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Editor, Ext. 215 Deb Duffield _ lean Van Volkenburg Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement Number OSPREY Letters Policy ISSN 0832â€"3410 40050478 Audited circulation: 27538 Fabienne Memmix Gerry Mattice Walk to school on May 7 First of all, walking to school is great for your heart. How do I know that? Because it is proven that most people who walk or bike to school or their job have a longer life because the exercise makes them feel better, makes their heart stronger and many other positive things. Also that isn‘t everything, when you walk your muscles stimulate. So that means each time you walk you get stronger and stronger so eventually at the end of the year you‘ll have a sixâ€"pack. Not only will you have a sixâ€"pack you‘ll make the world a much better place because you didn‘t pollute. When you pollute it sadly kills the animals and maybe even humans with strong asthma problems, so please just walk. Second of all. If you walk or bike there is no more traffic and stop light stress â€" yahoo. Also if you walk to school it is more likely for you to have a good day at school because you had your morning exercise and that should put you in a good mood. Adding to that you don‘t pollute and you‘re in a better mood and plus no stress. Now that couldn‘t be more of a masterpiece if it‘s signed by Picasso, so now walk and make the world a better place. Last but not least... does biking cost money? No. When you walk or bike to wherever you‘re going you save some money. So let‘s say you‘re biking to school and your school is far. You save money, so if you had a very low amount of gas in your tank you could save quite a bit of money. With gas money you could probâ€" ably buy the tie you‘ve always wanted or the pants you didn‘t get for Christmas. I‘m just trying to say you can buy a lot with all the gas money you save. So that‘s another great reason to walk to school or possibly in your case, work. Editors note: This week, students from Westvale public school in Waterloo submitted letters in supâ€" port of Walk to School Day (May 7). The event encourages school children to walk, bike or blade to school to help reduce vehicle emissions and reduce vehicle congestion, while enjoying quality physical activity. On May 7 there is a national walk to school day. The point of this special event is to not to drive to wherever you‘re heading. If you live far away... do bikes pollute? Of course not, so please either walk or bike. As you‘ve all probably figured out already, the moral of this event is not to pollute the environment. If you haven‘t done anything good for the earth for Earth Week which was last week, here‘s your chance. Now I shall tell you what‘s so magnificent about this special day in the upcoming paragraphs. I have a few reasons why I think it‘s a good idea to walk to school. The first reason is pollution. Let‘s look at cars first. Cars drive and idle. That creates LOTS of exhaust, which turns into pollution. This creates a bubble of poison around schools, where most parâ€" ents idle while dropping off their kids. Idling wastes gas, which wastes money too. So if you parents care about your kids, which I‘m sure you do, you will probâ€" ably want to walk. Bikes, scooters, rollerblades, etc may not seem bad but think of how many times you‘ve oiled one. Now think of oil dripping and flowâ€" ing into sewers. It will end up in iakes and rivers and After all those good reasons you hopefully have learned something. Well now, just in case I‘ll summaâ€" rize what you hopefully have learned. Starting off with ... Walking is good for the heart, so walk. Also it stimulates your muscles, so walk. It makes the world a cleaner and healthier place, so walk. You exercise and have fun while gossiping with your friends, so that‘s another good reason to walk. You save money too, so now I hopefully made it clear that walking is a beautiâ€" ful thing. So now I ask you to walk on Wednesday, May I'm sure you‘ve heard, but it doesn‘t hurt to be reminded:; May 7 is International Walk to School Day. The most important thing is: don‘t drive! Just walk. Even bicycles, scooters, rollerblades. etc. can be bad for the environment You‘ll find out why if you keep reading. 7. Ammymg as I am. just walk and make the world better place. Feet can‘t be beat when it comes to transportation THE CH@NICLE l Continued on page 9 Donald Chmura VIEWPOINT oopee! Kitchener Rangers are gunâ€" W:ing for a spot in the junior finals, and you can bet they‘ll give it a maximum effort. Sure, Ottawa 67s are a good team, but the Rangers have whupped good teams before. It‘s been years since the Kitchener kids have been in contention, and they won‘t want to waste this opportunity. On Reflection: With the SARS scare abatâ€" ing, it‘s about time we huddled for what we can do the next time something like that comes along. Jean Chretien and Ernie Eves had no luck this time. They were down south on a golfing vacation when the SARS thing struck. Telephone poles are getting more careless What‘s more, the team is skilled, balanced, and shows quite nifty when it comes to disciâ€" pline. All that counts for a lot when it comes to win or get out. And, gee, it‘s great to see the Aud jammed for the games. It‘s like the great days of the senior Dutchmen. Ah yes, sometimes you get so worked up about hockey you wish it were only agame. _ _ Too bad. You can be revelling in every plea sure and no one will say much, but admit you were on a golfing vaca râ€"‘ tion and the voter outcry will never . | ( )\( ® end rlvltyre The fact remains Canada got off to a rather slow start in battling this unfamiliar menace. Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement wound up in a blaze of glory in getâ€" ting WHO to change its mind on the blackball. The federal health minister, Anne McLellan, had a slow start, but in tandem with Clement, finâ€" ished strongly. The fact that Chreâ€" tien was absentâ€"given the way he operatesâ€"limited what could be done. It may be that we haven‘t seen the last of SARS. It is so easily caught that it may one day give us the real miseries. The real misery meanâ€" ing it infected usâ€"not somebody else Sloppy Joes: So. OK. we didn‘t win any wellâ€" dressed awards when we were young, but we weren‘t the slobs a lot of today‘s teens look. I mean the youngsters who slop around in oversize jeans, the kind that are worn at halfâ€" mast with the seat down near the knees. You know, the jumboâ€"sized jeans hang down from the wearer‘s stem. They make the legs look But, of course, there can be little doubt that the medical profession has made tremendous progress in the last 25 years. What used to be merely an itch is now an allergy. When we were young, we tried to look like swashbucklers. Now they look more as if they‘re buckling and not able to swash. s Crash Scenes: The community has been jolited and not only by the fact of a recent rash of fatal crashes, but that they seemed vaguely alike and were in the same area. The crashes have been blamed on teenâ€" agers racing, and the drivers in most cases are described as fine people, sharp students and the sort of youngsters with everything to live for. )Y But be careful. By all means be D careful. Statistics prove that tele phone poles are getting more care less all the time The Guns Still Bark: George Dubyah has proclaimed the Iraqi war as sort of aver, but it looks as if he‘ll have random gunfire to put up with at least now and then. But, of course, we‘ll have the political war first. Political war? That‘s the one in which everyone shoots from the lip. like tree trunks and the knees seem to flex just above ankles. â€" They obviously felt the urge of youth in the need to go fast, to test the limits of reflexes, and to laugh at danger. They just weren‘t aware that in these days of high speed and crowded highâ€" ways, it doesn‘t take much of a car to last a lifeâ€" time. Their reflexes may be supertb, but they‘re still not quick enough to outrace all the horsepower. To drive like tommorrow isn‘t worth waiting for is folly indeed. There‘s an imaginary line on the ocean where you can lose a day by crossing it. There‘s esmm â€" One 0n the highway where you can do even better that that The other day American troops tangled with some troops and when the hostilities concludâ€" ed something like a dozen Iraqis had died. _ The Americans claimed that the Iraqis fired first, but that‘s in dispute. Of course, there‘s talk now of Iran as a threat and don‘t tell us we‘ll have to go through this again? You may outâ€"distance, outmaâ€" noeuvre and outbrag the other driâ€" ver, but the question is, will you outlive him? In Biblical times Lot‘s wife, who looked back, turned into a pillar of salt. In Canada, many people who look back while in their cars turn into a telephone pole And, yes, a roadhog is a person who speeds up every time you speed up to get in front of him.