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“TERRACE — At 9:20 a.m.

.Ohill Jr, Secondary student
“rose from her desk,
presented the teacher with a
"Note and left the class.

later caused a stir — no sur-
‘prise considering. she was
“ow dressed in black, her
‘face made-up ghostly white
‘with a large black cross
" “painted across it,
-.- And she would not speak
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‘Same thing happened with
- another grade 9/10 student
and the pattern repeated
itself every 20 minutes, in-
Cluding during the lunch
hour, until nine students had
gone through the exercise.

body, this bizarre behaviour
stirred comment and ques-
tions, but no answers were
forthcoming from the still-
silent apparitions. Not until
the end of the day, when
CounterAttack club member
Juanita Wiebe went on the
P.A., system to explain,

This was her message:

"Today was quite dif-
ferent for us and for you. As
you saw, every 20 minutes
one of us left the class and
when we returned we looked
changed and wouldn't talk.

. This was really hard to do.

“We represented teenagers
between 16 and 20 years old
killed by a drunk driver. This
happens every 20 minutes

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school —

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IT MAY LOOK like Hallowe’en, but the made-up faces of these
Thornhill Jr. Secondary schoo! CounterAttack club members
was meant to send a serious message — that a 16-20 year-old
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Elizabeth Metzmeier said it dangers of drinking and driy-
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look after
wilderness

TERRACE — The Forests
ministry should not be given the
job of protecting wilderness,
says the president of the Nor-
thwest Trappers association.
Speaking at last week's
Meeting to discuss proposed
parks and wilderness study
areas, Rob Seaton recalled the
_iministry had considered enter-
ing into a pulpwood agreement
without knowing if the wood to
Sustain the proposed 625,000
cu.m, AAC existed and without
carrying out an environmental
impact assessment,

Describing that affair as a
*‘fiasco,”” he said the ministry’s
track record suggested it
“should not have any control
over the wilderness values of the
province."

' Seaton “also slammed the
small campsites now operated
by the Forest Service as “not
fauch niore than a joke, poorly
funded and: serve more as an
embarrassment to the province

than an assei. The one on the

Lakelse River was ‘‘a prime ex-
ample. - oe a

' Suggesting there was public
confusion over the difference
between a Forestry wilderness’
area and a Parks recreation
area, he wondered why the

former should be duplicating

the work of the Inter. ~

” “The real solution is to dou-
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budget," he said,. suggesting 4

lack’ of ‘money was crippling .
B.C. Parks: operations. Yet -it ..
had been. asked to reduce its ©
budget’: this year by -five per

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