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RCMP officers rode down 23rd Street in North Vancouver in a sea of scarlet Wednesday evening to perform the famous Musical Ride at Kinsmen Stadium.
performed in 1876 and has thrilled audience members ever since. .

of accomm

LICENSED DAYCARE fa-
cilities on the North Shore
are facing an accommoda-
tion crisis that is going to get
worse a year from now.

By MARTIN KIFLLERCHIP
Contributing Writer

The message was delivered
Monday night to North Vancouver
District Council by Susan Huff-
man-Coe, who owns and operates
Sunshine Preschoo! and
Afterschool at Brooksbank
Elementary.

A large crowd of concerned
parents, some with babies in arms

NEEDS CLASSROOMS BACK

because they did not have childcare
at home, were also in attendance.

Huffman-Coe’s day care is one
of four centres that have received
notice from North Vancouver's
Schoo! District 44 board to vacate
rooms they currently rent in
schools.

Sunshine will lose one room this

year and one in September 1990,
and while Huffman-Coe is
prepared to come up with the ap-
proximately $40,000 needed to
purchase a portable classroom this
year, she is worried that she may
have to close her kindercare pro-
gram next September.

The program of out-of-school

ay-care operators warn
dation crisis

care at Highlands Elementary is a!
risk while efforts continue io raise
the current $10,000 shortfall in the
cost of moving to a portable.

Beth Proctor, owner of North
Shore Children’s House, received
three months notice from the

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