12 — Wednesday, April 1, 1992 —- North Shore News Anna Marie D’Angelo ae es INQUIRING REPORTER THE NDP provincial government’s first budget an- nounced last Thursday capped general practitioners’ fees at a maximum $300,000 a year and specialists’ fees at $360,000 « year. The move is viewed as a way to control escalating Medical Service Plan payouts. Although the majority of doctors are not affected by the ceiling, Brit- ish Columbia Medical Asseciation against placing limits on doctors’ incomes. They said hard workers and proficient physicians will be penalized under the new rules. Besides the wage ceiling, doctors had their controversial $24 million persion plan cancell- ed in the new budget. The pensicn plan had been nego- tiated and approved by former premier Bill Vander spekesmen are Zaim. Do you approve of doctors’ $300,000 pay ceiling? .. et Shirley Cumerbatch Mary Ta North Vancouver It should be lower, Doc- tors tend to run you through their offices quickly. North Vancouver It depends on their ex- penses. They also have had large expenses while in their long training, and they have to make that back. Composter plan could cut local waste stream by 5% THE NORTH Shore’s waste stream could be cut by 5% if a backvard com- post bin distribution pro- gram approved March 23 by North Vancouver City Council is approved by the other North Shore municipalities. By Pamela Lang - Contributing Writer The program will complement the yard waste recycling program approved by city council a week earlier, but both are dependent on support from alj three North Shore municipaliti : North Vancou.°r District has approved ‘‘in general’’ the establishment of a landscape/ yard/wood waste composting site at the old Premier Street landfill site. The “North Shore Recycling Program (NSRP) will apply for government funding for the backyard compost program through the province’s Multi- Material Recycling Financial Assistance Program. The provincial government has directed the Greater Vancouver Regional District and its member SE NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL municipalities to reduce their waste streams 30% by 1995 and 50% by 2000, NSRP coordinator Allen Lynch said in a March 16 Teport to council. The backyard bin distribution and the yard waste composting will help boost the 15% waste stream reduction achieved through the North Shore’s blue box pro- gram, he said. A 1991 pilot project tested the market for backyard composters. North Shore residents purchased 224 composters during the pilot project, and a considerable amount of community awareness was generated through the pro- gram, Lynck said. ‘A follow-up questionnaire to the purchasers resulted in over 146 responses that showed overwhelm- ing support for the project and Tecommendations that the pro- gram be expanded.”’ Lynch’s report outlined the program that would see North Shore residents being able to pur- son and pick up a composter for 25. NSRP hopes to launch the pro- gram on Earth Day, April 22. School would open fall of °94 From page 10 the board, the Caulfeild school will be built only if ‘‘the plan is self-financing (from money gen- erated from the sale of the Hillside site).” A land evaluation of the Hillside property is currently being prepared by Moodie Consultants Ltd. If the Moodie report states that the value of the Hillside property is equal or greaier than the cost of the Caulfeild Plateau plan, construction wil! proceed as scheduled. If the report states that the sale of the Hillside site will not cover time. In response io concerns that the core area is going to lose its mid- dle school, the board has issued a Statement that, ‘‘population statistics produced in March 1992 based on Family Allowance data continue to support the plan, in- dicating a large growth in the west aud a similar decline in the core area.” Parents in District 45 are also concerned that the new middle school will have a lower capacity than Hillside. Though the proposed Caulfeild school will have an initial enrol- Chris Suiker North Vancouver They earn what they keep so if they are mak- ing that much, then they are carning it. Joyce Robb North Vancouver Yes, | approve of the ceiling. I certainly didn’t approve of the pension. James Lundie North Vancouver 1 definitely think it should be frozen. Health costs are increasing too fast. green seedless grapes product of Chile #1 grade ib. ms 68 1.50/kg standing ~ rib roast cut from grade ‘A’ beef, bone in 7.23lkg 3 2 S$ lb. | Prices in effect Mar. 30-Apr. 5/92 17th & Lonsdale North Vancouver 987-6911 Edgemont Village 3230 Connaught Cres. North Vancouver 987-9346 Upper Lonsdale 3030 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver 87-6644 the costs of the Caulfeild plan, the ment of 750 students (Hillside & Park Royal, board has stated that the pian will currently has 950), the possibility § South not proceed. of expanding the school to a §& The initial findings of the senior high with a 1,100 student- West Vancouver Moodie report will be available to capacity is built into the current 926-2215 the board in about three weeks’ pians for the new school.