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A’35-year eteran of the sheep shearing wars, Matt Robley demonstrates his
‘skill to.a ‘captive. audience .at Maplewood Farm during the North Vancouver
District public farms’ 16th Annual Shee Falr. The farm fs open from 10 a.m. to
4p, Tuesday to Sunday. For mure information call 929-5610.

Two. N. Shore: schools
make math top-50 list

_TWO. North: Shote secondary schools
“Meceived. honors in a national senior
; ‘mathematics. competition sponsored by
8 leading university in Ontario.

Sentinel Secondary i in West Vancouver and
Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver
‘were among’ the 50 schools Canada-wide
named ‘on. the competition's honor roll.
‘Sentinel checked in at 31, while Handsworth
came in at 39.
us According to B.C.’s education ministry, the

Euclid Contest is part of the Canadian
Mathematics Competition administered by the
University of Waterloo in April.

The contest is a 2.5-hour, grade-12-level

examination that is designed to challenge stu-

“dents who wish to pursue post-secondary stud-

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ent in mathematics.

Of the 15,000 entrants in the competition,
2.823 represented 159 B.C. schools.

Of the 50 schools named to the honor roll,
28 were B.C. schools, said the ministry.

The performance by B.C. students repre-
sents the province’s best results in the compe-
tition to date.

The median score for students competing
from B.C. in 1996 was eight points higher than
the median score for other Canadian competi-
tors.

The annual competition is named for
Euclid of Alexandria, a prominent Egyptian
mathematician who Jived from 365 BC to 300
BC. Euclid is best known for his treatise on
geometry, The Elements.

Celebrating
the ancient

TODAY, June 21, is midsummers eve, the longest day
of the year, and a time of celebration for many ancient
cultures.

VanDusen Botanical Garden wiill be the scene of a medieval
celebration with battles, archery, music, costumes and
pageantry on the great lawn from 7 to 9 p.m.

The garden is located in Vancouver at the corner of Oak
Street and 37th Avenue.

The Society for Creative Anachronism will present an
evening of medieval skills and fun.

The knights in armor battling with heavy swords and the
musketeer-style fencers are popular with children. Musicians
will play courtly music while archers test their accuracy .
Ladies and gentlemen will invite audience participation in tra-
ditional dances,

VanDusen’s hedge maze, which contains !,000 individual
cedars placed in a circular pattern, will provide a challenge for
all ages.

Regular garden admission is $10 for families, $5 for adults
and $2.50 for seniors and youth.

Beautiful Killer

As summer unfolds, a silent killer lurks
along roadsides, ditches, shorelines, and
meadows, shrouding the landscape in a
soft purple veil. This exotic beauty
slowly takes its toll on the environment
as it chokes the life out of wetlands
_and waterways, destroying precious

wildlife habitat. The aggressive
invader is purple loosestrife.

Originally found in Europe and
Asia, purple loosestrife is a hardy
flowering plant that.was acciden-
tally introduced to North America in
the 1800s. Because it has no natural &
enemies, it is spreading at an alarming
rate throughout Canada.

Purple loosestrife has no nutritive
value for wildlife. And its shoreline colonies,

which stand one to two metres tall, threaten
young waterfowl by providing cover for preda- ©

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The Canadian Wildlife Federation has joined
the fight against this pesky weed, and you can help. '
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entitled Beautiful Killer. In it you'll find a survey that we'd like ~
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infestation, which in turn will help in the design of a Canada-

wide control program for the “purple plague.”

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