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$1.3 m. cutbacks ordered |

By BILL BELL

“ANGRY, frustrated, full of confusion and
shocked.” Those are the words North Vancouver
School District Chairman Margaret Jessup used to
describe the board’s reaction to the latest Ministry
of Education order to slash a further $1.3 million
from its budget by this December.

“This is no longer a matter
of restraint,” said a bitter
Jessup. “The cutbacks
cannot be made without a
severe impact on school
programs and they cannot be
made without reducing
salary costs, either through

“salary reductions or layoffs.”

The school board met at a
special meeting Tuesday
might to begin the pre-
liminary planning on how to
cut $1.3 million this year and
as much as $5 million from
the 1983 budget. But, it was
stymied and bewildered by

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Pro-Life faces
LGH thrashing

PRO-LIFE supporters on the North Shore will
lose their representation on the Lions Gate
Hospital board uniess anti-abortion candidates
are elected at the September annual meeting.

By CHRIS LLOYD

‘ The only three remaining
Pro-Life supporters on the
board are among the four
directors whose terms of
office are up in September
and one of them - Patrick
Webb - is not even secking
re-election.

At one time the hospital
scriously feared a takcover
of its board by Pro-Life
members and the threat of
them dictating the hospital's
abortion policy.

However, in the past three
years, Pro-Life has failed to
get a single supporter
elected to the board and its
representation has been
shrinking with cach annual
meeting as North Shore

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