By NANCY WEATHERLEY

LISTEN TO THE
regimen and it sounds
like an advanced form
of Outward Bound, but
actually Porteau Camp,
north of Horseshoe
Bay, is a government
correction centre for
juveniles.

The camp uses peer
pressure, hard, menial but
essential labor and_ the
challenge of wilderness
survival to give its
inhabitants a new feeling of
success and self worth says
Bob Fairbridge, Porteau's
director.

Entry to the camp is by
stipulation of a court order
for boys 13 to 17 and the
“punishment is being sent to
the camp not the camp itself
which is geared to improving
the self image” says Fair-
bndge.

Servicing the entrre Lower
Mainland the camp has been
running since 1967 and year
round since 1974.

It offers courses summer,
winter, weekdays and
weekends

The boys are randomly
placed in groups of eight to
ten, and no one is” ever
kicked out no matter how
much trouble he causes or
how many times he runs
away from the fenceless
camp

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WORKING OUT PROBLEMS

Wilderness survival
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calisthenics which go on
until everyone is Cooperating
- only then is the excercise
period over.

This is the first in-
troduction the boy will have
to the way Porteau is run. At
six o'clock each morning the
day begins with a swim in the
ocean no matter what the
season or weather and this is
followed by a two mile run.
If one by doesn't cooperate
everybody suffers.

For instance if one boy
says he wants to stay in bed
and not run, the group's day
cannot start until he has
changed his mind. Even if
they have to carry him on
the run he'll go eventually.
So the onus is on the group
to work together.

SIMPLE RULES

Unlike most institutions
the camp has only three
rules. Lf you swear you get
on the floor and do 15
pushups for stage one - as
the group progresses in the
camp they set their own
standards and the pushups
per swear word may be as
high as 50. This is simply to
teach people to think before

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they speak explains Fair-
bridge.

The second rule is that if
you smoke you roll your own
cigarettes. Everything has a
reason at Porteau and the
logic behind that rule is that
nothing comes easy there.
Also the butts go out more
easily than commercially
rolled cigarettes so the fire
hazard is greatly reduced.

And rule number three is
do as you're told.

But the real secret to
success is to try.

Level One, the newest
group, never leaves the
camp. And what do they do
to keep busy? “Any dirty,
rotten, low-down job we can
find for them” Fairbrdge
says cheerfully.

Jobs like ditchdigging and
scrubbing floors are likely
choices. The bays are kept
so busy working they never
have the time or energy to
cause trouble.

EFFORT ENCOURAGED
Level Two can only be
reached when a stage one
has proved himself to be
cooperating and trying his
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THEYRE TINY NOW but one day these English cocker spaniel pups like the one 11

year old Amanda Forrestal is holding could be winning ribbons in dog shows like the

one to be held on Sunday at the West Van YMCA starting at 12 noon. (Terry Peters
photo)

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