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BEST COPY AVAILABLE B2 The Edmonton Journal, Wednesday, December 12, 1990 i-y Pallomig enroDmeimt kiDls alteirmiative education plan Public trustees axe program with 11 students Alberta to get more drug rehabs AADAC 1,1. 1 fit i enthusiasm. "It just didn't work said Habinski. "The numbers weren't About half of the 11 students have already indicated they'll enter Parkallen's regular program next year, said principal Rod Fay, and the program's one teach "We can't say we weren't given a chance to save it The board gave us a year and bent over backwards to help us. We felt the program had something to offer but it was too little, too late to get the message out to the public.

Ellen Belton, parent ALLEN PANZERI Journal Staff Writer Edmonton An 11-year-old alternative education program plagued by declining enrolment was chopped by public school trustees Tuesday night. And even parents with students in the Waldorf program, which is based on the teachings of Austrian educator and philosopher Rudolf Steiner, had to concede there was no interest in the program after they mounted a last-ditch effort to save it. Only 11 children are enrolled in the program this year. Trustees voted unanimously to cancel it. "I just don't see how this can be a viable program," said trustee Joan Cowling, noting that no kindergarten students are enrolled in the program this year.

Parents were resigned to the program's closure. "We can't say we weren't given a chance to save it," said Ellen Belton, a parent with two children in the program. "The board gave us a year and bent over backwards to help us. We felt the program had something to offer but it was too little, too late to get the message out to the public." Ed Kaiser 77ie Journal CLASSY KURT Two-time world figure skating champion Kurt Browning cuts a mature figure clad in period garb, complete with droopy moustache Tuesday on the rink behind the Alberta Legislature. He was being filmed for a CBC television special.

er will also stay at the school. "We were a little disappointed because there was considerable effort to create interest," said "But it just didn't seem to catch on." The private Aurora Rudolf Steiner School has 43 students bol didn't know if it would pick up arty from Parkallen. fl Its tuition fees $215 a month for elementary students and $82.50 a month for kindergarten students are a barrier for many The Waldorf program is an h6: listic approach to education through which each subject is pre: sented as it relates to humanity. Children are encouraged to use. their imagination, and the arts and practical experiments are used to teach students.

But Freeland says her political activism may not make her ah ideal journalist. While in Kiev in 1988-89 on a student-exchange program, Free land had numerous run-ins witti police and authorities, who eventually complained to the Canadian embassy that she was a "well-known trouble-maker." Still, this didn't stop her from helping to break the story of the Stalinist massacre in the Bykovnia area near Kiev which ended up on the front page of the New York Times. Freeland, who still likes to spend time rounding up cattle on" her father's farm in the Peace River area, says she continues to appreciate her Alberta roots. "I'm very much the Canadian and see myself as coming back here (to Alberta)," she says. Aibertan wins Rhodes prize Scholarship a ticket to Oxford for feisty Chrystia Freeland Seat belt likely saved trucker from injury IAN HAMILTON Journal Staff Writer Edmonton "Alberta will soon have enough programs that teenagers here won't have to go to the U.S.

for treatment, says AADAC chairman Stan Nelson. Established out-patient counselling, along with new facilities being developed in Calgary and Edmonton and a private clinic due to open next spring will meet the "basic needs" of Alberta teenagers, he says. Along with a three-month, live-in program in Saskatchewan, where Alberta sends youths at no cost, "the variety of different programs will address probably 99.99 per cent of the kids that have problems," he says. Nelson was responding to criticism from a St. Albert woman who she spent $36,000 to keep her son in a U.S.

drug-treatment centre 'for the last two years because there isn't adequate help for him here. Sharon Mayr is especially critical jot what she calls Don Getty's election promise of a drug-abuse foundation. The government has said it may not yet be able to afford the foundation, which was to be financed through a $12 million to $14 million annuity from the Heritage Trust Fund. i Nelson says he hasn't been told Iwhat to expect in the spring sitting of the legislature, when the foundation was to be created. At AADAC's last count, nearly 50 Albertans were being treated for drug addiction in U.S.

programs, he says, "and there were probably more than that." Many of those could be repatriated, says Mayr, if programs like Atlanta Straight, where her son was treated, were available locally. She says she'll lobby for the program to be brought to Edmonton after her son returns this month. A Straight office had opened in Edmonton two years ago with AADAC's backing, but closed after Journal reports of its controversial "tough-love" methods and Getty's announcement of a coming drug-abuse foundation. Nelson says AADAC would welcome a proposal from the Straight program to set up in Edmonton, "but we don't have any financial resources to put into it. He added, however, that the private Calgary clinic, which is based on a similar philosophy as Straight, will eventually be able to handle the same clients as a private Edmonton clinic.

'Little peeling HELEN PLISCHKE Journal Staff Writer Edmonton A man charged with second-degree murder in a nightclub stabbing only carried a "little peeling knife" for food, his friend testified Tuesday. The friend, also a bouncer in the Cabana Club at 10266 103rd said he'd seen Neville Garfield Pin-nock with the peeling knife only once before. Pinnock, 20, and Richard Wayne Pullock, 22, have pleaded not guilty to a joint charge of second-degree murder after Michael Oswald Anderson was stabbed to death on Jan. 15, 1989. Anderson went to the club at about 11:30 p.m.

to drink champagne and have a good time visiting with friends, said George Clarke, one of Anderson's friends who accompanied him that night. But less than five hours later Anderson died from internal bleed MARINA JIMENEZ Journal Staff Writer Edmonton Chrystia Freeland has been an activist since the day she took on her elementary school principal. The feisty grade-fiver organized a student strike to protest the school's exclusive enrichment classes, for bright kids only. The strike failed, but it taught Freeland to stand up for what she believes in, and never give in. Now, 12 years and many battles later, the Edmonton native has been rewarded for her community involvement, leadership and academic excellence with a coveted Rhodes Scholarship.

She is one of three Westerners and 11 Canadians to win the annual award, which gives recipients the chance to study at Oxford. "I was in complete shock, in a to Journal Staff Red Deer A Red Deer truck driver transporting fuel was saved from serious injury by his seat belt in a nearly explosive accident, says Stony Plain Highway Patrol. Patrick Chateau, 32, said Tuesday he's been told he was lucky to walk away without serious injury. Although he wouldn't call himself fortunate in coming out of the Monday accident unscathed, he did say shock has probably kept the seriousness of the incident from sinking in. In a telephone interview from his home in Red Deer, Chateau explained that prior to the accident, he only occasionally snapped his belt on.

Now, he says, he'll likely buckle up every time. Chateau had picked up a tanker truck full of gas The program, housed at Par-kallen school, began in 1979 with 56 students. Enrolment peaked in 1985 with 208 students, but it began falling in 1986 when a group seeking more control over the program split from Parkallen and formed a private school. Avi Habinski, the district's assistant superintendent for planning, said that split was probably the beginning of the end for the program, because enrolment never rebounded. Also, the initial strong core of support for the program disappeared when the first group of students graduated.

From 1983 to 1985, there was enough interest to warrant a junior high program. But even a year to drum up interest couldn't rekindle tal state of disbelief," said Freeland, describing how she felt when she first heard the news. The 22-year-old spoke in a phone interview from Harvard University, where she is completing her BA in Russian history and literature. Freeland's mother Halyna was also ecstatic, but not surprised. "When she was young, we used to call her 'Her Royal Highness'.

She was always very thoughtful and articulate," said Halyna, who lives in Edmonton. Freeland says the Rhodes Scholarship will give her a chance to meet key Oxford scholars she has admired for years. Journalism may be one of her career options, says Freeland, who worked last summer in London as an intern for United Press International. She hopes to travel to Ukraine and work as a freelance journalist before starting her term at Oxford in Oct. 1991.

1 Wall WE knife' carried into club HAVE YOUR HOME HOLIDAY -READY? EATON'S CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY CLEANING "G2J oline in Bowden and was headed for Peace River when the accident occurred west of Edmonton about 8:30 a.m. Monday. Chateau works for Fas Gas Transport, which carries fuel for the company's discount service stations. He said he was headed north on Highway 60 when a loaded gravel truck pulled onto Highway 60 northbound from Highway 627. Chateau said he imagined himself engulfed in flames as he bore down on the gravel truck.

He took evasive action, but the whole front of his cab was crumpled. Gurtej Singh Brar, 35, of Edmonton faces two charges: proceeding when it was unsafe after stopping at a stop sign, and transporting a load in excess of the maximum weight. see Pullock in the club. "I heard someone say "Neville (Pinnock) did it." But under cross examination Clarke admitted he'd told police that he only heard someone yelling "Neville." Another bouncer who was looking on the floor beside Pinnock for the lost watch told the court he saw Anderson lightly slap Pinnock's cheek. A few seconds later Chris Tulloch said he wrestled a brass-handled "butterfly knife" with a 12-cm blade from Tinnock's hand.

Pinnock held the knife between his own body and Anderson's, Tulloch said. The bouncer said he saw Pullock standing "an arms length" from Anderson when Anderson was talking to Pinnock. Minutes later Tulloch said he confronted Pullock who was standing in the club's coat room with an open pocket knife. Pullock was angry because someone had hit him, but was convinced to put the knife in his pocket, Tulloch said. The trial resumes today.

22, 1990 our Special departures to ft ing due to a single stab wound to his stomach. In sometimes hazy and conflicting recollections, three bouncers, a bartender, and Clarke each told a Court of Queen's Bench justice that they didn't see Anderson being stabbed in the crowded, low-lit club. The trouble began when Anderson, 22, confronted Pinnock whom he believed had his girlfriend's watch, Clarke said. Clarke told the court Pinnock denied having the watch, but that Anderson, a burly six foot, four inches tall, began patting Pinnock's waist and asked if he had a knife. The two men were standing just inches apart when Pinnock suddenly reached into his back pocket, Clarke said.

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