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WEST VANCOUVER Police Const. lan Craib eyes oncoming traffic at Marine Drive and Taylor Way. New signs at the south-east corner of the in-
tersection forbid drivers to turn right on red lights weekdays between 7 and 9 a.m. :

SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDING NOT EWN.

gle mom forced

c

OUGH, SHE CLAIMS

to give up her child

A YOUNG North Vancouver mother has been forced to
vive up her 19-morth-old daughter after her $350 provincial
family day-care subsidy was cut recently by the provincial
government.

Said Dawa Delisle, There's tust
ne svmpaths for single moms who
avant fe werk. Social services
doesn't kiiow es harto do withos. make ends meet,

Delite, determined ctor ta She omanaged fo secure atl
become anether welfare statisti. ounder-three child-care spot pr oa
seorks partetime aind strawges fe North Vancouver day care in

By MICHAEL BECKER

Stews Reproeter

November. and originally received
$350 provincial government sub-
Sidy to partially pay for the $500.
per-month child-care fee.

Buc oundet current provinetal
teeulations, the Ministry of Social
Services and Housing (MESSED
teduces the subsidy available to
Perents when a child: reaches the
age of TQoamonths, even though the
cost of under-three child care re:
tnains the same.

The masiimuant family day-care

service subsidy avatlable for a child
aged 19 months to 36 months is
S360 tor tull-time attendance.
wootnonths before ber dauh-
ter Nialesa, turned 19 months of
age. Deliste wrote a letter af appeil
to MISSH asking for an ostension
of her S350 subsidy until an ex
peated pay case came into effect

FUNDING CUI
fut she said, They didn’:
phone me. thes didn't cette me

back or anything. bo heard from

them to days before the cut-off

date. They woulda’t even book me
in to interview mie."

Funding was cut Jan. 13 because
she had not re-applied for the new
subsidy category, which covers
children 19 to 36 months of age.
Deliste was therefore jet with
some difficult choices.

Although her parents tiee on

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