36 — Wednesday, April 1. 1998 — North Shore News

Essay competition to be on press freedom

THE B.C. Press
Council has launched
an annual essay compe-
tition for all secondary
and post-secondary
school students in B.C.

The competition is meant
to cncourige students to
think about important issues
involving journalism and its
value to the health and well-
being of a free: and demoecrat-
ic. society.

The -8.C.

Press Council

prize features two awards of

$1,000 each for the hes vessay
from a high school student
and from a college or universi-
ty student.

The inaugural topic is: The
Freedom of the Press and Its
Responsibility.

High school students will
have a 1,500 word limit, post-
secondary students 2 2,500
word limit. Entries must be
received by June 30.

Ted Hughes, Q.C., the
council’s new chairman, said
the prize “is designed to
encourage young people in
British Columbia to think
about sume weighty issues
involving how they get to
know about the world around
them, about. the quality of
that information, and about

Teens get
bravery
award

The North Vancouver
" teenagers who broke a
‘car window while

. attempting to save a
“womans life were
awarded silver. medals
for. bravery from the
Lifesaving Society.

Roger Altenburg, Rowan
- Gioas, Ryan Griffiths, Liam

Maynard, and Eric Rosenburg .

“Yeceived che Silver Award for
Bravery from the. Honorable
Garde RB. Gardom, Lieutenant-
Governor. of British Columbia
‘at the Lifesaving Society’s 86th
Annual’ Honour, Rescue and
Bravery Awards Ceremony at
the Hotel Vancouver on
March 2).
A well-documented. story,
‘these five teens rescued a 79-
year-old woman from her car
thac had rolled down a boat
Yaunch at Cates Park in North
Vancouver. They used a rock
to break the back window of
the fuily submerged car to gain
access to her and pull her to
o mbaey.
The ceremony celebrates
the’ heroism and bravery of
aquatic rescuers in B.C. and
the Yukon and is the largest
ceremony of its kind in
‘Canada. There were more than
) guests present including
P Svend Robinson, MLA
Pietro Calendino, Chief Bruce
Chambers of the Vancouver
Police, representatives of
municipal governments, the
fgpacdian Coast Guard, the
partment of National
Defence, RCMP, the
Vancouver — Fire Rescuc
Serviees and the Canadian Red
Cross.
~The Lifesaving Society i isa
non-profit organization whose
mgandate ist) reduce water-
related death'and injuries. The
society has been educating the
publi: and training lifesavers
andifegbards since 1908.

the

the value and importance of | and vahuable
journalism to the public oud.
“We hope the prize will

encourage some imteresting — society it serves.”

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