Sunday. June 20, 1999 — North Shore News - 45

ancouver celebrates Oceans

YOUNG and old alike
turned out at
Whytecliffe Park last
Sunday to celebrate
International Oceans
Day.

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designation as Cannda’s f
marines protected area

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AO OMPA oa “Ho rake”
gone thar protests ail plant
and animal fife trom: marine
harvesting. THE Coast Guard’s hovercraft made a stop at

Conservation and protes Whytecliff Park.
tian campaigns for _
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r was establisticd at
Point Atkinson in Linhthouse
Park.

Adults and children tox
part in an amaving array of
activities at the tesrwal,

Storyteller Ginger Mullen,
musical entertainer Joe
Hanlon, sea creature vouch

nadian Coast

and oan

underwater video relay all con-

tibuted to the Oceans Day
festivities.

— Deana Lancast:

NEWS photos Brad Ledwidge

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OCEANS Day planning
committee member Lisa
Mcintosh holds out a
starfish for Zoe Clarke
and her mom Nora to
admire. Divers collected
live sea creatures so , ots *
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Jearn about them.

Culinary
student
awarded

PROVING they have what

it takes at a national level,

B.C. secondary and post-

secondary students

returned home recently

with 27 medals of achieve-  §

ment following the Fifth : : -, rye
Canadian Skills '

Competition in Kitchener,

Ontario.

Willi Phol of Sentinel
Secondary school wan the sil-
ver medal in the Culinary Arts

ndary division.

B.C. fielded a team of 61
competitors ac this year's
competition, with more than
600 students from across the
country taking part. B.C
competitors brought home
10 gold, 10 silver and seven
bronze. Since the World Skills
Competition is only held
every second vear, this vear's
gold medal winners will not
advance. However, B.C. will

rnd a team of 13 students
from last year’s national com:
petition ta this vear’s world
competition in Montreal.