Wednesday, April 24, 1996 — North Shore News ~ 34

Celebrate sound of silence

Sources of noise targeted
by Right to Quiet Society

BY LAYNE CHRISTENSEN
Community Reporter

THERE'S FAR too much
noise in our neighbor-
hoods and places of work
say the members of Right
to Quiet, the Society for
Soundscape Awareness
and Protection.

Fourteen-year member
Rose Naumann considers
lawn-mowers and feaf-blow-
ers among the worst noise
polluters, though she also
wags her finger at the
Dundarave and Ambleside
businesses she frequents. ‘The
music played in many stores
and restaurants is too loud
and “totally unnecessary,” she

“says.
_ “There are wonderful nat-
‘ural sounds —- tae ocean, the
wind —- or why not have a lit-
tle conversation instead of
music?,” reasons the 76-year-
old, who will recognize
International Noise Aware-
ness Day, today, April 24, by
performing. a truly quiet
activity — sewing.

Naumann, of West
Vancouver, traces her sensi-
tivity to noise back to child-

hood when she endured a
brother’s trumpet lessons.
Today, when she visits the
movie theatre she stuffs
Kicenex into her cars,
“because the previews are far
too loud, as if everybody
were deaf.”

You see, that's the point
say noise-awareness “dvo-
cates like Jean Taylor of the
Canadian Hard of Hearing
Association, North Shore
branch. Noise isn’t just a nui-
sance, it's a health concern.

The effect of repeated
sound overstimulation is
cumulative over a lifetime,
Taylor wars, adding that
youths who frequent rock
concerts or blast their car
stereos and Walkmans are at
greatest risk.

“That young person deing
it day after day after day will
probably end up with hearing
loss,” she says.

Fraser and other partici-
pants of International Noise
Awareness Day will be
observing a moment of
silence today. Their “Quiet
Diet,” takes place between
2:15 to 2:16 p.m. and is
meant to highlight the impact
of noise on hearing and
health.

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