Ingutring
Reporter

THE davs when jt was said that children should be
en and riot heard” are long gone, but some purents
are beginning, to wonder w hether it’s a maxim which
should be ored. Though there are, cf course, many
young citizens, there are others Whose
modus operandi appears to consist of loitering outside
convenience stores, or tripping up pedestriins with
sidewalk skateboard stunts. In the last month, there
has been a spate of teen crime — robberies at koi
point and even gunpoint —— on the North Shore.
Concurrently, a workshop for kids called “Camp

; Etiquette.” with lessons in table manners, polite conversation, and the correct way

| to behave as 2 house guest w.
fest Van, whicl

weekend in W
attracted participants fron

s booked solid in North Vancouver; and the GoGirl!
ined 19 foster a proper code of conduct fer pre-teens.

as far afield as Port Moody. Have we finally decided it’s

time for kids to stop running wild and step back in line?

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/A mbleside
British Properties

Norgate/Pemberion Heights
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands

Lower Lonsdale

Central and Upper Lonsdale

Lyan Valley
Blu e/Deep Cove

COMBINED AVERAGE

YES NO opiNjon ROW
50% 39% 8%
36% 47% 12%
tu We 8%

49% 40%
38%
31%
32%
32%

%

15%
13%
25%
(8%
16%

14%

40%
54%
35%
45%

- 38% 43% 5%

Lorna Bravo

North Vancouver

Yes, they do need to learn
better manners —~ but chat
com from family and
learning, the impo
respect towards others.

nce Of

Rene Desjardins
North Vancouver

Absolutely Kids today don’t
answer the phone properly,

they don’t have any
at the table...th
been taught any s

Amy Gailiunas

North Vancouver

Yes, Edo. To think teenagers

tend to use foul language a

lot, and T don’t agree with

it. | was at Edgetest yester-

day and every second word

the kids there were using

was a swear word. There’s
ect and no etiquette.

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