AlS - Sunday, March 11, 1984 -

st Vancouver students

get ready to battle booze

“IT’S BEEN 10 years but I can still hear the glass
breaking and the car crashing. There are some
sights you will never forget.’’

By JOANNE MacDONALD

You could have heard a pin
drop in the Sentinel Secon-
dary School gymnasium
Tuesday when Tami Maiat
uttered those words to the
hushed gathering of grade 10,
11 and 12 students.

The young woman, a vic-
tim of a motor vehicle acci-
dent caused by a drinking
driver 10 years ago has been
wheelchair bound since the
incident, as has her mother.
Her father died.

Malat was at Sentinel as
one of several guest speakers
featured at a CounterAttack
assembly. CounterAttack, a
government-sponsored pro-
gram, seeks to reduce the

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number of drinking drivers in
B.C. through public
education.

‘“‘The drunken driver
wasn’t a teenager, but he still
didn’t know any better,’’ said
Malat. ‘‘I just wish Counter-

‘Attack had been around

when I was in school, because
it probably would’ve saved
one of my friends.at grad. He
was on drugs and alcohol
when he cracked up his car ...
Luckily there was no one else
involved in the accident.’’

The Tuesday assembly
signalled the inauguration of
the CounterAttack program
at Sentinel. According to stu-
dent organizers, the group
was formed in response to
**some problems’’ being ex-

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perienced by a few members
of the student population.
One such ‘‘problem’’ saw a
student charged as a result of
an alcohol-related accident
which occurred in November.

Following that incident,
several students approached
Sentinel vice-principal Arne
Smith who, in turn took the
CounterAttack proposal to
the Student Council. Even-
tually a liaison committee,
composed of students
through grades 10-12, was
formed. The committee now
includes Jennifer Hunt and
Geoff Pearmain, grade 10;
Silvia Apostoldis, John
Stewart and Jan Zielke,
grade 11; and Randy Geszler,
Darren Dreger, Paul Ibbott
and Mark Sawers, grade 12.

Cst. Colin Bursill of West
Vancouver Police Depart-
ment gave the assembly a
general outline of the
CounterAttack program,
stressing the drinking drivers
are the number three cause of
all motor vehicle accidents.

He pointed out drunks not
only have slower reaction
times than non-intoxicated
drivers, but also tend to ex-
perience blurred vision and
drowsiness when driving.

Bursill added there is also
the very real possibility that a
drunken driver will face
criminal charges if found to
be driving over the legal
blood-alcohol limit. This
could iead to the suspension
of his or her driver’s licence,
a jail sentence and a criminal
record.

**Some_ drunken drivers
also have to live with the
thought that they killed so-
meone, or that they were
responsible for making them-
selves disabled,’’ said Bursill.

Perhaps the most effective
address was given by am-
bulance attendant Dale
Bonin, who admitted he gets
emotional ‘‘when 1 see the

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fighting drug abuse, both
drugs and alcohol. There is a
time to drink, if that’s your
desire, but it’s not when
you’re behind the wheel,’’
said Bonin. ‘‘You have to
remember that injury is a
very finite thing.’’

Other guest speakers in-
cluded Prosecutor Gary
Hales and Dr. Brian Hunt, a
neurosurgeon.

The morning panel presen-
tation preceded three seminar
sessions which featured the
panel speakers, as well as
representatives from ICBC
and Mothers against Drunk
Drivers (MADD).

CounterAttack organizers
at Sentinel said further
CounterAttack sessions will
be held prior to the school’s
graduation festivities.

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