10 - Wednesday, November 22, 1989 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter
Elizabeth Collings

THE YOUTH drug problem sn the North Shore is
quickly rising to the top of the co. .munity’s agenda as an
important issue to be tackicd. During Drug Awareness
Week (Nov. 19 to 25}, local elementary and secondary
schools are waging an educational campaign as part of 3

scheme io encourage youths to say no to drugs and their alcohol is now 11 years old.

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drug-using peers. Statistics from a local treatment centre
show that alcohol heads the list of substances abused by
youths, followed by marijuana, speed and LSD. Growing
numbers of youths are also abusing more than one drug
at a time. In B.C., the average age at which kids try

Skye Desjardins

North Vancouver
Sometimes it’s what goes
on at school — like not
getting good grades. You
want to prove to yourself
you’re not straight. You
want to be in a popular

Yasmine Rajabali

North Vancouver

Peer pressure, and lately
there are a lot of family
problems for students to
cope with. Also, it’s
tempting when you’re in-
vited to a party.

Barb French

North Vancouver
Breakdown of the family.
There’s nowhere else to
turn. If you can’t turn io
the family, you turn to
drugs. The family as I
knew it is gone.

R. Pahl

North Vancouver
Probably the most ob-
vious explanation is that
they start because of their
friends — peer pressure
— and then get hooked

Katy Forest

New Westminster

The parents have no time
for the kids — they’re
occupied with their own
things. It is unfortunate
that women have to work
these days.

group.

A Day IN Court

THE FOLLOWING people appeared
in North and Wes: Vancouver provin-
cial courts recently to face verious
charges laid against them.

Before Judge R.D. Grandisoa in North
yancouver provincial court on Nov.

Gerald Louis Barudin was fined $200
after the 46-year-old Burnaby man
pleaded guilty to theft under $1,000 in
connection with an Oct. 6 incident at
Canada Safeway. .
Before Judge J.D. Layton in North
Vancouver provincial court on Nov.
William Charles Wannamaker was
fined $500 after the 47-year-old North
Vancouver man pleaded guilty to
possession of cocaine in connection
with a May 9 drug seizure
Before Judge R.D. Grandison in North
Ygncouver Provincial court on Nov.

Dip Chandra Verma was fined $100
after the 31-year-old man pleaded guil-
ty to carrying insufficient lifejackets in
a vessel in connection with a July 9 in-
cident.

Before Judge J.D. Layton in North
rancouver Provincial court on Nov.

North

Shore children and their dogs

Douglas Murray Anderson was fined
$350 after the 28-year-old Coquitlam
man pleaded guilty to failing to notify
the owner of a vehicle which Ander-
son’s car collided with on April 9.

ere

Gary Charles Hockey was fined $500
after the 21-year-old Vancouver man
pleaded guilty to failing to notify the
owner of a vehicle which Hockey’s car
collided with on Jan. 10 in the 200
block of West 4th.

Before Judge J.D. Layton in North
Vancouver provincial court on Nov. 9:

Michael Philip Cue was fined $100
after the 22-year-old North Vancouver
man pleaded guilty to causing a distur-
bance by fighting in connection with a
Sept. 2 incident in Ganges, B.C.

Before Judge R.D. Grandison in North
Vancouver provincial court on Nov. 8:

Robert Donald Barnes was fined
$350 after the 28-year-old North Van-
couver man pleaded guilty to driving
while prohibited in connection with an
aug. 24 incident at 1400 block Rupert

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