Deseasae une: at 7 ~ Lynn Vailey. residents ‘can -catch: up on. the latest “peighborhood news” and. 56 pages 25¢ NEWS photo ary Peters SHAW CABLE launched a cuddly communit~ support campaign this week. The cable company will be providing hundreds of teddy bears to North Vancouver RCMP, West Van- couver Police, Ports Canada Police and the B.C. Ambulance Service on the North Shore. The various agencies will distribute the bears to children who may have been traumatized due to domestic disputes, accidents, fires, abuse and other circumstances. Hugging the bears (back row left to right) are West Vancouver Police Cst. Harry McNeil, B.C. Ambulance Service-West Vancouver Unit attendant Merle Adam, North Vancouver RCMP Insp. Dave Roseberry, B.C. Ambulance Service-West Vancouver walt chief Wayne Galbraith, Ports # Canada Police Cst. Ruth McLea. North Vancouver RCMP Cst. Cliff Doherty (front left) and Shaw Cable system manager Terry Medd share a bear. PARENTS SHOCKED aa) SCHCOL FUNDING STALL NORTH Vancouver District. parents shared shock and disappointment this week with School District 44 ad- ministrators and board members over the provincial pov- ernment’s recent decision to delay its $3.3 million funding to build Cove Cliff elementary school in Deep Cove. ‘“*This is upsetting and frustrating news,"’ Susan Geddes of the area’s local parents commit- tee told North Vancouver School District 44's board Tuesday night after being told that the expected $3.3 million in capital funding had not come through to replace the doddering, Second World War vintage Burrard View school build- ing currently in use. By MAUREEN CURTIS Contributing Writer The original estimated comple- tion date for Cove Cliff was September 1990, and provincial funding of $1.74 million for site acquisition and planning for Cove Chiff and the new Indian River elementary school was announced in May 1988. Geddes told the News that Bur- rard View is in “terrible shape." She said the school is built on a slope and situated such that pupils have to cross and sometimes re- cross Deep Cove Road to get to it. The school’s parking Jot doubles as its playground, and the one Jane access road could easily be blocked to emergency vehicles, Geddes said. In addition, she said, Burrard View's roof needs frequent repairs, its wiring is inadequate and _ its gymnasium and playing field are too small. “They realized the school would have to be replaced back in 1975,’" Geddes said. Replacement of Burrard View has been discussed off and on since then, with the current proposal Le ing initiated in fall -° 1987. Parents and schoo officials were therefore mystified by a provincial government letter explaining that projects that had not been initiated by March 1989 were not included in the budget. “We started planning this school before | came on the board and certainty before March 1989,"" trustee Roy Dungey said at the board meeting. Board chairman Don Bell said the government’s decision was a “change of indicated support" and called for the district to write a let- ter registering the board’s disap- pointment. Trustee Margaret Jessup said the letter should include documenta- tion thac shows the government has already aporoved funding of Burrard View. Geddes, who has worked for two years on the community committee to plan the school, predicted that a lot of people would be sufficiently upset with the provincial government’s deci- sion to make their protests known. “And if we have to go to Vic- toria again, we will,’’ Geddes said.