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THE Voice oF NORTH AND. WEST VANCOUVER

riority

restraint for next year.

School trustees ordered
administration to present
future facility requirements
with recommendations for
school consolidation | by
January 24, in time. for. the
1983, budget. “

“School

closure, . that’s

SMILE OF RELIEF was the reaction of MMF rances Barrtecale alter the
black bear which had been making visits to her home over a two-week

Reaching Every Door on the North Shore

SCHOOL closures became ‘the number one
of the West. Vancouver School Board
onday night in its effort to meet budgetary

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what consolidation means,” "

Tel. 985-2131

Trustee Margot Furk was
more to the point, saying,
“It’s the board's number one

said chairman Mark Sager,
saying just a. nicer way of

priority and these decisions
have to be made for 1983.”

Eur ad she -hoped the

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closed next year, followed
by another two elementary
and one high school over the
next two or three years, says
Furk.

Furk warned that’ if the
board-decided to back down
from closing schools that it
“will not have demonstrated
the responsibility expected
of it by the taxpayers and
parents of this district.”

Any closure would have to
fit into the long range: plans
of, the, district ‘

‘well«as' the im

being worked on by the
administration.

No schools have been
named yet, but the board
will look at schools which
are close to each other and
then look at the age of such
schools.

The trustees also ‘asked
the administration to look at
the requirements for French
immersion and. recom-
mended levels of service, as
OF ex-
panding, French | exposure.

s eee
NEW 6 photo Erie Eggertson

period was finally nabbed in a live bear trap Thursday. See page AS for

CITY SAYS ‘NO’ ON
FULLERTON Fit

should be. a. | pepe
place and. not. a: bulk
lumber loading facility,
North yamconver City

“western ‘cage ofthe: “City,
“council ‘declared’ its “op-
position to the draft Port of
Vancouver Master Plan,
which advocates a loading
facility for lumber and forest
products at Fullerton Fill.

Council voted to prepare
amendments to the Official
Community Plan that would
encourage the use of
Fullerton Fill for such
purposes as multiple housing
projects, light industrial
uses, shopping and other
retail uses, tourist and
entertainment uses and
public open space and in-
stitutional uses.

If the amendments pass,
the Community Plan will

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