NEWS BRIEFS NV teachers, board ratify two-year deal NORTH VANCOUVER teachers and the North Van- couver District 44 School Board have ratified a two-year collective agreement that will give unionized teachers a 14 per cent pay increase over the life of the contract. North Vancouver Teachers’ Association (NVTA) president Linda Watson said the union ratified the deal Wednesday by a vote of 99 per cent. The board, meanwhile, ratified the collective agree- ment during a4 in-camera meeting on Tuesday. The collective agreement is retroactive to September 1990. Teachers held rotating strikes Feb. 14 and 15 to back contract demards. Man attacks WV cell block aiter sentencing A NORTH Vancouver man who had been sentenced to a jail term after being convicted of driving-related offences in West Vancouver provincial court took his frustrations out in the West Vancouver Police department’s cell block area. According to the police, Mark Raymond McGregor, 33, appeared in West Vancouver proviacial court on Feb. 12 charged with driving while prohibited. McGregor was convicted on the charge and sentenced to a 30-day intermiftent jail term. But before he could be locked up, McGregor ‘‘jumped out’’ of the court house and began driving again before being stopped by police and arrested. _He was taken back to the courthouse where he pleaded guilty to a second charge of driving while prohibited and was then sentenced to an additional 14-day concurrent jail term. But once in the cell block area, McGregor began smashing gyprock. He was convicted of mischief und sentenced to a further day in jail and ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. Investigation under way in storage locker fire THE NORTH Vancouver City Fire Department is in- vestigating an early-morning storage locker fire. A fire department spokesman said the blaze, which broke out at 2 a.m. Feb. 23 in a basement storage locker at 309 West Third St., has been classified as ‘‘suspect.”’ The spokesman added that the contents of the storage locker were destroyed and the locker received major smoke and heat damage. Woman escapes serious injury in morning fire A NORTH Vancouver woman is lucky to be alive after she awoke to find that the chesterfield she was sleeping on was burning. The North Vancouver City Fire Department was called out Feb. 23 to 1309 Mahon Ave. at about 3 a.m. A fire department spokesman said a woman had fallen asleep on a chesterfield with a lit cigarette. Approximately two hours later, she awoke to the smell of smoke and found the chesterfield was on fire. The fire department spokesman said there was no smoke alarm in the building. The woman escaped injury, but her house suffered some smoke damage. FRUNK HELP STOP THEFT FROM AUTOS. PUT ALL VALUABLES PROTECT YOURSELF. ORCBC AND YOUR LOCAL POLICE. Friday, March 1, 1991 - North Shore News - § Missing man [ARDAGH HUNTER TURNER located Barristers & Solicitors vegans onus | IMPAIRED DRIVING Society (NSLS) was called out Saturday night to search for a AFTER HOURS FAEE INITIAL CONSULTATION ni FAX Ceiminay aatters Only [oa6-4366| 986-9286 - 300-1401 LONSDALE, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. man who was reported missing and overdue from a boating trip. The missing man’s father had called the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria to report his son missing. The NSLS was then dispatched at 10:15 p.m. to search for the missing boater. The man, whose name had not been released to press time Tues- day, was located at about 12:15 am. in Burrard Inlet at the Shellburn oil refinery in Burnaby. A NSLS spokesman said the man, who was not hurt, had run his boat aground. The name of the rescued man had not been released to press time Thursday. “~~ March 9th — RE-ELECT JOAN - N.VAN DISTRICT ALDERMAN -~ SCHOOL DISTRICT #45 (WEST VANCOUVER) MARCH 4th to 8th [IS EDUCATION WEEK We extend a warm invitation to ALL members of the community to visit us and learn more about the exciting changes that are occurring in our schools. SCHOOLS WILL BE OPEN TO WELCOME YOU AS FOLLOWS: Elementary Schools Bowen island Community School (947-9337; 681-7280) March 5 9:00-11:30 a.m. Caulfeild Elementary School (926-3241) March 5,6 9:00-10:15 a.m. Chartwell Elementary School (922-3928) March 6 7:00-9:00 p.m. Gieneagies Elementary School (921-7421) March 5 9:00-11:50 a.m. Hollyburn Elementary School (922-9348) Parents & Children: March 6 3:00-6:30 p.m. Parents Only: March 7 1:15-3:00 p.m. Parents Only: March 8 9:00-10:30 a.m. Irwin Park Elementary Schooi (926-3244) March 7 7:00-8:30 p.m. Lions Bay Elementary School (921-8311) March 5 9:30-10:30 a.m. Pauline Johnson Elementary School (922-7814) March 4 Classes Open: 9:05-2:00 noon, 1:10-3:00 p.m. (Coffee 8:30 a.m, babysitting available) (922-0125) March 11 and 12 March 11 & 12 (Parents please call for an appointment.) Ridgeview Elementary School Primary 1 (K) Primary and Intermediate March 11 7:00-9:00 p.m. Primary and Intermediate March 12 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. West Bay Elementary School (926-3248) March 5, 6, 7 Primary 1 (K) March 5, 6,7 (Parents please call for an appointment.) Primary March 5, 6, 7 9:30-10:30 a.m. & 1:20-2:20 p.m. intermediate March 5 (Gr. 4) March 6 (Gr. 5) 9:30-10:30 a.m. March 7 (Gr. 6) 9:30-10:30 a.m. Westcot Elementary School (922-0185) April 25 7:00-9:00 p.m. Secondary Schools Hillside Middle Schoo! (926-7534) March 6 7:00-9:00 p.m. Sentinel Secondary School (922-3291) March 7 7:00-9:00 p.m. West Vancouver Secondary School (922-3931) March 5 7:00-9:00 p.m. WATCH OUR NEW TELEVISION SERIES STARTING IN EDUCATION WEEK Four programs on the Year 2000 plans and other changes in schools will be televised live at 1:30 p.m. on the dates shown below, and will be re-broadcast several times in the following week. Please check Shaw Cable, channel 4 listings under “Inform” in the Wednesday North Shore News or your TV Times magazine. March 7: Dual Entry and the New Primary Program April 4: Special Needs Students in Regular Classrooms May 2: Career Preparation Programs in the Community May 30: Technology and Schools of the Future