STUDENTS AT Sutherland secondary school have organized an environment club that will look at recycling issues in the coming school year. What has your school done in the past (> promote recycling? What could you or your school do this year to help reduce waste? YOUTH NEWS: 4 : 7S os aida High school FOeS oreeni Sutherland Secondary starts recycling club SUTHERLAND SECONDARY is organizing an environment club which wil] spring into action in September. By Margaret Bryant ZAP! Contributor Andrea Fernandez, a student at Sutherland, has organized meetings to get ideas for projects for the coming schoul year and to get a sense of how many people are interested in being a part of the club. So far she’s had a lot of support. Approximateiy 35 people whe interesied in finding out what they can do for our dying planet have shown up for the meetings. Sutherland students and teachers have got to get their acts together. The waste that gocs on at the school is absolutely disgraceful. The school has provided very few recycling boxes for cans and paper. One would be amazed at just how many cans of pop and sheets «. Of paper a high school goes through in one day. ‘The boxes that are supplied are often shoved off in a corner and f DON'T Do | 'T, BYTE. } many students and teachers choose to ignore them. J have personally witnessed many students and teachers blatant- ly ignore recycling boxes, even when the boxes are sitting right beside the garbage can. It is disheartening to see this kind of wasie while our rainforests are being logged and our landfills are overtiowing. Starting an environment club is a big step in the right direcdon for Sutherland. The students involved will attend environment workshops and lessons so that they can lear more about environment issues and what can be done to preserve this planet. The Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) has helped out by supplying ideas for the club. The . Sutherland club members will be taking a tour through EYA’s organ- ic garden te iearn a bit about gar- dening so they can set up communi- ty gardens in the future. The club has come up with many ideas for this coming school yeur. They hope to encourage teachers and studeats to use recycling boxes by informing them of the kind of impact wastefulness has on our planet. This education is most important because a school could have recy- cling boxes coming out of its ears, but if no one uses them then it is pointless. The environment club would like to start composting at Sutherland. The home economics class throws away bags and bags of biodegradable food that just ends up Sitting in landfills in plastic bags. Maybe the school couid even have compost bins in the hallways for all those lunches that are thrown in the garbage. The club would like to start recycling the plastic pop can rings. Presently the rings are thrown in the garbage. These have been known to trap birds. and fish and can be taken” back to any liquor store where they will be recycled. Af all the students and teachers cooperate, it will not take tong to get the environmental crisis under control at Sutherland Secondary. Margaret Bryant, 18, will attend Sutherland secondary schol next year. Permorrenny Cormey cal. arertne teat “I think the rough translation is ‘Groucho’.” Phiote submitted KIDS DISPLAY masks created through “Arte In the Cove.” The. summer program also has specific activities for taens. . Summer programs teach art in the cove AN ENORMOUS annoeba slithers and rolls across Panoraina Park. Bald caps and fanciful faces appear. Gumboot dancing and samba rhythms pulse softly. Prehistoric species peer out from the Deep Cove Cultural Centre window. Strange creatures with large floppy antennae saunter down the street. Unique hand- painted T-shirts pass by. Creative artists are at work, and. “Arts in the Cove” summer pro- grams for students are under way. The Seymour Art Gallery has begun its second year of exciting workshops in theatre, music, visu- al arts, creative writing, and dance. The programs will develop stu- dents’ creative potential with tech- niques, principles, and theories as well as plenty of creative opportu- nity and encouragement. Nationally and internationally recognized artists teach the pro- grams including: @ Evelyn Roth, internationally recognized for her outdoor sculp- tural performance art; ® Themba Tana, acclaimed by the Cannes Film Festival for his composition and performance; @ Celso Machado, Brazilian composer and percussionist; @ Jim Brick, well-known Lower Mainland theatrical make-up and special effects artist; ® Pam Johnson, resident set RECENTLY y E received one comment regarding a story on siu- designer at Vancouver Playhouse; @ Trevor Carolan, West Coast poet, author and translator; and @ Markhey Mazepa, who cap- tures children’s creative imagina- tion on international television. Specific programs are available for teens this year and include design on T-shirts, 3-D painting, African rhythms, make-up and set design for theatre, creative writ- ing, and dance. For the younger students, the programs provide arts education in acting, theatrical makeup, mask- making, African and Brazilica instrument-making and playing, painting, printing, drawing and pop-up illustration. Students are encouraged to join the bald caps, the illustrators of talking mouths or one of the many other diverse opportunities of Arts in the Cove summer programs. Brochures, with course descrip- tions and registration forms, are available at recreation centres, libraries, and most movie theatres and supermarkets in North Vancouver or by calling the Seymour Art Gallery at 929-5744. The public is invited to watch for these creative artists and the productions throughout July and August, as well as to view an exhibit with photographic docu- mentation of their work in the Deep Cove Cultural Centre throughout September. dent elections at Sutherland sec- ondary school (North Shere News, Friday, July 8, page 25). @ Tyrone Brown is just popular guy who doesn’t do anything expect party. He kas no sense of responsibility and doesn’t deserve a mention in an article about democracy. The only thing Jaymie Tracey aut he care about is how popular they can get. They care about themselves and how they look, that’s why he ran for student council president. You shouldn't ; have bothered with the article. |