S Drive-by shooting A 36-YEAR-OLD West Vancouver woman suffered a bruised leg after being shot in the thigh by a pelict fired by a male from a passing vehicle. The victim was walking east in the 1300-block of Mathers Avenue shortly before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2. The West Vancouver Police describe the suspects as two teenage males who were travelling in a small black vehicle. Block Watch explained THE RCMP Block Watch concept will be explained to North Shore residents at a public meeting scheduled to be held at 7 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Seymour Golf and Country. Club, 3723 Mount Seymour Parkway in North Vancouver. Training to improve home security techniques, proper- ty marking and observing and reporting suspicious actiy- ~ ities will be made available. Membership in the program includes reguiar’ ‘contact with the police, newsletters, block meetings and a tele- phone fan-out system. The system quickly aierts Block Watch members to criminal activity in their neighborhoods. For further information, contact North Vancouver RCMP Const. Marty Blais at 985-0800. @ 6 @ ® Policing inquiry A COMMUNITY hearing of the Commission of Inquiry into Policing In British Columbia is scheduled to be held on the North Shore on Wednesday, Feb. 10. The hearing is open to the public and oral submissions will be accepted at the hearing. The meeting is set for 2 p.m. to S p.m. aad 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the River Room of the Park Royal Hotel, 540 Clyde Avenue in West Vancouver. 1 Teachers’ union boss Says salary comparisons unfair {WEST VANCOUVER ‘Teachers’ resident ‘Wayne Rowley has said the West Vancouver Association (WVTA) District 45 School Board (WVSB) was being unfair when it ‘eleased: figures comparing current teachers’ salaries with District 45 administrative salaries. “Rowley said the teachers’-salary jfigures released by District 45 and published in’ the Jan. 27: News in- cluded benefits,’ but the ad- ministrators’. salary fii igures did ot. wot when I asked (District 4s su- iperintendent) Doug Player about is benefits, he. said it was less han ‘the 16% teachers were eceiving, but he did not tell me iow much. ‘They’ always compare our rage ‘salaries with. the enefits,’”’ said Rowley.. The WVTA voted earlier’ this ear in favor of. strike action. to back contract demands. The union gis . in. a legal strike position and ‘contract talks have broken off. ‘ While the union has not set a astrike- date, it has adopted a ork-to-rule campaign that calls or. non-cooperation with ad- ministrative - duties and paper work. °° “Rowley also took exception toa istrict 45 press: release. issued in anuary that said the school board ‘acing.“a: $1. million budget shortfall . for the ;1993-94 school ear at a time when the union has jrejected ‘the latest contract offer, from the school board. : The’ offer included a 1% wage hike retroactive to July 1992. Rowley said the board ‘has de- berately set. out .to “misrepresent ithe facts in the current bargaining ession. He said the main issues in the labor ‘dispute centre around con- tract: language for class sizes and mployment rights for teachers. By Surj Rattan News Reporter Rowley added that the wage issue has never. been discussed at the bargaining table except when the school board insisted on pres- enting a salary offer just before the strike vote was to be taken. “frankly, teachers’ salaries are not an issue. It is the visual red herring to cover up the fact that this school board has ngt demon- strated .that professional teachers must have reasonable teaching and learning conditions in order to best serve the educational needs of their students,’ said Rowley, District 45 teachers currently work 192 days per year; five of those are professional days. _ Flayer did not have the exact number of. days per year that District 45 administrators current- ly work. But he said that most District 45 board administrators are entitl- ed to between five and six weeks’ vacation during each. calendar” year: Secondary school principals in District 45 are entitled to a mini- mum of four weeks’ vacation a year; elementary school principals and vice-principals are entitled to a minimum of five weeks’ vaca- tion a year. All principals and vice-prin- cipals are aiso. entitled to take Christmas. and Easter break off; board administrators are not. .@® See District 44 salary dispute, page3. | NV District libraries to test Stats Can system THE NORTH Vancouver District system has been selected as one of the public libraries chosen by Statistics Canada for a test of a new service that provides Canada census information in machine-readable form. For the duration of the test, the statistical information will be supplied on discs to the library, which will load the data onto the reference department computer at the main Lynn Valley branch. 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