Vian jailed for hot van A 23-YEAR-OLD Vancouver man was sentenced March 2 in North Vancouver provincial court to six months in jait after he pleaded guilty tc possession of a stolen vehicle. Harry Wolfram was originally charged in connection with a Feb. 25 seizure of 2 1970 Econoline van. Court nails man on offences A 23-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was sentenced Monday in ‘North Vancouver provincial court 10 90 days in jail after he plead- - ed guilty to impaired driving causing bodily harm. ‘ . Walter Max Katzberg was originally charged with impaired driv- ing causing bodily harm, failing to provide a breath sample and . dangerous driving causing bodily harm in connection with an Aug. ; cd, 3987 incident in which a male cyclist was struck by a car at the ~top of North Vancouver's Third Strect hill. The cyclist suffered whiplash, pulled ep and arm muscles and road burn. He was forced to miss three weeks of work because of the injuries. Appearing before Judge J.D. Layton, Katzberg pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing bodily harm. The Crown entered a stay of proceedings in the other two charges. In addition to the jail sentence, Katzberg was placed on proba- tion for cight months and prohibited from driving for two years. Hair studio ‘helps LGH “A LOCAL hair ond skin studio will be donating staff time and 2 --day’s take at the till to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation to help raise money to purchase six coronary care beds. Emme Hair and Skin Studio Ltd., located at 1315 Lonsdale Ave. ja North Vancouver, wil) be open 9 a.m. fo 5 p.m. Sunday, March 27, to turn halr into hospitsl equipment. The LGH Foundation funds capital equipment purchases for the local hospital. The special beds are worth close to $7,000 a piece. | / Sex assauit ‘trial ordered : ke 32-YEAR-OLD Burnaby. men was: “ordered March 1 in West Vancouver provincial court to stand tial in a higher court on a charge of sexual assaull. ° ie “. Thomas Steven Constabaris was orighially charged in connection 7 ‘with 'a Sept. 28 incident in which a fems le was aileged toe have been “assaulted. ‘Appearing before Judge R.D. Grandison, Constabaris was 5 “ordered to stand trial in. Vancouver county court and elected to be | . tried by a judge and jury. ; -A trial date had not been scheduled to press time. Youth rally . slated Sunday a NORTH Shore ‘Youth Outreach Department of the Canyon Heights Chapel will be holding a youth rally Sunday, March 13 at 7 p.m, at Canyon Heights Chapel, 4840 Capijano Rd., North Van- -_couver. The evening will address common youth concerns. Outreach or- : “ganizer Bob Buchan says the event is open to all, with church : membership not required. The group’s Fire Escape Drop-In Centre “will .be open with refreshments, food and a games room available. . ‘The drop-in centre is open every Friday 8 to 11 p.m. “For more information call Buchan at 980-0973 or the church of- ice at 985-7131. tionary allowance S& - bridas, $1.5 MILLION HIKE NV School Board budget up $4.5m from last year NORTH VANCOUVER School Board passed a seven per cent larger budget for 1988-89 with little discussion at its Tuesday meeting. By ROBERT BEYNON Cantributing Writer The new budget's total is $64,170,941, up $4.5 million from the 1987-88 budget, Superintendent Leo Marshall told the board that the budget con- tinued to increase with inflation because although enrolment in secondary schools continues to drop, enrolment in elementary schools has maintained steady growth. Allowances for increases in teachers‘ salaries during this year's teacher-board negotiations had been made, Marshall said. As the board did not provide a line-by-line item comparison with last. year’s budget, budget com- parisons could not be made to determine this year's increases, but Marshall said the French program, and some special programs fun- ding had increased. He said Victoria's announce. NORTH Vancouver Teacher's Association president) Andy, Krawcyzk...hoping for collective bargaining. March 14, V988 - North Share News ment of $175 million in extra funds for schools in B.C. may affect the district minimally. The Ministry of Education has allowed for $4.5 million more to be spent on North Vancouver School District within its budgeting formula, $2.3 million of which it will provide. District’ taxpayers must pay the other $2.2 million. However, Marshall said the ministry will only allow for a 2.8 per cent increase in teacher's salaries, the school district's greatest expense and where the ex- tra money would most likely be needed. Andy Krawcyzk, North Van- couver Teacher's Association president, said he hoped the board would collectively bargain with the teachers despite this imposed pro- vincial limit. “Tam concerned that the pro- vincial government has announced what they consider to be a settle- ment before collective bargain- ing,’ Krawcyzk said. W. Van School Board passes new budget; gives WEST VANCOUVER School Board passed a budget pro- posal to send to the provincial government for approval, but released almost no details at its Monday meeting. . Michacl Smith, financial plann- ing committee chairman, said the proposed budgect's total is $23,643,019, up. $1.5 million from last year, and it will probably cost the average homeowner $100 more in taxes. “I's a 6.6 per cent increase,” Smith said. He also introduced a successful motion demanding the provincial government examine the equity of its fiscal framework that deter- mines provincial funding. West Vancouver residents must pay higher school tax rates than other communities because the West Vancouver school district receives only a 2.8 per cent infla- while some By KOSERT BEYNON Contributing Writer 7 communities receive as much as 4.8 per cent, Smith said. The board had not: prepared a line-by-line item budget for the public, but distributed two hand- outs, one that described cost in- creases for specific classes, and one that described budgetary objectives for the coming fiscal year. The board’s number/one objec- live is “to provide competitive salaries and benefits for staff, both teaching and non-teaching,”’ su- perintendent Bill May said. The school board and the West Vancouver Teachers! Association no details have not yet entered. salary negotiations and financial details regarding salaries were not reveal- ed. But the objectives sheet listed certain expenses related to the in- creased budget such as: * $133,000 for 3.3. secondary Jevel English teachers to decrease the pupil/teacher ratio and provide smaller high school English classes; * $250,000 for classroom com- puter hardware and software; and * $104,000 for curriculum coor- dination of courses in art, com- puters and French. Even with related. renovations, the district will save $79,100 due to the new grade alignments in. West Vancouver's three Secondary schools, although money for cafe- teria renovations in Hillside School and a new bus for students travel- ling to the new Hillside middle school are being cor.sidered. News editor honored by industry FORMER editor-in-chief of the North Shore News. has been honored by his industry peers. Noel Wright, editor-in-chief for {1 years and now associate editor since his. semi-retirement last summer, has been awarded the Silver Quill ‘of the Canadian Community Newspapers Associa- tion. The: Silver Quill award, in the associate editor Nocl publishing NEWS Wright...honored = by industry peers. words of the citation, is ‘‘personal recognition to those valuable members of our industry who have devoted a quarter, half a century or more to its betterment.”’ Wright headed the editorial department of the News during its major growth period from 1976 to 1987 — which saw it advance, in the face of earlier stiff competi- tion, from a third-place weekly to become the North Shore’s ex- clusive newspaper published ‘three times a week. An award-winning | editorial writer, Wright continues to con- tribute his thrice-weekly editorial page columns to the News. He is a former editor of the Chilliwack . Progress and the Ladner . (now . Delta) Optimist, and for six years was B.C. correspondent for Fi- nancial Times of Canada. 2 for 1 SALE SUMMER STOCK '87 christopher robin Vancouver Centre Mall 687-1181