A® - Friday, June 15, 1934 - North Shore News editorial page Transit puppets m 2 speech last week in North Van Bill Reid, the Sarrey MLA who also heads the Metro Transit Operating Company, described his lattes joo as the most frustrating he’d ever bad. Sasall wonder. With a possibly lengthy shutdown of the entire Lower Mainland bus system (apart from West Van’s Blue Buses) threatened for today, the MOTC finds itself between a rock and a hard place. Wapges are not a key factor in its drawn-out dispute with the Independent Canadian Tran- sit Usion. The major issues are the MOTC’s bid to cat costs through certain reductions in services and a related plan to use part-time drivers in peak periods. In fighting these pro- posals the pnion has argued, during its in- genious ‘‘UnStrike’’ campaign, its own. As a result, the drivers have earned some significant public support — though whether it would survive a prolonged full-scale Strike is another matter. Meanwhile, the MOTC is forced to play the anhappy role of a puppet. Its service levels are dictated quarterty by B.C. Transit the provin- cial transit funding body for which Grace Mc- Carthy is the responsible minister. This robs the MOTC of flexibility in adapting its budget to detailed regional needs. It also means the ICTU cannot come to grips with the people who ultimately contro! the purse strings, but mest deal instead with an intermediary. it’s authority without responsibility. No cover-up esults of the internal investigation into the case of the Vancouver constable who enticed a young Canadian citizen into the U.S. so that sheriffs could pick up him ap on a Florida arrest warrant must be made public. Such incidents do grave damage to police retations with the public. Any suspi- cion of a cover-up is unfair to the majority of police officers who do thousands of good deeds daily. that it is defending the interests of bus riders as well as am unsatisfactory system for the operating company, its employees and the public alike. All three, in their different ways, are victims of a distant bureaucracy wielding Diapiay Advertising 980-0511 north shore... 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By today's school standards, where businessmen's rules hold sway and finances are more important than children, it es too small to survive When the term ends on June 28, so does t-agie Har bour School The battle ots ironically, board Over, working to open drew the closer together . making the closing days that much more pomnant Physsteally. the building neplee ted The plossy gym and much used playing fick have concrpge Later thas fall ay “Ree Contec West Bart utve So dverdh procrpeer Con \ ' and, keep the school community school will not be new saved at) tore sests Of the people woth tbs walls the chotdron thre parcnts and Che stall The children Come and go and thes pascnts wath chem Thre teachers Cone anid poo abe aed boarceoans comdunp fe then threat prec peraantys ne ered tbe whrrrris cof UB oe teeood tear Cred bree Ce tteatses knee Fea oof stab why pres tdbe a per ryveaeee ret Draabs peovegned welrag be one torso cd Pdr toi tea, se thence Paaa Poade treen thats vO ars Trane Poor fertayute tee Eyayee vat vg Poort the least {en Plisatec tte Bat tiecpep Phere focal prersitreony " thrall of Se brerob see retary bevel vannend Pre tally sty tae take cre Brent De cod cottre a ccube Peo Naaeus it vg dae tua tre cnanre Seve) NVoet bes tee thre ebb Vereen balls PervaDpctange aah ttee Unt be paages thet appre between Pre vttnc asved se baereot By ANN HOCKEY ‘If a mother gets stuck in traffic, she knows Ehzabeth is there to soothe her anxious child, mother forgot the hot dog money, Elizabeth coughs up, a sprained ankle or a tummy tm turmoil, Elizabeth administers Tol ©. while calming mother at the other end of the phone Years ago she started a tradition of pro viding a ‘Tooth Fairy’ envelope(suitably embellished with a grinning, gappy face) for each child who lost a tooth, which has led to much frantic tooth wiggling by bounty hunters , She has hauled pntold numbers of muddy children from the creek, stuck on countless Band Aids, praised hundreds of children on their work, and recessed in numerable bouquets of wilting roadside Mowers With enviable calm and a tcady laugh she has done what most mothers do, butin her case the family has been hyper ‘extended and the ¥ : qe NEWS photo Stuart Davie nest, until emptied From the end of June there will be no primary school children listening to the trains squealing and clanking thei way round the track above them (Will it, won’t it tum now, has never ble?) and the perfect kindergarten-sized — brigade But in another primary school ino West) Vancouver, Phvabeth Barthropp will be admunistening her own special brand of comforn When phoning Eagle Har bour School, you are bkely bo hear Mrs Barthropp’s modulated English vore say Ing “Cso0d morning, Eagle Harbour School. and iu seems approprrate Chat cn ches way She identifies herselt asthe School Por the parents atid coon uvtaterty of baad bdr tee beer wattntth and kimdaess ttre petsanal touch are the essence and heart of bape bdae boc © onnpraity Se bcm We shadl miiss cher Trt CREF ART of Bagh Harbour Community School which doors far good on Junc J8 bolised chases tts svn here by school Pbesevwdeth Bacthropp ry Sectetuary sccond inothes to hinderparten Joho Phibbard (left) aad C acotyo Donaldson and hundreds tthe the 10 years she has worked ut bagle Scptember pupils them during Harbour In bitzgabcth wiht West Bay Sc bool and the tte school with a tig beart in the 3500 block Marine Drive will West Vancouver s Res Centre West) move to ber one