DO NOT adjust your tele-
vision set. You are entering
the KIDZONE.

By Barbara Black
News Reporter

KIDZONE is a Knowledge
Network program for kids aged
seven to 12. It started in 1989 and
it is now in its third season, offer-
ing a half-hour of bit-sized seg-
ments on subjects from bungee
jumping and comic book collect-
ing to oil recycling and movie-
making.

The show airs on Sundays at
8:30 a.m. or Fridays at 7 p.m.

This year, three North Van-
couver kids, Sarah Chalke, Aly
Jiwani and Garin Josey, act as
hosts for the award-winning pro-
gram. Zap talked to them about
their participation in KIDZONE.

SARAH CHALKE

Fifteen-year-old Sarah Chalke
of Handsworth Secondary is in
her second year with the show.
She started out modeling about
five years ago and is now focusing
more on acting. She takes drama
at school and has also been in one
commercial where she dances
“with somebody who is supposed
to be my grandfather.”’

Her favorite KIDZONE shoot
so far was on location bungee
jumping in Nanamio, although
she didn’t take the plunge herself.

Chalke thinks the good thing
about KIDZONE is that it teaches
kids ‘tin such a fun way.’”

Is she famous at school? ‘*Well,

LAST WEEK Zap asked
whether it was a good idea ta
move the capital from Ottawa
to Winnipeg. A former politi-
cian has proposed to do just
that, but most of you thought
otherwise.

1 think it’s really dumb.
Qttawa “s the best place.

(don’t agree with the thing,
it would just cost too much,

It’s pretty dumb to do that.
Winnipeg’s not much of a city.
Halifax. Winnipeg is no good
for a capital of Canada and it
won't make it any balance.

Qn one hand I think it could
be really good if it could be
‘moved to Winnipeg, but on the
other hand, it costs so much
and right now Canada just
can’t afford that.

I don’t think it should be
done because that’s pretty
dumb, because you can’t move
capitals that easily you know.

VVVVVYVVVYV VV

This week's question:

SHOULD MARINE mammals
like orca whales be kept in cap-
tivity? Some say we need them in
aquariums (tv study their habits
snd to educate people who can't
see them in the wild. Others
disagree. What do you think?

photo submitted

KIDZONE, an award-winning show from the Knowledge Network features three North Vancouver

kids as hosts. Aly

diwani (bottom, centre), Gaiin Josey (bottom, right) and Sarah Chalke (left, mid-

die, with blonde hair) Join four other KIDZONERS in a program that makes learning fun for the

seven to 12-year-old set.

since I’m in Grade 10 not a lot of
people at school watch it because
it’s for elementary students. But-
my friends do sometimes.”

She misses about one day of

_ school per week filming for the
‘show,

but it doesn’t affect her
grades too much.

As for acting, she says she
always liked doing it. But she’s
not sure if she'll do it as a career

\

— ‘*There’s so much choice!’” she
says.
ALY JIWANI

Aly Jiwani, who is 13 and at-
tends Balmoral Junior High
School, says he’s always been in-
terested in acting. He describes
being in the show as ‘‘like a
dream.”’

‘I wasn’t very confident when I
went for the audition but I was

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thrilled to “tbe picked,’” he en-
thuses.

On the set he says he’s “‘right at
home, treated like a house guest’’
and finds the whole venture fun.
Jiwani completed the John
Casablanca teen modelling pro-
gram but thinks that TV acting is
were it’s at for him.

He’s been a movie extra for
several locally shot movies in-

cluding Who’s Harry Crumb and
says he ‘‘just loves being in front

of the camera.’

Jiwani just earned his brown
belt in karate and also loves
sports, especially hockey and
basketball. But his greatest love is
acting which he wants to make his
career.

In the future he'd like to do a
series ‘‘like Beverly Hills 90210.”

This is his first year with KID-
ZONE,

GARIN JOSEY
Another KIDZCNER, Garin

Josey, of Sutherland Secondary, a

managed to make it through. the -:
first audition of 200 kids to be
chosen as one of the seven hosts
of the show.

Josey started acting | in school
plays and went on to train at the

North Shore’s Breck Academy

and at Schacter Studios. He has _-

also appeared in a feature fi Im:

and in a commercial which: had
him jumping in and out of a pool
on a cold day that was: supposed .
to took like summer. :
What he likes about working on-
KIDZONE is ‘you can give your"
ideas if, say, you don’t like a lin
or a movement. You can alway:
give your ideas and the directo!
will use them if they’re good.”
Josey says ‘‘I want to be an
tor, mostly I want to be
movie. There’s a big-one comin

out he’s interested in business
real estate. He likes to: colléct.-
sports cards and enjoys s skiing nd
fishing.

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