Last year’s Walk for Peace. Organizers hope this will be a record year in the drive to bring peace to the world.
Stand up and be counted.
That's the theme behind the fifth annual Vancouver Walk for Peace scheduled for this Sunday (April 27).
Beginning at Kitsilano Beach and Cambie Street, this year's peace walk will end inside the dome at B.C. Place where a rally will be held.
The rally will feature guest speakers such as Mayor Mike Harcourt; Takeshi Arkai, atomic bomb survivor and Mayor of Hiroshima; Dr. Warren Bell of Physicians for Social Responsibility; the Very Reverend Lois Wilson, president of the World Council for Churches (Canada) and many others.
This year's peace walk will also mark the closing of the Vancouver Centennial Peace Festival and the finale for the Vancouver Centennial Peace and Disarmament Symposium.
In the past, Vancouver has seen 80,000 people walk for peace in 1985 and its highest total ever - 115,000 in 1984.
Organizers for the walk hope to topple past attendance records and hope that "the rally will spark new found interest in peace."
The Walk for Peace begins at 12 noon on April 27 and ends at 3 p.m. at B.C. Place.
Teach war no more
Grade eight students from Vancouver Technical School on East Broadway are working on a "message for peace" in a contest through the United Nations Pavillon at Expo '86 and sponsored by the credit unions of British Columbia. Elementary and secondary students from across the province were invited to participate in the project in any of three categories: writing, poster art or audio-visual. Forty-two students at Van Tech spent close to 10 weeks on the project with the theme, "earth-what a wonderful place to lose." Photo Ed Olson.
These stories were taken from the EastEnder newspaper archives from 1986 Vol. 3, No. 32 April 24, 1986.
