8 - Sunday, October 22, 1989 - North Shore News Nerth Van District survey to gauge child-care needs NORTH VANCOUVER District will begin plumbing the depths of its growing child-care facility crisis this month. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter The district is sending out a survey to all area residents at the end of next week seeking input in- to the municipality’s child-care needs. Ellen Woodsworth, of the district’s social planning depart- ment, said the child-care squeeze in the district is becoming tighter as more child-care centres formerly located in public schools are forced to move to make way for growing school populations. But Woodsworth said the child-care operations ‘‘have no place to ge. Churches are full, schools are full. We don’t have places to put new child-care cen- tres.”” An estimated 240 child-care spaces in the district are facing Band negotiates services From page 3 pletion of a leasing agreement with the federal government and servic- ing arrangements with the district. According to George, municipal servicing negotiations with North Vancouver District are ongoing. “The band is right in the middle of negotiations for a municipal service agreement to bring water and sewer services to that (five- acre parcel) land,”’ he said. North Vancouver District direc- tor of engineering John Bremner said the servicing agreement with the band would be the first formal agreement of its kind between the band and the municipality. Said Bremner, ‘‘We provide them with water at this time to the boundary. They already pay for garbage collection service. They have sewer connection through the Greater Vancouver Sewage and Drainage District sewer intercep- tor. But they don’t have an agree- ment for provision of the other types of municipal services. “There is no formal agreement for street sweeping or fire protec- tion or building inspections,’’ he said. The five-acre undeveloped parcel of land on the northeast corner of the reserve is without services but could be serviced from Roche Point Drive, which is developed close to the band land boundary. “I think they’ve got a lot of ideas, but nothing has really gelled yet. We could go ahead and put the servicing agreement in place first anyway,’’ Bremner said. Natives prepare for the ‘90s From page 3 yourself, there’s no room for substance abuse, there’s no room for lying. So we take all of the messes we've created and use them as damn good reasons to succeed. We've tried this, it doesn’t work. Let’s take the best of both worlds and go. We drop the animosity be- tween peoples, white, yellow, brown. We begin to respect one another as human beings. Sure there were things that happened between the Indian people and the white people. But I think it hap- pened out of the system and not oO out of the people. We don’t have to be enemies. There’s no reason for the gener- al population of white people to feel guilty for living with us in the same system that they were op- pressed in to begin with. We're all here now, let’s see how we can get on with it. We have a responsibili- ty to forgive and forget. On one side is guilt and on the other side is animosity. Our anger is only a communication block. Get rid of guilt and fear and you open up the doors to dialogue. If the Indian people win jurisdiction over their land titles, everybody will win. 2 preparation includes machine sanding as well as hand sanding. Full coat of primer sealer. Baked enamel! finish. “ SUPREM That high quality took is achieved with additional surface preparation and excellent refinish materials. Includes catalyzed enamel. Integrated clear coat. Oven baked. NORTH VANCOUVER 945 West ist Street Next to Geaver Lumber 984-4111 O RICHMOND 11591 Bridgeport Rd. closure at this time. In addition, she said, the de- mand for child-care services will continue to grow. One in every four district children of child-care age is cur- rently enrolled in child care. In addition to the survey, the district’s advisory committee on child care has scheduled public child-care forums on Thursday, Nov. 30 at Seycove Community School and Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Delbrook Community Centre. Both forums are scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. A full report on child care will be presented to district council in December. The district’s survey, entitled Preschool/Daycare: Is There Enough For the °90s? includes questions about employment, fam- ily, child-care use, costs and needs. For information or updates on the child-care survey call the social planning department of the district at 987-7131. 226 S.W. 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