4 hood = Watch | KEK pege 4, March = 1978 - North Shore News | Six Vancouver + festaurants 7 haye changed ‘their tipping: procedure; now a 12-15%. tip is automatically added ‘.to- your: bill: Atthough . this is. common in Europe, I think — § ‘Many. people ens would - | find it annoying. oy ‘This week the quiring | Reporter asks, sg. The two: programs 4 are run by the police in-.cooperation with. citizens throughout: the area,.. upon- which - the. success of these | Programs _ depends. | nets "Block Parents are people, . met by the police, who | provide temporary shelter. and help - for. people. in " - emergencies “while - in: the- * same: neighborhood. ‘Neigh- borhdod “” Watch’ «involves safeguarding. ae valuables ehesugR indentificatien, as , well: - as: observing © and. ‘reporting | suspicious . activi- _ tes, on neighbor: Ss Proper- “athe grant pecans oa uary but those working in the programs quickly “decided there were just too -many strings attached and that . they’d rather return: to the. way things were. _ _ : Project manager ‘Bonnie. Cornborough, “who has. worked an average of SO _ hours a week for two years as -. Neighborhood Watch/Block - Parents coordinator is back working for free. She says of the failure of | the project funded by Canada Works’ Make-Work | Program, ‘‘It was a. com- bination - of meeting the stipulations of the grant and | because of the control by the © safety council.’’ She seems relieved that the entire experience’ is behind her and says of the projects: ‘Now everything is | going stronger than ever and is working out really great.’’ As it happens, she will soon be getting paid, from a_ different federal grant . ‘The Canada Works grant | was announced amid a flurry. of publicity as a result of a detailed press release by safety council Barbara Foreman. However, she was not so informative when asked. about the grant being with- _ drawn. She told the News it been the question of . her -would definitely not be admitted to a meeting of the safety council last week and threw out a reporter from a Vancouver newspaper who turued up. She told. the ‘News: 1 can | assure you the program will | continue and that Neighbor- and Block Parents will -be expanded. . "But it has ‘since ‘become _ “information from..a number . et different - North Vancouvér Ste Burnaby. J]. think | -the - customer. . ‘would - find: Jit. very should decide if the service - irritating. Not many- “people” warrants 2° tip -much:' . about it: if the service was The» grant has not been “discontinued and I have heard no. word from Canada - Works that it is going to be” . discontinued.” rc : being ablé to do things ‘the way I want.to do them: and . have boundaries Set for ‘me."” " Forseeing. the. - possibitiice of. such - problems... Van- clear she was talking seman- tics in as much as. both . community services will be. expanded by. the’ RCMP, _ regardless of. funding and the. / Program, i.e. Canada Works, 4s still operating but does not "include Neighborhood Watch -or Block: Parents ‘Programs in NS Vane. ‘outset to stick with. voluntary af “gq don’t like ihe idea of not ; _ community © ~police: decided ‘from the - programs and. refused -the’ Safety . ‘council’s offer’. of . waiter. ‘to provide good service | ‘It’s. hettor tn laawa Sav were ee we sw aswel w things. the. way they are. funding. W. ” Van “Neighborhood Watch ‘and ~ Block Parent programs at N. Van will be: funded - from ‘another federal government — grant. This time it will be a - FLIP: (Federal Local. Initia- tives Project) grant. "Automatic tipping ‘takes ay | and how would ask for their-tip back way the incentive. for the .Of argue with. the. waiter. Police liason officer - Mike Hooper: recalls: ‘‘We 7 said thanks, but no thanks!” V except for the one month’s North’ Vancouver ~ I think ‘built-in. tipping i ‘is eo unfair. It should: be up to: the ; customers. to ‘tp or not. Mrs. Cornborough } has not - yet received her. first . ‘pay: cheque but. does not appear overly. concerned. yét™ since — full. time:.voluntary ' work: is. nothing new to her. - She: has’ 1 never - been” paid for her work in Block Parents Neighborhood. . Watch,. From : “piecing. “together sources OS “becomes _ evident that: the — _ safety council. was - anxious — “'to-have control in the running . of the programs and that this. ‘was ‘a major factor in the ‘Project backfiring. . Mrs. Comborough ‘says: = “*The safety council were the | “ones who got the -gtant so — . naturally they were going to. . ‘ have ja say as to how it was ECONOMY | CAMPING/EXERCISE ‘Ana this was ‘the basic: re reason it was: ‘unworkable. Says ‘Mrs. Cornborough: or ‘*| guess you could say it was 7% a problem of being answer- able to two. bodies. It_ just “didn't work out. | “This: “thing “had ‘been | running fine. for several _ years. When there are two & big organisations (the RCMP § and the. Safety Council) - | trying to run. the: same program, © that’ S. what “happens.”” ~ Canada Works grants are ff given out .by Canada Employment (formerly Man- power) to create jobs and in this case was .intended to provide work for three people’ during the first few months | of this year. _ So. Neighborhood: ‘Watch | ivd asd ‘Block Parents would = . have to take on two extra Tm. ‘people to work 35 hours a week each. And this, says Mrs. Cornborough, was another problem about: the grant. . . ““ENSOLIT | camper. "Not only would there have having to train them from scratch for what amounted to a short period of: work but | she also says the North Van programs just would not . keep three people busy for 35 _ hours: a weck. “It was a matter of meeting stipulations in the grant,”” she says. | “. r High density, closed-colled 7 te ‘foam * for. the: backback ae Twin a” : L 7 6”".. | Double av Queen 4"- 7 6"' . ’ oot ay ' . my ' ' en. | . . ‘ f , . eo Pree , SALE PRICE 32.00 ‘48:00, 44.10 66.15 ‘Bs 358 _.to know,’ It’s ay ‘person’s right ¢ to tip :. oe or. not .for the: ‘service -he = : receives.: Actually, I like to tip for good service, byt: 1 7 ae to be forced t to. 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