Al0 - Sunday, October 16, 1983 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter

by
Ellsworth
Dickson

Night schools, technical schools, colleges
and universities are full of people training and
re-training for successful careers in the ever-
changing job market. Young people, with
their high unemployment rate, are particularly
concerned about what they should do.

For to-day’s column, I spoke to young peo-
ple in West Vancouver.

‘‘How are you preparing
for the future?”

Fred Deane
West Vancouver

I’m going into com-
puter science at Capilano
College. Right now, I’m
trying to find part-time
work to pay for college.
I’m also interested in com-
mercial art as a back-up
trade. I’m studying art at
the present time.

Fraser Ray
West Vancouver

I’m also interested in
computer science. I’m
hoping to attend BCIT. |
feel there are good job op-
portunities in the com-
puter fheld. | would like to
find a part-ume job.

Mike Carpenter
West Vancouver

I'm interested in retail
merchandising | would
like to work for mysclt
Vil probably take some
business courses in col
lege | think there are op

portunities for
dent businessmen

indepen

Mich McC@ ann
West Vancouver

I'm uinterested in tase
dressing although ifas sal
a bit carly for me to
devide | know there are
lots of young people out
of work and | would like
to find work with

kind of security

somc

Chartcne Mattson
Weat Vancouver

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medhoine
Bo la

tnterested aa

Il would tthe to
med al
Nursing college

school ons
also
interested in obtaining my
pilot's heenace Right now
laced a part Gime job

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BLOCK PARENT WEEK

N Van aiming at
arent per block

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are saluting area
Block Parents — and pushing for more — this

week .

Monday, Oct. 17, marks
the start of Block Parent
week, during which special
emphasis will be put on the
preventative program that of-
fers shelter to children in
distress.

In West Vancouver, says
Cst. Dave Marskell, the
police have a big thank you
for the Block Parents but no
need for a big push.

“‘We don’t really have to
make a big push,’’ says Mar-
skell, ‘‘The program is
operating so well.’’

North Vancouver’s pro-
gram has also been a success.
Cst. Rod Booth of the Crime
Prevention Unit says there
are more than 1,000 Block
Parents in place.

More, however, wouldn't
hurt, as police take aim at a
target of at least one Block
Parent for every block in the
area.

The Block Parent program
has won quick community

acceptance since its inception
in London, Ont., in 1968.
Each Block Parent, a
volunteer, displays a large
poster in a front widnow
adervertising their home as a
haven for children being
bothered by a stranger, a bul-

Going public
with safety

A PARENT-TEACHER safety committee, formed
in the wake of the death of a school girl in a
crosswalk two years ago, is expanding its efforts.

The group has been
operating for the benefit of
students in the area of Larson
Elementary. This week, they
take their message to the
community as a whole with
their first-ever safety fair

Blair Martin, a teacher at
lL.awson and a member of the
group, says the fair, schedul
ed for Thursday, Oct 20, 1s
aimed at raising the safety
consciousness of students
and parents throughout the
area

The Safety Fai was born,
Martin said, when the group

decided ‘Never mind just
worrying about the Larson
kids, how about kids in
general?”

“We said det’s get the
adults involved. too,’ Mar
tin said

Thursday's Safety Fair will
run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
with a number of displays
featuring the school children
and outside agencies ranging
trom ICBC to the police

There will be demonstra
trons, skits, and perfor
mances by students, all armed
at spreading the
message

Outside agencies such as
ICBC will bring along such
graphic illustrators as the
Crash Convincer, a machine
that gives mders a jolt: while
showing the importance of
seat belts

There is no charge for ad
mission to the Safety fair ac
tivities and the safety

safety

com
mittee as urging all North
Shore residents to drop by

For safety’s sake, of Course

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ly or an aggressive animal; if
they are lost; if they are hurt.

Children are told they can-
not go to Block Parents for
such things as a drink of
water or to use a telephone.

As well as providing a
haven for children in distress,
the Block Parent network
also offers police a valuable
tool when someone is

missing.

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CRASH PAD

NEWS

Vol. II No. 34Sunday, 16 October, 1983

a dinet nent to the Computer

trom ICBC

policy tf you will

Doin’ It Right, Dept

Gonna bere oon

anywhere

Your Right to
Choose right

Thats nght' | know how easy ttmust be to get blostin the baffling
array of body shaps bach ts operating on an identical rate set by

ICBC and most appear the same when you walk in a catchy
name on the outside and loud noises on the inside Pd consider it
an hondgur to help you sort Chirough the maze and the best way is
to talk about our (1S 2 Not doesnt stand for under support pt
mon it refers to something every business caught to have a unl
que selling pote

Little Big Things, Dept

Since everyone isin precisely the sare ball park itis indeed the
ftthe things that addi up Now that | sit back and tick em off on
my fingets Crash Vad dows have more than ome usp bitrst of all
there s your own comvemence to consider Where else can yon

drop your car otf at 7 AM and get chauffered to work on time’
And get some damn fine Conversation thrown in the bargain We
would make you breakfast but the Can, wont allow us to operate

More Than Meets the Eye, Dept

Then theres the matte: of things that get left off your estimate
One that Comes to mind ts getting your radiator pun
ched tn by ao lange size trailer hitch You bring tn your car and we
get the estimate. and find that there's no new anti freeze inchided
In the insurance That's when we go to bat for you and get it cor
rected often customens dont even know we've done it lor thern
We must haw a huge bank account of good karma bullt up
somewhere Anti freese may sound like o tnfling thing but the
same applies to any oversight We do it as a matter of conse

It may sound overty simple but the facts that tothe dont Came

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make the night choton, first off. that ta Right?

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