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WEST. VAN AQUATIC CENTRE reopens Saturday, Feb, 2, after: being cloned since December 30 for annual
maintenance. The reopening comes one week later than the originally scheduled date-of Jan. 27. Registration for
winter and spring lessons continues daily, Monday through Friday, from 9'a.m. to 4 p.m. For information call 926-

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12,000 on North Shore

In British Columbia,
one in every six adults
_has.completed less than

ning years of schooling
while in the North
Vancouver and
Capilano federal
constituencies, the
number is 12,000,
according to Jim
Duvall, ai Capilano
College instructor.

Duvall, an arca
representative of the Adult
Basic Education Association

of B.C. claims that the
limited education may cause
the adults ‘to lack many of
the basic reading, writing,
and math skills needed to
cope with the demands of
Canadian life’.

He went on to say that ‘no
government financed
solution to the occupational,
family, health, and welfare
problems faced by these
people will be effective
without adcquate basic
education to enable them to
function more competently
and to exercise morc self
direction in their lives’.

Speaking recently to
Association members at
Capilano College, Duvall
quoted from a _ Federal
report released in October,
1979, by Canadian Miniter of
Labour, Lincoln Alexander.

The report statéd that, “...
there are 1,000,000
Canadians who cannot read
or write... and an additional
4,000,000 Canadians who
cannot read, write and do
mathematics adequately in
society.”

Duvall
Federal

“Not surprisingly,”
reported, “the

report concluded that ‘the
opportunities available to
working Canadians to
upgrade and maintain their
skills are inadequate,’ and
that, ‘there is a major
problem of adult illiteracy
which is now essentially
being ignored by public
authorities’ .”

The purpose of the
meetings now being
scheduled is three-fold

1) To inform
candidates of the

federal
issucs

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