NEWS BRIEF

Seven charged

A COMBINED drug investigation by the North Van-
couver RCMP and the West Vancouver Police has
resulted in drug trafficking charges being laid against
seven people.

According to the West Vancouver Police, drug squad
members searched a Vancouver apartment in the 1000-
block of Haro Street at 6:20 p.m. on Nov. 13.

The search netted 72.3 grams of cocaine and 9.5 grams
of heroin. The drugs have an estimated street value of
approximately $80,000.

Arrested aud charged with possession of a narcotic for
the purpese of trafficking are: Perry Thomas Kartsonas,
24, of Vancouver; Hernan Anibal Munoz, 27, of Rich-
mond; Carlos Adatberto Troncoso, 29, of Calgary; Luis
Armaude Madrid, 32, of Burnaby; Mark Albert Shaede,
28, of Revelstoke; Scott Kenneth Miaticic, 26, of Van-
couver; Tara Lee Bradley, 22, of Vancouver.

Six of the chazged, with the exception of Kartsonas,
have been released on bail.

Wreng numbers

THE telephone numbers for both the North Vancouver
Christmas Bureau and the Christmas Bureau Toy Shop
aze incorrcet on the application forms that have been
sent out by tie North Shore Family Services Society
(NS¥SS)."

An NSFSS program, the Christmas Bureau's applica-
tions were distributed as usual this year to various
ministry offices, the health department and other local
social xgencies,

But, according io Elaine Mcfatosh of NSFSS, the
contact numbers for the bureau and the Toy Shop are
incorrect — much to the chagrin of the owners of the
publiched telephone uumbers.

The correct sumber for the North Vancouver
Chrismas Bureau is 984-XMAS (9627). The Toy Shop

can b2 reached by calling 984-TOYS (8697).

Report on outdoor program
upsets West Van.parents

PARENTS WANTING a rugged outdoor education pro-
gram for Grede 10s in West Vancouver School District 45
(WVSD) were surprised recently to discover that their
proposal was almost back to step one after five months in

WVSD bureaucracy.

And perents’ representative
Kim Marshall told the schoo)
board he was disappointed in
WVSD administration for not in-

_volving parents in a report that
didn’t. endozse a' Trek-type pro-
gram.

* “This report comes out and we
‘have Rad no input whatsoever,”
’ Said Marshall.

Marshall, who lead a deiegation
in May favoring a Trek-type pro-
gram, told the News ite found out
by accident that morning that the
Trek program was going to be
discussed at the Nov. § District 45
evening meeting.

West Vancouver District 45
School Board (WVSB) received a
report at the meeting dated Nov. f
by assistant-superintendent Bob
Overgaard and an acccompanying
letter by superintendent Doug
Player that concluded a Trek-type
program should not be im-
plemented ir the scitocl district at
this time.

“I think the programs we have
already strain and put demands on
our staff and our small student
body,”’ said Player.

‘*These programs can be laid on
. from high and can be less suc-
cessful than ones coming up from
the schools,’’ said Player.

But despite agreeing with some
of Player’s concerns and express-
ing reservations, the school board
voted to approve in principle im-
plementation of a Trek-type pro-
gram worked out by parents and
school administration. The board
said the program proposal must
be ready for consideration by Jan.

15.
“I would like to see this pur-

WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

sued further. Perhaps to work on
a joint basis with North Van-
couver (School District 44),”’ said
trustee Barbara Howard.

WVSB chairman Jean Ferguson
said funding a Trek-type prograia
in a time of restraint was the ma-
jor problem.

“If parent fundraising doesn’:
come through, how can we fund
it? We can’t,*’’ said Ferguson.

At tne May 13 school board
meeting, more than 30 parents
and students along with 42 letters
of support backed a deleggiion
that was turned down for a
September 1990 pilot program
based on the popular Trek pro-
gram at Vancouver’s Prince of
Wales Secondary School.

North Shore students are cur-
rently excluded from enrolment in
ihe Vancouver Trek program
which involves five months of
classroom work and five months
in the wilderness as an alternative
to traditional Grade 10 studies.

The five-year-old Vancouver
Trek program has always operated
in the biack, according to Prince
of Wales vice-principal Ted Hunt.

Vancouver students who are
physically fit and have passed
Grade 9 are eligible for the Trek
program at Prince of Wales.

Vancouver parents pay a $300
yearly fee and they have raised as
much as $30,000 annually by sell-
ing Christmas trees to fund the
Trek program.

IN AN effort to ‘‘turn back the
crime wave’? in West Vancouver,
the Ambleside and Dundarave
Ratepayers Association is in-
itiating 2 pilot program that
would encourage citizens to assist
police in their efforts.

West Vancouver is still
Statistically the safest community
in Canada, West Vancouver
Police Department’s patrol divi-
sion head, Insp. Grant Churchill
said at the association’s Nov. 13
annual meeting.

But the police department,
which has grown from a one-man
operation in 1912 to 74 officers in
1991, now has a highly effective
‘target team’’ charged with
discovering trends in crime and
countering them.

Churchill described two recent
successes of the team: a $!-million
drug bust and the capture of men
involved in robbing small stores of
cigarettes.

Crimes against the more
defenceless members of society,
such as the 300% increase in sex-
ua! assaults over last yeas,
prompted West Vancouver Ald.
Andy Danyliu to encourage the
Jocal police department and the
Ambleside and Dundarave
Ratepayers Association to look
for innovative solutions.

Through the pilot program en-
dorsed by the association, the

police will tatk to smail groups in ~

neighborhoods abaut what to
watch out for ant take note of.

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they see suspicious acitivites.

The association hopes this will
have a deterrent effect as word
spreads that ‘tin West Vancouver
they call the police.”

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