Al0 - Sunday News, Febraary 7, 1982 inquiring reporter Dickson The “North Shore News” has been around since 1969 so let us see what the public thinks of our community newspaper. Today’s question is: ‘What changes or improvements would you like to see in the NEWS’’?. Sharon McKay North Vancouver Sometimes I think the attitude of the “News” seems to switch back and forth. I do like’ the “News” and depend on it for information. I realize you have many ads, but after all, you are in business. I don't read Hayden Stewart any more. Barbara Mc- Creadie is interesting. I like the ‘Inquiring Reporter” but sometimes the “Sunshine Girl” is too seductive. Mr. Sudbury North Vancouver I'm happy with the “News” the way it is. I like your sports coverage. I know my wife is happy with the “News” as well. Justin Hillaby North Vancouver I would like to see less advertising. The sports section is good, but I would like to see more The news reporting 1s quite satisfactory. I travel a lot and I have to disagree with some of the things Barbara Mc. Creadic says I never read Hayden Stewan Nell Prochuk North Vancouver There are too many ads | hike your Coverage of community news have a You very good classified ad section And your classified girls are very pleasant: | think Bob Hunter is great My husband hhhes the Sun shine Girl The “North Shore News” is the only paper we read Reimer Hentre North Vam ouve: Tothink the “News is fine To tike your ads ane you have a goods lassified ad sec thon Your local reporling is sery gomod Hayden Stewart is ocn tertaining | have neo complaints whatsocver Budget cuts recommended FROM PAGE A1 association motion threatening a work-to-rule campaign if the pupil- teacher ratio was raised or school programs cut. And the West Van Parents Association had _ students deliver a leaflet in classrooms calling on parents of other students to demand a rollback of the $1.2 million budget reduction. School board chairman Mark Sager had earlier told the Tuesday meeting, at- tended by some 300 people, that the lowered budget would mean cutting 12 to 15 teachers from staff as well as maintenance economies. Finance committee chairman Margot Furk, noting a 17 per cent increase in teachers’ salaries, described the increase over 1981 as fiscally responsible. Clean Up Your Act The audience — in which parents and teachers ap peared heavily represented — heard defences of the increase and claims that the revised budget was too low. Lloyd Wrean, principal of Gleneagles Community School, pointed out that the average individual cost of West Van's 6,000 students last year was $3,000 per head compared to nearly $11,000 per head for the 24,000 students at UBC. “Students are being mistreated by the budget being presented here this evening,” he declared. Carol Dawson, chairman of the West Van Parents Association finance com- mittee called it “a third rate budget which will provide a third rate education.” Former trustees Lillian Thiersch and Fran Mc- Dowell suggested the cut- back would affect such special programs as learning disabilities, enrichment and fine arts. But Paul Sykes of the Gleneagles Ratepayers Association concentrated on the financial aspects of the budget from the taxpayer's viewpoint. average West Van teach salary in 1981 was $29,482 and would now ri . $34,199. me to Only about 4,060 of West Van's 14,700 households presently have school-age He distributed graphs children. showing that a 36 per cent decline in enrolment since 1971 had been accompanied by a mere nine per cent decline in the number of teachers. The “real” cost- per-pupil, they showed, was up by 65 per cent over the same period after allowing for the 171 per cent rise in the consumer price index. 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