r t vege i" om pereparmenneens wirrenmertemaan Lae . wea ma ee Seen Oe om e- Wodheaday, Juno’ 18, 1997 = North Shora Nowa | st 1 en a «forth shore news _EWOINT uo “WRIDAY’S 6:44 aum. earthquake didn’t even register for most of us. Tt was just a gentle roll at 3,4 on the Richter scale: - No’ damage’ was; reported. For those of us with the luxury to do s0, « it wasn’t even cnough to shake us” “from our dreams, |. Se -* North cand. West) Vancouver : ~ Emergency’” Program | coordinator ~ Ross. Peterson calls this kind of ‘an” event a, wake-up call, ; he vo Acmoderate to large earthquake is, predicted. to. occur’ in’ southwest © British. Columbia every decade or so. -/Thae’s an unsettling thought. | Pa Pars eee es ye i , 1 4 “LAUSUTS, TL BILION DOLAR PAYOUTS, BANS ON Quite laudably she took ‘an imme: diate family interest — her two'chil- dren at Highlands school ~ and) expanded her focus to school children anywhere, Yo ie Po ey Gem, _ Janice Murray has developed ’a pre: at is BOE NE sentation for schools and she’s doing 6 bl os her part to make the North Shore the. » . SMOKING -TURACCD ADS. THINGS ARE. DESPERATE fine community it is. re ‘Fora lot of us, the concept of an’ & earthquake as ‘an ever-present danger remains just that, a concept,. Taxes. and traffic appear the more immedi- ate threat to well-being. 8 Now is the time to prepare if you -haven’t already, Remember there’s no tured in its issue that da As if we had planned it (the Friday _ “the, 13th quake, that is) the News fea- * a report on -a North Vancouver woman’s personal “- help coming for the first:-72 hours. «Stock up on the survival essentials for your family, Form a. neighbor: hood emergency planning group... ; “enhance ‘carthquake pre-) ee #4 How to help peer-slave The firial bills expected to be much higher, All finds received “News? ~ valiant efforts to ir “.. Donations’ to’ the will help detray. the legal costs faced by the News in ts battle with the Human Rights ‘Tribunal over-a complaint laid against the newspaper and Its colum- ist Doug Collins by the Canadian’ Jewish Congeess, he hearing into the matter, which began on May 12- at the Century Plaza: Hotel, 1015 Burrard. St, has” “been postponed because Nitya lyer, the hearing, tri- ‘bunal. of one, has tallen. ill’. The, hearing is set to restime with final arguments on has Yet to be determined, More excerpts from the he caus T have ave been a regular veiider of yor newspaper for A “10 years or so, and during that time have often been. - ncensed and infuriated by the opinions expressed by 1 Collins. L almost never agree with his opinions,” ut T do nut question his right to express them, 0° “‘Advertisers'tan withdraw their suppore if they wish to protest, readers can write with contrary view- points, These are the mechanisms of a free society. : “ Goyer ment-supported Sag orders’ ave not” 6. os ose! Miike Bradley of North Vancouver his contribution is in appreciation ‘of the North Shore holding firm to principles, and for Doug Collins’ - arin us about our country? 0 ON Charles Clark of North Vancouver North Shore News’ Free Speech “Defence Fund can be sent to the News office, 1139. Lonsdale “to your school. .” june 23, A location” hundreds of respondents to * ears bye ‘ ‘ If you have children, invite Janice ., . IN last week's police shoot-out with joy-riding teen car.thieves in Port Coquitlani the most dis- - turbing scene of all came later, ‘outside the local cet “schoo = Shown on ‘TV were teen students of both sexes loudly attacking the soannaneenaeenenereeer " police, “declaring war" f ’ ; on theny and promising that car-theft joy-dding would continue because the kids get kicks from it. What in heaven's name is going on here? Nice-looking youngsters , — many, one imagines, Doe from “good” homes — telling the world | ‘ir’s OK to steal other people's property.. ‘worth thousands of dollars, damage or ~ wreek it, and abandon ita few hours later ‘just co titillate their juvenile adrenalin? ‘First, however, let’s be clear about one thing. Some 90% of kids, inchiding those: who vocally defended the small minority of joy-riding thieves, would never dreamy: of doing it themselves, The vast majority. - of today’s young people are inherently ~ “good, They demonstrate this at home and! in class, Nevertheless, the part some of them played outside that schoo! last week highlights a dangerous new development .. that’s taken place over the past 30 years, in the raising of children and teens, Parenting consultant Gordon Neufeld, in _arecent Vancouver Sun interview, detines' it as excessive “peer-bonding”.— a prob- have cornpounded the own children, ae , Neufeld maintains the natural moral %, cand intellectual bonding essential for chil- ye dren to mature and develop individual”. ‘ sidencities is with parents models, But with “today’s parents increas: ° ingly. absent (both out. single-parent families), the parenting function - is growingly transferred: to supervised peer = * groups — programs for. tots as young as. WYO, aycares and : impersonal d a endless alter-sctivol activities, : Wong es This proces continues throughout the “maturing mechanism of children to their. , elders is destroyed. All the kids are lett with, event in otherwise loving families, is the compulsion to win the constant - ‘approval of their equally rudderless bud-—: problem with their. «and other adult role. ye. today’s overwor' a Ww Ve ivil _ School years, So the essential bonding and .~ _A modern kids.” “ It means more quality. time;and more family-otiented adtivicies with the child ¢ iélin, regardless of what that does. to the parental timetable — and therein, o course, lies a major problem for'many of cd, stressed-out’ parents They can face tough choices, personal! and financially, because, their own tin - “reconnecting the cord,” i he ears we a 1) So forget for a moment whether’ thy “Feops were justiticd in shooting the Por ~ Coquitlam foy-riders. If — in a situ “demanding split-second decisions — the & and effort are the only-tools capabl Working, and ever more: + _. decided wrongly, they'll pay the ne Far niore urgent is how to hel those’ basically goud kids who risky : estroying. themselves by being such’slaves to their peers that they shriek defiaiice at ation itself before the TV. cameras, ENTIETH BIRTHDAY. * the North Shore’s Friendship’ : &390QQ “.. . WRIGHT OR WRONG: Rust ruins overuse, » ; foo oe The’ North Shore News believes ,, Arongly in freedom of speech and the right ofall sides in a-debate te be beard: Th many nore tools than : an : y Ave. North Vancouver, V7M 2H4. 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