A Grade 12 student at Carson
Graham secondary school, _16-
year-old) Bram is into skiing,
snowboarding, and rollerblading.

LAST WEEK I was just sit-
ting around watching the
television, fecling like a
couch poiato. .

The phone rang and | thought
to myself, “do |] have to answer
this?”’ Eventually, after eight or
nine rings, | decided to pick up
the receiver and groan, ‘‘hello.”’

It was my teacher calling to ask
if my article was coming along
well. Lying through my teeth 1

SUMMER JS now in full swing and any
teens hoping to make some money have, or
would like to have, a job. Do you have a
summer job? Do you want one? Is it hard
to get jobs? Did you use any organizations
like Hire-a-Student to help you with job

hunting?

competently in four hours.

The course includes personal-
ized instruction from professionals
and all equipment: climbing shoes,
harness and rope.

To start out with, you meet the
four other people in the class (low
student-instructor ratio), Next you
learn about the equipment and
how to use it. And then the fun
begins.

You start climbing, adrenalin
starts to flow, your heartbeat
rises, and then vou realize that
you have reached the top.

{’s not over, though.

Pleasing to the eye, the ar-
chitecture provides about 25
routes (more t0 come) and has
quite a large bouldering area. The

danger aspect is very low because
the ropes are changed atthe first
sign of wear, and the staff is
always checking for your errors.

Rock climbing is an excellent
form of mental and physical exer-
cise that has no age requirement.
In my short career of climbing I
have seen a wide range of ages,
from about seven to 70.

The youth of teday are always
complaining about having nothing
to do, So now that you have read
this, if you ever say that you have
nothing to do again, you are kid-
ding yourself.

So tomorrow morning, don't
just go and turn on the TV, turn
on the adrenalin, Go climbing!

Photo submitted

HIGH SCHOOL student Bram Janssens is not to be a couch
potato this summer. One way of getting out and being active is

responded, ‘‘you betcha!’’
He could obviously tell that I
had not written a word. He sug-_

to try a new challenge o7 adventure, like rock climbing.

Students win scholarships

TWO NORTH Shore fine arts
students have ‘cach won a $450
scholarship from the West Van-
couver Visual Arts Society.

The money will help Theresa
Lee and Scott Edward Rumak,
both of North Vancouver, with
their tuition costs as both plan to
enter their fourth year of studies
at Emily Carr College of Art and

Design in the fall.

Two-thirds of the grant money
comes from the Visual Aris Trust
Fund, which is invested with the
West Vancouver Foundation, Part
of the remainder is provided by
the BC Cultural Fund through the
auspices of the West Vancouver
Community Arts Council, and the
rest by the West Vancouver Visual
Arts Society.

gested writing about something
that most people would find dar-
ing. I did!

{ went to The Edge, an indoor
rock climbing gym located in
North Vancouver, and took a
course so that [ could write about
it.

It turned out to be so ex-
hilarating that | went back two
days later, and plan to go again as
soon as I have some free time and
$10.70 including tax for the day
pass (really cheap).

The introductory course, which
was very reasonably priced, takes
you from complete ignorance to
having enough knowledge to belay

her to bed early

We are upgrading our computer system so we need to
“put the paper to bed” early on Friday July 16.
{t’s not that big of a deal for us. For you
it means that the Classified ad deadline

for July 18th issue will move from

noon to 10 a.m.
That's all there is to it.

SUNDAY » WEONESDAY + FRIDAY

July 18th Classified
deadfine is 10 a.m.