TEENS ARE tuning in to Models, inc., a prime- time soap that revolves around the lives of beauti- ful yet troubled models. Do you think that shows like Models, Inc.. Beverly Hills 90210 and Metrose Place mirror real life? Do these shows create unreasonable expectations for teens today? , KIDS . NEWS photo Neii Lucente SOMETHING FISHY blows in the wind at West Vancouver’s Seawalk Park these days. Students from irwin Park elementary's sixth-grade class recently commissioned Vancouver sculptor Art Artzen of Werkz of Arnt to create the copper rock-fish weather vane that pre- sides over the southern entrance to the new park at the foot of 19th Street. PiPO & CO. FASTER, HIGHER , HE SAID THAT HELL REmovi YOUR CENTRAL PROCESSCR | WITH HIS TEETH IF You JAKE HIM UP WITH SOME LOUD NaSE AGAIN. : as EVERYTHING’S O.K. © O.K. Elkins fACME COFFIN SALES | CLANCY “1 think the rough translation is ‘Groucho’.” UNDER THE VOLCANO FESTIVAL North Van arts festival needs youth volunteers LOOKING FOR something to do this summer? Here's an idea: The Youth Art Works crew that brought you the June 24 Hip-Hop festival ts gear- ing up for the fifth annual Under the Volcano Festival and they need your help. ; North Vancouver's largest annual arts festival takes place Aug. 14 at Cates Park on Dollarton Highway. Organized and produced largely by youth, this grassroots day-long event showcases young visual, lit- erary and performing uttists. As Vancouver's festival alter- native, Under the Volcano is dri- ven by hip-hop, hardcore and tra- ditional world beat music. Our mainstage includes North Vancouver’s Big Tall Garden, P.O.W.E.R., from Portland; Marang, from Africa; Bhullar & Party; The Slice Collective, Vancouver Street Youth Poets; and Medicine Wheel, a theatre per- formance by First Nations Youth. And that’s only a sampling of our 80 performers. Added to the bill is visual art, poetry, speakers, crafts, info tables, a vegetarian kitchen, political workshops and special activities for children. This year, with the opening of the XV Commonwealth Games RECENTLY, WE asked if you think marijuana should be legal- ized, and if more money should be spent to educate and encour- age people to choose a life with- out drugs, including alcohol. ® Marijuana should be !egat- ized and alcoho! should be out- lawed because you never see a guy smoke a J then come home to his wife and beat her up. What you do see is an alco- holic coming home and beating his kids and his wife and then wondering what happened the next morning. only days away from our event, the festival theme is “Colonialism on Trial.“ Lend your voice in opposition to the media hype and celebration over the dubious lega- cy that is the commonwealth — the colonizing of the world. The festival needs 175 volun- teers. This year attendance is expected to reach 7,000, and since the festival is organized by a smail but dedicated group of coordina- tors they need help. So if you have time on your hands and want to contribute to a worthwhile and fun project, there are opportunities in several areas. Can you help construct the site? Distribute pre-festival posters and leaflets? Work in our food kitchen? Help with the children’s area? Work at the gate? These positions are all available and more. Drop by the new Youth Art Works space on the third floor of 106 West First St., North Vancouver. We can answer your questions and your input will be welcomed. There’s room for you at many levels and it’s a great way to learn skills, meet people and contribute to a unique event. Make this an active summer! For information or to volunteer, phone Youth Act Works at 984- ARTS (2787). @ | do think that marijuana should be legalized. I'm a 20-year- old adult. I’m allowed to drink, 1’m allowed to smoke, but I would rather smoke marijuana than drink or smoke tobacco. I’ve seen too much stuff happen from both. On the issue of spending more money on education. Why not? It would be cool if there were no drugs to start with; the worid wouldn’t be so screwed up. I think more money should be given to education. Adults who choose to smoke marijuana — I say let them do it. Everyone’s life is his own life. Why should we have some big brother looking over our shoulder telling us we can't do this and we can’t de that? @ i'm a 20-year-old adult. When | was younger I got heavily into drinking and I smoke. I deeply regret both of those. Now, I do not drink. I smoke marijuana. | do it legally because, of course, it is iHegal. I think people should have the freedom to smoke it whenever they want and grow it whenever they want. It has many other practical uses other than as an illegal narcotic, so therefore | think it should be legalized. F Wlegal or not, people are still going to smoke marijuana. {f vou have acemment about this week's Tatkback question, one of the articles we have published, er any other teen-related issue you care about, call the North Shore News” Tathback line at 980-5437.