WEATHER: Wednesday, mainly Local students sunny, highs near 18°C. Thursday, mostly sunny with isolated showers. Collins: 8 Doug takes a look into rape protest meetings, federal grants and pharmicare. Business ........... lifestyles........... 33 Mailbox............. defect to WV private school WEST VANCOUVER public schools have lost at from the area’s private least 50 students to Collingwood private school. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW $4,300 for grade nine stu- dents. into the whys In an enrelment and staff- ing report to District 45 schoo! trustees Monday night, district assistant superintendant Bill May told school board members that total enrolment in West Vancouver schools from September 1984 to September 1985 had dropped from 5,043 to 4,951 stu- dents, an enrolment decline of 1.82 per cent. More than half of those 92 students had enrolled at Col- lingwood, May estimated. But total declines in the district's enrolment were en- couraging, he said, because they are half of what they were in 1984, when West Vancouver schools lost 190 students. Responding to May’s estimated loss of SO students to the competition, Trustee Michael Smith said, ‘we should have principals in the area making some sales calls to find out which students have moved to Collingwood and why. We have eight elementary schools in the district. That works out toa loss of six per school. I think some aggressive sales tactics from school principals is called for.” AGGRESSIVE SALES District school superintendant Edgar Carlin commented that ascertaining exactly why parents and stu- dents opt for private schools is very difficult, ‘‘but we will attempt to find out why and who.”’ In Collingwood’s inaugu- ral ’84-’85 year, the West Vancouver private school opened with an enrolment of 240 students, closing out the year with 249. Fifty-five per cent of those first year stu- dents came from West Van- couver, while 43 per cent came from North Vancouver. Enrolment for the school, which started with grades one to eight and has ex- panded this year to include grade nine, has increased by 138 students to a total of 387. Annual tuition at Coll- ingwood ranges from $3,300 for grade one students to schools. DISCIPLINE NEEDED Saying he prefers not to get involved in speculations Collingwood principal David MacKenzie says the school has enrolled 80 new students from West Van- couver this year, 55 from the public school system and 35 wherefores behind student defections to his school, MacKenzie said, ‘‘my guess is that parents are looking for discipline and some con- trol over teachers.”’ MacKenzie explained that teaching staff at Coll- ingwood work on one-year contracts: “If any of us prove to be inadequate then our contracts are not renew- ed. We do not have teacher tenure here. And also, the schoo! does not suffer from government cutbacks in the same way as do public schools.”’ See Private Page 9 NEWS phajo THE BATTLE of Britain and the airmen it claimed were remembered Sunday at a cer- emony in Stanley Park. Men and women veterans and a number of cadets paid tribute to the airmen who lost their lives in the Second World War battle. The ceremony was the 35th annual for the 802 (Dogwood) Wing. 3 - Wednesday, September 18, 1945 - North Shore News NORTH SHORE ew rie Charges follow NATHAN Cameron, charged with one count of break and enter and theft, was arrested fol- lowing a two-month in- . vestigation of break-ins in the Caulfeild area in West Vancouver. The charges were laid the 4300. block Ross Crescent, but Det. Grant ; Churchill said this is only the tip of the iceberg. “In the past-two mon- following -a. break-in in. Residents help investigation ths there have been over 50 break and enters in the Cauffeild area,’’ said Churchill. “‘And the in- vestigation continues.”’ A substantial amount of jewelry stolen from: the Caulfeiid area was~ also recovered, but Churchill did ‘not ‘link this ind to Cameron. a The "20-year-old man - appeared in court Friday and was remanded for a plea. “ AN UNEMPLOYED mechanic is without a . “Monday. 1. The: fir ire destroyed the detached garages workshop’ .behind the “house at 1060 Hendecourt Road. in North’ Van- couver. -- District. of North Van- _couver firefighters were called to the scene at 1:30 p.m. to find the garage AN ERROR in the Sun- day; Sept. 15 News in Brief column incorrectly identified: a 2t-year-old Vancouver man as having pleaded ‘guilty to one count of break and enter. Charged with one count of assault and one count of break and enter, Shawn Cyril Coghlan had instead pleaded guilty to the charge of assault to Veecc he | destroys. tools workshop after a fi ire Incorrect | piea reported court: “ap. os * fully ‘encompassed in " flames. : A fires official said there -was about $10,000 °~ ‘in tools and machinery in: : the garage..at the time: | The fire did about $4,000. :/ damage the © garage ‘which he ‘said was worth about 38,000. ° The cause is still under investigation: but, fire of- ficials are taking a careful . look at the built-in wood heater. the female occupant of the North Vancouver house in which the August 8 incident had taken place. As_ reported, Coghlan received a sentence of three months probation upon entering his plea. Proceedings against Coghlan on the break and enter charge, not the assault charge, were stayed.