Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 CS a ' News Photo Yerry Peters ON THE RECEIVING END of local hostility towards his store which sells and rents pormographic video tapes, Red Hot Video manager Ted Emery displays rocks hurled through whadows of the North Vancouver store over the weekend. It's not the first time the store has been hit by vandalism and, while the porn controversy continues, the store willbe going under cover. Emery has decided to board up the windows, rather than keep replacing the glass. HALF the candidates standing in North Van- couver District elections for mayor or aldermen say they would work to put the lid on chemical industries and for. the removal of the Hooker Chemical chlorine plant. Seven of the total of 16 candidates standing did not answer the questionnaire sent to them by the Maplewood residents’ group the Chemical Hazards Alert Comunittee. CHAC Chairman Sheila Gordon says she interprets their silence as a negative response to the group's questions, Eight of those who gave definite replies endorsed the “Life, liberty, property and pursuit of hap- piness.” No, it’s not a quote from the American Constitution but rather the quote Is contained in the proposed “Underlying Principles” of West Vancouver School Board’s contentious goal statement. After three and half hours of angry debate, the school board failed to come to complete agreement on its proposed goal = statement Monday night, postponing the final vote until its next board mecting. Trustees Norm Alban and Margot Furk battled it out in a war of words § and semantics, forcing chairman Mark Sager to seck com- promises on the usc of _. recommended, among other By CHRIS LLOYD toncerns of the Maplewood residents over hazardous chemicals and said they would work to pursue the recommendations of the Community Hazards Task Force appointed by District Council. Gordon was a member of that task force which over ‘goal statement’ By BILL BELL almost each adjective and verb. Several times when philosophical differences on the meaning of words such as ‘academic’’ and “capacity” could not be resolved, the board was forced to use a dictionary. Debate was limited on which was the acceptable dic- tionary, Oxford or Websters. Sager started the meeting off on the right foot when he asked the audience to bear with the board as it had been dealing with the goal statement for many hours, days and months. “We will work through it...it should be worth a giggle or two,” Sager said. The goal statement, once passed, will have long-term implications on the direction and quality of education in West Vancouver. things, the relocation of the Canadian Occidental (Hooker Chemicals) chlorine manufacturing plant. Aldermanic candidate Margaret Plumb would not. answer yes or no to any of the four questions, instead responding in what Gordon calls “essay form” in which her opinions could not ‘be determined; = —-— Gordon maintains: Plumb insisted’ she“*has to answer in essay’-.form because Hooker, would sue her and she would lose..her home.” Only . Murray Dykeman answered no to the question on..the Task (CONTINUED ON PAGE Al3- It is the first time a school - board has attempted to write a goal statement in B.C., says Sager. So far, ’ the board has agreed tentatively that the CONTINUED ON PAGE A110 weather WEDNESDAY Rain THURSDAY Cloudy with showers