12 - Wednesday, July 25, 1990 - North shore News

AUGUST
IS COMING!

Learn water conservation

Next month, the Going Green on the North Shore campaign
focuses on water quality and conservation. Canadians are
among the world’s largest consumers of this resource, but
there is a great deal in-
dividuals can dotocut down
on the amount they use.
Water quality, too, can suffer
when various substances,
some of them hazardous,
leach from landfill sites.
In August, follow these tips
and help protect our valuable
water supply:

YOU CAN save 20 per cent of your toilet’s water
usage by placing a water displacement device,
such as a brick or a weighted plastic bottle. in the
tank. Toilet inserts, available commercially, allow a family
of four to save 45,000 litres of water per year.
CHOOSE CLEANING products that are least harm-
ful to our water supplies: contact environmental
organizations or books for non-toxic ways to clean
your body and your home. Make a good all-purpose
cleaner from one gallon hot water, 4c. household ammonia,
Y% c. vinegar and one tbsp. baking soda.
p DON’T LET the water run continuously when
~ washing yourself or your dishes. By turning off
the water when you ave brushing your teeth, and
just turning it on again for rinsing, you are saving 80 per cent
of the water you normally use.

ASA ANYTHING POURED down a street storm drain

SEA goes straight into local waterways. Don’t pollute

them with oil, chemicals or other toxic materials!

These hazardous wastes should be stored up for the GVRD

hazardous materials collection program coming to the North
Shore this fall.

EcoUpdate

‘EcoHero

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman
CHRISLON ROBINSON of Riverwoods Co-op is an Eco-Hero by anyone’s
standards. One year ago, she single-handedly got a recycling program
up and running in her Mt. Seymour-area co-op. This involved motivating
residents, collecting material and driving it to depots all over the Lower
Mainland.

Just last week, she, her husband and a friend completed new compost
boxes that are already well-used by the co-op.

Internationa! Paper Industries will soon be helping out by picking up
the glass, meta! and plastic jugs, but their mixed paper, cardboard and
mixed plastics will still be driven to overtown depots. Robinson is mov-
ing to Salt Spring Island at the end of the month, but there are enough
enthusiastic recyclers living at the co-op that the program will continue.

-EcoNotes’
> TEENS ARE invited to take part in
the Aug. 7 to 10 Teen Environment
Week at Eagle Harbour Community
Centre, 3575 Marine Dr., West Van.

Participants will hear speakers
from groups such as the Environ-
mental Youth Alliance and Earthsave
and go on field trips within the city.

Cost of the program is $53. Cail
921-7425 for more information.
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®» YOUTH AGED 16 to 24 can
become members of the Environ-
mental Youth Corps. Groups of
usually five young people and a
supervisor take part in environment-
enhancing community projects, 200
of which were completed last year.
Wages, transportation, first aid
equipment and training, and in-
surance are all provided.

Call 682-6457 for application
forms.

» TRANSIT RIDERS, take a bow!
According to a study commissioned
by B.C. Transit, each person using
transit for one year instead of their
auto saves the environment, on
average, 1,517 kg of carbon dioxide,
99.5 kg of carbon monoxide, 13.5
kg of hydrocarbons and 7.1 kg of
nilrogen oxide.

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® RESULTS OF a Japanese driftnet
observation were recently released
in Canada. During the 1989 fishing
season, 32 squid drifinet vessels
discarded over 1.4 million Pacific
pomfret fish, tens of thousands of
albacore and blue shark and was
responsible for the death of neasly
10,000 seabirds, 1,000 dolphins and
100 northern fur seals.

Canada is a sponsor of a United
Nations resolution calling for a
moratorium on all driftnet opera-
tions by mid-1992 unless effective
measures are taken to prevent the
unacceptable consequences of this
method of fishing.

West Van writer, expeditioner dies at age 34

FUNERAL SERVICES were held
Monday for West Vancouver resi-
dent Anna Clare French (nee
Richards), who passed away
peacefully at her home on July 20
after losing a 17-year struggle with
cancer,

She was 34.

Mrs. French, a writer and
documentary film producer, was
also an accomplished expeditioner
and in 1988 received the
prestigious Bish Medal from

Princess Alexandra at a ceremony
in London.

The Bish Medal is awarded an-
nually by the British Exploration
and Scientific Society for
achievement in the face of adver-
sity.

Mrs. French was the first Ca-
nadian to receive the Bish Medal
for her involvement with the Brit-
ish expedition called ‘‘Operation
Drake’? and her endeavors in the
jungles of Panama.

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Mrs. French was active in pro-
viding young people opportunities
through her directorship of the
Canadian-Soviet youth expedition
called Arctic Quest.

An accomplished writer and
documentary film producer, Mrs.
French’s work always embraced
the vitality of the human spirit.
Her 1986 film, Heart of A Dragon
{CTV), depicted Rick Hansen’s
journey through China and his

ascention of the Great Wall.

Outside of her professional life,
Mrs. French was committed to
helping children with cancer, and
in that spirit she requested that
donations be made to the on-
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Mrs. French is survived by her
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