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‘Teachers protest

SCHOOL'S OUT early today for North Vancouver stu-
dents as the 1,200-member North Vancouver teachers’
union steps up job action to protest the recent rejection
of its contract by provincial compensation stabilization
commissioner Ed Lien.

North Vancouver teachers will leave their schools at 2
p.m. to attend an hour-long study session at Lucas Cen-
tre.

North Vancouver Teachers’ Association president
Linda Watson said today’s job action is the first of a
series of study sessions that are planned to be held every
two weeks.

Watson said the NVFA refuses to go back tc the
bargaining table after Lien rejected the two-year collec-
tive agreement reached in February between the NVTA
aad the North Vancouver Disirict 44 School Board.

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“*We figure a deal is a deal and we're not going to
open it up again,’’ Watson said.

The settlement would have given the teachers a 14%
wage hike over two years.

Youths arrested

TWO WEST Vancouver youths face numerous charges
following a spree by vandals in the 2100-block of
Lawson Avenue in West Vancouver early Sept. 7.

According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the
incident occurred just after 1:30 a.m.

Investigating officers found that two mail boxes had
been knocked over and several vehicles in the area had
their hood emblems removed. Police also found that a
parked Mercedes had been kicked. An estimated $2,200
in damage was caused to the vehicle.

Folice subsequentiy arrested two “Vest Vancouver
mates, age 16 and 17.

The two each face four ckavpes of mischief and two
cherges of theft from an automobile.

Trial ordered

A 20-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was ordered to
stand trial on an gssault-related charge following a recent
preliminary hearing in North Vancouver provincial court.

Sean Alexander Trotter is charged with assault causing
bodily harm in connection with an alieged Oct. 13, 1990
incident involving anather mate.

Trotter will make his firsi appearance in B.C. Supreme
Court on Sept. 25 to set a trial date. ,

Reynolds reconfirmed

WEST VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA John
Reynolds has received unanimous approval in a recon-
firmation of his candidacy for the sewly-formed provin-
cial riding of West Vancouver-Capilane.

Reynolds was approved at a meeting Monday attended
by over 100 Social Credit party members.

Reynalds, the former 3.C. environment minister and
speaker of the house, urged members of the newly-
formed constituency association to wozk hard for a con-

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tinvation of ‘sound fiscal management.”’

Approx. 200 PSAC members
work on the North Shore

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you try and get a_ third-party
agreement that gives you any
more, we’ll lay off 2,000 workers
for every per cent you get in the
first year,’’ he added.

Said Walker of the government
position, ‘‘Quite frankly 'm ap-
palled. I’m not a_ hard-line
unionist. Most of my work in the

union for the past I0 years has
consisted of running the affairs of
the union in assisting membership
in dealing with problems on the
worksite. i’m appailed that the
government of Canada wouldn’t
even sit down at the table to ne-
gotiate some sort of contractual
language that would even deal
with problems cutside of
monetary issues.”’

W. Van issued stop-work order

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before the second building was
begun.

The developers have begun
work on an ‘electrical room’
which the municipality considers
to be the second building.

Sager said Wesi Vancouver has
therefore issued the developers
with a stop-work order.

Gateway Pacific has applied to
the courts to have the order lifted;
the municipality has applied vor a
court injunction to have the order
upheld.

“What flows from that decision
will be that council as landlord

will know whether it can demand
the $3 million,’’ municipal man-
ager Doug Allan said Tuesday.

The Twin Tewers development
was dogged by public controversy
during its inception phase three
years ago, when West Vancouver
residents protested the lease of the
municipally-owned land for
apartment construction.

Council challenged the legality
of the lease in court but was un-
successful.

The project was approved at the
instigation of council to generate
more revenue from the land.

The developers have a 99-year
lease on the property.

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