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THE GLORY. of North
and West -Vancouver’s
salmon resource and
the growing effort to
insure the future of
that resource will be
celebrated in West
Vancouver’s sixth an-
nual Coho festival star-
ting September 5.

| By TIMOTHY RENSHAW |

The festival, which began
as litthe more than a
barbecue put on by the West
Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce,. has since grown
inte a full-blown community
event that focuses attention
on and raises funds for
educating North Shore
school children in salmon
awareness. :

Festival |. president Mike
Nicell says involvement in
the event is spontaneous and
infectious, ‘‘It just seems to
grow every year. Last year
we had 300 volunteers and
some 10,000 participants.
Anybody who gets involved
once seems to want to come

back and do it again. The.

whole thing has become a
total community effort.’”

Nicell emphasizes that,
besides all the hoorah and
celebration surrounding the
festival, the fundamental
reason for the three-day
event is to raise money that
can subsequently be
reinvested in the North
Shore’s salmon resource via
the well-established salmon
appreciation programs now
in’ most North Shore
schools.

FUNDRAISER

In the first few years,
money raised by the festival
was negligible, says Per
Danielsen, vice-president of
public relations for this
year's festival, ‘‘but last year
we raised $4,500. This year
we're hoping to raise in the
neighborhood of $6,000 to
$8,000.’’

Funds raised in the past
have helped schools buy ma-
terials to make the necessary
incubation tanks and rearing
troughs needed for the
20,000 to 50,000 salmon eggs

students breed in each creek
trough.

Pat Bell, assistant
superintendant of schools
for school district 44, says
the salmon program, begun

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