7 - Sunday, April 30, 1989 — North Shore News

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Sentinel, too, offers
| a rich environment

‘ Dear Editor:
i I read with interest your Friday, April 21 article on

_ Hillside, which is operating for the first year as a
middle school.

Hillside is a fine educational institution which of-
fers a quality alternate program for West Vancouver
students. The middle school concept offers an option
to parents who feel their children need a slower tran-
sition period from elementary school to a high school
environment.

Sentinel Secondary School also offers a rich en-
vironment for students who are ready for the ‘‘fast
lane’’ in terms of education and for the stimulation
provided by having teacher specialists in every subject.

Some parents prefer to have Grade 12 students in
the same school as 7th graders to act as more mature
role models and to intermix in a positive way whether
it be as peer counsellors, tutors, or simply as an ex-
ample of what student expectations are by Grade !2.
In this way the younger students are brought through

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the awkward years by the examples provided by their
peers as well as the teachers.

For every benefit offered by the middle school con-
cept, there is an equal benefit from a secondary school
carrying the full range of grades and the correspon-
ding range of subjects. But the greatest benefit of
both systems is that parents have the option of choos-
ing the program that will best suit their child.

The West Vancouver School Board is to be com-
mended for taking the time and energy necessary to
develop alternate programs. In this way each student
has a far greater chance of finding the educational
environment which will best meet his needs.

It is with anticipation and high expectations that
Sentinel goes into the 1990s. We appreciate the fact
that our district has had the initiative to provide us
with the resources and programs to meet the needs of
all students from grades 7 through 12.

Sharon Coffman, chairman
Sentinel Parents’ Association

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Editorial trampled on facts

Dear Editor:

Irresponsible! Inflammatory!
Your recent editorial on the water-
shed issue (North Shore News,
April 21) trampled on the facts and
jumped to unwarranted conclu-
sions.

Fact: The Vancouvey Island Gas
Pipeline doesn’t run 553 kilometres
through the Coquitlam Watershed,
it runs 30 kilometres through the
watershed and those kilometres are
on the high side of a busy logging
toad. A small, one-foot diameter
line buried three feet and laid with
equipment the size of an ordinary
backhoe is not the massive project
you make it out to be.

As for the overall environmental

Kenneth J. Baxter

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(Gust south of the market — next to the Seabus)

Lonsdale Quay Plaza
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belance — the downside of not
building a gas line to the Sunshine
Coast and Vancouver Island means
10,000 tons of acid rain dropping
on the Lower Maintand each year.
It will also bring to an end the
oil barge traffic in Georgia Strait.
Three hundred barges carrying dir-
ty California oil presently service
our pulp mills at Crofton, Che-
mainus, Port Alberni, Powell
River, Port Melon and Woodfibre.
The worst that can happen,
from laying a gas line through the
Coquitlam Watershed, is one or
two days of minor cloudiness in
the watcr. We've had many days
of extreme cloudiness resulting
from clearcut logging in the area.

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And, often, Coquitlam has shut
down, the Water District using
Capilano and Seymour instead.

This is why the B.C. Utilities
Commission, after three months of
intensive hearings, said that ‘‘the
pipeline route was both feasible
and manageable from a health and
environmental point of view.’’

But this isn’t the message your
“off the top’ editorial conveyed.
Jack Davis, MLA
North Vancouver-Seymour

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