FOR THE: ‘second: time this year, 30

“‘union-

represented employees and as many as 100 fee-for-
service workers at North Shore Neighborhood
House have been left empty-handed on pay day.

Employees were told
Thursday that their cheques
for the latest two-week pay
period could be delayed for
as long as eight days.

Workers represented by
SORWUC — The Service,
Office and Retail Workers
Union of Canada — respond-
ed by setting up an informa-
tion picket line at the
Neighborhood House for
three hours Thursday night.

According to employces,
their cheques have been
delayed because the laying-
off of provincial government

employees ‘in Victoria has
lengthened the time it takes
to process monthly grants
made to the Neighborhood
House.

They also say that because
the Neighborhood House is
operating at the upper limit
of its bank overdraft, pay
cheques can’t be written until
the government funding is
received.

Georgina Coustalin,
Neighborhood House board
of directors president, con-
firms that, saying the pro-
blem is compounded
because cvery sccond pay
period ts *‘out of synch’’ with
the arrival of provincial

ouse

government daycgre subsidy
moncy and payment from
such organizations as the
United Way.

The large deficit the
Neighborhood House is run-
ning makes it impossible for
the pay cheques to be written
until the grant money is in
hand.

The United Way has said it
will forward grant moncy
earlicr, says Coustalin, but
the agency has no control
over when it will receive
moncy from the province.

Coustalin is attempting to
solve the Pprobicms through
meetings with MLAs Jack
Davis and Angus Ree and
through approaches to ser-
vice clubs, foundations and
North Vancouver City in

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11-year-old fire victim
succumbs to injuries

A 71-YEAR-OLD North Vancouyer man died in
Vancouver General Hospital carly Friday slightly
more than a month after he was severely burned in

a house fire here.

Kurt Brauer never
recovered from a coma he
slipped into after he was pull-
ed from a burning house at
1906 Westview Drive in

North Vancouver on Tues-
day, Jan. 3.

Brauer was discovered in-
side the house by firemen
who were responding to the

afternoon blaze. He was the
lone occupant of the house
and had sufféred burns prior
to his rescue.

He was originally taken to
Lions Gate Hospital's inten-
sive care ward and then
transferred from there to the
VGH burn unit for
treatment.

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