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North Shore Now: 23

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Opposition to machines
in schools raised at
WV District meeting

THE CONTROVERSY over the installation of condom
machines in North Shore secondary schools continues to

rage.

On Monday aight the Sunshine
Girl and Dr. Ruth features that
appear regularly in the North
Shore News were attacked during
a religious meeting focusing on
arguments against installing con-
dom machines in North Shore
high schools.

And at a West Vancouver
District 45 School Board meeting
on Monday night trustees received
letters both supporting and oppos-
ing condom machines.

“The condom issue is like in-
stalling a car radar detector. A
young person driving a car may
avoid a speeding ticket, but may
end up dead because of driving at
high speed,”* said Mel Bryan, na-
tional director of the **Focus on
the Family’’ ministry.

Addressing 2 meeting at Lynn
Vatley’s Full Gospel Church,
Bryan said that condoms did not
automatically prevent the spread
of AIDS because they have a 10
per cent failure rare.

Earlier, Bryan had taken issue
with the “secular press’* and used
the North Shore News as an ex-
ample.

Bryan read several excerpts
from a Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s
column published in the News in
January. The column discussed
birth control. orgasms and ex-
tramarital affairs.

The North Shore resident also
said he had a “‘baule’’ to stop
delivery of the Sunshine Girl and
Dr. Ruth.

“This is bad news going into
our homes,”” said Bryan. whose
United States based ministry is
devoted to preserving the family.

Concerning sex education,
Bryan criticized the “*values-
neutral teacher agenda” in which
instructors could not say what was
right and wrong.

He said “abstinence training’’
rather than sex education should
be taught in schools to prevent
AIDS.

Sixty people attending the in-
ter-denominational meeting held
at the church were urged to write
to school boards in North Van-
couver and West Vancouver and
protest condom-machine installa-
tions.

Another speaker. Dr. Robert
Chan, head of infectious diseases
at St. Paul’s Hospital in Van-
couver, presented graphic slides
showing various types of advanced
infections and cancers that may
aitack AIDS victims.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
& Patrick Raynard

Several audience members :urn-
ed away while others gasped at
some slides that showed infected
genitalia and severe fungal infec-
tions of the face.

“Towards the end, most AIDS
patients Iose their ruinds,’* said

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464 The condom issue is
like installing a car radar
detector. A young person
driving a car may avoid a
speeding ticket, but may
end up dead because of
driving at high speed. ¥?

— Mel Bryan
national director

“Focus on the Family”
Ministry

Chan. “Cutting down the risk of
(AIDS) infection with condoms is
not the same as not being able to
get the infection.””

Meanwhile in West Vancouver,
trustees voted to receive six fetters
on the condom issue at their
meeting Monday evening.

But district administrator Ron
Knight told the North Shore News
that the board would not release
copies of the letters to the public.

But in his verbal report to
trustees, board secreltary-treasurer
Len Archer said that four of the
six letters received opposed the
machines.

According to the printed agen-
da, these letters were from Mrs.
M. Forristal of the Catholic
Women’s League, Mrs. Jessica
Choo of St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church in West Vancouver, Mrs.
F. Stannus and Mrs. E. Davidson.

The two letters favoring con-
dom machines were from Mary
and Alex Baker and from Jan
Hlyasky, chairman of the Wesr
Vancouver Parents’ Association
(WVPA).

Both the North and West Van-
couver school boards have invited
the public to make presentations
on the issue.

In West Vancouver, parents can
send letters to the West Vancouver
board or approach = individual
parent school committees.

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