7 - Friday, November 15, 1985 - North Shore News

Axe-grinding mars school board meetings

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_ Dear Editor:

Citizens of West Van-
couver, through negligent
apathy, have allowed their
school board to degenerate
into a_ political . wrestling
match where dignity and in-
tegrity have been replaced by
personal axe-grinding and sl-
inging of mud.

Chairman Margot Furk

Minister

Dear Editor: ©

I would very much iike to
respond to’ an article in your
October 18 edition entitled
“Petro-Can takeover a so-
cialist nightmare’, as it gives

me the opportunity to clarify .

some issues raised in the ar-
ticle concerning . Petro-
Canada’s recent: acquisition
of some of Gulf Canada’s
downstream assets. ;
1- must. first. emphasize
that, with the election of a
Progressive Conservative

Dear Editor:

I would like to correct an
impression left by your
newspaper.

I have never said that this
school district is ‘‘catering”’
to any of its students. What
\ did say is I was proud of
the fact that we had such a
high academic record and
that we were recognizing
students with special needs.

initiated the decadent prac-
tice of council-and-mayor
bashing during valuable
public schoo! board meeting
time. Following her exam-
ple, Trustee Hugh Stark has
expanded this pastime to in-
clude bashing administrators
and teachers in this district.
Venting his fury at the last
board meeting, Mr. Stark

defends

Government, Petro-Canada
was given a new mandate to
operate in a commercial,
private-sector fashion, with
emphasis on profitability.

Our government ap-
pointed a new Board of
Directors for Petro-Canada
in December, 1984, bringing
in new private-sector exper-

* tise precisely to ensure that

Petro-Canada conducts. its
affairs in a prudent, com-

mercial fashion.
The transaction was fun-

Candidate clears point

1 stated that there were a
large number of | students
with creative and manual
talents whose needs in my
opinion were not being met
and I would like to sce a
specialized school for these
students.

Sue Cook,
Candidate,
North Vancouver

’ School Board

lashed out at the teachers for
creating a video program
that promotes new educa-
tional programs in West
Vancouver without first ask-
ing his permission. Approval
from the chairman of the
board was not cnough for
Mr. Stark. In this case,
teachers have spent much of
their own time to entrance

takeover

damentally « private sector
deal, led by Olympia and
York and Norcen, the origi-
nal purchasers of Gulf
Canada Ltd., who then sold
the Western refining and
marketing portion of Gulf to
Petro-Canada. The Gov-
ernment of Canada has in-

vested no money in the Gulf

purchase. Petro-Canada,
operating under its new
mandate, is financing its
purchase entirely through its
own equity and commercial
bank loans.

The government is
currently reviewing all
Crown corporations in order
to determine which corpora-
tions still have a public poli-
cy purpose. Those which no
longer have a public policy

tole will’ be sold to private.
Petro-Canada is’

investors.
part of this review. We have
not yet determined,
however, whether or -how
Petro-Canada will be sold to
private investors. _

Pat Carney
Minister of Energy

Mines and Resources

the morale in the district and
to spread the word about the
good things happening here,
a policy once approved by
the board. Surely this kind
of activity does not warrant
such venom.

In the Other Business por-
tion of the meeting however,

t, Stark took more public
time to announce with great

severity his irritation at the
president of the WVTA, one
of the handful of tolerant
audience members, doing
her knitting while she listen-
ed to the highly stirsulati-s
content of the meeting.
Perhaps it reminded Mr.
Stark too much of those
days in the French Revolu-
tion when the ladies sat knit-

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ting while they watched the
criminals die.

.The board, having lost
sight of any common educa-
tional goal for which to
strive, spent much of the rest
of the meeting tearing at
each other’s political
under-bellies.

Mary E, Baker
‘West Vancouver

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