6 - Sunday, June 2, 1991 - North Shore News EE EE EY NET I ay MEANWHILE... AT SOCRED HEAD QUARTERS ... | VIEWPOINT INSIGHTS Now LerS SEE ... WHO wit Be. THE LUCKY CANDIDATE JO GET MY WHOLE-HEARTED ENDORSEMENT... Condom conclusion has been dispensed with. On April 8 the West Vancouver District 45 School Board voted against in- stalling condom machines in North Shore high schools. And last Tuesday, the North Vancouver District 44 School Board did the same. The debate raged for almost half a year, with residents expressing ‘1 letters to both school boards hearty approval and outright horror at the prospect of student access to the prophylactics. But both sides should be happy with the decision. The issue, as it turns out, has educated the North Shore public about the dangers of teenagers contracting AIDS, and the need for parental or religious guidance in matters sexual. Now it is up to parents to reinforce to T= CONDOMS in schools issue teens whatever side of the issue they fought so fervently for. Those against the condoms for moral and religious reasons have a ripe opportunity to teach abstinence and the value of monogamous love, while the pro-condom lobby must educate stu- dents to understand the consequences of sexual relations and what actions to take to prevent diseasc, AIDS or unwanted pregnancy. The issue was not ‘‘won,’’ as one letter writer stated, by the ‘‘righteous lobby.”’ And not all those who opposed the machines were opposed to teens engaging in sex. The condom machine proposal was withdrawn because, as North Vancouver School Board Trustee Chief Philip Joe so pointedly stated, it was none of the board’s business in the first place. NEWS QUOTES OF “Nothing seems to make them more angry than the idea that their God is truly a forgiving God.” Canadian theologian Tom Har- pur, on conservative Christians and their objection to his conten- tion that the afterlife is open to all people. “dt’s like the city of Victoria deciding to dump its toxic waste in Surrey without asking anyone in Surrey what they think of it."’ Peter King of Bowen Island’s transportation committee, on the lack of input Bowen Island resi- dents were given on the proposed fast-ferry service from Vancouver to Bowen Island and the Sunshine Cyast. Publisher Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller Peter Speck Linda Stewart Newsroom Doug Foot “On TV commercials I saw the glamor of using alcohol and drugs but I came to realize that hangovers are not glamorous.” Squamish indian Band member Michael Billy, who is building an Ii-man war canoe for summer Tacing competitions, on the realities of drug and alcohol abuse. “Parents jump back and say, ‘Wow, what happened to this kid.” A kid aged 15 has ne status, no power, can't drive, and all of a sudden this kid is alive and the parents want more of that.*' Prince of Wales vice-principal Ted Hunt, on the results of the school’s Trek outdoor education program. “ICs (his mail box) not that big, it’s like a glorified large pencil box or 2 kid's lunch box. How the hell can you put all that bloody junk mail in there and then look after our personal mail too?** North Vancouver resident Doug Robertshaw, on junk mail, after he found his apartment mail box left open and plegged with adver- tising flyers. “The trujiees’ position is to pro- vide a better education, and the installation of these machines is not the best educational decision ! could make."’ North Vancouver District 44 School Board Trustee Chief Philip Joe, on his opposition to installing condom machines in District 44 high schools. 986-1337 Nerth Shore News, founded in 1,9 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ii of the Excise Tax Aci, is published each Wednesday. 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Census tidbits of no help to ‘you on Tuesday THE BAD NEWS about the June 4 quiz is the same as with every census since the dawn of history: its primary aim is to tell our masters how much tax they can extract from us. This time we’re paying $250 million for them to find out. That's why censuses were started by the ancient Jews and Romans, who also used them to earmark army conscripts. The only good news is that a census gave us the first Christmas. Caesar Augustus having ordered “the whole world’’ to be taxed, Joseph had to get back to his overcrowded home town with his pregnant wife Mary to be regis- tered. Otherwise there would never have been that silent, holy night in the stable of the Bethlehem ian. Official head-counters (the ‘‘snoopocracy”’’, as John Diefen- baker called them) have been busy ever since. One of their earlier triumphs was William the Con- queror’s Domesday Book — bet- ter known as the ‘‘Doomsday Book’’ because, as ever, it was all to do with taxes. William’s royal agents com- pleted that survey of England in, for those days, the amazingly short period of less than a year (1085-1086) by taking evidence from one local man out of every 100. The result provided informa- tion on each piece of land in the kingdom, present and past holders, the holding itself and the population living on it. Williain, of course, was Nor- man French, so it may be no coincidence that French nosey parkers eventually led the world at the game — and in Canada of all places. The first modern census — i.e. a periodic and thorough statistical review — started in New France (Quebec) in 1666. The Swedes followed in 1749 and the Ameri- cans in 1790. Britain didn’t get around to its first census until 1801. Forty-five years later Belgium’s supervisor of statistics Adolphe Quetelet — another Gallic type — introduced the modern analysis and evaiua- tion procedures adopted since then by all national censuses. Like Canada, they are now held every five or 10 years in most westerniz- ed countries. None of this, alas, will be much consolation if you’re the unlucky one in five of your neighbors picked to wrestle with a 28-page blockbuster form. But at least this {7th census since confederaton spares you a few of its former horrors ~— like the query early in this century about whether you Noel Wright HITHER AND YON had crazies or lunatics sharing your household. Not to mention the famous 1941 question (since dropped) that asked: ‘‘Do you use a flush toilet?”’ TAILPIECES: Environment Week kicked off yesterday at Lyan Canyon Ecology Centre with a full program of walks and slide shows for every age through June 9. Today, Sunday, at 2 p.m., Joha Morton will tell you about “Wild Birds Unlimited”? —- how to attract more birds to your garden. Call 987-5922 for further info ... Meanwhile, from 2 to 3 p.in. today and Monday Capilano Flower Arranging Club puts on its Judged Floral Art Show in the South Mall of Park Royal ... Yet another musical celebration of this Wolfgang Amadeus year comes tonight, Sunday — ‘*An Evening with Mozart and Friends'’ at 7:30 p.m. in West Van United Church, 2062 Esquimalt. Tickets at the door ... And Tuesday, June 4, at 7 p.m. in the West Van ‘Y’, 1735 Inglewood, Canada's budding fighter pilots parade at the cere- monial annual inspection of 525 Pathfinder Squadron Air Cadets by Lt. Col J.C. Alkins, CD, from CFB Chilliwack. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Con- science is that still smail voice that tells you what other people should do. ry NEWS photo Cindy Goodman CELEBRATING Childcare Month in West Van recently, Mayor Maersk Sager visits Chelsea House pre-schoolers at Hoilyburn Elementary School.