a 3 - Sundas, October 18, 3987 - North Shore News NEWS photo Mike Wakefield THE LOWER Mainland was all a flush — royal flush — this past week over the visit of Queen Elizabeth aud Prince Philip. In Van- couver for the Commonwealth conference, the Queen's royal agenda included a welcome by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (right photo) to the Vancouver Trade and Conveation Centre in Canada Place where the conference was held. Her Majesty and Prince Philip arrived at the Vancouver Law Courts (top right) for the Oct. 15 augmentation of the new Arms of British Columbia. Following the ceremony, the Royal couple went on a walkabout in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery, above. THREE MAJOR North Shore shopping facilities will help spread information on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse among young people during the national Oct. 19 to 24 Kids Say ‘Know’ to Drugs campaign. Sponsored by the International Council af Shopping Centres, the campaign was officially launched June 1f and is designed to work with the ongoing anti-drug efforts of the federal Ministry of Health and Welfare. Kids Say ‘Know’ provides drug and alcohol information for parents and their children, inspira- tion for young people to live drug-free lives, and local resources they can tap if problems arise. Approximately 1,000 shopping centres across Canada are expected to take part in the five-day cam- paign. : On the North Shore, Capilano Mall, Lonsdale Quay Public Mar- ket and Lynn Valley Centre Mall will be setting up booths and displays to dispense drug and alcoho! information to their patrons throughout the campaign. Capilano Mall operations man- ager Gary Leaman said Wednesday thé issue of drug and alcohol abuse among young people is an ex- tremely important one. He said Capilano Mall decided to get involved in the campaign because of the issue’s importance and because ‘‘we get a lot from the community and we feel it's impor- tant to give something back.”’ Students from Carson Graham Secondary School will be manning the Capilano Mall's Kids Say ‘Know’ information booth, while Capilano College students will be manning the campaign’s booth at Lynn Valley Centre. By TIMOTITY RENSHAW News Reporter Capilano College student Karen Morin said Thursday students vol- unteering to man the Lynn Valley booth were doing so both to help spread information about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, and to learn more about the sub- ject themselves. She said college students were particularly interested in the cam- paign’s anti-drinking and driving information, which they hope, in turn, to distribute on the college campus. Carson Graham student council president Debbie Lisle said about 20 students from her school will hand out Kids Say ‘Know’ infor- mation at Capilano Mall's booth. Drugs and alcohol are ‘‘nat a big problem” at Carson Graham, she said. But a recent (1984-85) Canada Health Attitudes and Behaviors survey of nine, 12 and 15-year-olds showed B.C. had the country’s highest percentage of Grade 10 students who use marijuana by a margin of more than five per cent above the next highest province. B.C. was above the national average in the proportion of Grade 7 students who drink alcohol, 16.6 per cent drank about once per month, 7.7 said they drank two to three times per month. The na- tional percentage of Grade 7s who drink alcoho! once per month was 14.5 per cent. NEWS photo Mike Wakelietd NEWS photo Neil Lucente NEWS photo Terry Peters CARSON GRAHAM Secondary School students yet set for the Oct. 19 to 24 Kids Say ‘Know’ to Drugs cam- paign. Students from the school will be manning a campaign booth at the Capilano Mail. The Lonsdale Quay Public Market and Lynn Valley Centre will also have booths set up to dispense the campaign's drug and alcohol abuse information. The province was slightly above the national average in the number of Grade 10 students who drink alcohol at least once per month: 24.5 in B.C. compared with 24.4 across Canada. Neil Huestis, an Outreach youth worker for Capilano Community Services, said Friday the North Shore ‘thas a significant drug and alcohol problem in the communi- ty.” Alcohol, he said, was the most common drug used among the 13 to 19 year-old teenagers that he dealt with. And the major concern for youth workers, he said, were the teenagers who were increasing- ly adopting alcohol as part of their lifestyles and drinking two and three times per weck rather than just having an occasional social drink. Huestis said other drugs current- ly being used by North Shore young people besides alcohol and marijuana included hashish and LSD. Queen Mary Community School coordinator Ira Applebaum said the North Shore is not much dif- ferent from the rest of the province in alcohol and drug abuse among its children, ‘tbut I think because the North Shore is a fairly mid- die-class community, the greater availabilty of money gives kids more of an opportunity to get things like drugs and alcohol.”