Classifieds 986-6222 Oftice, Editorial 985-2131

October 23, 1991 60 pages

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DOROTHY

LYINAS elementary school

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iu the rapidly

growing Indian River area of North Vanesuver District is
already operating at 30% over capacity and is facing
dramatic student enrolment increases, istrict council was
toid Monday night by a parents’ committe representative.

Susan Berry, representing the
Dorothy Lynas Parent Committee,
said 524 children are enrolled this
year in a building that was
designed to house a maximum of
400.

And Berry told council that the
situation is going to get worse as
incoming kindergarten enrolment
outnumbers the school's
graduating students.

Last September the Dorothy
Lynas school opened with on:
portable on iis grounds; this year
it has five.

The situation, Berry said. robs
the children of playground activity
space and still does not mieet the
need for classroom space.

The school’s band room is now
a classroom and_ increasing
pressure is being put on the
schocl’s gym to host more than
physical activities.

Berry told council that with
three new multi-family complexes
totalling 245 housing units pres-
ently under construction in the
area, three more portables could
be needed for the school next year
alone.

The North Vancouver District
44 School Board has recommend-
ed adding another four classrooms
to the existing school, but the
provincial government turned
down its request for funding even
the project’s design phase.

Berry said she was disappointed
that ‘“‘the children’s level of
education is deteriorating due to
overcrowding.’’

She urged council to place a
moratorium on further residential
development in the Indian River
area.

But North Vancouver District
Mayor Murray Dykeman said
Tuesday, ‘‘Certainly we'll consider

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that but it really means a change
in the community plan project and
that’s something we'd have to
discuss with the community.”

Newly elected North Van-
couver-Seymour MLA Daniel Jar-
vis met with the school parent
committee Monday. .

Said Jarvis, ‘‘It’s going to get
worse. There are close to 300 new
housing units coming on stream in
that area this year. Then it’s going
to manifest itself in the secondary
schools and they’re (parents) wor-
ried about crime because the
District of North Vancouver has
no real recreation system out there
— it’s minimal.”

Meanwhile Berry also asked for
council’s support in petitioning
the Ministry of Education for a
new elementary school east of the
Seymour River.

As part of its 1992-’93 capital
expenditure, the District 44 school
board is asking the provincial
government for funding to cover
the addition of a four-classroom
pod to the eastern side of Dorothy
Lynas school.

The classrooms are part of the
original design and zoning of the
school.

Other possible options:

@ add more portables;

@ reduce the school population
by changing school enrolment
boundaries;

@ change the school from a
dual-stream French-English facili-
ty, to an English-only school;

@ build a school at Northlands.

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