February 14, 1982 Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

“VANDALIZED CEDAR turned oat aot tc be the work of humans at all. Dave Con.
edon found these giants chunks cut out o! the tree in his yard at 2070 Williams, in
North Vancouver, with a pile of woodchips below and called the RCMP as he thought
someone had caused the damage with o chainsaw. Later he discovered the culprit
back at work — a large woodpecker with o voracious appetite, who stands In the hole
as tall as the height shown by Congdon !he damage caused by the bird hanting for

bugs has made the tree so weak that ( onydon will have to have ht cut down.
Smith photo)

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POLLUTION CASE COSTS
DISTRICT $20,500 FIN

Failed to guard creek from landfill

FINES totalling

$20,500 were imposed on

North Vancouver District Thursday for the

pollution of Lynn

Provincial court Judge
John Layton fined the
municipality $10,000 for
allowing toxic “sludge-like”
leachate to drain into the
creek from the landfill
through an old wooden
culvert, in March 1980.

He further fined District
$3,500 on each of three
charges relating to silting
and pollution of the creek by
leachate in June 1981 when
municipal crews were work-

ing on a leachate collection

Creek as a result of the
Premier Street landfill.

By CHRIS LLOYD

system in an attempt to pre-
vent further problems there.

District had pleaded guilty
to all four charges of
depositing deleterious
substances in a fish habitat,
when the case was heard a
month earlier. Four further
charges were stayed.

Judge Layton told the
court he did not feel per-
suaded by the prosecution

that the counts deserved “an
unusually large fine”.

He said he found the cor-
poration, at least since the
date of the first offence,
began the construction of
works which should prevent
any further damage to Lynn
Creek, which he said he saw
as the most significant
mitigating circumstance.

But he said he was
sausfied the outflows could
reasonably have been
prevented on each of the
three lesser counts.

The judge
however, that
charge against District
related to a sludge-like

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noted,
the other

SPENDING GOING UP_ 14.89 PER CENT

40 teachers chopped
in NV schools budget

A BUDGET increase
of 14.89 per cent —

described as “very,
very, tight” by School
Board Chairman
Marg Jessup — was
adopted by North
Vancouver school
trustees Tuesday
night.

The increase followed on
the heels of West Van
couver’s 147 per cent tke

adopted Monday night

It allows for a decline of
40 teachers, which 15 stall 23
less than could have been
cut in othe face of the
distncts falling cnroliment
according to Jessup

Phe cxplanation given for
saving 23 yobs is that the
school board wants to keep

By AVIS HOPKIN

up program = standards,
which would have
detenorated uf 63 teachers

had been cut) from the
budget
The school distnct lost

around 900 pupils last year.
which Jessup attributed to
the high cost of housing

Although the budget in
crease was basically
cquivalicnt to that adopted
by West Vancouver, the
small crowd that heard the
North Vancouver budget
was avthing hke the placard
waving throng that) turned
out for West) Vancouver's
mecting

An overflow crowd inside
the hall applauded) when
West Vancouver adopted its

budget, while outside morc

than 100 students booed the
cuts.

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