November 21, 1993

Fallout from Sentinel Fund controversy continues in WV

WEST VANCOUVER Teachers’

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Association (WVYTA)

members did not use Canuck hockey tickets worth $5,272,
contrary to what West Vancouver District 45 School Board
(WYVSB) superintendent Doug Player has said.

In a Nov. 16 WVTA newsletter,
the teachers’ union said season
tickets that Player recently told
the school board were used to
reward Sentinel school staff for
outstanding performance, were
not issued to teachers at the
school.

Said the statement, ‘'The
WVTA has been unable to find
any Sentinel teacher who was of-
fered the use of these tickets....
We deplore any perks that single
out some teachers and ignore the
contributions of the many.””

The hockey tickets were bought

By Anna Marie D’ Angelo
News Reporter

with money raised by foreign stu-
dent tuition fees.

But WVSB chairman Peter
Bradshaw assured the News Friday
that some Sentinel teachers did use
the hockey tickets.

He declined to name them. He
said the WYTA may penalize the
rewarded teachers in some way if
they were named.

“The teachers’ association has
said, ‘We don't want you to single

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out any teacher as special; all our
teachers are great.’

“What Doug Player wanted to
do was find some flower profile
way of rewarding teachers who
did outstanding things.... Because
the good ones get paid as much as
the bad ones,”’ said Bradshaw.

Bradshaw said two. civic
employees who plowed snow at
the school were among the people
who used the tickets.

Meanwhile WVSB trustee Jean
Ferguson said she had ‘some
knowledge’? of who used the
tickets, but she said she was un-
comfortable about naming names.

Then-Sentinel principal Peter
Lefaivre issued the hockey tickets
at. his discretion, according to
Ferguson.

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But said Ferguson, who was
school board chairman when the
controversial fund was established,
‘The tickets have nothing to do
with the (Sentinel) Development
Fund.”’

She declined te speak on record
about the development fund
which, like the hockey tickets, in-
volved the use of foreign-student
tuition fees.

The fund was ‘seeded’? with
more than $88,000 worth of
foreign fees. Current available
accounts indicated that without
the $88,668, the fund would have
a shortfall of $47,000.

The foreign student fees were
used to cover salaries and expenses

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ELECTION RESULTS

BECAUSE PRESS deadlines
for the Sunday North Shore
News require the newspaper
to be put together before final
vote counts will be available
from local municipal polling
stations on Saturday night, a
complete package of focal
election results from ail three
North Shore municipalities
and reaction from local poli-
ticlans and the community
will be published in the Wed-
nesday, Nov. 24, News.

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