FRIDAY
December 20, 1996

Listings page 31

Wage
raise
row

By lan Noble
News Reporter

ALTHOUGH North
Vancouver District
council’s 50% pay
hike sailed through
council with only a
ripple of protest
from Coun. Janice
Harris, district citi-
zens are more critical
of the retroactive
raise.

Residents asked if they
thought: the pay ora from
$19,810 to $29,715 retroactive
to Dee. 1 was) warranted
responded with a resounding
no.

However, they tempered
their criticism of district’ deci-
sion-makers by saving they did
not know how much work went
into a councillor’s job. [fa lot of
hours are put in and there's a
5 ¢ effort to serve, the raise
becomes) more palatable to
some.

Nevertheiess, the timing of
the decision, coming on the
heels of provincial: cuts to
municipal transfers, irked rest-
dents.

“It’s out of step as far as Tm
concerned,” said James Kiteley.
“In general, it’s kind of against
what most people are asked to
do these days. hey are asked to
take cutbacks.”

He added, however that
councillors should provide more
explanation for why they want
the and articulate what the
demands of the ceuncillor’s job
are and the hours worked.

“A lot of people think they
are just feathering their nest,” he
said,

Maureen Donald said) her
family, which hasn't had a wage
increase for years, wouldn't
mind the 50% hike council
passed by a 6-to-} margin on
Monday.

Donald said councillors
should be following the restraint
other workers abide by in times
of cutbacks. She added that the
announcement comes ara time

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TO THE VICTORS GO THE RINGS ... Capilano College women’s soccer team re-lived last month's nationat championship victory
on Tuesday as both the men’s and women's teams were presented national championship rings. Both teams wan their respective
national crowns in November — the first time one college has won both titles in the same year (See story page 16).

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Dream to adopt children
dies on road in Siberia

By Michael Becker
News Editor

THE Eagle Harbour home of
Graham Powell and Meredith
Fielding was to be filled with
the joyous sounds of a new
family on Christmas Day.

A patch of ice ona Siberian road changed
everything on Sunds

The couple died when the car they were pas
sengers in spun out of control and into the path
ofa truck.

Powell and Fielding were on their way to an
orphanage in Nvtva near the citv of Perm. Two
children, siblings Serger 7 and Elena, 6. were
waiting tor thent there

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They were both successtil in their computer
systems careers.

Powell was a partner with TP Systems Ltd. a
North Vancouver computer systenis support
firm he established with John Thompson in
1977.

Thompson and Powell first met as computer
programmers in Liverpool,

tid Thompson of his business partner and
friend, “He was a very down to-carth person,
very honest.
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positive. bubbly personality, cathustastie about
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