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Season’s

greetings
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CHRISTMAS is a time for giving, and no one _ hands! By helping, | feel hke
knows that better than the grade six students at !'™ giving someone life ”
Irwin’ Park Elementary School in West Van-
couver.

Their Christmas project
was to raise money for

Anna Wood:

**People travel miles fo get
their eyesight back and it’s
worth tt. To think we can go

y BARRETT FISHER

Operation Eyesight, to fund down to the store and buy a
calaract operations for peo- son see. It stunned me to — few grocenes or a few things
ple in India and Africa. hear that so little could buy hke soap and toothpaste tor

The children were inspired sight! When I first pot my — only $25. it's a great feeling
to take on their project by glasses, evervthing seemed so inside to know how many

Dr. Ben and Evelyn different and 3-D) For hours people we have helped "’
Gullison, two workers. tor

Operation Eyesight, who
have been to [India and now
work out of their West Van
couver home

The students raised $1,128
through their efforts with a
penny drive; a cookie sale, a
bottle drive, chores, a car
nival, and general collection

For every dollar the
children rained, the gos
ernment will match through
Canadian International
Development Agency grants
Eve operations in India cost
$28) each, so. for the 4&
operations Irwin Park made
possible, the government will
bring that total closer ta 100

The children gained as
much trom the project as the
benetactors of the money

$655,

Pee ies

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will They learned how some }oyust satin my room and Nina Lange:

people live in far away coun Stared at everything To can't “Tt makes me teel so good
tries, how tortunate they are imagine how wonderful i to think that we've helped so
compared to others, how to would be to see colors tor many blind people bo feel
work together wath their the fiest tume un vour lite Or

classmates, how to tase seeing your mother’s smile

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moneys through  busiess Oy just) plain seeing vour
practises. but most oof all
they, now understand the
Sprritoaf pisviny

But po one can tell the
Students story of what they
learned and how they felt
during othe two week fun
draisiny drive better than the
Students themselves Here

NEWS photo Terry Peters abe Some: CRCCEDES frome thie
JENNY Tophan bolds a handful of peames, while Paul Bates holds a fistful of dollars cot

lected as part of the grade six effort at Irwin Park BRlementary School to raise money for

Operation Eyesight All together the school ratsed $1,128, which will be matched by the ted
eral povernment

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