mes ape hate emere at as Seep ere Pe Nee tnrt tare] - t. b | ! Canada’s Number On Suburban News aper News 985-2131 - North Vancouver resident : ’ Classified 986-6222 “ONE. “WOMAN? s fight against pornography has ‘had some:victories and some [osses. - wilers and managers, trying », the shelves, wae ons (AS. 5a: - registered ‘nurse, : “Wyatt | says her first and” other foremost concern for ‘fighting ‘adult publications ' Of a questionable ‘nature’ is . for .the protection of * children; . . So far, she said, Boots Drug Store and Woodward's :' agreed to.take any Playboy, Playgiri, explicit written letters to her confir- ming that. But Wyatt said Super- Valu, London. Drugs, and the ‘gift shop at. Lions Gate *: Hospital’ continue’ to sell the material and have made no ~ plans to stop. Super-Valu owner/. 5. operator Allan Belich, at-the "17th and Lonsdale “ says the outlet sells: Playboy: \ store, magazine, but no longer ells ° = Penthotise. ay “It is displayed on the top shelf and is three-quarters covered,’’ Belich®-said.’ “There’s definitely a ‘market. * for it. I haven’t’: had: any ’ complaints. We took :Pen-: thouse off the shelf. two. or - $5 mil ion school cut Penthouse and magazines. . - from their shelves, and have night, three years ago because we gota lot of complaints. But Playboy is not in the same bracket. as magazines’ like Penthouse ‘or Hustler.’ It’s more a gentleman’s maga- zine than pornographic.”’ . Lions: Gate Hospital ad- ministrator. John Borthwick . says the hospital’s auxilliary’ runs the gift shop, -and the only adult magazine they sell is Playboy. “The auxilliary ladies get quite insensed that: this lady comes along and tells them not to offer a magazine. We have a full range of people coming into. this hosrital, and it’s (Playboy) a popular one. People expect to find it in magazine shops, } f people want to buy it, let them buy its” Borthwick ‘said. Stores such ‘as the Bay, , Eatons, Safeway and Stong’s do” Not carry adult. publica- tions, Wyatt said. ‘Approaching North. Van- © couver City Council’ Monday Wyatt gave a pres- entation, reporting the ‘of “adult- ‘| Saluting secretaries: 25 THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER detrimental effects of por- -hography on. children’ and “adults. “There is a grave need for a deterrent to public displays publications,’’ Wyatt said, “containing im- ages. depicting: nudity and . Sexual activity. “Tt? s: offensive the . degradation. of women as sex objects ‘and’ it ‘has ‘harmful effects on children. It’s also responsible’ for promoting violence and crime.” Ske would like to see City council pass a bylaw, similar to the one recently pxssed in West Vancouver, requesting that pornographic literature be hidden behind an opaque covering 47 inches above the ground, if-it-is going to be displayed at all. _ “It's really just a .ban- daid,”’ said Wyatt, ‘but we can't, do‘ anything else until they have a censorship law.’” City’ council has already put the. proposed. bylaw be- fore :aunicipal staff for their recommendations. | protested by parents A NORTH VANCOUVER parent is upset because she says the quality of education. will drastically decline for her two daughters with the $5 million budget cuts proposed for North Van- couver School District 44. But North Vancouver- Seymour MLA Angus Ree says the dollars: just aren’t available in the provincial budget for the school districts. Parent Lauren Henis went to Victoria with other educa- tion representatives to meet with Ree and North Van- couver-Capilano MLA Jack Davis to discuss the cuts and why North Yancouver has it ‘rougher than other districts. “My Henis said, main concern,”’ “is that North | By BARRETT FISHER | Vancouver is one of the hardest hit communities as far as cuts go.”’ Henis exptained that cuts will.effect custodians, teach- ers aids and learning assistance teachers. She also said classroom sizes grow with decreased staff, and disabled children’ have -been integrated into the classroom adding an extra responsibili- ty for teachers. “Class time is cut if the principal and teachers have to act as custodians. The preparation.that.is now done by teachers’ aids - will now have to be done by the teachers, which’ cuts into class time. And with learning assistance time cut, the children’ with reading and learning difficulties will not have their needs met." Said: Ree: ‘Dollars don’t necessarily equate with good education. When. budgets were up to par, and school boards were getting all the money: they. needed, there was still a great hue and cry by parents that kids couldn’t read and:write and weren’t being educated properly."