10 ~ Wednesday, May 4,

1988 - North Shore News

Students deal with drinking and driving

T HE END of another school year is just around the corner.
, For students finishing Grade 12, it’s a time of celebration
os and atime of tough choices about drinking and driving.

‘Despite nthe. s ceess of
CounterAttack ‘activities (the 1988

spring CounterAttack cain an
wraps up today), drinking a ving

is still the} most common cause ‘af,

fatal accidents, especially those i
volving young drivers,

. If the current rate of drinkitg
” drivers continues, approximatels
five out of every 100 childcen who
are 10 years old today will be killed
or injured in alcohol-related traffic
accidents within the next decade.

Locally, /students have taken the

By MICHA
News Repo:

task of reversing. the, frend to
heart. The Handsworth Secondary
chool CounterAttack” group is
stablishing a Taxi Assisted. Pay-
“snent System (TAPS). i
; The system would allow a stu-
ent fo receive a taxi ride home on
a Friday or Saturday but: would
allow fare payment to be made at a
Jater date, The student pays half of

the fare. The remainder. will be
made up from a Handsworth
CounterAttack account consisting

‘of donations from various Greater

Vancouver businesses.

Said ‘Sarah Steele, president of
the Handsworth CounterAttack
group, ‘This system will provide a
safe. alternative.way home for our
students and may also help in
reducing the’. number of unsafe
drivers on our streets.”

Earlier last month, West Van-
couver high school: ici i
a car skills rally organized by the
v CounterAttack

were on hand to judge students’,

driving kills on the street and
driving know-how on a written ex-
am. The North Shore

students to use,

Said Mandy Morden, West
Vancouver student CounterAttack,
president at
“Last year West Vancouver high
schools developed # bad. name as
far as events that had taken place
that appeared to destroy the com-
munity. The committee decided to
put together an event that would
show that not all high school stu-
dents were destructive.''

FROM THE
MAN |
BMW.

TRAINED.

JZABETH THE SECOND, by the ‘Grace’ of God, of. the 3 ited Kingdom,
Canada and: Her’ other. Realms and T erritories, Queen, Head of, the. :
Cor © is

“AND WHEREAS \ack of respect for human Ie has storia resulted in acts which have outa “

ed the conscience of mankind;

/AND. WHEREAS it is essential to contirm the inherent value of each human life:
AND WHEREAS Our Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
- Council in that behalf that.a Proclamation be issued designating the week:of May 1 1to 08, 1988, in-
_,Clusive, as ‘Respect. Human:Life Week'’ in British. Coltimbia;
_ NOW KNOW YE: THAT We do by these presents ‘proclaim and ‘declare that the week of May.
1 to 8, 1988; inclusive, shall be known’as ‘'Respect Human Life Week"’ in British Columbia and urge 3
all citizens: to.take cognizance ‘of.the special events for this time.
: “TN TESTIMONY. WHEREOF We have caused these Our Letters to be made Paten and the
‘of.¢ vince: t be hereunto affixed.) -;
WITNESS the Honourable Robert Gordon Rogers, Lieutenant Governor of ‘our Province of British.
Columbia, in Our City of: Victoria; -in Our Province, this twenty- -fifth day.of March-in the year of Our. -
‘Lord one thousand nine hundred: and eighty- eight and in.the thirty: “seventh year of Our, Reign:

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Driving-
. School provided five cars..for the

Hillside Secondary,.

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