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The Emerald Community House runs adult education, pre-accredited ACFE training courses and hobby courses.
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There are also childcare programs, out of school hours care and children's extension programs and disability services.
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The University of the Third Age (U3A) is located in U3A House, 402 Main Street.
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Emerald has a part-time Police Station, a full-time Ambulance Station as well as a volunteer CFA Brigade and SES Unit.
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The Emerald Fire Brigade is located on Emerald-Monbulk Road near the roundabout of Belgrave-Gembrook Road, and attends approximately 190 Emergency Incidents per year.
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The Brigade trains on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings and new members are always welcome.
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The Emerald Volunteer State Emergency Service Unit is located on Old Gembrook Road near the Corner of Sherriff Road.
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It attends several hundred storm and wind damage incidents every year and also attends 20–30 road accidents a year for rescue purposes using such tools as the jaws of life.
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The Unit trains on Monday evenings and new members are very welcome to join.
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Emerald's population as of the 2006 Census was 6,135 (a decrease of 9 from the 2001 census), (3,050 male, 3,085 female), 4,662 people were aged 15 years and over (2,280 male, 2,382 female) and 460 were aged 65 years and over (200 male, 260 female).
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According to the 2001 Census, 17 people identified themselves as indigenous persons (comprises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
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5,461 are Australian Citizens, while 4,770 people were identified as having been born in Australia.
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1,365 were born overseas.
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5,608 people speak English alone.
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The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League and a basketball team competing in the Knox Amateur Basketball Association.
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Golfers play at the course of the Emerald Golf and Country Resort on Lakeside Drive.
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Emerald is also home to an All Star Cheerleading and Dance School where the local children compete statewide and nationally.
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'Emerald City School of Dance' have dance classes for children and adults.
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Classes are held at the Emerald Community House.
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Emerald Cricket Club celebrated its 125-year anniversary in 2018.
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Emerald has many retailers consisting of small specialty shops such as Emerald Custom Framing, Tinkars Corner and Resale Therapy as well as a Ritchies IGA supermarket and Woolworths supermarket and local take-aways such as The Chookery, Bill's fish and chips and Effie's fish and chips.
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Emerald receives standard Melbourne Television and radio broadcasts.
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However Emerald also has its own local radio station 3MDR, located in the Emerald Hall.
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3MDR broadcasts are aimed at the Dandenong Ranges region with Volunteer staff and announcers.
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The two local newspapers are the "Ranges Trader Mail" and the "Free Press Leader".
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However neither paper is actually published in Emerald.
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The monthly "Signpost" magazine is also published in Emerald.
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Solo One was a TV series screened in 1976 set in Emerald, about a local (fictional) policeman dealing with crime in Emerald.
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Filming of A Country Practice in the fictional town of Wandin Valley was moved to Emerald when the show moved to Network Ten for one series in 1994.
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Filming for the ABC children's drama "Come Midnight Monday" was effected in and around Emerald, Belgrave & Cockatoo, depicting the fictional country town of Widgery.
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Current AFL players, Kade Simpson, who plays for the Carlton Football Club and Matthew Lobbe, who plays for the Port Adelaide Football Club, grew up in Emerald.
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Red Symons was a resident of Emerald and attended Emerald Primary School.
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Alfred Gregory, the mountaineer, explorer and professional photographer, who was a member of the successful British team that made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, lived his last 15 years in Emerald, dying on 9 February 2010.
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Round-the-world solo teenage sailor Jesse Martin grew up in Emerald.
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Robert A. Parker
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Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut.
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He was a Mission Specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35.
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He has logged over 3,500 hours flying time in jet aircraft and 463 hours in space.
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Parker was born December 14, 1936, in New York City, but grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
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He attended primary and secondary schools in Shrewsbury.
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He received a B.A.
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in astronomy and physics from Amherst College in 1958 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1962.
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Prior to his selection for astronaut training, Parker was an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967.
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He was a member of the Astronaut Support Crews for the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, and was the person to whom the final words spoken by a man standing on the surface of the moon (Gene Cernan) were addressed.
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Later, he served as program scientist for the Skylab Program Director's Office during the three manned Skylab flights.
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From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he served as Director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office.
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A veteran of two Spacelab missions, Parker was a Mission Specialist on STS-9/Spacelab-1 (28 November–8 December 1983) and on STS-35 (2–10 December 1990); which featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomy laboratory.
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Parker was director of the Division of Policy and Plans for the Office of Space Flight at NASA Headquarters from January 1991 to December 1991.
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From January 1992 to November 1993, he was director of the Spacelab and Operations Program.
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From December 1993 to August 1997 he was manager of the Space Operations Utilization Program.
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Parker retired from NASA on August 31, 2005.
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Parker married the former Judy Woodruff of San Marino, California.
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They have five children and nine grandchildren.
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Parker resides with his wife in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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Parker is a member of the American Astronomical Society and of the International Astronomical Union.
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He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1973) and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1974).
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In the 1998 miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", Parker was portrayed by Chris Ellis.
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British Columbia Institute of Technology
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The British Columbia Institute of Technology (also referred to as BCIT), is a public polytechnic institute in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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The technical institute has five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region, with its main campus in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
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There is also the Aerospace Technology Campus in Richmond, the Marine Campus in the City of North Vancouver, Downtown campus in Vancouver, and Annacis Island Campus in Delta.
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It is provincially chartered through legislation in the "College and Institute Act."
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BCIT was first established as the British Columbia Vocational School in 1960.
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When BCIT opened its Burnaby campus in 1964, initial enrollment was 498 students.
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, enrollment has grown to 18,755 full-time students and 30,593 part-time students.
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Since its foundation, the institution has been home to over 125,000 alumni.
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In 1960, the British Columbia Vocational School (BCVS) was established in Burnaby, opening at Willingdon and Canada Way.
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It was the first permanent trades school of its kind in British Columbia; its programs included carpentry, welding and aircraft maintenance.
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A year later, plans were announced to establish the British Columbia Institute of Technology on adjacent land.
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It was the first provincial institution dedicated to advanced technical education in BC, and its principal was named in 1962.
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It offered education in the areas of engineering, business and health, enrolling 498 students in 1964.
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In 1966, it celebrated its first graduates.
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By 1975, enrolment grew to 3,200 students.
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BCIT's first Board of Governors was formed in 1974, and in 1977, the school established a campus on Sea Island in Richmond.
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In 1979, the BCIT Alumni Association was formed.
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A year later, the BCVS and the Haney Educational Centre amalgamated to form the Pacific Vocational Institute (PVI).
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In 1986, PVI merged with BCIT, incorporating PVI's satellite facilities such as the Aircraft Maintenance Centre at Vancouver International Airport.
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Legislative changes came in 1989 when BCIT's mandate was broadened to include applied research, and the Technology Centre, a facility for multi-disciplinary research and development, was established.
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BCIT would be the province's focal point for applied technology transfer.
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In 1994, the Pacific Marine Training Institute amalgamated with BCIT, along with its nautical engineering programs.
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The first Bachelor of Technology degree in Environmental Engineering was awarded in 1996.
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1997 marked the opening of the Downtown Vancouver campus to accommodate expansion of BCIT's part-time programs.
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BCIT's Arms, Supporters, Flag and Badge were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on February 29, 1996.
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BCIT, UBC, SFU, and ECUAD jointly opened the Great Northern Way Campus in 2002.
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In 2004, the number of students grew to more than 48,000, and the polytechnic status of the institution was enshrined in provincial legislation.
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A year later, a Research Services Office was opened to further support applied research.
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BCIT opened a new Aerospace Technology Campus in 2007, at the gateway to Vancouver International Airport for its aerospace programs.
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The British Columbia Institute of Technology has six campuses across the Metro Vancouver area.
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BCIT's main campus is located in the City of Burnaby.
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It operates an aerospace technology campus in the City of Richmond, a marine campus is located in the City of North Vancouver, and a heavy-duty trades campus on Annacis Island, in City of Delta.
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BCIT also runs two campuses, the Downtown Vancouver campus, and the Great Northern Way campus, in East Vancouver.
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Furthermore, there are students who attend or conduct studies virtually; 8,310 students are distance education learners.
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The main BCIT Campus is located on Willingdon Avenue in the City of Burnaby.
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It includes a library, gym and sports field, lecture rooms, computer labs as well as student services and administration offices.
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The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation is a notable recent campus addition.
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It's known to have most of its full-time programs for Construction & Trade, School of Business and School of Engineering.
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The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Aerospace Technology Campus (ATC), located near Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in Richmond.
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It offers aircraft maintenance engineering programs in avionics, maintenance, structures, aircraft gas turbine (jet engine) overhaul training and repair and aircraft mechanical component training programs.
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BCIT also offers commercial pilot training, as well as airport operations training program for those pursuing a career in airport management.