Tax burden killing North Van businesses: A3

January 26, 1983

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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ED CARLIN

FIVE of West Vancouver's 14 elementary schools
will be closed, according to a plan by schools

superintendent Ed Carlin.

Carlin delivered the news
to a flabbergasted audience
of about 250 people gathered
at Chartwell Elementary
School Monday to hear the
school district's solution to
how it would live within its
diminishing budget.

The schools superin-
tendent projected = the

TRAFFIC BOTTLENECK of Lions Gate Bridge was cven wome than
usual Sunday when roadway was reduced to one lance in cach direction to
permit repals work being carried out. Lemporary supports were installed

closure of the schools as a
necessary step in the
distnict’s long-term plan if it
is to maintain the quality of
educational

programming
while meeting the
Tequirements of the
provincial government's
restraint program.
Parents, taxpayers and

BILL BELL

teachers booed and gasped

as Carlin outlined the
closures which will come
into effect in Septmeber if
passed by the school board.
Carlin’s proposal
recommended the closdre of
Cypress Park, Pauline
Johnson, Glenmore, Eagle
Harbor and Cedardale.

It also calls for the

relocation of grade seven
classes from Chartwell,
Glenmore, Westcot, West
Bay, Irwin Park, Pauline
Johnson and Ridgeview to
the three senior secondaries.

Another recommendation
which rocked the audience
was to pursue with the
ministry of education the
feasibility of relocating
Hillside Secondary School to
the Caulfeild Plateau site,
effective as soon as possible.

Still other recom-
mendations in the con-
troversial report asks for the
relocation of a strand of
early French immersion
from Hollyburn to West Van
School; to limit the intake of
French immersion to 60
students at the kindergarten
level; to identify one
secondary school by Sep-
tember 1984 to house French
immersion students; to offer

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after the bridge was struck from below by the boom of a crane being

ferricd ona barge. The damaged bridge section will be replaced this
coming week end.

finger at
Burrard
for oil

QUESTIONS of how
much the total bill will
be for the cleanup of
last week's oil spill from
Burrard Yarrows
shipyard in North
Vancouver and how
the cleaning of hun-
dreds of boat hulls
stained by the slick can
even be accomplished
were still unanswered
at News press time.

But whatever the bill. the
Nauonal Harbors Board.
supervising the cleanup. 1s
holding Burrard responsible

“We have written to
Burrard Yarrows, holding
them responsible for all bills
involved in the cleanup ”

said NHB spokesman David
Steet

Steel reported Tuesday
that the free flowing spill of
bunker Cool which pushed
oul oof the Star Tuvan
freighter as at was being

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