Crossing

guard keeps |

/local kids
safe for.
13 years

SHE’S ONE of those peopie
- you drive by on miserable.
days and feel sorry for. On
- sunny days you envy her.

No:. matter. the weather,
substitute crosswalk guard Angie:
Gentile has| been. safely. shep-
herding ‘kids‘across Queens Road
at Mahon Avenue for the past. 13°
years. '

When school’s in session, you'll

‘find Gentile, hired by the school.

board,’ working a four-hour ‘shift
from 8 am.ito 9 a.m., 11:30 tol
p.m. and 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

-Her patch of asphalt is: a* “busy

one with: student foot traffic (in-
-cluding ‘three ‘regular
skateboarders); coming: from
_ Braemar Elementary. School’ on
“Mahon, Larson Elementary School .
‘on* Larson, Carson Graham’ Sec-.
ondary: School. on Jones": and:
-* Balmoral ‘Junior Secondary s Schoo!’
on Mahon. *. °! :
‘Said | Gentile: “rp wa

ce

“interest,
satisfaction ‘derived’ from the »

years.

: ife
up her studies i in the legal secretary
program at Capilano College.

“But Gentile’s younger. daughter

“Anita currently. attends Braemar.

That “point of motherly self-
combined with’. the

-valuable. service :she provides the
community as a whole, keeps br-

 inging, Gentile back to - the
“ergsswalk a we

i)
ot
oD hike talking to, the children.-J
will probably continue. doing this
until Anita finishes: ‘school, ** she
said’

has kept the crossing safe. But she *
said:.*‘We've had a few close calls.

“You neve: riknow who is going 10,
keep: going. I've almost been, run’

over and the other lady has, ‘100,

. actually,"*

SO far, Gentile’s watchful. eye :

11 = Wednesday, June 1, 1988 = Capitano Chronicte
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photo ich se! Bocker

CROS ING GUARD Angle Gentile has safely shepherded ‘students from side ta side of the street at t Queens Road vies Avenue for the past 13

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