gets OK

WEST Vancouver School
Board approved the im-
plementation of Late Im-
mersion French at.the Grade
seven:: level | Starting ~ this
Septembez
‘, The ‘board, at. its Monday
" meeting ‘gave’ “Superintendent
Ed ‘Carlin the go ahead to
‘implement’; the ‘program ‘at
Senior’ Secondary’.
which. also houses. the regu-.
ler Immersion Program. Wee
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16 - Friday, May 3, 1985 - North Shore News

| Late entry to
.- French immersion
in WV

to see it receive any special
treatment, if there are not
enough students, then it
should be cancelled,"* said
Board Chairman Margot
Furk.

Trustee Michael -Smith
was the most vocal propo-
nent of the program saying it
was the board’s “responsi-

bility to react to parent’s re-.

quests if, they, are. , 800d

he rade seven entry. point,

dents, including not hav-

ive spe al trea ing to transfer to an extra’

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ad several advantages ‘for.

Mental health week begins

CANCER, HEART
DISEASE and tuberculosis.
These are debilitating, often
fatal illnesses. You or some-
one you know has probably
been affected by one or the
other. But there is a disease
that affects more Canadians
annully than all of these il-
Inesses combined. 11 is men-
tal illness.

The Canadian Mental
Health Association estimates

that one out of every eight

Canadians can be expected -
to be hospitalized for a men.

tal illness at least once in

their life. Mentally or emo- |
_tionally ill people occupy
nearly half of the hospital —

beds in Canada.

Mental Health Week, is
May S-May li. The North
and West Vancouver Branch
of the

. from

Canadian Mental.

Health Association is plann-

ing a display of literature at.
Park Royal North May 9, 10
and 22 in an effort. to raise -

public awareness. -

Literature will be available
the Mental Health
Association, the North
Shore Counselling Services,
Friends of Schizophrenics,
the Alzheimer Support
Group, Chesterfield House,

. about tmental illness.

the Emily “Murphy: Society

and the Lion Gate Hospital

Psychiatric Day Centre.’
The “Mental Health

- Association - feels . ‘that the
_ biggest obstacle. in the’ fight
“against mental illness is its

stigma. Perhaps the’ only
thing required to make Men-
tal Health Week a‘success is

adding to the knowledge and

taking away ‘fromthe fear