4 — Friday, June 2, 1989 - North Shore News
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, NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

STUDENTS OF Queen Mary Community School broke out a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday at the school’s
recent week-long 75th auniversary celebration. Singing replaced a planned balloon release after a student voiced
an environmental concern about releasing more than 200 balloons.

Pupils alter birthday festivities
in order to protect environment

THE SOUND of more than 200 children singing
Happy Birthday lifted skyward instead of 210
balloons last Wednesday thanks to a young Queen
Mary Community School student’s concern for the
environment.

Staff and students at the North Vancouver school
had planned a mass balloon release as part of the
school’s week-long 75t anniversary celebration.

Said Queen Mary :-acher Wendy Charters: ‘‘The
class had brainstormed some ideas about how we
could celebrate the birthday and the kids came up
with the idea of letting off balloons for the class and
then the whole school.”

But I1-year-old Nigel Whiteside approached
Charters one Friday afternoon and voiced his con-
cerns about the plan to release 210 balloons.

“Nigel came up to me after school and said to me
he had read that balloons fly over the ocean and are
eaten by wildlife,’’ said Charters. “I heard the em-
pathy in his voice and I heard it and heard it all
through that weekend. He’s a real scientific-minded
and empathic child.”’

The staff met on the following Tuesday and decided
to replace birthday balloons with birthday voices.

Said Nigel: ‘‘E saw a whole bunch of balloons
floating down by Lonsdale Quay one time, and | read
about it, too.””

West Van Police recover stolen cars

WEST VANCOUVER Police re-
covered two stofen cers last month
after a car chase down Bellevue.

A police cruiser, travelling west
on Marine at 11:24 p.m. May 6,
noticed two cars racing by. The
cruiser gave chase and caught up
with one of the vehicles, a grey '77
Datsun 280, in the 1800-block
Bellevue. The Datsun picked up

speed and continued west to 23rd
Street.

The car attempted to turn north
on 23rd, but crashed into a house
on the corner. A foot chase ensued
and a suspect was found hiding in
a nearby driveway.

Police found the second vehicle,
a brown '76 Toyota Corolla,
abandoned on the south side of
Bellevue at 16th. Further investiga-

tion revealed that the Datsun had
been stolen earlier that evening in
Vancouver. The Toyota had been
reported stolen in White Rock
earlier that day.

The driver of the Toyota was
not located. Charges of causing
police to enter into chase and
possession of stolen property are
pending against a 17-year-old Sur-
rey youth.

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