With Rising Tuition, More Students are Mixing Earning with Learning

Laura Weaver deftly arranges cheese and pepperoni toppings on a pizza, slides it into a nearby oven, then turns to the lineup of youngsters waiting at the counter to place their orders. It’s a busy Friday night at the Iroquois Park Sports Centre in Whitby, Ont., with hockey games or practices on all six ice surfaces. And for Weaver, now in Grade 12, it is the end of a typically hectic week juggling her studies and her job at the Intermissions snack bar.