s YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 October 19, 1986 ¥ Ss ee es en ae w=. cS 5 sree a * of ae YOU COULD be a lucky winner in the North Shore News’ Win Your Way Across the Pacific contest. Winners will have the choice of picking an exciting, adventure-filled trip to Hong Kong or New Zealand. All you have to do is fill out an entry form ut ove of the 142 businesses participating in the News contest. No purchases NEWS photo Mike Wakefield STRIKING A pose of steely flesh, these North Shore bodybuilders prepare for the Oct. 17 Canadian Bodybuilding Championships at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Angelo Laucarino (foreground) competed in the light heavy weight competition and Gareth Day competed in the heavy weight category. Laucarino and Day’s results were unknown (o press time Friday. DID WEST Vancouver Council have the right to increase commercial land on Caulfeild Plateau, or was that land already zoned commercial? These questions have been raised by two opposing groups, who will argue their cases in B.C. Supreme Court this month. Authorities involved in the two separate hearings say the outcome will affect whether a $10 million shopping centre can be built on the property. Spokesman Russell Preciotis, representing a group of West Van- couver residents and businesses, said West Vancouver Council was wrong not to use a major amend- ment to rezone the land. By KIM PEMBERTON News Reporter Using a minor bylaw amend- ment, council voted in June that the land could be increased from 3.5 acres to $,3 acres for commer- cial use. Precious said council's decision to increase commercial land to 3.3 acres in effect allows the developers to build a regional shopping centre. Lawyer Richard Goepel will argue the group’s case Oct. 24. The developers, Bell Canada Enterprises Development Corpora- tion, acquired the land in 1985 from British Pacific Properties Lid. in order to build a shopping centre. British Pacific Properties Ltd. also filed a B.C. Supreme Court petition, which will be heard Oct. 27. Goepel said British Properties will argue commercial Caulfeild land was already 5.3 acres and no amendment to the bylaw was re- quired from council, A spokesman from British Pro- perties could not be reached for comment. Hae : i : | necessary. Details in today’s paper Classified 986-6222) Distribution 986-1337 64 pages 3 ae TEACHERS AT Capilano College - + ae ~, aR voted 8&1 per Thursday in favor of strike action. Capilano College Faculty Association (CCFA) president Carol McCandless said Friday 167 of the 275 faculty members cligible to vote cast ballots and 90 per cent of the college's 127 full-time teachers voted. The CCFA served the college with) 72-hour strike notice iin- mediately following Thursday's vote, Capilano College president Dr. Doug Jardine said Jack Chapelas had been appointed Wednesday night to mediate the dispute, which centres on teacher work-load at the college. He added that the CCFA would 10t be in a legal position to strike until the mediator had submitted his report to the minister of educa- tion. “We are delighted that a media- tor has been called in,’’ Me- Candless said. ‘‘We expect to settle this thing at the next board meeting (Tuesday night). If we don’t there will be a shut down.” She said teacher work-load re- mained the only stumbling block in contract negotiations. In May 1985, the CCFA signed an interim agreement. with the board that required faculty (to teach nine instead of eight sections annually. Chief CCFA negotiator Ed Lavalle said Tuesday the agree- ment, which increased overall teacher work-load by 12.5 per cent and resulted in teachers working a current average of 50 hours per week, was signed to help the col- lege deal with continuing reduc- tions to its budget. Since 1983, that budget has been cut from $14.5 to $11.7 million, JOTHY | Of che strike vote, Jardine said, “Thave never denied that there is a problem. But that problem comes from the financial restraint period the province has undergone.”’ According to Jardine, provincial grant contribution to the college budget has decreased by 19 per cent since 1979-80 while the col- lege’s income has dropped by nine percent. Student tuition has jumped by 197 per cent since 1979, Over the same seven-year period, Jardine said, college pro- ductivity has increased by 31 per cent. The CCFA has presented the seven-member college board with a compromise work-load proposal that would allow teachers to choose whether they wanted to teach eight or nine sections per year. Under the proposal, teachers who opted to teach nine sections would be paid an additional $2,500. Initial estimates for adopting the CCFA proposal along with a 2.5 per cent wage increase and an agreement to pay teachers incre- ments on the existing scale, Jardine said, would be ‘‘between $500,000 and $1 million’’ over the first year. Starting wage for Capilano Col- lege teachers with no teaching ex- perience is $26,408 per year. Teachers at the top of the college's wage scale, or wage step 13, earn $41,408. There are currently 100 of 127 Capilano full-time teachers at step $3.