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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

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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,

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