IN SCHOOLS

‘Friendly tr
to survival

A SAN) Diego man
spent Friday talking to
North Vancouver
search and rescue per-
sonel and school
children about their
friends the trees.

RK HAMILTON

Ab Faylor, a retired con-
sultant on human tracking to
the American border patrol,
was in town to help launch a
local version of his sucessful
Hug-A-Tree program, aimed
al saving young lives in the
woods.

Taylor ran through the
program tor an elementary
school class to demonstrate
how the program is taught
and then spent the day train-

ees’ key
program

The

committee put
together a shde show and
hand-out tor children that

was tested on a grade five
class and then rewritten in
response to therr comments.
As well as emphasizing what
children should do, it work-
ed to acquaint them with
what they could expect dur-
ing a prolonged stay in the
woods and how to deal with
It.

The program grew from
there, reaching the point
where 2,400 letters asking

for information were receiv-
ed after an article about
Hug-A-Tree appeared in a
national magazine

By January of tins year.
the program was establishéd
well beyond the boundaries
of San Diego County. with

600 presenters trained in 2]

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teaching. North Vancouver is get the
Those four members are program into every elemen-
now in the process of tary school,”’ savs Cpl. Don °
developing a program that Jette, a member of the a
wilt be offered to all elemen- RCMP and one of the tour a
tary schoo! aged children. that received the special :
Hug-A-Tree — a non- training Friday “‘We want
profit organization so named "NEWS phote Tany Peters (0 be able to go into the
because wt centres around the ~~ ag TAYLOR, one of the founders of the Hug-A-Tree pro- schools and make sure this
need [0 stay in one spol if gram, takks to North Vancouver search and rescue officials Program gets to every stu.
vou become lost — = was Friday. . dentin the svstem 7"
established in 1981 after the °

death of a voung bov who
had become lost on Palomar .
Mountain near San Diego.

The boy's body was found ;
tour days alter the became ns tly Ful

lost, at fhe end of a search
that involved 400 people
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faces on the mountain and
months afterward There
was grief in it, for a voung
boy who had lost his lite and
also a teebng of a great
wrong that had occurred
nobody to blame lt
just wasn Cright

Prom that grew a coment
tee of people who
with @ goal of preventing the
children from becoming lost
in San

with

worked

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prepating them for survival "
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