26 - Friday, July 22, 1994 - North Shore News

West Van students win GVRD contest

TWO WEST Vancouver siudents have won $150
Merit Awards in the 15th Annual Secondary Schools
Essay Contest sponsored by the Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD).

Sandra Tsakok, who lives on Park Lane in West
Vancouver, won for her entry on commuting, while
Rachel Morgan, who lives on Madrona Crescent,
wrote on composting. Both are in Grade If at

The top prize of $500 was won by a student who
attends Port Moody secondary, and the second and
third prizes went to Vancouver-area students.

The awards were announced by GVRD Chairman
Greg Halsey-Brandt at the June Board of Directors
meeting.

The Contest was open to students in Grades § to

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Crofton House in Vancouver. 12.

THE ALL-NEW VW Golf Ecomatics are the first vehicles in
Germany to run on bio-dissel, an alternative fuel.

Bio-diesel makes
debut in Germany

IN EARLY April, the
German Transport Ministry
approved all new Golf
Ecomatics to run on bio-
diesel, a new alternative fuel
containing rapeseed oil
methyl ester (RME).

Alternative fuel experts esti-
mate that using the bio-diese! fuel
reduces the emissions that cause
global warming by at least 30%
over regular diese! fuel. Also, it is
reported that sulphur, soot and
particle emissions are alse signifi-
cantly reduced.

Just recently, the first filling
station for the new alternative fuel
has been opened by the
Raiffeinsen Hauptgenossenschaft
Nord AG (RHG) in Hanover,
Germany.

Volkswagen and RHG plan to
increase the number of bio-diesel
filling stations quite rapidly over
the next six months. The German
company will install pumps at
VW/Audi dealers throughout
major North German cities and

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supply stations with the new fuel.

In addition, RHG filling sta-
tions in rural areas of the German
states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-
Anhalt and Brandenburg will be
equipped with BioDiesel pumps.

Currently the Golf Ecomatic is
the only passenger car available
on the German market that has
been approved by its manufacturer
to use bio-diesel fuel.

The environmental advantages
of Volkswagens's Ecomatic tech-
nology combined with the use of
bio-diesel are considerable.

The Ecomatic reportedly cuts
fuel consumption by as much as
22% while reducing certain poilu-
tants in the exhaust by 36%.

Also, according to the German
automaker. vehicle performance is
almost completely unaffected by
the use of bio-diesel.

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