7 3 Teacher two sides is not implemented. NVTA president Linda Watson said the union wants the board to implement the first year of the two-year collective agreement ‘“‘immediately."’ But NVSB chairman Marg Jessup said the board’s hands are tied because B.C.’s compensation stabilization commissioner must first review the contract. Under Bill 82, the Compensa- tien Fairness Act, the compensa- tion — stabilization commissioner can roll back the collective agree- ment if he determines that the contract’s terms are too excessive. Bui in a meeting this week, the NVTA came up with a series of actions it says it may take if the NVSB does not implement the coliective agreement, which was reached in February. “We're looking at investigating court action to implement the col- lective agreement. There’s no clear language that says they (NVSB) cannot stop implementing it once it has been ratified,”” Watson said. The teacher’s union has also decided! to resign from education ministry committees and Year 2000 cozimittees. On Tnaursday, North Vancouver teachers went to the NVSB offices and turned in their Year 2000 binders. Watson said the NVSB has trouble NVITA threatens action against board over contract delay THE NORTH Vancouver Teachers’ Association (NVTA) is threatening to take legal action against the North Van- couver District 44 School Board (NVSB) if the recently ratified two-year collective agreement reached between the By Surj Rattan News Reporter proved it can pay for the provi- sions of the first year of the col- lective agreement, which gives unionized North Vancouver teachers a seven per cent wage in- crease over the two-year term of the contract. But Watson maintained that the board is refusing to implement the 1990-°92 collective agreement because it is hoping the compen- sation stabilization commissioner will roll back the deal. “The NVTA_ considers that there is a binding collective agreement in existence between the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association and the North Van- couver School Board,’’ Watson said. But Jessup said Biil 82 is law and the school board must adhere to its guidelines. “All trustees deplore the im- plications of Bill 82. The board has requested an adequate level of funding. The board is prohibited by Bill 82 to implement a collec. tive agreement until after it’s reviewed by the commissioner,” said Jessup. ‘‘It’s a law and often you don’t like laws.”’ Foresters disagree with watershed management A REPRESENTATIVE of the Association of B.C. Professionai Foresters (ABCPF) told North Van- couver District Council Monday night that the group disagreed with the way the North Shore and Coquitlam watersheds are currently being managed. By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer Bill Rosenberg and Rob Kyle were presenting a brief to council as an ABCPF delegation when the admission was made in response to questioning from council members. Kyle later. auempted to justify the association’s position by sup- porting the Greater Vanconver Water District (GVWD) watershed policy review, Rosenberg had earlier said that “the form of tenure that the wa- tershed operates under right now is very similar to a tree farm licence, and that, to a forester, gives a connotation that the primary objective should be timber harvesting, and we believe that’s not the primary objective in this watershed.” Kyle and Rosenberg said the GVWD policy review indicates: ethat the watershed should be managed on the basis of ecological values and to minimize both long- and short-term risks to drinking water quality; ethat timber harvest objectives should be based on ecological considerations and not to meet a set annual harvest; ethat the amending indenture be revised to give the GYWD more flexibility in atiaining its primary water supply objective: *and that a long-term vegetation NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL cover management strategy for maintenance of water quality be implemented. © “We think that is a prudent philosophy that should be adopted and implemented by the GVWD,”’ concluded the ABCPF brief. Ald. Jim Cuthbert asked how it was possible to justify logging ‘which is removal of ground cover’? when arguing for ground cover in order 10 maintain water quality. Kyle said, ‘‘To just leave the land would probably be the worst option, because it will lead to greater siltation, greater sediment loads in the water, and ... a pro- active management strategy will lead to tic best water quality.’’ Ald, Paul Turner said, ‘‘I see nowhere in here the proof that management practices as followed by the GVWD have improved the water quality.’* He asked how the results of studies in the Jamieson Creek area of the Capilano watershed could prove ‘tno increase in erosion because of logging’’ as claimed by Kyle. “At the conclusion of this study I understand that most of this area slid inte the lake,”’ said Turner. In response to questions by Ald. Janice Harris, Rosenberg claimed that the watershed forest was not suited to selective logging and that the clearcut method of harvesting was more appropriate. Asked by Ald. Ernie Crist if “clearcutting equals denuding” Rosenberg responded, ‘‘Yes, in that context.’’ Harris concluded her questions by saying, ‘‘l think you'll find that the community at large, not just locally but provincially, are in Year 2000 activities. ee Panel: alcohol abuse significant Sunday, March 31, 1991 - North Shore News - 3 Local substance abuse forum FOLLOWING THE release of some startling statistics about North Shore alcohol consumption, which is 33 per cent above the nation’s average, 25 people listened Wednesday night to a group of local experts who tried to explain and tally the final social and economic price of alcohol abuse in the community. According to a recent. study by the North Shore Substance Abuse Committee, North Shore residents consume five drinks each week compared with the national average of three drinks. Divided equally, the figure means that each of the North Shore's estimated 150,000 resi- dents spends $426 cach year on alcohol. “Why are we drinking more on the North Shore? It may be because there is more disposable income here,’’ said panelist Alan Podsadowski, director of a counselling pro- gram called Alternatives. He was one of six panelists who spoke at Wednesday’s public forum about the impact of substance abuse on the North Shore community. The forum, held at North Vancouver’s Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre, was spon- sored by the North Shore Alano Club and an ad hoc committee made up of North Shore community organiza- tions. Podsadowski said the use of alcohol is ingrained in society through such media as beer advertising, which he called lifestyle ads. ‘‘The message to young peo- ple is clear. If you want to be cool, ‘with it,’ then use By Anna Marie D’Angelo Contributing Writer alcohol,’’ he said. The substance-abuse study showed that 28 per cent of North Shore secondary stu- dents drink alcohol on a week- ly basis. Padsadowski also objected to alcohol companies sponsoring sports events. And he said that TY com- mercials neglect the realities of alcohol abuse when ‘‘you are in ‘Ia’ hospital suffering from ‘la’ D.T.’s” The substance abuse study stated that, in 1990, 25 per cent of all people admitted directly to Lions Gate Hospital wards and 50 per cent of those treated in the hospital’s emergency ward had alcohol or drug-related problems. North Shore Health spckesman Nancy Hall said the alcohol-related health cost was significant. She added that people should ask the provincial government to return more of the money it gets trom alcoho! taxes to communities in need of alcohol-abuse programs. “It’s everybody's business. Don’t let the professionals try to solve it, because they won't,”’ said Hall. ~ NEWS photo Cindy Goodman NORTH VANCOUVER Teachers’ Association president Linda Watson, in a protest against the education ministry's Bill 82, handed in all North Vancouver teachers’ Year 2000 binders Thursday to the North Vancouver District 44 Schoo! Board. The teachers’ union has said it will not participate \ Panelist George Grant, an Access Consultants director, said the issue on the North Shore was alcohol abuse and not cocaine or heroine addic- tion. mo, **Alcokol is the problem. Let us not forget that or deny that,”’ said Grant. North Shore statistics cited at the forum describing the people being treated by Alter- natives’ counselling program showed that: ® 70 per cent abused alcohol; *30 per cent ebused mari- juana; © 20 per cent abused cocaine; e 15 per cent abused prescrip- tion drugs; e and less than two per cent abused hergiae. Many substance abusers are being treaied for abusing more than one drug. Grant said training profes- sionals to recognise early alcohc! abuse at work could save companies large amounts of money that would be lost eventually through absenteeism and pcor productivity. The other panelists at the forum included Chery! Kathler, North Vancouver City social planner; Jim Stinson from MacMillan Bloedel’s Employee and Family Assistance pro- gram; and social worker Sydney Aquiton. North Shore Neighbourhood House director Don Rutherford was the panel’s moderator. Another community meeting associated with the North Shore Substance Abuse Survey will be held on April 13 at Hillside Secondary, 2295 Queens, West Vancouver. Admission is free. For reser- vations, call 983-6710. coming to the opinion that there are better ways to manage our resources."' But Ald. Rick Buchols took it upon himself to apologize for what he described as the ‘political attack’’ from. district council members. 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