A6-Sunday News, October 12, 1980 editorial page Time to get tough It’s refreshing to see parents taking a firm stand (as they did at last week’s meeting of West Van School Board) against students making a nuisance of themselves to all concerned as a result of using alcohol or drugs. It’s disappointing — given this firm lead — to see school board members still shuffling their feet and declining, for the moment at any rate, to give the parents the backing they seek and need. The parents want immediate transfer of the offending student to another school for the balance of the school year to be the standard punishment — as is the case in the City of Vancouver school system. The present tradition of merely suspen- ding an offending student for five days tends to be regarded by the delinquent as a pleasant little holiday, from which he often returns to his classmates as a kind of hero. On the contrary, the immediate-transfer penalty apparently makes a deep impression. According to one North Shore principal, students punished with a transfer to a distant and unfamiliar school rarely repeat their offence. North Shore school trustees should either get solidly behind the concept of stricter punishment for the mad minority or come up with viable alternative solutions of their own to the problem of youthful yahoos. School trustees are elected to provide leadership. But there sometimes seems to be little of that commodity around when it comes to the crunch — and the handful of naughty kids know it. If trustees shrink from getting tough when it’s called for, there are growing signs that others will do it for them. Pot logic A Victoria court has discharged a mother of five accused of possession of marijuana which she had preferred to make available to her children at home rather than leave them to the mercies of street dealers. The children have since quit using pot. Smart parents have long known that the quickest way to stop kids doing something is to TELL them to do it. sunday. news north shore news NEWS 985-2131 IY 49 Lonsdale Ave North Vane ouver B ¢ VIM 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING 960-0511 Publisher CLASSIFIED 986-6222 Peter oped hk CHACUL ATION 986-1337 Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Robert Graham Nowl Wright Advertising Otrector bce Cardwell Classified Manager & Office Administrator Bern: Hithard Creative Director Tam Francis Production Rick Stonetioutse Faye McCrae Managing Editor Andy Fotanerr News Editor C farses beryl Photography PE tesweoe th: Con beat Accounting Supervisor tdear tocar BMesesr North Shore Nowe Fadel TOU an a cde preredernct! Py rer eppenpoere capeet peal fieret coe dere Son Pree deabe: HE ba di aes your tt the txcase Tan Act oN putiiiphed each Weide s tay art Notts Shoe bree beermsn pb Nowth Na serit ess aeaent Cocatore clptions BC pre vera ob odare ce at Cas TO | ee Free Promme Lt Albcigtils semen vod Svodary fey atte) SembeaDrceter dt Mavi ey Mere oe Meee Shore Syere cored C learen Hes guests rates No Manse cps restagpeot reset lit, em argeberst fon Weyl Vee trie) pee fares why F ste a bee 1 stamped addreoged. cn tue er vetoge VERIFIED CIRCULATION 50,870 Wedhescdisy 48.893 nostoy Oy SN. Loy + THIS PAPER IS REC YCL ABt E By PAT RICH (UPI) — ... The Chinese said the incident was sparked when four Soviet soldiers crossed the icy river in’ a motorboat and. at- tempted to kidnap a local Shepherd who was sub- sequently shot dead in a melee. It had been a bad day for Lin Po. First of all it was snowing. Not that this was unusual, here, just below the tree line, in early October. But a raging blizzard since dawn, and a foot of the stuff on the ground now, was a bit much. Then there was the fact that three of the commune’s prize ewes had gone missing. Of course, as comrade in charge of the rams this was strictly none of his business, but none of the new members to the Yungkitch Shepherders and _ Ball- bearing Mechanics Com- mune, dilettantes from the city, were about to go out and search for missing sheep in a snowstorm. So, in the deepening gloom, Lin Po had trudged away from his pre-fabricated communal hut and up on to the hill. He had found one of the ewes,.but to his non-existent delight, it had just had twins. Lin Po. roundly cursing PIE-EYES: Remember Arda Froese, The “Mad Mum of North Vancouver” as she was dubbed by a national magazine? North Van Schools Superintendent Rod Wickstrom certainly hasn't One of Dr Wickstrom’s better days was the day Arda pulled up sticks on the North Shore and moved, via Vancouver, to Toronto — whence she 1s now the scourge of school boards anywhere in Canada that dare to Unker with tiny minds Arda’s runin with = the North Van School Board about four years ago resulted from her discovery that her then eight year-old daughter had been placed in a “behavior modification class without) mum being informed She was told the school authorities didn't think it important for the parent to be notified about such mind bending caxcrcises that concerned parents werent about such ac (sities Outraged she called a pubhe meeting to which an astonishing LOQ 0 or turned up to More local parents capress similar comcerns to That was the birth ot the Parents Interested in beduc ation (Pin for short) which is now gong great her own movement guns on the Loronte area as well as here in the Lower Mainland The basa aim of PIF which Arda and her colleagues are presently planning to expand to other parts of the country ta te The Lin Po ‘borde the high school students who had accidentally let the rams run with the ewes that summer, picked up a lamb in each hand and started to head back to the commune. Through the swirling snowflakes Lin Po noted with interest that a motorboat seemed to be heading across the river. His dealings with the Soviets on the other side of the river had been confined to the annual fermented yak- milk drinking contest and the communal = spring shearing, and since it was time for neither of those, he had no idea what was going on. Being an_ isolated sheepherder, Lin Po did not “I think we can expect quite a lively sermon today.” sunday brunch by Noel Wright keep the nations. schoolrooms from becoming ‘mini-mental health clinics” and to demand that teachers concentrate on teaching instead of filling children’s heads with “Mickey Mouse mind games” Just recently Arda succeeded tn having a controversial pyscho-educ ational quiz dreamed up by the heavy thinkers on the Peel County Ont. school board cancelled -- it asked 12 year olds to decide who should live and who should die in a nuclear holocaust according to stereotyped labels such as age sex occupation, religion — and race Meanwhile her Vancouver partner in arms Lorraine Andrychauck, has managed to lower the boom on oa school where — the shrinks were operating a basement Choi using one way omirrors and ¢ hosed cancun TPT to play Peeping Tom oon young ss hool aged ‘haldren | without parental COmse nt The latest PIE weapon against the mind benders in our educational system isa Vigilante Corps Pit Watchdogs Any parent tor cl¥cn Non parcnati interestod in funny stuff of the hind desc mbed BeIng of in lo al schools ts They ll material called invited lo yoin receive oa kat of informing how to go about the simply by calling Andrychuck at) 2547303 and dont forgetit all started might here ra hitthe old North Vane ouver them job Mrs in) Vancouver Party time again. and Hilary Carpenter advises us that those nice West Van Francescans, whose hobby 1s raising funds for all kinds of community groups and services. are zeroing in next weekend on the 9 senior On Saturday October 1K starting at 7 30 pm. the Canyon Gardens will be the scene of “Oola Boola Moola Poola” tyour Kucss ts as good as mine’) - another of the Francescans famous fund raising dinner dances with proceeds from the SI8-per-head tuckets going to buy furnishings for the new West eilizens Van Semor Citizens Centre now under construction For tackets call 922 13IL by day 9422 325) after five oe Off Tuesday on a quick twoday trip to Ontanmeo are West Van Mayor Derrick Humphreys and other members oof the Urban Transit Authority to Inspect Kingston s automated (ransil light rapid which system dispenses with employees passengers from Pont to potnt an drivertess computer controtled and whips anits The group wall also be paying woside vasit to the Poronte subway belore heading back home bnmtal of bright new Kieas on people moving Cement COD pany boss Summy Sinclatly has notched up another claim to fame in addition to being Margaret Trudcau'’s dad and forme: federal fishernes minister in wee a rcr isis’ recognize an_ international incident when he saw one. It was only when the four well-bundled and well- armed Soviet = soldiers surrounded him, that Lin Po finally realized that he was the centre of attention. “You are Lin Po, Chinese shepherd?” one of the soldiers asked, in halting and rather apologetic Chinese. Lin Po nodded firmatively. “Well,” the soldier went on, looking down at a piece of paper, “we have orders to kidnap you and _ thereby foment a border crisis and international incident. I do hope you understand.” Lin Po grinned in relief. “Oh, you must want Lin Po, my brother,” he said. “He's the Assistant Director for Wool Production in the Eastern Provinces, and a very important person.” The soldier looked at the piece of paper again. “Nope, sorry. It says here, af- kidnap one simple sheepherder. name o. Lin Po” Lin Po was about to bridle at the use of the term simple sheepherder, but at just that moment the People’s Volunteer Number Two Machine Gun Squad arrived and it was too late. Lin Po died in the cross- fire. the fifties under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. They're naming a new $6 million fishenmes patrol boat after him one MAKE A NOTE: For those who hke to work well in. advance’ Brandon. Manitoba. is already planning its 00th an- niversary and would hike to hear from all former Ban- domites interested in at- tending the Homecoming bash July 3-11. 1982) Write Eva Campbell, Civic Ad ministration Building. Brandon, Man R7A 6A3 Congratulations to Plerre Barbey. boss of West Vans Salmon House on the Hill, which celebrated its fourth year in business last week. claiming to have — served TOL STS customers with nary a complaint about the salmon that figures The gracious living brigade can feast its eyes this week onan cahibit of paintings (all for sale) at West Van bbrary by West Van artist Allan tdwards. He held his first one man show at 1’ Welcome to West Van teacher aides Lynda McKay and Rosemary Dadiey. appomnted this month to Hollyburn and taons Bay respectively And dont forget the upcoming blowd donor clinics October bin Park Royals North Mall and October 2° at Laons Crate Hospital 2 to & pm in cach ase WRIGHI Moral indignation ils apex when its the other morals mndignation Thanksgiving’ OR WRONG: reaches felow's and your Happy