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Province sets sights on gangs Cayley Dobie staff reporter
Picture a young girl on a swing. She slowly sways back and forth as eerie music plays in the background. The camera pans out, revealing a body draped in a plastic sheet below the girl’s dangling feet. That’s the dark picture being painted by police and the provincial government as they rolled out a new anti-gang campaign. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton joined Sgt. Lindsey Houghton and Chief Supt. Dan Malo of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. in Burnaby on Dec. 11 to unveil the newest tool in the fight against gangs. According to Houghton, “End gang life” is a multiplatform public service campaign, which aims to educate the public on what gang life is really like. Both the anti-gang police team and the provincial government are optimistic this hardline approached will deter youth from engaging in the dangerous lifestyle. “It’s all in the interest of making B.C. communities safer,” Houghton told media on Wednesday. The campaign aims to deal with two issues: British Columbians have had enough of gangsters and gang activity in their communities, and people need to have conversations with loved ones about the repercussions of joining a gang, Malo said. “It’s Christmas season. We know that families gather during this season, and we hope that this campaign will spark some conversations between families, Gangs Page 8
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Chick wrangling: Evann Yoon and Finn Haraldsson guide newly-hatched Fred the chick in Ms. Ma’s Grade 2 class at Forest Grove Elementary.
Eggucation captivates kids Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
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eet Fred, the newest addition to Jane Ma’s Grade 2 class at Forest Grove Elementary. Fred broke out of his shell in an incubator in the classroom as part of a program called Eggucation, which teaches students about life cycles for science. According to Ma, the students like the project, and they are recording observations of the chick’s lifecycle in booklets. “They call it Memoirs of My Eggs. Right now, they are writing Memoirs of My Chicks,” Ma said. When the NOW visited the classroom
on Monday, several students were very excited about the baby chick and lined up to offer their comments to the newspaper. “When the chick comes out, it kind of gets all goopy,” said seven-year-old Molly Pisacreta. “Before they hatch, they eat the yolk inside the eggs,” added Claire Edwards. Zakir Rajan thought it was “really good” having an egg hatch in class – something he said he’s never experienced before. “I learned how the chicks hatch,” he said. “If anyone has a chicken in class, I know what the life cycle is, so I can teach them.”
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Finn Haraldsson reported that he got to hold the chick and take it home, to watch over it. “It wasn’t ready to sit and stay the weekend all by itself,” he told the NOW. Jenny Leung, whose mom Mina helped bring the egg-hatching project to the class, found the whole experience exciting. “When it hatched, it was so cute,” she said. Megan Dykeman, a Langley school trustee and farmer, runs the program and supplies the fertilized eggs, incubator and a microscope, so students can Eggs Page 4
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