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made a mess’

of West Vancouver ‘council's attempts ad bebe the

“‘aneémployed’ and” Mayor Derrick ¥

hopping mad about it

. Berating the federal and. -

provincial ‘governments for.
their inefficiency in
operating the make-work
scheme, he declared
Monday: “The program is in

a terrible. state. I am
disgusted.” oe
In an accompanying

SENTIMENTS, of the crowds were obvious as throngs of pornography
opponents paraded Saturday outside the North Vancouver store of Red
Hot Video on Marine Drive which sells and rents video tapes of porno

statement “Mayor Hum-
phreys said West Vancouver
council, chad . applied | to
employ 47° people in the
scheme from November 29
and that application had

been approved.

But. because of the

. problems ‘only five’ started...

work two weeks later, on
Monday, December 13.
They had attempted to start
earlier but because of
paperwork delays they were
ordered to stop work by the
Unemployment Insurance
Commission.
Among the difficulties,
Humphreys said,  par-
ticipants in the. program
were taken off the com-
° La

_ When p

puterized UIC rolls and this

for twoor three weeks: ane

The whole point of the
scheme — the community
recovery program — is to
enable participants to earn
$50 a week in addition to
their regular UIC benefits.

Only 10 people had been
sent to West Vancouver for
selection, said Humphreys.
le are accepted
they have to go back to
Canada Manpower for

Going and get on and doit.”

processing, he complained.

- Representatives of the two

‘federal: departments and the

provincial ministry of labor,
who were supposed to be
administering the program,
seemed to have little idea
what was going on and they
were not’ communicating
with each other, Humphreys
added.

He urged them to get their
act together — “I want to see
them :.know what they are

NEWS phone Eria Eggerteon .

movies, Similar’ protests were held outside Red Hot Video stores
throughout the province.

——-troversy~
‘direction
—when-North Vancouver

_ SOLUTIONS to the
ongoing Premier Street
garbage -dump_ con-

pete

Monday

District council
breathed life into a

committee intended to.

determine once and for
all the ‘future of the
unwanted landfill.

According to Mayor
Marilyn Baker, the task
force will investigate and
examine specific problems
connected with Premier
Street’s dump site. Once it
identifies possible solutions,

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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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