...helping youth Interests. Water planning expert appointed WEST Vancouver resi- dent Kim Stephens has been appointed by the provincial government to the 15-member Provincial Water Conservation Strategy Working Group. - The mandate of the group is to develop a report by March 1998 that provides direction regarding anticipat- ed policy and legislative instia- tives related to water conser- vation and water-use plan- + ning. Stephens is vice-president of Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. The North Vancouver- based com- pany of con- sulting engi- neers pro- vides master planning and project delivery ser- vices STEPHENS munici- pal governments in the arcas of water supply, waste water treatment and storm water VANCOUVER SPANISH LANGUAGE SOCIETY A Spanish Language ij Program for Children f on the North Shore TEL: 444-6862 Also Classes for Adults management. Stephens has lived on the North Shore for 33 years and is a 1968 graduate of Hillside secondary school in West Vancouver. Over the past decade Stephens has completed a series of studies for the GVRD that have provided the cor- nerstone for a master pian for regional water supply expan- sion and drought manage- ment well into the 21st centu- ry. ; “$3. 00 off: each adult. admission and $1,50 5:30 pm every day,. - Monty under a mice Fram page 23 Letters, e-mail and phone calls poured in. Other dog owners offered sympathy and support. “Hang in there!” some said. “Where do I sign up for this training?” asked others. And wherever we go — to the park, to the be ach, by his endless exuberance, w disobedi- ence, and IT gue when I call hi And we've both enjoved every minute of it. But now children wanted to meet him. Pve watched Monty play with my nephews. When he jumps up on them in excitement, they fall down like cheap bowling pins. If they run, he chases them; they cower or turn their back, he thinks it’s an interesting new game. And in a whole classroom) of kids, Monty could wreak havoc. And 1 knew with so many distrac- tions, he would not be listen- ing to my directions. No way, | thought. kind of stress I don’t need. | began to think of a gentle way to say no... maybe T could tell them Monty's allergic to chalk dust or something. “How can you be so heart- I asked my husband. “You can’t say no to a class of Grade 4 kids.” Good point. “What if you turned it into a type of show and te mailed Joan Kiucha, one of my Sierra trainers, in response to my panicked calls and e-mail. “We could go together and introduce ourselves to the class. You can talk about Monry and his training and I can teach the children how to meet/greet any dog and how to act around a strange dog.” Hallelujah! That was the answer. So on Wednesday, Monty, Klucha and I went to Mrs. Schell’s Grade 4 class at Highlands clementary school. Klucha and I went in first and answered questions. “How ald is Monty?” About nine months old. “Is he really as hyper as you said in the newspaper?” Yes. “Does he do tricks?” Not That and if Scope really, we're still working on the jc stuff hike “Come.” But he is good at tracking, which was part of the course taught by Sierra. “What was the most recent thing he chewed up?” 1 had trouble thinking of that, vc he’s gotten so much bur he has taken to occasionally chewing chunks out of the neck and sleeves of my sweatshir I knew. Although he “Loused the carpet to relieve himself in a while, he used to per on the move, leaving a meanden tril behind him which v nearly impossible to clean u Then Klucha told the kids how they should greet Monty, and any dog whose owner ives them permission to say hello to. Crouch down, she said, because the first thing a dog does when ting another dog is to sniff its nose — and because our faces are up so high, dogs feel chey must jump up to greet a person properly. Sometimes we make the mistake of crowding around a dog and looking down on him, which is very uncomfortable for the animal. It’s important to get down to his level. Don’t look the dog direetly in the eyes, she added. In “dog language” that is a threat, it means “I want to fight with you.” And although _ it’s unlikely my bouncy guy would take a person up on that threat, he doesn’t like it. I went and got Monty. The kids lined up and one ata time, they crouched down, held out a biscuit and Klucha or I gave him the command to preet. “Say Hello!” Monty would faunch him- self forward, wiggling in excitement and skid up to the kids on the linoleum floor. Most of them got a lick and a sniff, and at one point he rolled onto his back in pure joy. He loved it, and so did I. 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