26 - Wednesday. October 21, 1998 — North: Shore News

Pennies pile
up at St. Pius X

PENNIES are pouring
by the thousands into
St. Pius X Elementary
School in North
Vancouver.

Thev are the result of a
parish wide “pennython” that
started two weeks ago and
winds up on Sunday, Qer. 258.

To date more tian
100,000 pennies have been
collected by the St. Pius N stu
dents and parish vouth mem-
bers, The coins have been
poured into a giant Pepsi Cola
bortle. which 1s the collection
barrel for the campaign.

The idea for the campaign
surtaced in the spring when
parishioner. John Leonard,
tried to figure out what to de
with the pennies filling his
dresser drawer.

“Talked to my friends and
we all had the same problem
— no one knew what to do
with their pennies” said
Leonard. “By themselves they
are almost worthless so people
tend vo put them in jars or
boxes ar, as in mv case, their
dresser drawer.”

Because people hoard their
pennies they don’t come back
into circulation, The Royal
Canadian Mint has to keep
producing more and more
pennies by the million just to

keep them available.

“he 1997 che mint pro
duced 300 million pennies,”
said mint representative
Barbara Steele in Ottawa.

“By comperison, the neat
highest volume com in pro-
duction was the dime ar 43
nullon”

Final tally for the pene
nvthon is expected to exceed
290,000 or almost one third
ofa ton of pennies.

The final counting will
take place on Tuesday, Oct.
27 ata “rallathon” being
staged at St. Pius Xoby the
church's youth group.

The Bank ot Montreal is a
partner in the program and is
making special arrangements
for the transportation of the
coins.

Pepsi-Cola Canada has
been another parmer denat
ing special signage for the
classrooms and product. as
incentive prizes.

Publicity support for the
program has been donated by
Canada NewsWire, which dis-
tributed news releases to all
print and broadcast media
throughout British Columbia.

Proceeds from the pen-
nython are to be used for the
purchase of special items for
the school and for youth
activities.

TV show debunks
high-tech myths

A Knowledge Network TV
show Thursday will intro-
duce viewers to some of
many people already work-
ing in the growing high-
tech industry.

Generation High-Tech
airs at 3 p.m. Oct. 22 as part
of the Festival of Science and
Technology to Get. 25.

It will Be repeated four to
six times throughout the
year.

Through interview and

discussions, students and par-
ents will learn about the
kinds of jobs in today's mar-
ketplace and the skills and
education necded to land
those jobs.

It will also attempt to
debunk the stereotype that
science and technology edu-
cation and the jobs they lead
to are too difficult.

B.C.’s high-tech sector
has grown by 51% over six
years.

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