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AT LIONS BAY

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CHRIS LLOYD

TRAGEDY again
struck on the Squamish
Highway Friday when
another mudslide was
triggered in torrential
rains which washed
away Alberta Creek
Bridge at Lions Bay and
claimed the fives of two

teenage youths in a
trailer that was buried
in mud.

The youths, aged 14 and
19, were sleeping in the
trailer on the north side of
the bridge. beside a home
which was swept off its
foundations as the mudshde
hit

The trailer was buned so
decp that carth— moving
machinery had to be used
even to locate the roof of at
After that voluntecr
firemen began  franticall
digging oul the trailer’ with
shovels ROMP say the boys
were dead when they were
found by the rescucrs

Iwo homes on the south

sade oof the were

bridge

destroyed and (hiee people
were taken to Lions Gate
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February 13, 1983

Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

DIGGING THROUGH THE DEBRIS in a sca of mad, rescucnm work to
uncover trailer in which the bodies of the two tecnagers were located, ad-
jacent to house which was also partly buried by the slide.

NV trustee forecasts

budget will axe 100

NORTH Vancouver school trustees passed a
total operating budget of $51,970,086 Tuesday
night, within the controversial restraint guidelines

of the Ministry of Education. But in

that

action the board has set itself up for a serious
confrontation with North Vancouver teachers and
the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).

Although the trustees gave
notice to the Ministry of
Education that the budget
did not include any increase
in wages to teachers or
CUPE members, the board
will now have to tive with a
budget of $2.8 million less
than its 1983 budget.

That, depending on the
eventual salary settlements
for employees could be $3.5
milhon short of what = ts
necded.

The board hopes to be
able to go back to the
Minmstry of Education for
additional funding, once a

setUement is) reached by
Compensation Stabihzation
Commission (CSC) The
teachers’ 5 5 cent ar

bitrated award is) currently
being reviewed by the CSC

However, speculation is
that the board will be told to
live with the budget they
passed, forcing io into a
confrontation with teachers
If that happens. the only
choice the board will have ts
demand that the teachers
roll back thetr wages or face
massive layoffs

Trustee Dr. Ross Regan
estimates (hat the number of
teachers’ layoffs could be as
tigh as 100, winch would be
a “devastating” reduction in
school programming

The trustees will have to
tepally ive with the award
handed down by the
Compensation Stabilization
Commission

At the

(rustecs

meothog the
appeared to be
confused over what their
Acton meant

Kegan said te fclt that the

motion meant the board
would end up spending the
$3.5 million and go into a
deficit and he could not
support that.

Trustee Verna Smelovsky
agreed saying, “The ministry
should be made aware that
there will be a deficit at the
end of the year.”

However, the mover of
the motion, trustee Frank
Warburton disagreed,
asking: “where does it say we
will spend that $3.5 million?”

“We feel the ministry 1s
acting irresponsibly by
continually asking for cults,”
Warburton said.

All trustecs agreed that
there will be a large shortfall
in the budget

“Quite obviously, there
will be massive layoffs of
teachers come September
my estimates say that figure

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SUNDAY:
Cloudy afew
showers and
shphtly Cooler

MONDAY,

Continuing unsettled