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“TAKE a deep breath.
.Go.ahead = at least. for
oday, it shouldn’t harm you.
“It’s: Clean. Air Day across
the province. Government
“agencies, ‘businesses, commu-
“nity:, groups’: and’ individuals
. are all doing their part to clear
the air. te,
_ >. The focus of this year’s
campaign: is the impact of
greenhouse: gases on climate
change. and on the quality of
our'air. |”
~Every year, some 16 mil-
. ion tons of greenhouse gases
“— including. carbon dioxide
— are discharged to the air
throughout the Lower
‘Mainland. The vast majority
of those gases come from the

Clean A Air Day

burning of fossil fuels. Even

small.changes in personal
behavior by residents can have
an affect on air quality.

The theme also ties in with
Bike to Work Weck, which
runs until Saturday.

The day’s events include a
commuter challenge — in
which workplaces challenge
employees to find alternative
means of transportation to
work; a pancake breakfast and
transportation fair at the
Toronto Dominion Plaza at
Georgia and Granville in
Vancouver; and The Great
Bike-Transit-Car - Challenge
beginning at Broadway and
Nanaimo at 8 a.m.

So the kids don’t feel left
oui, there is a joint exhibit by
the Greater — Vanceuver
Regional District and Science

World.

Earthquake
plans needed
for schools

Jolanda Waskito
Contributing Writer

ONLY about four out
of 42 schools in the
district would be fully
prepared should a
quake hit say the vol-
unteer co-ordinators
of North Vancouver
school district’s
Emergency
Preparedness
Committee.

And preparing schools
and training personnel for
such an emergency should be
paid for by the school board
and not by parents, they
added.

Bernadette
Woit and
Patricia
Lambert, coor-
dinators of the
committee, pre-
sented their
concerns to the
North
Vancouver
schoo! board at
last Tuesday’s
mecting .

They
appealed to the
board to hire a
paid part-time
co-ordinator for
the emergency preparedness
program because the demand
for their voluntary services
had become their “third
life.”

“There’s no plan of
releasing the children ...
who’s pons to take care of
the kids and how are you
going to Iet them go home?”
Woit asked.

“Supposedly all public
buildings are to be designat-
ed as disaster response cen-
tres, but realistically in North
Van all we have so far is che
equipment for two response
centrers and the volunteers
to go with it.”

Woit said she and
Lambert have been teaching
emergency preparedness to
North Shore schools for four
years and it’s time thar the
school board and district take
over.

“The school board, who
should be. responsible, isn’t
even paying a dime,” Woit
said.

“If the school. board isn’t
putting something towards

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“Under the
Schoo! Act, the
school board
and the school
district has a
responsibility
for the safety
of the kids.”

it, what is their commitment
(to safety)?”

North and West
Vancouver Emergency
Program co-ordinator Ross
Peterson agrees,

“Under the School Act,
the school board and schoo!
district has a responsibility
for the safety of the kids,”
Peterson said.

“I think there’s an obliga-
tion to participate at some
level in the development of
plans ... they sheuldn’t be
totally funded by parent
groups. | think there should
be a financial contribution
from the school boards as
well.”

Peterson, who works with
Woit and Lambert on the
emergency pro-
gram, says he
would like
$10,000 _
$5,000 each
from the North
Vancouver and
West Vancouver
school districts
— to hire a
Part-time — co-
ordinator who
will develop a
standard plan
for schools and
make sure they
are prepared for
a natural disas-
ter.

“(We need) someone who
has time to sit and draft the
standard plans, to develop
and exercise training pro-
grams, to develop those sorts
of education programs in
school that can teach kids

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