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gressing or who they should
lobby sith their concerns.
NVDPAC members are
drafting a fetter to CUPE, the
Ministry of — Education,
BCPSEA, and schoo! board
staff outlining their views.
Scobie says local PAC orga-
nizations would sooner have
another strike than see the loss
of parent volunteers.
“The fight’s on,” she said, .
adding that CUPE members NEWS photo Terry Peters
“don't realize how strong the ROSS Road elementary parent volunteer Maggie Sabogal (left) helps Grade 2 stu:
Parent voice is” when it comes dent Chantelle Billinger with a measuring exercise.
to asserting their rights.
She cites BCTF research that suggests the involvement of
parental volunteers means children do better both academically : ia
and socially. With 12 years experience,
At Ross Road elementary school, parent volunteer Maggie

Sabogal said voluntecrs and CUPE staff had always been “like one J COLLISION SPECIALISTS: cis aa 5 tae |

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big family, We enjoy working together. It would be devastating for 1 1
everybody if they make us do something like (give up volunteer- NORTH SHORE’S
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Sabogal is at the school virtually every day, reading to kids and
_ belpin out on field trips. She has done so for 10 years. hese. Vi VENDOR
There’ *s never been an issue of taking jobs away,” said Ross
"Road principal Bul Reid. He said parents end support staff have
always had “a collaborative, cooperative relationship. It would be
very y difficult to do the job we do here without the parent help that
we ve.”
Said Heywood, “We're not talking about a private sector
employer. The system is being strangled by very focused interest
° groups. Children sre at the bottom of the waterfall.”
_- Said Scobie, “Educational policy is being st by industrial azbi-
trators. Children are not an industrial company.”
* School trustees and NVDPAC want to see CUPE entitlements
Jimited to wages and benefits, said Heywood Kepfa mess The Home of the Lifetime
~The school board can refuse to. sign any CUPE agreement \ eee? ~G nies
that’s reached, although Heywood concedes the Ministry of iy nares
~ Education has the power to veto that decision. ,

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“for ‘coriment. A ‘document posted until recently on the esr Trucks (Foreign & Domest, TALK TALSING .* ESTIMATES + &
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perform 20 hours of commu-
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: Sean Robinson, 34, of
North Vancouver, was fined
$400 after he pleaded guilty
to being “the owner of an
fa unconfined vicious dog” on
~ Sept. 30, 1998 in contraven-
- tion of. North Vancouver

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Bernd Gaertner, 57, of 2411 Mi. Seymour Parkway, North. Vancouver

: North Vancouver, was fined

Before. Judge “Reginald $250 after he pleaded guilty

candison on Feb. 14: to assaulting a woman on July

Douglas Albert Kelm, 38, _ 28, 1999 in North Vancouver
Burnaby,' was’ jailed four City.

weeks, fined $1,000 and had - Before Judge N. Friesen

City’s. Dox Tax — and
“g Regulation By law. -
|, The offence took place in

‘Tickets are going fast!

is driver's licence suspended
for'18 months after he plead-

ed guilty to driving while pro-

hibited on Aug..13, 1999 in
‘North Vancouver District.
The jail sentence was rec-
ommended: served by clec-
tronic monitoring. Bill
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Timothy: William Storey,
8; of North Vancouver, was
jailed- seven days and had his
_driver’s licence suspended for
12: months after he. pleaded
ilty to: driving while pro-
hibited i in Lower Lonsdale on
Sept. 29, 1999.
: Before Judge N. Friesen
on Nov. 2, 1999:
Robert Thomas Duggan,
~ 36, of North: Vancouver,
‘feceived. six months’ proba-
tion after he pleaded guilty to
; sessing marijuana on July
- 4,°1998 in North Vancouver
‘District.
Duggan was $ required to

on Nov. 1, 1999: .
Randy August Flewin, 41,

of North Vancouver, was.

fined $100 and had his dri-
ver’s licence suspended for six
months after he pleaded not
guilty to impaired. driving,

but instead pleaded guilty to

the lesser or included offence
of driving without due care
and attention.

The original charge. f

stemmed from a July 10,
1998 incident in North
Vancouver City.

Before Judge William
Diebolt on Oct. 27, 1999:

Warren Bruce Wyss, 32, of
no fixed address, was jailed
nine months and received 24
months’ probation after he
pleaded guilty to:
@ a break and enter in West
Vancouver on Sept. 14, 1999;
@ stealing a bicycle on Aug.
24, 1999 in North Vancouver
City.

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