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40 - Sunday, December 11, 1988 ~ North Shore News

MARSHALL McLUHARN AWARD

North Van resident
gets teaching honor

A NORTH Vancouver resi-
dent who teaches hearing
impaired children in the
Vancouver school system
has been awarded one of 10
Marshall McLuhan
Distinguished Teacher
awards.

Thomas Tylka, 35, was
nominated after he developed what
he calls the TNT-FM Integrated
Audio System, which uses a special
speaker with direct audio input to
his student’s personal FM hearing
aids.

Tylka said the system both
amplifies sound for the hearing
impaired and reduces the
background noise that would
normally be picked up by hearing
aids.

The impact of the system is
significant: Students once
frustrated with the distortions
heard through their hearing aids

Record park
visits predicted

THE GREATER Vancouver
Regional District has estimated
visits to such Lower Mainland
parks as Capilano River Regional
Park will reach an all-time high
this year.

Officiats estimate that close to
three million visits will be made to
the 15 GVRD parks in 1988, which
would be an increase of 12 per cent
over 1987 and an increase of 60 per
cent since 1984.

More than one third of the 1988
total (J.1 million) will be visits to
the three regional parks in the
North Shore area: Capilano, Lynn
Headwaters and Bowen Island's
Crippen park.

The most heavily used park in
the regional system continues to be
Capilano, which is projected to
have 995,000 visits this year, an
increase of 35 per cent over 1987.

The increase is largely attributed
to North Shore tourist promotion.

Lynn Headwaters, which at
4,000 hectares is the largest GVRD
park, will attract an estimated
69,000 visits in 1988, while Crip-
pen will attract 75,000,

GVRD parks cover more than
7,000 hectares.

NORTH Vancouver resident
Thomas Tylka ...‘‘really happy."*

when they tried to listen to tape
recorders, videos and movie pro-
jectors are able to pick up better
speech signals from those devices

FRANK BAKER '

...History repeats itself. The man |
who made singalong entertainment
popular at his Attic Restaurant on
the North Shore is doing it again,
only better this time. He's added a |
Karaoke laser video song system to
his 14th and Cambie restaurant,
where crowds are singing along
with live performers every night.

Versatile entertainer Susie Francis
is producing the show and Baker
blows his trumpet an request. The §
fun starts nightly after the dinner
hour and goes as late as the crowd §
stays. Drinks are available with a j
late snack menu.

Baker suggests you come for din-
ner so you're guaranteed a good
table for the fun coming fater. f

We aren't in the ’89 2 for 1
coupon books but we will ;
honour your membership card. | }

and thereby improve their
classroom participation and
overall subject comprehension.

Tylka, who moved to the North
Shore last month, has been
teaching for the past 10 years and
is originally from Winnipeg.

“I am really happy,” he said,
“to receive this wonderful award.”

In all, nine men and one woman
won B.C.'s first McLuhan awards,
which were established this year by
the Marshall McLuhan Centre on
Gicbal Communications with help
from the provincial education
ministry and various corporate
sponsors, including B.C. Tel, Im-
perial Oil Ltd. and Noranda Inc.
to recognize elementary and sec-
ondary schoul teachers who have
demonstrated excellence in in-
novative uses of communications
technologies in the classroom.

From the awards, teachers win
$2,500 for themselves and $1,000
for their schools.

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