WEST VAN EDITION THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER north shore | Newsstand Price 50¢ October 19, 1983 Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 WEST VAN ‘STIFF UPPER LIP’ OLIVIA. BROWN, one of the young cyctiats who turned out for West Vancouver's Cyclorama '83, needed only 2 tittle help from dad David to indicate a right-hand turn. The Optimist International Club organized the event with a large helping hand from such agen~ cles as the West Vancouver police. » a!" WEDNESDAY cloudy with showers THURSDAY cloudy with showers Escape as tanker blows: Al6 Point Atkinson Wednesday Keeping confidence. in education is the goal THE BUDGET guiding principles for West Van- couver school district look ‘*black,’’ but most trustees agree that by keeping up the West Van tradition of a ‘‘stiff upper lip,’’ confidence will re- main with the school system. **You have to realize where we live,’’ said Trustee Michael Smith, who was referring to the conservative attitudes of the populace in West Van. ‘It makes no sense to pop off before you have all the facts, it’s just no good to have trustees crying wolf about doom and_ giloom...if we wanted to do that we would go and live in some goofy place like North Van couver,’’ Smith said Smith was answering a quesiion from a parent at Monday’s crowded = public meeting on the 1984 budget Jeame Ferguson had com plained that the board was not making public the pro- blems it was facing over the provincial budget “At the risk of sounding ‘hysterical’ perhaps the fine tuning which the education bill has undergone, was the result of those hysterical boards who spoke up) After all, the squeaky wheel gets the otf," Ferguson said The guiding principles gives the board various op tions to cope with the pro jected $3 millhon shorttall by 1986 Highhghts of the guiding principles cunclude iereasiig the user pay philosophy to LOVEE Fe Student Space crchanpges athbetuos sunminies School, athbeta transporta fron. workbooks and pupal use of teaching sapplres ane mncrcasing Che pupal teaches ratio to TR Stoone trom fo 4 fooone wilh subsequent lavott Of stall acheraisteation lear VEL See OS Ae personne bbrary ccatt amd teachers Phe borat ooh oabse MICHAEL SMITH .. mot ‘‘goofy"’ eliminate or reduce telephones and leased space The board will also consider the climination or consolida- tion of secondary programs and schools Superintendent Ron Fen wick stressed that these were options, and that the budget was looking, because of some one time only surpluses, good for 1984 Smith told the audience that he was not) concerned about the 1984 budget, although the ‘8S and ‘86 budgct will have some ‘pret ty deep cuts Still West Teachers’ Assoctation Presi dent Heather Walker told the News that as Vancouvet many as 22 teachers Could be laid off by Septomber 1984 Walker was concerned that the board was not taking the budget situation sertously chough and by oot taking some type of action waas Compounding the peobherm The cod cesult woh be that the board wall be forced ante drastic action wt a hater hate Mii Dowell asked that the consolidation Trustees bean of schools not even be cousidered