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January 2, 1983

Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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Photo submitted by Colin Savage

MOUNTAIN MADNESS has hit the North Shore in the past week as Chousands caught skhi-fever and headed for the

hills. The syndrome has brought related problems, as can be seen by this massive traffic jam at the turnoff to Cypress
Park, plugging ap the exit trom Upper Levels Highway

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Mormon bishop escaped W. Van fir

THE VOICE OF NORTH Wi /AN :R- :

Budgets short by $3m.

UPWARD of 72 teacher layoffs and closure of
two or three schools in West Vancouver may be
the price North Shore teachers must pay for the
5.5 per cent pay hike awarded them through

arbitration.

Though the award may
initially have appeared like a
victory for the teachers at a
ume of massive cutbacks to

education, itis a bitter one.
School boards in both

North and West Vancouver
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OVER 2,500 ON N.SHORE

Jobless swe
s| welfare roll:

to record high

DRAMATIC increases

peonde ahead tor rellet :

Vera Patterson,
spokesman for the
provir@al human resounes
the North Shore

sail the growing aumber of

qoople applying for welfare
“Bids ducectly connected to

olftee oon

the fase oan bocal  ounem
ployment singe last June
Many poouple found

themacives repistenng lor
sehet because they cither ran
oul oof unemployment in
Sutamee benefits ot
discovered they

melyible for Ud

were
payments
weeks of
workin the lator market

dvse to srrsudfe ve at

Orr North Shore offtees
ate swamped with new
apply ants fer welfare)

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in local
spurred by the North Shore’s mounting unem-
ployment hit a record level when more than 2,500

Lk oe

welfare rolls

SUNDAY
Continuing mild sunny
sunny with patches

MONDAY

Increasing (loud

the North Shore