Newsstand Price S0¢ November 13, 1983 Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 THE SCENE was tense at Canyon H SUNDAY cloudy with showers MONDAY cloudy with showers . wa wa NEWS photo Terry Peters, eights Elementary School early Wednesday but there: were no incidents. Above, picketing teachers and CUPE members pass quietly, while » parent walts to' take. his hlidren ¢ to’ school. Point Atkinson Wednesday TWO 16-YEAR-OLDS got more than they bargained for when they went looking for drugs Wednesday. The two met a man on Granville Mall who offered to sell them hashish if they would drive him to North Vancouver. The youths complied, parking at the corner of Sixth Street and Chesterfield Avenue in their red Datsun station wagon while the **dealer’’ went to visit what he called a supplier. When the man returned, he was accompanied by a woman who produced a hand gun. The pair robbed the teenagers of $225. North Vancouver police are looking for a white male, between 25 and 30 years of age, five foot, eight inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. The man, who may be called Dave, has a dirty- blonde Afro haircut that hangs below his shoulders. The woman, who is thought to be a resident of the Chesterfield and Sixth area, is thin, about five foot, six inches in height, weighs 115 pounds, has long, straight brown hair and a generally unkempt appearance. GET BACK 10 WORK Return to dassroom ‘‘for sake of our children’’ says parent group ‘*‘PLEASE, FOR the sake of our children’s educa- tion and to maintain your own professional stand- ing and respect in the community, return to the classroom and do the job you have contracted to do.”’ That's the last paragraph of an open letter that a group calling themselves Parents Putting Education First is ad- dressing to teachers at Bracmar, Monteray and Batmoral! Schools. MARK f ILTO **We think they should be back in their classrooms teaching our children,”” says spokesman A.R. Casselman of the aim of the recentty- formed group. Parents Putting Education First was formed in response to the walkout by teachers. At the initial mecting, Casselman says, about 30 parents were on hand and more would have been had there been room for them. While the group’s main goal now is to get their message out to the teachers at the three schools, Cassciman says if there is interest, it may continue as a_ concerned parents group. The letter to teachers ‘*As parents with children attending the school in which you are supposed to be teaching, we must capress our bitter disappointment that you would give up your professional status to join the rank and file on the picket linc. “It is our understanding that you are not in a legal position to strike, nor do you have the right to strike Moreover, you do not have the right to deny our children the opportunity to attend their school every school day ‘lt saddens us that you have placed the interests of the Solidarity coalition ahead of the rights of those who de- pend on you for an cduca- tion, who attend your school, and who pay your salary with taxcs on our own hard- earned income. Some of us have no jobs at all. ‘Please, for the sake of our children’s cducation and to maintain your own profes- sional standing and respect in the community, return to the classroom and do the job you have contracted to do."’