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| November 26 1980

- Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

juvenil ‘tro iMcmakers received a fresh -ba

troublemakers. a

Terms of: ‘reference were
agreed’ by council for its
newly established committee
on -Meaningful Consequen-
ces for Youth.

The committer is charged
with . investigating and
“assessing .the present system
of, conséquences resulting
from delinquent juvenile
behaviour, The study will
include juvenile court and
probation procedures, in-
cluding community work

* service and Porteau Camp.

It will also
possible alternative
programs, including
‘“‘neighbourhood  ac-
countability panels”.

Mayor Derrick Hum-

lodk into

WEDNESDAY:
Mainly cloudy.
Possible rain late
in the day.

THURSDAY:
Periods of rain.

should not
judicial system.
- The idea of the committee
was born. following a
potentially ugly incident in
September involving
juveniles and alcohol at a
Marine Drive home.

At that time alderman.

John Humphries com-
mended the action of Mayor
Humphreys and the -police
department in bringing the
disturbance under control,
and requested the formation
of such a committee.

Early in October a group
of Sentinel School parents
demanded tough action

against a minority of alcohol
and drug offenders among
the students who, last year,
brought the school's social

‘s escalating. caiapalgn: against 4

and extra-curricular
tivities to a-virtual halt.

‘special parents’ forum on the

ah whole: subject of school”

behaviour.

were. that solutions to West"

Van's student problems
involve a return to well-
defined basic values and the
elimination from the system
of those who don't fit in.

The forum was-told that-

less than fivێ per cent of
students were at the root of
the problems, but that
“almost daily” disruption
and confusion occurred in
some classrooms because
the troublemakers influence
“good” students,

In addition to a written,
strictly enforced disciplinary
policy, some participants in
the forum called for the

expulsion of chronic
troublemakers from the
school system.

ac-...

By CHRIS LLOYD

Three Vancouver

_children. who came to

the North Shore
Sunday to go

‘mountain hiking,

while their parents did

not even know which
mountain

the
youngsters were on,

“were eventually found

Monday morning
wandering tired and

Jost in a gullley.

Thirty-five searchers -
voluntcer members of
North Shore’ Rescuc,
accompanied by RCMP
officers - had spent most of
the previous night scouring
Grouse and Seymour
mountains for the children
in sub-zero temperatures

The main search party
was just about to leave
Seymour Monday mid-
morning when two rescuc
volunteers found the three
among thick bush in a
gulley about 2,000 feet
from the roadway near the
top of Seymour.

Cecilia Chartrand told

the News her two children,
12-year-old Peter and 14-
year-old Patricia, told her
they were going to a
mountain with their friend,
Susan Halstead, who is 13.
“But they said it was just to
look,” she added.“I think
they said they were going
to Grouse but I was
asleep.”

The three went to Mount
Seymour Parkway by bus
and then hitchhiked to the
top of the mountain and
began walking a trail.

TWIN SEARCHES

But they soon became
lost and began wandcring

down through a_ gulley
beside Boulder Creck
which leads into dense

bush. When darkness feil
they gave up trying to find
their way out and huddled

together to try to keep
warm
Meanwhile, searchers

were hunting on both
mountains for signs of the
children, because of the

uncertainty over their
location,
An RCMP helicopter

called

\

was

in Monday

morning and after an
extensive search of Mount
Seymour: the rescue
coordinators decided to
concentrate their efforts on
Grouse.
However,

. because the
SkyRide

gondola to
Grouse is closed on
Mondays, arrangements
had to be made to call ina
gondola operator to take
search crew members to
the top of the mountain.

It was while this was.
happening that two of the
search: crew on Seymour
contacted the emergency
base that had been set up
there to say that they had
found the children. .

The rescue team
members had gone down a
guiley beside Boulder
Creck, where they had
found a couple of lost
skiers some 18 months ago.

They had left the gulley.
until all) other obvious:
,areas of the mountain had
been explored, because of
the thick bush there and
the difficult terrain.

A member of the crew at

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