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HILLSIDE PROGRAM

* Dear. lditars os

On behalf Wt Hiliside Secondi wry
School's CounterAttack commit-
tec, I would like to express the

great disappointment we-fels at the |

pathecically “small inumber ‘of

parents that supported our group |

tan Anformation and awareness

West Van

1 “Dear Ei ditor:
- Occasionally we
cism: of the police: forces of the

area voiced in the press. My wife |

recently” experienced a heartwarti:
ing meld of afsi ance and sym
pathy when “her new car® was
s “totalled': iia rear end collision
* by Ayah Opal scapee. ~ Fortue

Of the West
es "Police force’ | was
ad the. call of ‘duty. Driving
to her doctor and ‘returning to
ick her up and drive her: home,
the
female members of the! staff, ad-
‘vice and information from the! ex-
ecutive staff — they could not da
enough for her:
iAs. most’ ‘of us know wee have

: fine pdople in otir police forces and

* slopes-of the mountains on" your, .

+, Vancouver’, into |

spaming

itis: often’ as thankless task «for

“them, But: Shrough your columns f-

would like, to! be permitted to

think the West Vancouver Police.

| foree for: ‘their srecent efforts ©

both in their capture, of the: hard *

~ Ecological
_pepenes

“Driving: i east
_'Bay‘on the, Upper Levels Highway, :
you’ enjoyi’ the” thick- treed © green

left and‘on. your:right more green
“ slopes down to the shining sea.
.You round the corner past Eagle

Ridge and you suddenly see on the:

left ibare, stripped. slopes, janimed
‘with houses,' ‘and on the tight more
‘bare slopes and, more ‘houses: going
din:

~ What's going ony here? Are the
" developers so greedy for money and:
so careless of nature, that they are

willing to. strip ‘and’ bulldoze the .

fair landscape of ‘this part of West
“mere bare. rock -
“and stony soil? a

‘Can: they), be prevented: from:
-turning the entire north slope into
a barren;’ crowded, cityscape?
“What ¢ ‘are’ the - ecological ; conse-
quences of this. activity? ‘Can. we
© expect erosion and increasing rock :
- falls? :

s there “no ‘way tostop this:
ecological: and “visual - barbarism :
and* put “some sense .and _beauty-
“back into! “planning: ‘for’ these
*slopes?- I, think’ we deserve; some
answers ‘to: these “questions from”
the» ‘municipality ‘of, Westy ‘Van-

"Peter Buitenhu
West, Vancouver

British Columbia Lung Association

evening meeting held of, the even
\

ing of April 7:

Please forgive me, ‘ he | few
parents who cared enough"to sup;
port our group, After all tha, wark
we had done to prepare 2 tihique
presentation, “surely our dixap-
_ Ppiniment is understandable,

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The Counter Attack group, on
ibehalf of a recommendation made
by the students, set: to; a) show -
CounterAttack’s progress at
Hillside;.. b) inform the’ adults on
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Hillside’s CounterAttack’ survey;
d} present the slide-tape Spared to
Suffer, which was produced by the
West Vancouver Student
CounterAuack group. :

So why did) CoutiterAtiach

_ Feceive such litthe support? Yes, we

had two ‘bulletins in’ our: schoal
newsletter that were -sent home by
email. We phoned all the: parents of
the Grade IL and 12) students.
What happened, to all. those
parents wha thought we had” a
good idea and would be ‘pleased to»

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Hillside students attended! our
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tears we saw were authent
why are drinking and driving
dents sti occurring? Haw fon we
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each year : :

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