Student’s poem chosen for book THE SCENE from her window inspired 11-year-old Claudia Crosbie to write A Tree on the Corner, which was recently published in the book Imaginings, Poems by Canadian Children. Her poem was one of 110 chosen out of 20,000 entries in a nation- wide contest sponsored by Puffin Books. ““l was very excited when I found out,”’ says Claudia. The poem is in English, the lan- guage in which Claudia finds it easiest to write. But she also speaks the two other languages that are spoken in her home, French and Spanish. After the family moved to North Vancouver from Squamish over a year ago, Claudia began attending the Programme Cadre French pro- gram at North Star School. Her poem was written for her English Language Arts class and submitted by her teacher, Kirsten Nowak. At home, Claudia and her sisters mostly speak English mixed with a little French. They understand the Spanish spoken by their parents, but don’t speak it as much as their other languages. Claudia, like many seasoned writers, composes on the typewrit- er. Writing is one career she is considering, along with art, modelling and fashion design. Science Fair was a success ABOUT 100 local tius rarticipated in the recent District Sciznce Fair, a prelude to the upcoming Van- couver/Lower Mainland Regional Science Fair which will be held April 14 and 15 at Sutherland Sec- ondary. The children who entered the District Fair at Capilano Mall were in Grades 4 to 7, and they had to talk about their displays to the judges, who evaluated them sepa- rately on the basis of scientific thought, originality and pres- entation. Some 30 participants who received outstanding award certifi- cates in all three categories were Presented with special awards of excellence, “The awards were not counted or publicized and the event was kept non-competitive,’’ district elementary science consultant Bill Thorburn commented later. _ Thorburn said that ‘‘construc- tive criticism was an important part of the process for the kids.’” (GEORGE WALKER’SY DANCE SCHOOL Capilano Highlands For Weekday or Saturday Classes MSerting” @] April ’89 Pre-Schoo} Dance Specialist For Boys and Gids “TINY TUTU's for TWO” For 2 year olds & parents “KINDER-DANCE” 3 & 4 year olds BALLET CHARACTER 5.6 & 7 year gids OY BALLET FOR FUN ¥ A & FITNESS (ADULTS) B vu Chronicle Reporter He also wanted to give credit to Capilano Mall, which gave each exhibit a $5 gift certificate and two-for-one coupon to attend an IMAX show. March 23 was the cut-off date for application with Science World for entry into the regional science fair, which is open to Grades 6 to The fair will not be open to the public until Saturday, April 15, at 10 a.m., by which time the judging will be completed. “The level of sophistication at these fairs has been amazing,’’ says Thorburn, who expects 150 students to participate. Outstanding exhibitors at Sutherland may enter the Canada-Wide Science Fair which is being held this year at UBC, with Grades 7 to 12 competing for ma- jor prizes. CLAUDIA CROSHIE, student at North Star’s Programme Cadre French program, had her poem chosen over thousands of others for inclusion in a children's poctry book published by Puffin. Locais win French speech contest SIX LOCAL students came out winners recently in the district finals of the “Concours d’Art Oratoire,"? an annual French public speasing contest held in conjunction with the Parents For French Association. Students from Grades 6 to 12 compete in Immersion, Fran- cophone and French as a Second Language categories. This year’s contest included a range of topics which dealt with personal experiences, persona! opinions and the sharing of infor- mation. Alex Dabuzinski of North Star Elementary won in the Grade 6 Francophone category, while Grade 7 students Sarah Chalke of Cleveland Elementary and Sam Sanjabi of North Star, took top honors in the Immersion and Francophone sections. Balmoral Secondary students Karine Theoret and Catherine Brisson were the winners in the Grade 8 Francophone and Grade 9 to 10 Francophone categories. Nousha Behbahanian of Hand- sworth Secondary was the top Grade 9-10 Immersion contestant. The winners will go on to com- pete in the provincial competition to be held at UBC, Saturday, April 2. your local merchants. o you like the convenience of having shops and services close to where you yaa!) live? Give local business a boost by looking over the advertisernents in this paper to see what values can benefit you, and by patronizing those businesses located right in your own neighborhood.