says Cowan, rent and potential employers. whose role includes scouring the internet and Buck is one of about 20 people the agency currently has matched in part time, full time, pounding the pavement to drum up potential and flex time positions with partner busiSee MANAGER / Page 6 nesses in Surrey and Langley.
Former Surrey mayor to take another run By Kevin Diakiw Standing in a pastoral area at Surrey’s old city hall, former mayor Doug McCallum told a crowd he was coming back for they city’s top job. “I’m proud to put my name forward for mayor,” McCallum told about 30 people at Monday’s news gathering. His campaign is going to have four priorities, he said. They will include crime, transportation, spending at city hall and the introduction of a ward system.
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