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Crossing

guards

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter danyclo@nsnews.com

ICBC will be footing the bill for schoo! crossing
guards in North Vancouver District for this school

year.

The tentative agreement was made last weck, two days after a newspaper
story reported that CEC gave the Burnaby school distnct a $200,000 grant
for crossing: guards for a vear.

The estimated cost for North Vancouver Dastnet is alveat $75,000. The
money will pay for six adult public schoot crossing guards

“This shows how much this government is short cnanging the eestem and
forcing (school districts to take all these ad hoe solutions. None of them are
going to give longterm: stability wo the syste,” ssid Kathenne Whittred,
Liberal MLA for North Vancouver Lonsdale.

Whittred said the government his reneged on is financial responsibility,
forcing school boards to cut back on essential areas such as providing crossing
guards. Whittred said she onginally thought the Burnaby school district grant
was politically motivated because it was done inn NOP riding, but she has
changed her mind because a grant has been extended to North Van District.

Whittred said that ICBC was also going to pay tor crossing puards for the
Sooke school district.

A cash-strapped North Vancouver School Distrnd 44 board laid off cross
ing guards an Feb. 1, 1996.

Sec MLA paae $

MP Reynolds lands
justice critic post

Robert Galster _
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com
WEST Vancouver-Sunshine Coast voters knew they
were voting for a proven politician when they elect-
ed Reform party candidate John Reynolds to repre-

sent them in Ottawa.

The voters’ decision to go with eapenense tb paying oft) Ther MP bas
been appointed justice entre, one of the Inghest profle positrons available to
opposition MEPs, fess than 15 months after his efecnon

See WY page 11

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Nasty trash

NORTH Vancouver City employee Blaise MacDonald retrieved a needle and syringe discarded
near a Lower Lonsdale business last Wednesday. Many city employees are equipped to dea!
with discarded needies found throughout the municipality. See story on page 4.

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