10 - Sunday, September 4. 1988 - North shore News

Also last week, residents in the Woodlands area of Deep
Cove expressed concern: over water quality after they
were told to continue boiling drinking water taken from
Allan Creek. Inquiring Reporter asks people about the
quality of our local drinking water.

LOWER MAINLAND residents found out Jast week that
their drinking water could contain unusually high Jevels
of lead. Offigials suggested people run their taps for
shout 1S seconds hefore using the water, as lead from the

solder on aging pipes could be Jeaching into the system.

Jocal drinking water safe?

inquiring
reporter

Stephen Barrington

Jean Cowan

North Vancouver

I'd be inclined to say
they’re getting excited
over nothing. I'm not
planning to stop drinking

Norma Smith

North Vancouver

They wouldn’t be giving
us the water if it wasn’t
all right. It seems that
there is something wrong

Martin Stuible

North Vancouver

I can only trust the
authorities when they say
it's OK to drink. If it was
endangering health then

Tracy McCaffery
North Vancouver
Personally, | haven't
heard much about it, I
drink the water, so I
guess I'm not really that

Darren Hadinger

Regina, Sask.

Anything is better than
Regina water. To me,
Vancouver water has got
a bit of a tinny taste that

the water und! —f get a with everything. I'd stop drinking it. worried about it. tantalizes my taste-buds.

written notice,

couting offers youths plenty

4100.
The scouting movement is aim-
ed oat the personal and social

development of youths as re-
sourceful, responsible members of
the community, by providing op-

portunities and guidance for their
mental, physical, social and
spiritual development.

THE SCOUTING movement, perhaps the most enduring
organization for youths, is gearing up for fall registration
on the North Shore, Sept. 7-19.

Last year, some 1,988 North and
West Vancouver boys and leaders
signed up for a season of activities,
adventure and social service —
supported by 300 or more adults.

Founded in England in 1907 by
Lord Baden-Powell, the scouting
movement quickly spread to
Canada, the first group forming
on the North Shore in 1910.

Today, the movement is com-
prised of five different age groups.
The fastest groving are the
Beavers, for boys 1-7 years old,

part ina Jamboree on the Air, 6
which they make radio contact
with scouts around the world.
They also are among the close to
1,000 members who go to Manning
Park every year to participate in
various winter activities.

Each group is sponsored sepa-
rately by such organizations as
churches, parent groups, service
clubs, schools, fire or police
departments, legions and trade
unions.

For

further information on

“SCOUTING REGIS1::ATION INFORMATION: SEE PAGE 12

and Wolf Cubs, for 8-10 year olds.
Some 25 per cent of eligible boys
belong to North Shore Beaver
groups, while 30 per cent belong to
Cubs.

Membership in the scout
groups, for ages | 1-14, is relatively
stable, and there is slight growth
amongst the two co-ed groups:
Venturers (high school students)
and Rovers (high school graduates
and college aged adults} who are
largely responsible for their own
programming.

The three local scouting
districts, Seymour, Capilano and
West Vancouver, are always on the
look out for new leaders, who
receive plenty of training and sup-
port.

“It can be a very rewarding ex-
perience — a lot of fun,’’ says
Seymour district president Alan
Mann.

Mann explained why he has
spent 35 years involved as an adult
in the movement — in addition to
being a Cub, Scout and Rover in
his youth.

“T was fortunate to have good
leadership, as a youngster. [ have
tried to give some of that back
throughout my life,’’ said Mann.

Both men and women contribute
to the movement as leaders —
women mostly in Beavers and
Cubs -—- and both married and
unmarried adults are welcome.

The North Shore members of
the various scouting groups par-
ticipate in numerous activities.
About 25 local boys, out of 1,100
Canadians, attended January's
World Jamborec, held ‘in
Australia.

Local Rovers and Venturers take

scouting groups in your area, con-
tact the following people. In the
Seymour District (Lonsdale east to
Deep Cove), call president Alan
Mann, 986-0084, or commissioner
Roger Eastwood, 980-6140; in the
Capilano District (Lonsdale west
to Capilano River}, call president
Steve Baynes, 985-6050, or com-
missionér Gary Skett, 986-5897;
and in West Vancouver, including
Bowen Island and Lions Bay, call
president Des Haigh, 921-9719, or
commissioner Eload Platt, 987-

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