FOR THE past seven years,
students at Boundary

Seniors take their lunch to
the school for the ‘‘brown
bagging’’ sessions and, meals
augmented by coffee, tea and

FETE FOR SENIORS

baked goods provided by the
students, sit back to enjoy
some entertainment.

Each month a different
class organizes the event —
including food, decorations
and entertainment.

The seniors from Lynn
Valley and Cedarview lodges
have grown so appreciative

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of the entertainment that it’s
grown from a brief part of
the session to fill most of the
hour lunch takes.

News photographer Terry
Peters was on hand this week
as the grade four class,
school band and a group of
graduate students put on the
show for the seniors.

get this straight

by Doug Collins

Beware Watson

THE WOLF THING was really too much. Never

in the history of the West has so much fuss been
made by so many over so little.

A stranger could be
forgiven for thinking that
this was another Scott of the
Antarctic saga, but it was just
a bunch of looniecs charging
forth into the snow with no
tdea of where to go nor how
to get there, even if they did.

And this was no loncsonc
tral. There was a cast of
thousands, mostly from the
CBC AL hot to report the
Penls of Paul But thcy
would have been better off
covering specches on the rub
ber chicken carcust, and Wat
son and Co. should be charg
ed with false pretences

BAD NAME

it's aot that | am hosule to
wolves, you understand, or
wish them any harm I'm
quite willing to believe
they're really nothing morc
than a bunch of hand-lichin’,
(nendly St) Bernards of the
wiid who wouldn't take a bite
out of a human bum cven if 11
were served up warm on a
cold day And, having sccn
Fasicy Mowat's Never Cry
Wolf, I'm also willing to
beheve that these clever
creatures’ main occupation ts
Staking out temmtory ins the

traditional way, singing to
each other under a full moon,
and cating micc.

In a vaguc kind of way I'm
even in favor of protecting
them, thcy having been given
a bad name by Hans Chris
tian Andersen and = other
tellers of fairy-stomnes But if
1 were a wolf I'd howl for
Watson and his wife (the
adchightfully named Starlet
lum) plus all wolf camp
followers, to be confined to
barracks where they could do
no harm All Watson was do
ing was giving the world a
laugh at the capense of
wolfhind, and making the
wolves of government morc
determined than cver to wipe
wolfhind out

Actually, Watson should
be an the clink He was
scntcnced to two years by a
Quebeu court for sticking his
fat nose into the scal hunt
and before that was ramming
Portugese whalers) on the
high scas Why the Portugese
Navy wasn't called in to blow
him and his Sea Shepherd out
of the wata | don't know
Porhaps, under the influence
of democracy, the Ports have
gone hippic

Anyway in the (C)uctoer

he isn’t cured

case, which is under appeal,
the sentence followed two
other convictions. But all this
has only cncouraged the
fellow to try agam (If
everyone followed his cxam-
ple, we'd all be writing our
own laws

PHONIES

As far as the whales and
seals were concerned, | was
prepared to give Watson the
benefit of the doubt. Perhaps
he knew somcthing | didn’t
know, although the crics of
pain from the poor starving
sealers of Newfoundland had
me wormed But the indecent
haste with which he and his
compantons-tn arms hurried
off in defence of the wolves

persuaded me that they're
phonies
Have they studied wolf

ccology? Of course not) They
didn't have tame All they did
was to read stortes ino the
papers and before you could
cry wolf they were off into
the frozen wastes, playing
Captain Scott and annoying
the locals

If they had frozen to death
wt would have been thet own
damocd fault But there
wasn't much chance of that
Not with all those media
bodics around Csod, what a
pass thangs have come
to when assignment ciditors

PHOTOGRAPHS
(clockwise from top left),
show Boundary School
students entertaining their
favorite seniors. Amy
Chalmers ts the student help-
ing Mrs. Keough to her seat
while classmate Candice
Fairbanks talks to one of the
guests. The band performs,
to the delight of Mrs.
Keough, while another
visitor sips coffce as she ap-
preciates Kristi Fairbridge's
dance of welcome.

and city cditors ctc can't
recognize a phony when they
sec one Is this why jour
nalism schools were set up?

The biggest) laugh = was
when onc Of the great cx
plorers was carnied out of the
woods gibbering and weep
ing, and you can bet your
breakfast that a lot of has
buddies were wishing they'd
acver gone to see Mowat's
movic, too

But Watson tsn't
and now he'll be running
around tying to ruin’ che
BC tournst industry

hic i have no more success
in that, though, than the
demented hospital workers
umion did when they tried the
same stunt What these guys
should learn ots that) they
should NEVER CRY Wot t

cured,

7 - Friday, February 17, 1984 - North Shore News

NEWS photos Terry Peters

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