Al0 - Sunday, March 14, 1982 - North Shore News inquiring reporter ee en] by Ellsworth Dickson At the present nme, B.C. Telephone is applying to the CRTC for rate increases between 28 and 48%. This would affect both residential and business service. Today’s question is: ‘What do you think of the proposed increases in telephone rates?”’ Stephanie Matches, North Vancouver The proposed rate increase is definitely too much. I would think a 10% increase would be more hke it. ] must say | am not unhappy with the service of B.C. Telephone. Craig Ogilvie, North Vancouver I don’t think the rates should be increased until the service improves. Maybe a 10% increase would be more reasonable Anne Page, Lions Bay 1] don't like the idea 1 would think that an in Crease around 12 or 13% would be fair How can they ask for such a large Increase when their sersice isso poor’ | hive in lions Bay and the service rs very tn Consislant Doug | Kilesilane To owooud.d t. : a@tale Mere ac. gee wth perflataon Say oacceend be pa’, bat not OM ANT, ] Woon cochnk (hear service as VOT pron ocd Nore Chie CNP de rae vopreene Fa need ce erry thee Vhere 2k Dee tae. SOU dbeebe ry tray Na Trustees axing 3 NV schools GRADUATION BELLS will be death knells for three North Vancouver schools this June if a move by local trustees is finalized. The three schools are Cloverley Elementary, North Star Elementary and Hamilton Jumior Secondary and their closure would mean the saving of close to $1 milhon a year for School District 44. School trustees attribute the closure recom- mendations to the area's decline in student populaton, a drop) which will hkely see enrolment po from 16,530) students to Gen owe ef opedtf ee a . a) bola, cot eteriigiits aa stoniaathe coven $399 Comal) Kitchens PPT Woest b4th Neoorth Ve cinet Pheer SOMES = aaa iy 13,240 by 1985S. according to a report prepared for the board. Hamilton, built for 900 pupils, should see its student populaton drop from the present 352 to 300 by 1985. The school board 1s recommending it be merged with Carson Graham. to bolster that school’s dechning population and at the same time transforming CG into a school housing grades eight to 12, the distnct’s norm. Carson Graham, which presently houses a mix of grades 1! and 12, has seen its own student body drop from 1500 to 1043 pupils, a drop that could go as low as 600 in the next few years. The board sees that as a Fridges. ~ $388 not exactly as ittustrated “serious” dechne, one which would cause programs and special services to go under. North Star Elementary students, meanwhile. are expected to split into Larson and Braemar if that school 1s closed. The SO North Star students living south of Queens would go to Larson and the 135 living north of Queens would po to Braemar. The school, built to hold 400 students. now contains 186 and that number is expected to drop to 158 by 1985. Clovertey, whose student population has been declining for some me, now houses 100 students. well below the 250 ‘desirable’ level set by fhe school board. selt detrosting & manual smgie & doubte door easy Clean intenor 10 17 cubic tt Mire nos Large Selection of washers stoves dryers micro-waves tridges dishwashers Buin tn Vtoltweoeet.c.e ( OTL tr cin AVEXUe ra coffee ac th ! onan NG belacorthyy Those students will likely be spht into Brooksbank and Ridgeway or the Ridgeway Annex. Special programs in those schools, such as French Immersion, could be transferred to other schools in the distnect. The board emphasized at Tuesday's meeting that the closures are recommended, but not firm, and that meetings will be held with parents, teachers and staff in the schools to discuss the problem. School Board chairman Marg Jessup said the closure recommendanbons were not due to the provincial povernment’s restrain program, but were pant of an ongoing policy. March 13 - 20 Limited Quantities eo rinse & brebed *1ey wash $388 trader teins oul