A Grade 12 student at Carson Graham secondary school, _16- year-old) Bram is into skiing, snowboarding, and rollerblading.

LAST WEEK I was just sit- ting around watching the television, fecling like a couch poiato. .

The phone rang and | thought to myself, “do |] have to answer this?”’ Eventually, after eight or nine rings, | decided to pick up the receiver and groan, ‘‘hello.”’

It was my teacher calling to ask if my article was coming along well. Lying through my teeth 1

SUMMER JS now in full swing and any teens hoping to make some money have, or would like to have, a job. Do you have a summer job? Do you want one? Is it hard to get jobs? Did you use any organizations like Hire-a-Student to help you with job

hunting?

competently in four hours.

The course includes personal- ized instruction from professionals and all equipment: climbing shoes, harness and rope.

To start out with, you meet the four other people in the class (low student-instructor ratio), Next you learn about the equipment and how to use it. And then the fun begins.

You start climbing, adrenalin starts to flow, your heartbeat rises, and then vou realize that you have reached the top.

{’s not over, though.

Pleasing to the eye, the ar- chitecture provides about 25 routes (more t0 come) and has quite a large bouldering area. The

danger aspect is very low because the ropes are changed atthe first sign of wear, and the staff is always checking for your errors.

Rock climbing is an excellent form of mental and physical exer- cise that has no age requirement. In my short career of climbing I have seen a wide range of ages, from about seven to 70.

The youth of teday are always complaining about having nothing to do, So now that you have read this, if you ever say that you have nothing to do again, you are kid- ding yourself.

So tomorrow morning, don't just go and turn on the TV, turn on the adrenalin, Go climbing!

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HIGH SCHOOL student Bram Janssens is not to be a couch potato this summer. One way of getting out and being active is

responded, ‘‘you betcha!’’ He could obviously tell that I had not written a word. He sug-_

to try a new challenge o7 adventure, like rock climbing.

Students win scholarships

TWO NORTH Shore fine arts students have ‘cach won a $450 scholarship from the West Van- couver Visual Arts Society.

The money will help Theresa Lee and Scott Edward Rumak, both of North Vancouver, with their tuition costs as both plan to enter their fourth year of studies at Emily Carr College of Art and

Design in the fall.

Two-thirds of the grant money comes from the Visual Aris Trust Fund, which is invested with the West Vancouver Foundation, Part of the remainder is provided by the BC Cultural Fund through the auspices of the West Vancouver Community Arts Council, and the rest by the West Vancouver Visual Arts Society.

gested writing about something that most people would find dar- ing. I did!

{ went to The Edge, an indoor rock climbing gym located in North Vancouver, and took a course so that [ could write about it.

It turned out to be so ex- hilarating that | went back two days later, and plan to go again as soon as I have some free time and $10.70 including tax for the day pass (really cheap).

The introductory course, which was very reasonably priced, takes you from complete ignorance to having enough knowledge to belay

her to bed early

We are upgrading our computer system so we need to “put the paper to bed” early on Friday July 16. {t’s not that big of a deal for us. For you it means that the Classified ad deadline

for July 18th issue will move from

noon to 10 a.m. That's all there is to it.

SUNDAY » WEONESDAY + FRIDAY

July 18th Classified deadfine is 10 a.m.