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District honors MP

NORTH VANCOUVER District Council paused in’ its
committee agenda Monday night to pay tribute to the
memory of the late North Vancouver MP Chuck Cook.

Council unanimously endorsed a motion by Coun.
Rick Buchols offering condolences to Couk’s family and
“recognizing his many years of conmunity service on
our behalf.”*

Cook, 66, died last week in Lions Gate Hospital after
unexpectedly being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Cook had announced his decision to retire from poli-
tics on Nov. 30, 1992.

Mayor Murray Dykeman, : ‘describing Cook as a man
of strong family values, said, “Certainly the community
is lesser with his passing.” ,

Council also agreed to dedicate a memorial bench in
Cook's name in Panorama Park.

Assessment appeal

WEST VANCOUVER commercial property assessments

will be appealed by West Vancouver District Council in a
Wednesday, March 10, Court of Revision hearing at

West Vancouver's council chambers starting at 9:30 a.m.

An open meeting about the appeal will be held tonight
for owners and tenants of West Vancouver business
properties starting at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers,
750-17th St., West Vancouver. .

Mayor Mark Sager said Monday night that the district
is launching the appeal on behalf of commercial proper-
ties because of concerns that the assessment process of
the B.C. Assessment Authority will result in an inequi-
table shift of 1993 taxation to the commercial sector.

Many merchants who pay the tax increases through
their commercial leases are unaware that they can appeal
the assessment process,

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A 44-YEAR-OLD man of no fixed address was recently
sentenced to five months in jail after he was charged
with shoplifting end assaulting a security guard following
a Saturday, Feb. 6, incident at Eaton’s in the Pork Royal
Shopping Centre.

Anthony Wayne Harding, of no fixed address, pleaded

guilty to both charges in West Vancouver provincial
court on Monday, Feb. 15,

Van burned

FIRE DAMAGED « van loaded with household goods
during the carly hours of Friday, Feb, 12.

According to a North Vancouver City Fire Department
spokesman, firefighters were called to 200 East 15th St.

Wednesday, March 3, 1993 - North Shore News -- 5

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“HOW WOULD you like #300-1401 LONSDALE, NORTH VANCOUVER, BC.

your hamburger done?’’ is
going to be a question of
the past in North Shore res-
taurants.

New code
disallows
rare meat

international

Women's Day Events
Monday, March 8

FREE LECTURES 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Several College faculty will be dedicating their
lectures to women's issues on this day. The
community is invited to attend.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Ivan Sayers, !Mustrated lecture on “The Politics
of Women's Clothing”

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Room C148

THE MARY CATHERINE PATERSON
LECTURE

Dr. Margaret Fulton will be speaking on “Women
Restricted by Stucture—Breaking Out!”

7:30 pm. Room A117

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

According to the North Shore’s
environmental health director, Bill
Kimmett, local restaurants and
pubs will soon receive a letter
outlining a code of practice that
says. medium or rare-cooked
hamburgers should not be
prepared.

“I think most restaurant chains
are going. to be very receptive to
this,’’ said Kimmett.

He said restaurants can tell cus-
tomers that the health department
says burgers must be well done.

The move follows heightened
public awareness of E. Coli food
poisoning after several. severely
sick children and deaths were
associated with undercooked
hamburgers from a U.S. fast-food
chain.

To prevent the food poisoning,
Kimmett said hamburgers (or any
ground meats) should be cooked
uritil they are brown throughout
and the meat's juices are clear.

‘We know undercooked
burgers cause disease,’’ said
Kiminett. ‘The reality is that it is
better if a hamburger is a bit dry

See New page T1

A schedule of the day's events is available at
the reception desk in A Building or by calling
984-4953, ;

CAPILANO

COLLEGE — 2085 Purcell Way North Vancouver B.C.

at 3:37 a.m,

The yan and contents were found in Hames.

L The cause of the fire is under investigation.

_ Everything on cutting block,
says District 45 Supt. "Player

From page 1

Education Minister Anita
Hagen said Friday, Feb. 26, that
District 44’s $88.8 million budget
for the 1993-94 school year would
fully fund all students and build
On progranis started last year.

Special-purpose grants, provid-
ed in the 1992-93 school year to
some ‘school districts, including
North Vancouver and West Van-
couver, have been eliminated.

The elimination of District 44’s
$2,567,714 special-purpose grant
is expected to result in .2%
decrease to the district’s 1993-94
budget compared with last. year’s
Operating budget of $88,902,301.

Bell said the $2.3 million short-
fall will. have .an impact on
District 44 classrooms and ‘‘will
put intense pressure on us in terms
of negotiating a collective agree-
ment. There is no money.’’

North Vancouver-Lonsdale
NDP MLA .David Schreck said
there is ‘‘virtually no change’. be-
tween District 44’s 1993-94 anc
* 1992-93 budgets,

But Bell disagreed. He said
there was a major change, citing
the removal of the special-purpose
grant.

He added that the district has
already made several! cuts to its
administrative staff. ~
_ -West Vancouver-Capilano Lib-
eral MLA Jeremy Dalton, the
Opposition education critic, who

has two children in the District 44
school system, disagree with
Hagen’s statement that Victoria
has ensured that education fund-
ing to school boards has been fair
and equitable.

Meanwhile, the West. Vancouver
District 45 School Board (WVSB)
faces funding cuts of about 4%
during the 1993-94 school year,
according to WVSB estimates.

The board’s estimated block
funding for the 1993 school year
is $31,173,561, down 2% from
1992-93’s $31,810,690.

But District 45 superintendent
Doug Player. said the funding cut
will be double that amount
because West Vancouver will lose
a special-purpose grant that
amounted to. $602,895 in ‘the
1992-93 school year.

He added that a recent contract
settlement with the West Van-
couver Teachers’ Association that
will pay teachers retroactive wage
increases of .6% and .67% in the
first ‘year of the contract will
result in a further 2% budget cut.

“Everything is on the chopping
block. We have to cut $1.2 million
(from 1993-94 budget). We'll
reduce positions across ‘the
board,” said Player.

District 45, he said,
forced to cut $4.5 million from its
budget over the last three years.

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