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Hillside protesters bent on
winning fight at all costs

Open letter to Barbara Howard,
West Vancouver Schoo! Board:

As a participant of the West
Vancouver School Board meeting
on Monday, April 5, | observed
that the core group of protesters
against the sale of Hillside School
and the Caulfeild Plateau project
have totally lost sight of their ob-
jectives and seem bent on just
winning their fight at alt costs.

Increase
education

funding

Open letter to The Hon. Anita
Hagen, Minister of Education:

1 am a parent with three
children who attend Cleveland
Elementary School in North Van-
couver.

I am also extremely concerned
with the budget cutbacks that are
occurring because of underfunding
by the provincial government. Our
district will receive cuts on a
number of programs and total
elimination of programs that have
been established for many years in
this district.

My children and all the children
in this particular district will be
affected.

As a North Vancouver resident,
I pay (as do others) amongst the
highest education taxes in the
province, and our district receives
less than 96% of the provincial
average back.

We've established many pro-
grams that are admired by other
districts. Why not allow us all to
have the programs that will con-
tinue the education that our
children deserve? They are our
future. Why handicap them? Give
them what they need or their
future and ours will be in a poor
state. Don't. they deserve the best?

Your government came [nto
power on a platform committed to
quality cducation.. Don't just
mesmerize us with words, please
do something and increase the
funding now.-

Maureen C. Topley
North Vancouver

Some streets
in need of
quick sweep

Dear Editor:
Hear, hear, to Gwen Clark's
comments on the dirty Lonsdale

streets.

The section from Chesterfield
Street to Lonsdale on West 3rd is
particulasly bad. A vacant lot is
even being used as a dump site!

And the blobs of brightly col-
ored bubble gum glued to the
sidewalks of Lonsdale ... no
wonder Singapore has banned it.

I know the shopkeepers are not
to blame for dirty streets, but
surely a quick ‘“‘sweep-up’’ at

their front doors would help the ;

situation. In spite of the fact that
there are waste-paper bins at
some of the bus stops one can still
see wrappers of all kinds thrown
under the seat.

This is such a beautiful city —
why can’t our citizens learn to
keep it clean?

C. McLean
North Vancouver

I believe that a compromise be-
tween the west and east sides of
West Vancouver is possible and
every effort should be made to br-
ing these radical screaming mat-
ches to an end so that we can get
on with the issue at hand, which
is, of course, providing the
western portion of West Van-
couver with adequate facilities.

If the eastern community wants
a high school that their children
can attend in their own communi-
ty, I suggest that West Vancouver
Secondary be given to them as a
full school, offering up to and in-
cluding Grade 12. Then the
Caulfeild Plateau School would
also include up to Grade 12.

Having three fully graded high
schools in West Vancouver would
foster a competitive spirit, a sense

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of patriotism, and the ability to
compete in field days and sports
games as well as academically.

As for the floss of Hillside
School, well, the school has few if
any redeeming quatities, save for
the fact that it’s still standing, and
the alternative could be an attrac-
tive enhancement to that area.

If the Plateau School cannot be
totally funded by the sale of the
Hillside property, then perhaps
the school board, being penny
poor but property rich, could fi-
nance the remainder by selling off
some of these assets.

{ firmly believe that we must
embrace change, especially where
it concerns our children’s future
and education.

Terry Mills
West Vancouver

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