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PAGE 24, WHMTY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1991 Heling ou se-Ivells ENVIRONMENTAL Columnlt Peter Gorri was the guest speaker at the thkIrdanual PresietsBreakast held by Whftby Rotar Surwse. Rotary sponsoreci a va"leyof events lni support of Earth Week. STUDENTS at. SLt thewPublic School 100k part- klnah8ýiy duent ProIec Stutoas coflsted rocycabms snd,-tuÉmW dhim kilo arL Graham Camo.ý Daiah Val"is lakrDbe Subriki 1IoteiuD STUDENTS of Col. J.E.,Famefl bave fomedtheirown envlmnmental club, and mently Installed a copotr on echool gmunds. TfW 'Bavrknatlccompotemas d""te by Bob G lover. Photos by Chnis Bovie ST. JOHN THE EVANGEUST CATHOUC SCHOOL ENVIRONMENtAL CLUB St. John students form an envîronment club By Maureen Quinlan Klds are taking the envlronmient lnto. their own .h'ands at St. John the Evangellst elemen- tar soho.ol in Whltby., A group ofî. students. have formed an envlronment club that will help their sohool, and the world around them, become -environ.- mentally-friendly. The group began as a peace group durlng, the Persian Gui? war, but then qulckly tumed ta envlranmental Issues when students real- lzed how much goad they could do locally.. Theg roup has already held a bake sale ta ralse ?200 ta, help beglnr their flrst major proleot " a bazaar. The fundraiser was held recently at the .Pringle Creek Plaza. Jeanette Hamiltan, a menber ai the group, sald Rt was like a "minI-exhlbitlon." Stucents organized fac'e-painting, a gara ge sale, sponge tass and a ralle of a pizza, ,cake and waodworlclng amaments.' ': WIlhtheh.money t hat they, ralsed flrom the bazaar, the g roup hapes ta buy an acre af ralnlorest -and adapt -a Ghast tiger flarm the Metro Toranto Zao. The graup meets durlng' lunch haur and recesses.. "But we may haveta have antly.same' members came ta certain mneetings'because we're getting sa big," says Vaness a Lauer, a' 'memiber af the envFrnnnt graup. "lW. ail work tagether., We -dan't have any ranks," I says Christine Ledressiay, - anatherl- member ai the graup.- There -are na présidents ar vicpesdnts because the klds eël t<ihat t Ilcald lead ta conflict. "We had R , like that (with ranks)in- the beglnnlnq, 'but 'we jusët kept argulng and arguln' fsysLedressay. Thne graupalso hapes to "adapt apark" In the future. Thon-1h. group wauld heip, keep the park free.o i hUer and environmrentai lyl riendly. L Akt F7