12 - Friday, May 3, 1985 ~ North Shore News VOLUNTEER OF YEAR From taxi to computer By DAWN BURKE “PVE ALWAYS been in- terested in the underdog.”’ Tunya Audain likes to spend her time doing things to help other people. She prefers to keep a low-profile and says the reward is in her Jong list of accomplish- ments. Tunya Audain is Volun- teer of the Year. Given by the Junior League, the Junior Achievement award recognizes Audain’s individ- ual initiative, persistence and effort in volunteering. The West Vancouver resident received her award April 29, Audain, a cab driver and mother of two, has become a pioneer in the school reform movement. But her volun- teer background is as exten- sive as it is diverse. She is a founding member of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. She developed a summer project for Ottawa's inner city children. She helped = stall the sale and demolition of Vancouver School Board property con- taining Vancouver's first high school, King George High School, for four years, She founded the Gifted Childrens Association of B.C. She is a board member of the B.C. Council for the Family. She has served as Secretary on the Coalition photo stu for the Education for All. She is a pioneer in the school reform movement. For the past 12 years, Au- dain has been acting in the capacity of parent advocate. She runs Education Adviso- ry for Parents, a voluntary service. Recognized in Canada, the United States and Australia, she has writ- ten and travelled extensively in her efforts to take the in- stitutionalism out of educa- tion. Audain says her parent advocacy stems from her own parenthood. Her children Fenya and Kyra are 19 and 18. “Children are best kept at home until they are nine or 10 or until they are old enough to handle institu- tionalization,’’ Audain says. “It’s just incredible what Strength the kids acquire in independent, self-directed learning.’” Education Advisory for Parents is for parents work- ing in partnership with schools. There are now over 2,000 children being educated at home in British Columbia, a figure Audain Says succeeds the total of the rest of the provinces com- bined. Audain finds the rewards of her work ‘tin the move- ment of parents who are asserting their independence and asserting control over their childrens education.’ She also finds one to one work with parents rewar- ding; showing them how they can individually take charge of their childrens education. “The award challexyes me to look further into why so many people do not do the things I do.” ‘LAWN'& BORDER! VOLUNTEER OF the year Tunya Audain, is good friends with her word processor. Au- dain, who just accepted the volunteer award from (he Junior League is a parent advocate who publishes the Education Advisory for Parents. Audain, the mother of two, seeks to help parents who want greater involvement in their childrens’ education. A Little Luxury A Little Wilderness LI TTLE GUN LAKE LODGE Uitte Guo Late Logge ts the test Dicewaicting quiet waths ANd og @ Qutet and chanting mountain saul Chasett wires and cory & We re nortt) of Pemberton dnd west Of Liane: per might Jon us Soon Our 198) season oper. Ata, sit Fat reservations ad intormiton comact Little Gun Lake Lodge Generat Deliver: Gold Bridge, 8.C. VOK tP0 TAA Spsroved in Vancouver 266:1673 Recemmneney 2 Moving projectors on tracks owt! INGE oo FO Indy pro wetirs T cams py Gal, $449.95 Auta al Drgector A= TPRAX it in the box! Now" (sages beetle} SSD as mate DIO NTORS at yOu WANG the trace Smee Ine pre JECTUTY, CAN He Mayed At welt! 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