A7 - Wedmesday, March 31, 1982 - North Shore News, BS mailbox Public must have say on Hamilton Dear Editor: I understand from your ar- ticles that Joy Langan, the former NDP candidate in North Vancouver, is of the opinion the course at Hamilton should be pro- tected. It is also clear that Mr. M. Burbidge, the erstwhile School Board Chairman, in his letter to the Editor published in last Wednesday's issue, supports the same proposition. It ap- pears that Mr. Burbidge has not taken the effort to read your columns or listen to my comments before attacking both of us. I feel I must now, again, restate my concerns and opinions. 1. Iam a strong supporter of the learning programme administered by Bill Sulymka and his dedicated, competent team of teachers at Hamilton School. This programme should be kept Sunshine Girl logic faulty Dear Editor: I urge all readers of the North Shore News, and especially women, to look carefully at the Wednesday 24th Sunshine Girl and the Fraser Institute article back- ing 1t — a good example of faulty logic and unreality. Individual protests over the years have proved futile. It has to be a concerted ef- fort. We have to make the paper and their advertisers aware of how general our feelings are, that we are the majority and not a small minonty. Their stock reply is that market research shows that sex sells and that the paper is dependent on its advertisers. But we are a captive audience for these advertisers. The paper ts delivered to every house on the North Shore. Who are the people who do the bulk of the local shop- ping and spending? Is it men we see patiently lining up at under-staffed cash registers? Do they really believe that women will not read the paper and see the adver- tisements unless there is a suggestive Sunshine Girl? Are the men in that category the majority, the large spenders, the ones who make the decisions on what should and should not be bought? Should they be pandered to if they are not — and even if they are? It is a sad commentary on our community when our on- ly local newspaper pro- stitutes its public service fun- tion to sensationalism and utillation of that kind. Ann Ferries West Vancouver M.D.s okay abortions Dear Editor Marlene E. Hunter. M.D in a recent letter to your paper expressed concern that) physicians are held “culpable of delaying abor trons at Lrons Gate Hospital ” | do believe that the medical profession has some responsiblility abortions, whether for “early” or “late”, since doctors are the only people who perform abortions at the hospital. A LGGH in 1981 there were 799 apphcants for aboruion sub mitted to the Abortion Com mittee, all 799 were approv ed IP Webb North Vancouver intact and made available to the unique students of the school wherever the pro- gramme is administered. Mr. Burbidge should use his in- fluence on the School Trustees at our School Board to make a commit- ment to this proposition which the Trustees, to date, have not done. 2.1 do not object to the closing of the physical facilities of Hamilton School, but I believe the stu- dent population and_ the teaching team can be moved in total to Carson Graham and the unique programme implemented at that school because, at present, Hamilton Schogl is_ for Grades 8, 9 and 10 and Car- son Graham is for Grades 11 and 12. There is adequate accommodation at Carson Graham to house these students and the pro- Let gov't Dear Editor: If MLA Angus Ree really cares about the students of Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Carson Graham Senior Secondary School then he should be taking ac- tion to prove this to the public. We, as concerned Carson Graham students, recently attended a public meeting at Hamilton School and were appalled by the arguments of Mr. Ree. Angus Ree questions the school board as to whether they will actually be saving money by closing Hamilton and incorporating’ the students into Carson Graham. However, since the closure of Hamilton will create a projected $600,000 annual savings, it is unlikely that any renovations made to Carson Graham could possibly equal those figures. But why does the school board have to create a Sav- ings tn the first place? Could the reason possibly be that the party Angus Ree is a representative of made a 12% cutback of the board's expenditures? 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No figures have been made available to the public, let alone the trustees as to the present cost of operating Hamilton School, the cost of maintain- ing Hamilton School after the student body has been moved, the cost of im- plementing the programme of any programme at Carson Graham or the cost of any Mr. Ree, our proposal is this: Set aside a specialty fund for the unique Hamilton program. This will bring about an increase in costs which the province should help to pay. If you do not feel this to be a workable solution, then we directly challenge you to find a bet- ter alternative. We feel that if the propos- ed plans go through there will be a negative effect on the two respective programs. There should be no question in the minds of those aware of the productivity of the two schools that they should re- main separate. renovations necessary to Carson Graham in order to accommodate the students. A decision made through the absence of this informa- uon would be responsible. I call upon the school trustees to seek the necessary information, to make a commitment to pro- tect the unique programme and to make the wmforma- tiona available to the public that are entitled to have a say before any further action is taken to close Hamilton School. I look forward to Mr. Bur- bidge’s further support of the above as I anticipate the school trustees will be mak- ing their decision at thew meeting on April 13, 1982, without a proper study or in- formed public mput. Angus Ree, MLA, North Vancouver- Capilano pay for Hamilton How can Mr. Ree possibly feign sympathy towards the parents and students of Hamilton while allowing the government he represents to make cutbacks on the public educational system? Mr. Angus Ree, if you are so vehemently against the Hamilton closure then we in- sist you make an effort on the community’s behalf to save the schools and their programs by means of pro- vincial government funding — or are you all talk and no action? 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