their community's unique heritage, this rift is bitter and the economic consequences ominous for both businesses and the community as a whole.

The local board is holding a meeting Monday night, June 29 and it is expected that they will have the assistance of four lawyers and the eventwill be covered by various newspapers and electronic media. The really unfortunate and obvious result is that no one will win in this conflict, every member of the community directly involved or not, is being drawn into arguments that involve legal rights, language rights,but ultimately bad feeling and disharmony will prevail.

Disputes that involve children and their parents are not a pretty sight and for the rest us, the people of this province, we are in danger of having this rich cultural heritage that makes each of us better off, shattered and perhaps destroyed. Saskatchewan has celebrated its diversity and benefited mightily through time from the ethnic and linguistic mosaic that adds to our total collective cultural fabric. The children who dance in Ituna's Ukrainian dance company are less then half Ukrainian, less then one in ten of the thousand or so people who will relish the pipes, fiddling and good company of St. Andrew's picnic South of Wapella are Scott, and how many of the fanatical paddlers in the annual Dragon Boat races in Regina and Saskatoon are Chinese?

Like it or not we all are involved in the sad conflict in this Village with its Chemin du Parc and rue Principale. For our sake, as well as for their own, they need to patch things up and work out a compromise that will see their children continue to receive the sort of education they have in the past.