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PLAY STARTS §
TOMORROW §
“The Theatre students
production, Parasols and
; Gumboots - A
@ Patchwork of Early Gull fl
Islanders has its first §
m performance on Thursday
at 8pm, The play, which i
’ ‘has been adapted from §
“interviews with
descendents cf Gull
Island ploneers who &
came out to BC at the g
turn of the century, is
being held in-R building
- {the Studio Theatre) from
Thursday io Sunday this
week and Thursday to §
. Monday: next week. §
” Tickets are $6 at the door B
for adults, and $4. fer &
seniors, students, ard #
. children, 7

Dear Edigor: Varge provingial parks,
Jack Munro, president ef Garibaldi and Stratheona.
the International Wood. These short of minor

workers, understandably boundary tampering have
would like to create more thanktully te date remained
jobs for his unemployed — preserves: of original forest
members, His solution, to hind.
remove virgin timber from Wei oatre rapidly ap-
the Pacific Rim) Nations — proaching the end of logging
Park, is a sad commeniary of viegin timber, We have ta
on the desperation that start on a crash programme
joblessness is driving us to. now, by steps over say the
Many of us hoped thatthe next ten years, to phase out
environmental-ecological our logging of virgin timber
movement of these Jast 26 and switch over to second
years or so had produced growth stands. No longer
recognition of the fact that will chere be the great Crees
we simply must preserve a to take, leaving the smaller
few sizeable pieces of those ones to slash. We will have
marvelous evergreen forests to evolve new methods of
and their ecology that once logging and much more in-
covered most of B.C., large — tensive utilization. With wilt
areas of the Pacific Coast and our technical inven-
and elsewhere in) North tiveness it can be done. The
America. Each year brings changeover, sacrifice and
more denuded, slashed burden this represents,
hiltsides with the eventual however must be born by all
result that over large areas of us, not just the logging
no virgin forest is left. There industry, through gov-
is no ecological reserve, no ernment assistance, plann-
species bank of the primeval ing, research.
forest left to repropagate We need to decide now
and continue it anew. and dedicate for perpetuity,
What virgin timber is now as much as is still possible of
left is increasingly not repre- representative stands of the ee, = " . : : ]
sentative of the original forest all over this province, AD Ave.’ ay ve . Photo of Dana Zaiko
forest, Most of it is at higher say not less than 20 per cent : : Boe et ot Be i
elevations. [t has been main- of forest land.
by spared to date because it is Some virgin timber might
sparser, more stunted even be removed from parks
growth not profitable to log so Jong as it is replaced with
up to now. The whole Lower equivalent virgin timber
Mainland from Vancouver elsewhere to achieve a more
to Hope, short perhaps representative spread, of
Stanley Park has hardly a species, types and scenic
stick of the great virgin areas. Certainly this should
forest that once covered it. not be done to achieve a
Had our forefathers been shortsighted goal of a few
wise they would have hundred jobs fora few years
decreed that out of every at the expense of the tittle
squre mile of our forests one priceless, and irreplaceable
quarter would be left as a natural habitat remaining.
continuous part of this With any will at all, and a
primeval nature. Alas, so bit of sacrifice, we as a
wise they were not, and community can by develop-
perhaps could not be when ing second growth timber
man’s increasing population harvesting, forest replanting
was just beginning to ravage and care and new industries
the planet’s natural en- create these jobs.
vironment. They did ar least John E. Belts
set aside our two original West Vancouver

BLUES PLACE «|
NATIONALLY: §
m The Blues soccer.team is
=, back: from. the: National
“2. Championships inj
“Montreal with a bronze.
“medal. They won'3 ‘of
thelr 4 games and:
w . particularly outstanding.
, players onthe team were.
: : Paul Zen. (Business :

student) who made the all:
Canadian‘ team. §
Congratulations! ‘

JAPANESE ART
-ON SHOW

p Starting this week there: is a
a special dispiay. of &
Japanese Ari to-be seen §
m in the display cacé.on the
2nd toor.ot A building. #
B The kimonos and artifacts
fa . . were Kindly lent to the &
Craft Department by
. tapestry:- weaver Anthea &
B Mallinson who ‘trained in
® England and has travelled @
widely in Europe and
Japan,

EX STUDENT §
PUBLISHED
i One of Cao's former Early @
: Childhood Education #
students has just sroken &
into print. Ruth Fahiman, @
who. graduated from the §
_ Pragram several years &
ago, hag co-authored a
f° book entitled “Early &
B Childhood Education for a #
Mutcultural Society” §
published by WEDGE a §
. _UBC.

Chiquita

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E B.C. Fancy Red Delicous

Apples

AND ANOTHER §
AWARDED

1985 Media Resources :
grad, Patti, Poskitt, and
, her employees, Tagish §
Words and ‘Presentations, i
have just won a prize:for §
: their multi image &
mS presentation “Kaeping the &
Beat" which was &
produced for the BC §

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