Newsstand Price 25¢ ‘April 27, 1980

FIRST WOMAN FIREFIGHTER in West Vancouver, but strictly on an
unofficial basis, is Gina Duce, pictured getting some help from her fellow

Sentinel High School

student Leon LaPrarie as

Francophone
students may
get their own
special bus

she learns about

Tel. 985-2131

professional fire drill, under the eye of fire captain Bob Tocher. The two
grade 11 students are spending a week at the firehall as their part of
Sentinels work experience week. (Terry Peters photo)

Exclusive education in North Vancouver

Twenty-seven Fren-
ch speaking students
who enjoy their own
exclusive classes and
among the most en-
viable pupil-teacher
ratio in the’ Lower
Mainland might soon
have their own
specially chartered bus
to get them to school in
North Vancouver.

North

Board heard at last
mecbng that

School
weeks

Vancouver

transportabon

has become ai hurdle for
students attending the year
old) Programme Cadre at
Cloverley

School

Elementary

A committee of parents of
students in the | program
wrote to the board too say

that the transportation
peoblem was responsible bor

a drastia

teduc tion in

carolment for che program
last year

Only five students live

within walking distance of

Cloverley flementary

School the site of the

program  yroup president

lL vse Hales said
Other
public

students rely oon

transit {ARIS Of Cut

pools she said

The ministry of education

presently provides support
money to parents for those
Cstade | 3) students whe live
outside a 2' a miles radius of

the school distmet Supenn
tendent Rod Waco kstrom told

the meeting

Loon Praser of the school
board told the News that the

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District gets
tough after
Edgemont
rampage

By CHRIS LLOYD

A $1,000 reward for
information leading to
the arrest and con-
viction of those
responsible for last
weekend’s devastation
of Edgemont's
Capilano Community
Services Hall has been
posted by North
Vancouver District

Council.

The decision was made at
a special meeting of
council called after
aldermen had visited the hall
and been shocked on seeing
the extent of the damage
caused by the vandalism and

arson of the previous
weekend
Mayor Don Bell was

criticized by some aldermen
for hurmedly introducing the
Motion at Monday's council

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SUNDAY: Cloudy with
sunny periods and a little
warmer

MONDAY:
unsettled.

Becoming