“making

heroin addicts to . receive

treatment. This is becoming
‘a stormy issue, with people

‘the study, - “*may
literally ‘children without a

predicting all sorts of pro-
blems developing.

This. week the Inquiring
Reporter asks: ‘‘Should.
treatment of heroin addicts
be compulsory?”’

North Shore Neighbour-
hood House will again be
running a Day Camp for boys
and girls six to 12 years for
the months of July and
August.

There will be four two:
‘week sessions; July 3rd to

14th, July 17th to 28th, July
21st to Auonst lith and

QBs

August 14th ‘to August 25th.

Kech session will cost
$45.00 plus a membership
fee of $6.00 for children and
$13.00 family membership.

Day Camp will run from
9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. daily,
Monday through Friday.
There will be two bus

pick-ups, one at the North

Vancouver Recreation

Centre, 23rd and Lonsdale, -

It looks like the , provincial
government will pass the bill *
-mandatory.. for

and one ‘at - the Neighbour.
hood House. . a

. Burrard Inlet:

page 4, May 24, 1978 - North Shore News |

‘Bill Pengelly
- North Vancouver

. Yes, it isa good idea. A lot
of addicts . would . damage
themselves and: society. if.
they v were ‘not ‘helped. .

The Camp will be. located
at Cates Park where six.
counsellors ‘and two Senior.
Staff will be responsible for’

60 boys and girls | in each -

session.

‘The: Program will consist mo
of nature. study, ‘swimming,
. games”™ and

camp crafts,

hikes at Cates Park. on.

_Fee arrangements can. be

made with the Camp Regi-*
strar if any family is unable | -
to pay the full fee. -

For further information
and registration, please
contact Val Verschueren at.
987-8138.

French

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‘conducted in 1971,
that ‘‘when the = school
attempts to teach a second
language before the child has
developed adequate cogni-
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language,

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whose functioning in both his —
native and second language

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Such children,

language!””

Parents, said Frank Evans,
chairman of the North Van
group's policy committee,

should also read a document.

issued by the Ontario Minis-

try of Education entitled.

“*Learning Disabilities Found
in Association with French
Immersion Programming.”

One of the observations
made in the Ontario study,

according to the association .

reads as follows:

“The urgent need for a
‘detailed investigation into
the reasons. for failure in a
French immersion program
evolved out of the fact that,

the child may

by 1973, increasing numbers ||

of referrals of children from
French immersion programs
were being made to the
neuropsychology laboratory

of the Royal Ottawa Hospi-

tal.’’

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sible,’’ the study continues,
“‘that if these children were
in an English
program, | their "progress
through schoo! might have
been uneventful."

These . findings, said
Evans, point up the need for
all parents considering the

program to fully investigate

all risks.

William v. French, presi-
dent of the thrée-month-old
association. -- which ‘claims
some 200 paid-up members

_in North Vancouver -- em-
phasizes that

endorses. second-language.

instruction as such. “We are.

concerned, however,”’
told the News,
specific. negative aspects that
may exist in the immersion
technique itself when applied
to young children.”

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The association is ‘also
highly critical of the costs of
the immersion — program
which, said French, will have
to be borne entirely by local
taxpayers when. provincial

government funding ceases
in 1979,

- sory. Compulsory treatment °

_ would be like being sent to

_ against yourself.

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