40 - North Shore News — Wednesday, November 1, 2000 Canada trail GC. map Deana Lancaster News Reporter dlancaster@usnews.com ALTHOUGH it offi- cially opened in September, few people know exactly how the Trans Canada Trail winds through B.C. That's why — Backroad Mapbooks, in’ partnership with Trails B.C., is pubiishing a guidebook on the trail route through the province. By creating a guidebook showing detailed maps and route descriptions, Mussiv Ventures Ltd. — the publish- ing house of Backroad Mapbooks — hopes to get the word about the route out. And in an even greater effort to raise public aware- ness of the trail, they are sponsoring a contest for a cover design and pictures of the route. Organizers hope to draw from the wealth of talented individuals throughout B.C., and recently invited people with graphic design skills to submit their idea for a cover design. Pictures and descrip- tions of the route are also wel- come. Prizes with include cash, acknowledgement in the book and limited edition signed copies of it. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Trails B.C. to help establish and maintain the trail. For more information, visit, = . Another Web site, lainched by the B.C. Land Use Coordination office in August, was designed speciti- cally for people who plan to tackle the B.C. section of the route on awe wheels. “This Web site is an online compass for trail users, help- ing tourists and local residents navigate and plan out trips for British Columbia's portion of the Trans Canada Trail,” said Environment, Lands and Parks Minister Joan Sawicki when announcing the site. Users can go to ewww.berrail.beca> to view and print off safety tips and maps of trail routes in the interior. The site also contains information about nearby landmarks and some of the trail gateway communities, including Greenwood, Grand Forks, Kelowna, Penticton and Princeton. Called Cycling BC’s Trans Canada Trail, the site is still in its pilot phase. It will eventu- ally be expanded to include other communities and trail routes throughout the province. When complete, B.C.’s portion of che trail will be part of the national 16,000-kilo- metre Trans Canada Trail — the largest trail network in the world, crossing through 10 provinces, three territories and five time zones. Bikers, hikers, horseback riders and snowmobilers will all be wel- come to travel the route. NORTH Vancouver volunteer Ana Lisa Schulz is helping to launch the Youth Wading for Chelsea CHELSEA the setter/Lab cross got a hefping hand earlier this month after she chased seaguils out onto a sec. tion of the Capilano River and got stuck. West Vancouver firefighters Eric Blank and Mark Barton waded into. the river for the pooch and brought her back to her owner waiting on the river bank. Youth pianning for next mi Miliennium Project (YMP), a series of action plans designed by youth to improve the world for the next millennium. YMP asks young people ages 1]-14 to discuss global issues of concern to them and create focal action plans in response. Schulz, who teaches Italian at UBC, has been help- ing the project with its Italian translations tor the past year. Born in New York where | she completed her BA with a double major in French and Iralian, Schulz first came to the North Shore in 1975 to complete her masters in Tralian at UBC. With. participation consist- ing of over 5,000 youths, in 66 countries, speaking over 70 different languages, YMP is dependent upon the help of its hardworking translators. They ensure that youth across THE ‘kindness and thoughtfulness of B.C.’s students were . celebrated recently as- Education Minister ~~. ~ Penny Priddy released B.C. Kids Write from the Heart, a collection of stories and poems of hope and kindness by Grade 5 students. The book is a compilation of winning, entries from the Ministry of Education’s B.C. Kids Write from the Heart lit- eracy contest. Chloe Westlake of Cove Cliff elementary in Deep Cove was one of the 10 winners. “This book is dedicated to celebrating the hearts of our children,”: said Priddy. “It showcases the falents of young rural villages and urban cen- tres continue to work togeth- er in a quest for world change. As well as being YMP’s main link for its Italian corre- spondence, Schulz is also a court interpreter, office man- ager for the local Italian news- paper L’Eco D’ltelia, and has published several short stories and a novel, Last year she was also the personal translator for opera singer / Bolchechelie, as well as script translator for the locally shot film The Whole Sheoang. The Youth Millennium Project is the creation of two UBC = graduate — students: Justine Wiltshire (holds two law degrees) and Rebecea Slate (earned a teaching degree). They designed YMP to foster global youth empowerment after a- 1998 Y¥MP pilot survey revealed that 70% of participating youth felt powerless to change the world. The project is a joint initia- Andrei NEWS photo Mike Wakefield - lennium: tive of UBC and UNICEF. UNICEF and other major education networks are. dis- tributing YMP's invitation (in © over 70 languages) in 190° countries. Countries with Youth | Millennium Projects include: W Vietnam — raising chic! to sell eggs for. school’ sur plies; @ Vancouver — ~ developing learning resources for former ! French Guyana; ot @ Tanzania — planting trees and assisting the elderly; @ Argentina —. mounting video exhibition capturing th needs of children i in their own words; a Azerbaijan —. educating peers about HIV/AIDS; : IB Germany — organizing Run for Help to ‘raise: funds for Mozambique.. Organizers are continuing to raise funds in: order “to ensure the continuation of. project. General YMP infor mation: 822- 5028 : people, and it offers a ‘small . aiasinding submissi fro window on the wonderful acts of kindness that happen every - day throughout -. our * province.” The ‘Ministry ‘of. Education’s first literacy con- ~ test was designed for use in the Grade 5 language arts curricu- lum. Students were encour- aged to write ‘stories and. poems, no longer than 300 words, about acts of kindness that were fictional or based on fact. The goals of the contest were to promote reading and - writing, to ¢ncourage students to express themselves, to help _ them understand their social responsibilities and to show B.C."s young people in‘a posi- tive light. Over the summer | four © judges picked 10 winners, 10 . honourable mentions and 50 over 3,000 entries. The top 10 entries fearured. in the- bool ‘were. illustrated: by . students from Capilano “Colle "graphic design and illustratio * program. The book :is -b distributed. to. all, elemen schools in the province for in their buddy reading and: violence prevention programs to all public libraries “ax.d-to’ Literacy B.C. family “iteracy programs. a Each winner will receive'a’ -$75 gift certificate -from the. B.C. Booksellers’ Association * - or Indigo Books. Honourable mentions : receive a. $25°. gift certificate, and” outstanding entries receive a $20 gift cer-. tificate. a The book is available on the. Ministry of ‘Education’: Web. site -2t.