tear down school

Hillside to be demolished;
school to be built in Caulfeild

CAULFEILD PLATEAU
will be the site of a new
$12-million secondary
school, and Hillside Middle
School will be torn down
and the land sold for hous-

ing, the West Vancouver
School Board decided
Monday.

By Patrick Raynard
Contributing Writer

The decision is part of school
superintendent Doug Player’s con-
troversial Facilities for the Future
plan, which has been hotly
debated by parents and trustees
for the last seven months.

The plan given approval in
principle Monday will also see the
former Eagle Harbour Elementary
school “reclaimed’’ as an elermen-
tary school and Pauline Johnson
Elementary (PJ) either renovated
or replaced by a new building on
the eastern haif of the present
property.

Part of Eagle Harbour may be
retained as a community fitness
area, and the work on PJ will de-

WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

pend on seismic testing. The brick
facade of the present PJ may also
be retained if heritage funding can
be found.

The plan to move Hillside Mid-
dle School to the 13.5-acre site the
school board owns opposite the
Caulfeiid Village shopping centre
is contingent on the board resolv-
ing several outstanding issues:
eobtaining permits to dispose of
the Hillside building and property;
*the renegotiation on the lease of
West Vancouver Secondary
School’s Inglewood building;
*buying an elementary site on
Cypress Bowl Road;
edesignating an elementary site in
Eagle Ridge;
eand obtaining a commitment
from the municipality to a joint
school-recreation facility on the
Caulfeild site.

No dumping allowed!

KATHY CRAWFORD lives on Greenway Avenue but clippings on her driveway. Here, Crawford and her
she wasn’t amused when she _ discovered
weekend that someone had dumped a pile of tree

oard agrees to

last children assess the damage.

Population growth in the
western half of the municipality.
as well as on Bowen Island and in
Lions Bay, was one of the main
reasons trustees decided to go with
the Caulfeild plan.

The new schoo! at Caulfeiid,
while starting out as a ‘‘middle”’
school, could eventually expand to
include students up to Grade 12.

The board’s decision to go with
the Caulfeild site followed a long
debate on Player’s other option,
which would have seen a new
school-community facility built on
the present Inglewood building
site instead.

Trustee Margot Furk argued at
length that the present student
population did not justify the $12
million needed to build a school
on the Caulfeild site, and that the
boundaries of individual schools’
*‘eatchment areas’’ would have to
be closed to keep the students
from going to other schools.

**We would be very embarrass-

Tuck in to larger food section

Spice up your Wednesday with
food cclumnists and features

HUNGRIER than usual? If so,take a look at the new ex-

panded food pages in today’s North Shore News (see page

46).

A new regular feature of the
Wednesday News, the food sec-
tion will focus on food trends,

seasonal foed features and reci-
pes.

It wilt also include a new col-

umn, The Inquisitive Cook, which
examines the science of cooking in
detail. :

And of course Barbara) Mc-
Creadie will continue to provide
News readers with the cooking in-
sights and advice that have made
her Budget Beaters column a
perennial News favorite.

So pull up a chair, tuck in that
napkin and dig in.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

WEST Vancouver schoo! trust-
ee Margo Furk ...concerns over
having enough students.

ed if we ended up not having
enough studenis,’’ Furk said.

But Trustee Michael Smith led
the rest of the board in opposing
Furk, arguing that a secondary
school is already badly needed in

shipyard
dispute
settled

A STRIKE has been averted
at North Vancouver-based
Vancouver Shipyards Co.
Lid. (VSY) after company
Management and the ship-
yard’s union decided to ac-
cept the contract settlement
recommended by Vancouver
mediator John Thorne.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

Local 506 of the Marine and
Shipbuilders’ Union voted 61 per
cent Monday in favor of the
two-year contract. VSY manage-
ment ratified the contract Tuesday
morning.

““T guess it's good. We won’t be
on the bricks,"’ said union presi-
dent Tom Long.

VSY spokesman Debbie Trinac-
ty said, ‘Management will sign
the contract and we’re away to the
races. We can get back to work,

44] guess it's
good. We wont
be on the
bricks. 99

— Tom Long, President,
Marine and Shipbuilders’
Union, Local 506.

not that we stopped working, but
how we can progress with a new
contract.”’

Long said the company has al-
ready started to rehire workers
laid off during contract negotia-
tions.

He said approximately 40
workers had been laid off because
fewer contracts were coming into
the shipyard while it faced a
possible strike.

‘*None of the companies would
want their ships behind the picket
line,”’ he said.

The union was in a legal posi-
tion to strike Monday night if
members had rejected the media-
tor’s recommendations.

Terms of the contract include
an eight per cent increase in the
first year and two, four-per-cent
increases over two, six-month in-
crements in the second year. The
graveyard shift will also have a 15
cent increase added to its hourly
rate.

Wages have been the main issue
in the contract negotiations.

VSY had offered the union
$I.1l, or 5.0 per cent, in the first
year of a two-year collective
agreement and $1.17, or 5.5 per
cent, in the second year.

The union, which represents
about 300 VSY workers, wanted
that offer increased by 85 cents in

See New page & — each of the two years.
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M@ Business ...........-.. 39 i Lifestyles.............. 41
W@ Classified Ads.......... 48 WW Mailbox .............. 7
M Comics ............00- 45 WH North Shore Now...... 21
@ EcoUpdate ...........- 47 WMSports .............0-. 17
W@ Editoria! Page ......... 6 WT Listings ........... 32
@ Bob Hunter ........... 4 8 What's Going On ...... 43

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