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1ing you hero.ehelt Guide Co, was presented withthStPender“ • »-.«■«'Vlt;»'.• /•,•’ *« ^ • — r,.V^-*• . \J'mStarthMby Donna Vaughan LI* ,r.FOLLOWING the example of Vancouver’s more progressive schools,- Pender Harbour Secondary School established, on April 27, the Tuum Est system. Tuum est which is Latin for “It is up to you” is a relatively new system under which students may go to classes or study.‘If a studentdoes not wish to attend a class he merely■fills out a slip stating the class he missed and the study area he has chosen. Either the' library,’ the detention room or the gymnasium. •■ ' The system was put into effect so that students who were doing poorly in some of their subjects would have more time to devote „to those courses' in order to bring up their marks. The system also ensures that the smart alecks who don’t wanf to study, or contribute to the class and who only succeed in disrupting those who-do, will• be elsewhere.Question of the week is: “Do ypu believe in the , existance of the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquach, or Abominable Snow. y ...» ' -i • w• i .* * «. . • • » . • ^ ., i. .' i •IfcC* fSix negative answers,' two affirmative, and several “I don’t knows.”One person said that he believed in the Sasqaatch because he knew some peoplewho had seen One. , i, ,, V ;“I belieye in the sasquatch and the Abominable Snowman, but not the others,”' said one person. Still another said they believed in the Loch Ness monster but not theITI Q r’ i-k«I 'lA'-V-^ ri*(;;C ■ *- iijf./ii,? :V--.I see no reason to doubt the existence of sea serpents arid their ilk. Most descriptions given by people who claim to have seen them seem. to agree that they areabput 60, fept in length with a serpentine, ■neck arid a reptilian head which, when swimming, is raised out of the water, The body is scaly with a number of convolutions along the back.Archcologists state that the, description is very close to that of the plesiosaurus, a ^long-necked sea lizard that inhabited theI I I it t • t • ■(*. I .i .1 awaters million of years ago. The creatures were, from all experts can deduce, placid,slow moving, inoffensive1 and harmless.Many prehistoric animals vanished from the earth because they no longer could evolve fast enough to suit their surroundings. Perhaps in^ta marine environment evolution would not be quite so necessary as conditions would be more suitable for life in the depths of the oceans.As for the Ssquatch and the Abominable Snowman^ who allegedly inhabit the mountains near Mission and the’Himalayas in India respectively, it seems likely that they are primitive tribfes who were driven in ancient times from all hospitable, lands into thq. remote mountainous regions..However the means, I certainly would not deem their survival impossible since in 1938 a fisherman caught off the coast of . Africa, a fish known as thc coelacanth— a fish supposedly totally extinct for at least 60 to 70 million years. If they could last for all these years, unsuspected why couldn't the much larger plesiasaurus?Congratulations to Brenda Lee who entered Dominion Stores Eassy Contest and came but^nner of'a trip to Expo,Brenda is alsp^one of our ’67 Grads. She’ is going to vocational* school after, graduation to take secretarial training. ' 'Bonnie, Lee another of our Grads is going to SFU.,She hopes to take those courses which will prepare her to be a teacher of Math, Pbysics, and Chemistry.VAt Expo 67’s Automotive Statium continuous sports events-and vivid pageantry, from international tournaments to the RC-MP’s Musical .Rido, will bo featured during the six months of the World'Exhibition at Montreal, Canada’s armed forces will stage the largest military tattoo In the country’s history in the 25,000TScat statium. The renowned gendarmerie Francalsc, \vlll also perform Its precision manoeuvres using jeeps, and motorcycles,lt; . •
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Wilson Creek Peninsula Times
Wilson Creek, British Columbia, CA
Wed, May 10, 1967
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