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of West Vancouver Secondary (2nd place, Grade 12).

GVRD sponsors
essay contest

THE THREE topics for the annual
Secondary Schools Essay Contest
sponsored by the Greater Van-
couver Regional District were
recently announced.

One asks students what their
priorities are for the use of local
government tax dollars; another
deals with the subject of disposable
products and overpackaging; the
third deals with emergency
preparedness in Greater Van-
couver,

The contest, in its eleventh year,
is open to students in Grades 9 to
12 in all schools in the Lower
Mainland, from West Vancouver
and Vancouver to Maple Ridge
and Matsqui.

Secondary school students from
North and West Vancouver,
Bowen Isiand and Lions Bay are
eligible.

First prize is $500, second $400
and third $300. In addition, there
are 10 Merit Awards of a hard-
cover book or a family member-
ship to Science World or the Van-
couver Public Aquarium.

Entries can be made throughout
the school year, but not later than
April 6, 1990. :

Entries should not be more than
2,000 words, typewritten (doubie-
spaced) and include the student's
mame, age, address, phone
number, school, class and a bibli-
ography.

Entries are judged on content,
research, general appearance and
use of language. Graphics may be
used.

Handbills and posters giving
detailed information on the topics
are available in public libraries
throughout the Lower Mainland.

These are the topics for the 1990
contest:

* What are YOUR priorities for
local tax dollars?

What are your priorities for the
allocation of local government tax
dollars in the metropolitan region?

If you were given $1,000 to
allocate for the improvement of
Regional services provided by the
Greater Vancouver Regional
District, how much would you give
to each of the following: hospital
construction and equipment, air
polluticn control, regional parks,
solid waste management (includes
recycling and garbage disposal),
provision of rental housing,
regional development services (the
co-ordination of regional devel-
opment and transportation plan-
ning), liquid waste management
Cinecludes regional sewerage
systen/treat nent  plants/sewage

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NEWS photo Elke Schroter
GRADE 12 Little Flower Academy student Alison Carvalho delivers her first place winning speech at a re-
cent public speaking contest for Grades 7 to 12 hosted by West Vancouver Secondary schaol. Students were
judged for material and organization, delivery, personal qualities and overall effectiveness of their oration.
North Shore wianers iucluded Kerin Mohr of Hillside (Ist place, Grade 7), Melissa Ander of Hillside (2nd
place, Gradz 3}, Krysia Mossakowski of West Vancouver Secondary (Ist place, Grade 10), Rebecca Matts of

| Hillside 3rd place, Grade 10), Sarah Lawler of St. Thomas Aquinas (2ad place, Grade 11) and Jessica Gibbs

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