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By JOHN GREEN ‘through some of its paces. present. Instead of playing with helps out with questions, suchas, ® @
; Emily Haughton can’t ‘read What Emily can do isto make =the things Santa brought, the ‘What do you want to call this © g
this story because she is only the computer draw pictures ona — girls spent much of Christmasin —— picture?’’ or “‘what picture do @ Ha New Year f il @
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“three years old, but Emily can’ TV screen. A triangular mark, Spock’s room” doing arith- you want to show?” that require = @ the management and staff PS
program a computer.: ~~ -ealled a ‘‘turtle’’ appears on the metic. : the young programmer to type e of the Peacock Restaurant @
She and her sisters, Miranda, screen, and goes forward or Mrs. Haughton’ notes that only a single word as an answer 6 : x]
eight, and Laura, 11, areamong back, turns left or right, in | computer games, like toys, tend instead of going through a long ps . S
the few children in.this area who. response to. commands -- that to be played with for a while, series of instructions. e We've enjoyed your @
are not only able to use acom- consist of only a single letter on __ then left on the shelf, but itis not So far Logo is not used in most e patronage and look forward @
puter at home, but have one they the keyboard. that way when the children are local schools, but it may be in @ to serving you in 1983 e
can talk to in a language called The drawings can be saved and experimenting with what theycan — future. The Haughtons _ par- S AY
“Logo.” called back again. make the computer. do.» They ticipated recently in a workshop 4 x |
Early. computer . languages ; . work. out their. own procedures where it was used~ by eight be Licensed Premises - Delivery 3S
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such as ‘‘Basic’’, were com- laything. It can be used to teach ; , . , pe RESTA oq:
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but as a result the person using . ; At Emily’s level the computer strated it for the school board. @ 24
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them had to work out many al projects . ith th @ . e
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Mayor Peter Pollen’ — was.

cotipinally critical: of» the CRD
decision to put. sewers in and a. ne on
moratorium. was. called so. case, could:,.be:.-made:. for” the

directors could see ‘the situation "government to put. up. more
on the island first ee _ money for this. special project,
Sealey.says she can see no other: pues wees 5 bids for th
solution except that sewers must ere Ge on 1 = aye ae
go in. ‘‘It’s unbelieveable that. cay or ner ce ke bochside
anyone can wallow i in that filth — beautification Study and council
-. it?s the most disgusting, thing I've. : “tid was $2,845. Th sane eee -
"ever seen,”’ Sealey told council; © DlG. was COME OI
“Tf it was a Third World 2 Nanaimo. firm) was.$12,000.
country we'd be” wanting» the The Provincial. Capital Com- - 2
government to. do. something, *: mission will pay: ‘up to $30 sei 0. for: 7
about it.” : cost of the study. =

Sealey described ‘massive. pits, =:

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He says the difficulty was the...
expense. -for a relatively small
‘population :-— perhaps a. special

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“haste. — ee there’ S. ‘a reversal
and» the. Victoria. “mayor. ‘says
Ganges. ‘should’ have. a referen-
dum, Sealey explains. setee i
oo The mayor. predicted, residents
“would. likely. Teject the: sewer :
plan pen ee
~Aldy: Loyd. Birdon: says: ‘thé aoe
“CRD. should ‘go in there witha
campaign, and sellit to thevoters.

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