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By. ere ant McNEILL

Retired “West Vancouver
“school trustee Wik Bennett
is ringing out the old for the

new thanks to a conversation .

retirement gift inthe form of
an old. fashioned clapper.
‘ype school bell. —

At ‘his recent ‘retirement

ce mony. to mark his six
years, as a trustee, Bennett
was presented by past board |
chairman’ Norman Alban -
with one of those old style
brass belis::

Ti took: Bennett back a half

1

century to “his school
teaching days in Alberta.

Back in the late 1920's,
Wilf Bennett taught for three
years in one of those prairie
school houses -that had
grades one to eight in one
room and he used to stand
on the porch and ring—his
bell to’ sound the end of
recess.

“That bell really too took me
back a long ime to my
teaching days,” Bennett
admitted to the News ~

West Vancouver school

_board’s” director. of in-

struction Ron = Fenwick

managed to scrounge one of
the old bells which are now
- collector’s items. :

Bennett left teaching for .
career in journalism which _

spanned 47 years with two
newspapers in Calgary and
with the Vancouver
Province before he retired
and became a trustee.

Trustees also gave Bennett

a more substantial

retirement gift in the form of
an Eskimo carving.

on reserve ‘problems

North Vancouver City
Council agreed with the
thinking in principle but
nevertheless rejected a city
engineer's recommendation
Monday _to petition the
federal government for
changes in the Indian Act to
integrate Indian ‘tands that
fall within urban areas.

The City has been having a
number of recurring
problems with the federal
Indian reserve within its
boundaries, the report
stated. These included:

— Several streets that
have been dead-ended by
the reserve. Only Third
Street passes through the
reserve, and that, the report

said has been subject to

harassment.

— Drainage of some areas
of the city that have béen
halted duc to a lack of access
to Indian lands.

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— Lack of zoning control.

The report said the In-
dians residingon the reserve
receive fire protection,
policing, parks, and sewage
disposal services, yet the
reserve pays fer less than
normal for city taxes.

All aldermen agreed the
federal government should
share some of the burden of
maintaining services for the
reserve but did noi like the
tone of the strongly-worded
report and doubted if a
petition would do much
good.

Alderman Gary Payne
said “the City of North
Vancouver cannot challenge
Canada to amend the Indian
Act for us.” The report was
not a solution but part of a
larger question regarding
reserves in urban areas.

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; Alderman Jim Warne
declared he couldn't see
“why such separation is
allowed to exist.”

“It seems like they're
citizens and yet they aren't,”
he said.

Warne suggested the
proposal be redrafted and
referred to the policy
committee.

One alderman who
wanted the report scrapped

altogether was Frank |

Marcino. He was _ par

_ ticularly critical of the report

proposal that “wants the
reserves to be wiped out in
urban areas.”

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