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Pattison kidnapping
suspects remanded

FOUR ADULTS charged in connection with the December kid-
napping of West Vancouver multi-millionaire Jim Pattison’s
daughter will next appear in court on Jan. 23.

The four were scheduled to appear Monday in North Van-
couver provincial couct, but were remanded tc the later date,

Last week, Christian Snelgrove, 19, of North Vancouver, was
charged with kidnapping, extortion and three counts of unlawful
confinement, bringing the number of people charged in connec-
tion with the kidnapping to eight.

In December, charges were laid against Chadwick Shayne
Mulvahill, 20, Chad Karl Dafoe, 19, Sheldon Frederick Kwan, 18,
and four youths, whose names are protected from publication
under the Young Offenders Act.

The youths, all 16 years old, are to appear in North Vancouver
family court on Jan. 23.

Last Dec. 21, FPattison’s 30-year-old daughter, Cynthia
Killburn, was abducted from her North Vancouver home after her
four-year-old twins were bound by kidnappers and left in the

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A large sum of ransom money was later recovered by the

Salute shakes
local residents

THE NORTH SHORE was shaken up by a series of ‘‘booms”’

Bolice.

Monday morning.

And concerned residents flooded the News with calls after they
reporied hearing a series of explosions at about 8:30 a.m.

The exptosions were said te sound much like a 21-gun salute.

And, as it turns out, it was a 2i1-gun salute — originating from
the HMCS Discovery in Stanley Park. According to an officer at
Discovery, the salute welcomed the visiting Swedish naval ship,

HSWMS Cariskrona.

Man pulls knife
on salesclerk

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP are searching for a man who
robbed a retail clerk at knifepoint Friday afternoon in the 1500-

block of Lonsdale Avenue.

At approximately 4:30 p.m. a man entered a fashion store,
walked up to a female clerk, pulled a knife and said, “Give me all

your money.”’
He then fled on foot.

The suspect is described as being a Caucasian male, 25 to 30
years of age, with short biond hair and a moustache. He was
wearing grey pants and a long, green, army-type coat.

The investigation is ongoing, and, io press time, police had no

suspect in custody.

Player defends board policy |

From page 1
it is that it is misleading.

“With respect, Mr. Luccock,
you haven’t got it right. There is
far more teaching done by ad-
ministrators than you state in this
report. Most of our elementary
vice-principals teach full time, so
there are actually only 17 AO
positions in the district.””

Player added that some of the
administrative officers do work
that is immensely advantageous to
teachers.

*‘For example, Mr. Jackson at
West Van Secondary, who runs
the foreign student program, br-
ings $400,000 a year into the
schoo! district by recruiting top-
notch students.

“That’s the equivalent of seven
more teachers added to the
district, plus a high-calibre Japa-
nese teacher who will come to
West Vancouver from Japan next
year.”’

When Luccock read from the
WVTA brief that the district
should ‘restore student/teacher
contact time for librarians, learn-
ing-assistance teachers and
counsellors by covering their
preparation time with qualified
teachers,’ and that ‘‘there is need
to increase substitute time ... to

allow release time’’ for teachers to
do various non-classroom tasks,
Player answered that teachers al-
ready have a lot of such time and
that taxpayers can’t pay for any
more.

Said Player: ‘‘Our teachers
work very hard, and the issue of
time is a real one. But a lot of
time has already been given to
teachers. There are now eight pro-
fessional days per teacher per
school year.

“The response to the GST has
shown us again that the pockets
of the taxpayers are not endlessly
deep. The average teacher’s salary
in West Vancouver is now $53,094
including benefits, and at the rate
things are going this could be over
$60,000 next year. I repeat that
this is the average.

“The teachers just cannot real-
istically have less instruction time
per week,”’ Player added.

Player concluded his remarks by
reminding Luccock that ‘‘this
province is in deep, deep trouble.
There just isn’t the money coming
in from forestry and the other in-
dustries.

“It is time for some creative
solutions from teachers,’? Player
said.

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