Lloyd ‘Wrean says:
- in a small liquor-type

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boarded ‘Up window

_FROM PAGE 1
. Says fire. inspector Tom

_ Payne: “There was some

_ bluish residue which shows
_that maybe it was a mixture

of oil and gas. It could be

chainsaw gas or something.”

And school principal
“It was
bottle,
which was only partially

broken.”

The bombs were hurled |

through a side window
beside an exterior door into
the corridor and Wrean
describes. the sequence in
which the bomber struck.

“On Friday. somebody— the whole-community.”

came along and broke the
window with a rock. and
threw it (the bomb) through
the ‘window and it rolled
down the floor about 40 feet.

Damage from that first
bomb was confined chiefly
to burning the floor where it
burst into flames.

Of the sequence of events
‘that followed, Wrean says:

Children not taught survival skills in schools

FROM PAGE 2 .

than 40% of kids enrolled in
secondary education. The
rest learned in the com-
munity. It is a farce to
pretend that schools are the
only source of learning. We
nov- have almost 100% of

- | teenagers enrolled-in high

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schools, and we simply are
not teaching them the skills
they need to survive: how to
handle long and tedious
chores, how to operate and
repair machinery, how to
treat children, how to grow

crops, systems of adult
interaction - that kind of
thing. The community

taught those things before,
in an environment! that was
much more ‘real’ to the
young people than _ the
school system.”

. “The average 18-year-old
has spent 15,000 _ hours
watching
13,200 hours in their twelve
years of school. Television is

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He says of the blaze:
“Th

ere was a. significant .

amount of heat from that fire
and without these alarm
systems you can imagine
what might have happened. "

“As to why the-_firebomber
should strike twice at the
same school, it is not
generally: felt that the in-
cidents are likely a vendetta
by a culprit with a grudge
against the school. ~

School ‘secretary Mrs.
Dorothy Williams says: “I
dorf’t think there is anybody

who has a grudge, especially .

in a comimunity school
where we are widely used by

group. a”

Meanwhile, Dean -had
already -announced -the
previous day that she would

seek the nomination. She

“served as an alderman.on

| City council from’ 1970 to
1977, when she was defeated .

by Jack Loucks in her bid to
be elected mayor.

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There. have been rumors
for ‘a. couple. of weeks that ©
Davis was considering an
attempt ata comeback and a -
split has been: reported
‘ within: the riding association.
between-his supporters and ©

an opposing

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WANTING BACK the seat

BUSY 10 DEAN—eyeing . cessful . fund-raising cam-
_ he. resigned— former, the - Seymour route to paigns for. the Salvation
Seymour MLA Jack Davis. Victoria. .

“stop. Davis” —

community ‘and business |
‘fields. in ‘addition to her
seven years servicé on City
council. -

aN Lonsdale business
"woman, she. is. presently.
> chairman’ of the’ Moodyville
- Business Association,
chairman of the ‘North Van |
City and District: Tourist |
;"Bureau,. Chairman of. the
“; North Van Folkfest: and a
director: of the North Van
Chamber of Commerce.

“She has organized suc-

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Manor, and was awarded the
Canadian -Centennial Medal

__by the Secretary of State for

Wrean says: “I really don’t
care to speculate why it

happened. It boggles the
mind.”

“The window was covered
with plywood and all nailed
up and then early Monday
morning someone came and

pried off the cover and threw _

the same thing in again.”

a very powerful force. It

. creates need by stimulating,

but it doesn’t teach self-
sufficiency.
edited, for
reasons of time and viewer
interest. This creates a
superficial view of reality,
and promotes a view of easy
wish fulfillment. It’s
essential to have television,
and to teach the students to
use it as a tool. But it’s
dangerous. The level of
cynicism and jadedness is
very high in young television
watchers. Their superficial
experience with television
gives them the feeling that
they've ‘seen it all’. By
replacing the community
experience referred to
earlier, television brings in
needed ideas and  per-
spectives, like other media,
but it is a very simplistic
viewpoint.”

Low feels that the

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Davis resigned as MLA for
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following his conviction on a
charge of defrauding the
provincial government.
Despite the court verdict
members of the ‘association’s
executive passed a vote of
confidence in Davis at that
time.

the experiences that young
people really need. “We
should be equipping human
beings to deal with change,
teaching what I call generic
skills - situation
management, for instance,
or the ways that one can
groom oneself so as not to
offend people one wishes to
get along with. These ex-
periences and others. like
them are presently not
readily available outside of
military colleges, systems
programming courses ” or

high level business training —

seminars and the like.”

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“We must make a choice
soon. Either shut down the
illusion of ‘freedom’ in our
school system and _.- go
straight to 1984, or else get
serious about starting to
produce personal com-
petence in our young people
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A former Liberal MP and
federal fisheries minister in
the Trudeau government,
Davis was defeated in the
Capilano federal riding by

He was immediately ap- services to the community.

- pointed to the cabinet and
- served as transport minister
until the. spring of 1978,
when he was fired by

Mrs. Dean is also a former
vice-president of the North
Van-Seymour Social Credit

Tory MP Ron Huntington at ' Premier Bill Bennett pen- Association, whose
the 1974 federal election. ding the outcome of the nomination she is now
charges against him. seeking.

Later ‘he joined the °
provincial Socreds and won Stella Jo Dean, a North The association currently
the Seymour seat for themin Van resident for 25 years, niimbers about 1,000 paid-
the 1975 provincial election. has been active in- many up members. ;

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One final point: Low says
the ‘building’ is more im-
portant than the learning
that goes on inside. “Many
teachers do their best to
interest and enthuse a
particular class. And
perhaps, right in the middle
of a crucial point the PA
system blares out and all the
attention in the classroom is
shattered.

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Either thing simply _rein-
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learn very. early in the
system - the structure is
more important than the,
learning.”

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