Al4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 26, 2002

DARE needed for students

Dear Sir: ;
I am a parent of two

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our messages at home, if it
is reinforced at school and

young boys ages 5 and 6
who are just in their first
years of hopefully a long
road in the education
system. They are currently
too young to reap the benefits of the DARE program that
is mainly targeted for intermediate elementary, junicr
high and senior high students.

Though [ hope with the parenting skills of myself and
my husband they will not need to have their teachers or
police officers educate them on the resistance of drugs,
alcohol, or violence, but why would I not support anyone
or any program that.is going to help reinforce aur mes-
sage at home.

The saying it takes a village to raise a child is one ]
believe in strongly, Although I hope as parents we do a
good job teaching our children the difference of right and
wrong, consequences and to lead by example, there are
many children who will not have this kind of support at

home.
As well, I know that although our children may hear

City challenged
to recycle waste

Dear Sir: Depot is interested in
I was shocked and ex- working with the city to

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in other social groups, the
messages might stick and
give my children and others
a fighting chance.

lam a parent who is fighting
for the DARE program as an optional resource for tea-
chers. Iam not fighting this for my own personal agenda
or gain. I am doing this because parents have come to
the District Parent Advisory Council and have asked for
our help.

Qur children are in trouble. The teachers, union and
other supporters say social issues such as this should not
be part of their job but be the parents’ responsibility. If
this is the case why are these issues already being ad-
dressed in the curriculum through CAPP?

Parents like the DARE program because the benefit
of not only having the teacher educate, but having a
uniformed trained police officer in the classroom helps
to make the message have a stronger impact.

Because it is a licensed program, the classes must be
taught in their entirety. Lessons can not be picked from
so issues won't be missed.

Another benefit to the DARE program is that it is a
program.that is all ready to go. It will not cost the over-
worked teacher more time to prepare and it won't cost
the school board any money. And I guess as parents, we
like the idea that it is already se widely used and so
highly thought of by so many teachers, parents and stu-
dents across this province and country.

We asked the school board to approve this program as
a resource for teachers to use if they wished and believe

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tremely upset by the com-
ments of councillor David
D. Hull with regards to re-
cycling on a recent televi-

ans . recycling eee bing me, there are many who have shown an interest or at the
and locare them at acon. Yo" least would like to learn more about DARE to de-
cide on their own, Bul the teachers’ union is taking away

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sion broadcast.

Does he seriously think
that throwing all recycl-
ables into the city dump is
a viable cost-saving mea-
sure and better for the en-
vironment? Don't we now
need to build a new dump
because the old one is fill-
ing up rapidly?

The new dump will cost
millions and if we dump
everything, how soon will
it be before we need an-
other? Will it indeed last
50 years if we follow
Councillor Hull’s recom-
mendations?

This is not a very en-
lightened position for a
city official to take. Re-
cycling is an accepted and
efficient method of redu-
cing our dependence on
landfills.

Terrace Bottle Depo
recycles drink containers,
cardboard, newspaper,
plastic*milk:jugs-and-other © 72
items. Terrace residents do 2s,
not have to drive their re- :
cyclables to Kitimat, as
Councillor Hull indicated.

With regards to the
ozone comment by Coun-
cillor Hull, indeed some
manufacturing processes
have a negative effect on
the ozone.

However, anything that
can reduce the processing
of materials is good for the
environment as a whole.

Newspaper and card-
board go into the pulping
process at a much later
stage than chips do. Alu-
minum cans are melted
and reformed. There is a
lot less energy and hand-
ling required than to take
bauxite and convert it to
aluminum and then form it. }

Transporting materials
to the recycling center has
no more impact on the en-
vironment than transport-
ing the same materials to
the dump.

Getting the materials to
a buyer is also done most-
ly by way of back hauls,
trucks that would have re-
turned to Vancouver or
elsewhere empty.

Many communities find
that supporting a recycling
program reduces their
costs. Landfills are used up
slower. Less labour and
machine time is required
to maintain the landfill.

Less garbage is handled
by the pick up crews so
they are able to minimize
trips to dump the garbage,
which reduces the labour
and machine costs in-
volved in this process.

You will also find that
there is a lot of public sup-
port for recycling and that
given the option a lot of
people would take their re-
cyclables to centrally lo-
cated sorting bins and in-
vest the sorting time and
effort,

It’s one small thing we
can all do to reduce waste .
and help the environment,

The Terrace Bottle

will find ways to efficient-
ly recycle the materials.

Shirley Lavoie,

Terrace, B.C.

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venient city site and we the teachers’ option to choose. We believe this is a big-
ger issue then just allowing the DARE program in our

schools, but for the sake of our children why not?
Jenelle Turpin,

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