ca page 14, May 24, 1978 - ‘To: The Mayor and Council’ Members, District of North”. Vancouver: Your Worship and. Honour: able Members of. Council: © w I am writing, on behalf of | St. Leonard’s Society to encourage you to permit the . establishment of a half-way home for parolees in. our. district. As a clinical psychologist working in an institution in Southern California for five years, I observed that paro- Dear Editor: The bizarre subject of galloping school taxes must - be spotlighted again, now, in -view of the recently declared. 60.765 school mill rate. and the-approaching B.C. School Trustees meeting scheduled — for early May. ‘ - Here are a few facts regarding school taxes in District 44, in which the City — of N.V., with a popuiaiion of - 36,000, has a relatively small - percentage of | school children. Total enrolment to end of March . 1977 is students. Drop in enrolment since Sept. 1977 is 194 students. © b PERMACURL ‘New, in all wash North Shore News © 19,334 — a, 4 le ; houses,? ‘group. ‘homes and munity; ~ more successful i in re-adjust- leased directly — -into - “community . without - support systems for personal _ growth and accountability. One reason why I left — corrections and. ‘entered the -ministry. was my. increasing | concern that we, in society, -needed to change out atti- ~ - tudes toward ‘socially disad- — - vantaged persons. A criminal pays for his/her. crime many ‘Total. ‘School ‘Budget ig . $46,962,211. . oe Cost of substitute teachers to end of February 1978 is already well over a quarter of a million dollars ($255,783). _ There are still 4 months to add’ to this s figure. mo ‘from. Sept. 1977 amount to 6, 634 ‘days with 4 months to. go. - ‘Education cost per chiid ‘was. $1,212 for Dec. ee hd for Dec. 1978. . $1,980-3$2, 000.: ‘the, world—curl that. & - lasts up. to 6 months. You. just _ and wear—no setting, lees who. went to ‘part-way a “were: significantly. So Teachers absent to ‘date . -1977.- calendar year. Cost per child may. be- - projected at approximately s MeUt TURAL CUT THE NATURAL CUT is times | over in ‘our. society _, because. of the unrelenting ' treatinént. “anits’in_ ‘the com- . and ©: ‘unforgiving: attitudes’: which - “many - persons _ hold a toward ‘offenders. : a ing to life. in. society than’ -— 7 - were’ those’ who. were »re- — the” “such - ot may be difficult for. you: - politically to: go. ‘against. the: tide of popular, opinion at.this time but-in the. pone. run the - quality of ‘life. . our: communities 4s. enhanced. - ‘diminished, by the establishing of.such honies:. as St. Leonard’s. Such homes. - force us to face our prejud- ices and fears and deliver:us— from the. illusion that. the quality of life is somehow ers salaries, « pensions and- - fringe benefits must certain- . ly be considered: as -well. I _ Relding school, board’ office. will not delve into this a area at this time. - 7 7 - When Mi. pre- in May, I would urge, indeed implore, that together. with the other 3 trustees from this area they take a good hard look-at this distressing local - situation.. a ig The time. las com € when ; Sweaters ore of Education ‘must face facts. School boards must. be; held — to: account to the School. "Trustee, Association. : “School ,an “s “‘homogeneous’’. "Administration. and. teach- ‘Clift. ‘Atkins, president of the B.C: School . “Trustees . Association, . sides at their annual meeting . -blowdrying, or ' necessary. Pefmacur! gives great curling body and beautiful curls that last and last. trons . elevated precision cut that pro- - - duces: total softness and uplift for either long or short hair. 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Fighteous sense. “We “will . ‘definitely ‘move. “toward: maturity as a. district: . if we. can force ourselves. to. _ grow by: including-once again these. who have previously ~ excluded themselves by their... wrongdoing. - ‘It’s, an oppor- ; * tunity. to practise. what’ we. preach about giving the other. guy’ gal a second. chance. Rev. James Bragan ~ Highlaiids' United a Church . North Vancouver ‘teachers. and others with | “vested. interests should be... considered ineligible _ from The decision” ‘of ©. City: ~ Council. regarding the pro- -perty" mill rate is awaited with ~ trepidation. Single — family, homeowners. will suf- -fer. more here (City) on the ‘average than any other Greater: Vancouver munici- Bality-. We may well, face the. | greatest. tax hike in B.C. if. our City Council goofs again. Alice B. O'Keefe. _Naeth: Vancouver a Nort ean. Vv (eoc4ww we now sundecks $15.49 in .a, coats 5/8 soloct T-G Fir Ideal for Just off Main & Mtn, Hwy. ’ [across from tho Lynnwood Hotel MUCH MORE THAN JUST PLYWOOD Dear Editor : roe a “Incredible. as it seems all of : “appears to. “have a -missed.:the obvious. in’ the | recent question of whether OF. ‘Canada ‘not a federal. election ‘was. on the horizon. . pected manoeuvring from Joe Clark. : Well, he finally did: it..He . went one up. on Trudeau: by. forcing the election. rumour on all of us. He. caught “Trudeau off guard and made him appear incapable of making a decision about an election he’d probably never | considered ‘anyway. But don’ t. expect’ ‘this. rare. conquest by Clark to. be the. beginning of: a: trend. - Trudeau will be back in form again in no time; and when fie does call an election, we'll _all send him back to the hill, for better.or worse. After all, a volicidian ’s first - duty is to get elected, and at this game Trudeau is un-— -deniably the. champion. 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