May 13, 1992 76 pages

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Protest at LGH

PRO-LIFE PROPONENTS stood in front of the North Shore’s Lions Gate Hospital for
one hour on Mother’s Day to protest abortions performed at the haspital. A similar
protest in Vancouver was less peaceful as pro-lifers clashed with pro-choice sup-

porters.

NVD 44 band and strings given
Friday deadline to raise funds

A NORTH Vancouver parents’ group fighting to keep the
school district’s popular elementary band and strings pro-
gram has until Friday to convince the North Vancouver
District 44 School Board (NVSB) that it can raise $513,000
to fund the program for the 1992-93 school year.

If the District 44 Band and Str-
ings Parents’ Association (BSPA)
fails to raise the money, the
school board will cut the program.

The program was one of several
the NVSB decided would have to

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

be chopped to offset the $10 mil-
lion funding shortfall faced by

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District 44 for the 1992-93 school
year.

The parents’ association is ask-
ing District 44 parents who have
students in both the elementary
and secondary band and strings
program to contribute $175 per
student to keep the elementary
program alive for another year.

District 44’s secondary band
and strings program will not be
cut for the 1992-93 school year.

But one North Vancouver

parent, who has a student enrolled
in the ciementary band and strings
program, said she is opposed to
having to pay “tuser fees’’ to
allow her daughter to continue in
the band and strings program.

However, BSPA steering com-
mittee member Jim Stephenson
said parents are being asked to
fund the program for the 1992-93
school year only.

After that, he said, the associa-
tion hopes it can work with the
NVSB to find permanent funds to
keep the band and strings pro-
gram going.

“We're trying io save the pro-
gram for a year while these fund-
ing problems can be sorted out.

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