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Police urge parents
to block out crime

A SICK, disoriented
child staggers through
an unfamitiar
neighborhood.

Alone and afraid, she has
nowhere to turn until she
sees the familiar Block
Parent sign in the window of
a nearby home.

" Within an hour she is safe
at home.

’ The above example shows
how Block Parent volun-
teers, who advertise the sign
in their windows, can help

children and people in need

of emergency assistance.
.October 20-26 is Block
Parent Week in Canada,

“where communities plan ac-

tivities to raise the public’s
awareness to the program.

- Through publicity, North
Vancouver .RCMP hopes to
increase the number of
Block Parents in North
Vancouver this year from
1,745 to 3,000.

The Block Parent sign is
designed to alert children or
persons in trouble to an easi-
ly identifiable location where
help can be obtained.

Since the London, Ontario
chapter. of the National
Council of Jewish Women
initiated the program in
1968, the red-and-white
Block Parent sign has
become widely recognized by
young children in hundreds
of communities.

And Block Parent homes
have been used by adults in
distress, a function which
was not anticpated at the
program’s inauguration.

The Block Parent Com-
munication Network also
provides a valuable tool for
emergency personnel in
organizing neighborhood
searches when a child goes
missing.

““A community in which
Block Parent signs are
displayed in windows serves

notice to the criminal ele-
ment that this is a communi-
ty which protects its
residents,’’ said North Van-
couver RCMP community
policing officer Alison Irons.

MISCONCEPTION

A misconception of the
program, Irons explained, is
that people must have
children at home in order to
be Block Parents. But this is
not a prerequisite.

“Senior citizens and
others who do not have
childrets at home are wel-
come to participate,”” trons
said. ‘‘Even working
dividuals can’ “provide. "a
valuable community service
by displaying the sign during
the early evening hours .and
on weekends when children
are out and about.’’ .

Block Parents are free to
remove the sign from their
windows if they do not wish

NEW FRIENDS Eric Nagler, left, and Duke Wolf show off what they're best at. Duke, one of two winners of the
Children’s Super Series Coloring Contest, holds up his winning poster. Nagler, one of the musicians involved in the Super
Series, shows off his plumbing korn made from plastic pipe and the agitator from a washing machine. The Super Series, a
set of three concerts by top names in Canadian children’s entertainment, is sponsored by North Vancouver's Centennial
Theatre. The next shows at 1 and 3 p.m..on Nov. 3, feature Paul Hann. Tickets are $5 for adults or $4 for children. For
information call the North Van Recreation Centre at 988-6166.

to be disturbed, and should
definite!s remove the sign if
no one is going to be home,
Irons said.

They are not required to
provide food, drinks, tele-
phone and bathroom frivi-
leges on demand, Irons said,
but added that some Block
Parents will relax the
bathroom rule if there is a
child in dire need.

EMERGENCY ONLY

Children are continually
instructed, by police and
classroom teachers, that the
Block Parent home is only to
be used in an emergency —
when they are lost, sick, or
hurt, or are being bothered
by a stranger, a bully or a

_ Strange animal.

“Some Block Parents
complain that they are never
called upon to do anything,

See Program
Page 5

NEWS photo Ian Smith

3 - Sunday, October 20, 1985 -

News
Brief

Windows
tempt thieves —

UNLOCKED windows
made two North Van-
couver residences on’ 21st
‘Street easy targets for

North Shore News

In both - “cases: the”
thieves. entered” through’
an unsecured window. ' ,

In several. récent :

thieves. break-ins, entry was...
. : gained through | unsecire
The culprits stole sev- windows, -said “North

Vancouver RCMP * Cst. “4
Alison Irons. : And. ‘she -
cautions residents- to ‘en- .:
_ sure windows “are. closed |
and locked : ‘before: going
out. ;

eral thousand dollars in
televisions, video equip-
ment and jewelry from
houses in both the 500
and 700 block East. 2st
Street. ‘

Apartment’.
vandalized.

THIEVES ‘LEFT an “th
elderly lady’s © apartment F
“in ruin recently, uw :

-They-- ‘entered : “by.
~. smashing * a widow: ‘and

“sack her apartment ‘in,
: Victoria Park.: .

North: Vancouver’
RCMP have been unable
~~ to: accurately” ‘determine
.. What was stolen becau

bay Wayne. | "Bake
appeared for:; preliminary :
hearing * Thursday:

assault charge

RCMP © attended the A
alleged: altercation: at’: ap-*,
proximately”, 2:40°"-a.mz*
April S-and: found: four sia
court on charges of males. involved,.. one’.of
assault. causing bodily... whom:” was. “lying semi- «
_harm and mischief. : “conscious of the ground, :
re The. victim, a 20-year-:
old Vancouver man, sus---
tained ‘eye and. facial in-.-..
juries... His car was also:

A 24-YEAR-OLD - North
Vancouver man appeared
for trial Friday-in North
Vancouver provincial

Kh

. Graham Corey faces
‘the. charges in connection
with an alleged April 5

fight in the parking lot of vandalized in the inci-.
North Vancouver's dent.
Olympic Hotel. Trial . proceedings con-*

North Vancouver: tinue.

: soit sinha -
brings charge

. A WARRANT has -been
- issued for the-arrest of a
26-year-old’ Port Co-
quitlam man who failed
to appear. for: trial. i
North. Vancouver provi
cial court Tuesday."

“Leonard Leo Martin
did not + appear, after: he

was charged with. dan- -
gerous use of a vessel.
Martin was. arrested -
June: 25 when he was.
picked up inthe waters of
Howe Sound aboard’ a
sailboat considered. to. be ~
handled “ins. an. ratic
manner. , —_