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HOUSES ARE popping up faster than a high roller’s game
of Monopoly in’ North Vancouver District's burgeoning
Seymour community, but residents are being squeezed by a

lack of community services.

One area elernentary school is
bursting at the seams and com-
munity groups are stepping over
each other for lack of meeting and
recreation space.

The district's iment for a model
planned community, with residen-
tial, commercial and community
services growing in) synchronized
lock step, has been thrown out of
whack by a combination of pro-
vine? | fiscal rectraine and private

By MICHAEL BECKER

seetor economic decisions made
over the past few years,

As oa result, an elementitrs
school planned to serve the new
Indian River community, currently
610 homes and planned to grow to
approximately 1,300) homes over
the next four vars, has nat mate-

ridlized.

Sherwood Park  Flementary
School, designed for a maximum
oF 443 students. is currently ae.
cominodanne PS3 students from
the Indian River area.

The school is oserloaded wich a
total S03 students partially noused
in four portable classrooms on
site.

Said Pat Bell. assistant superm-
tendent of the Nerth Vancouver
School District: UEP seu pur too
many people in one space,
behaviors change. The school can't
comfortably handle what thes have
now,’

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to Mike Wal

Bell said the number at students
feeding inte, Sherwood Park school
could conceivably jump an addi
tional TS to 100 in attendance bs
nest school veur.

North Van School Board hay
requested funding for a 400-pupal
Indian Riser elementary school
operating as a dual-track Paghsh
and Ereneh tmmersien
Mindergarten to Grade 7 racihity

Phe funding request was formal.
ly made to the Ministry of educa.
tion varly TY87 and was supported
bso North Vaneouver-Seymour
MIA Jack Davis.

But the school was not included

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Crusader
joins
Halloween
frolics

THE SUPERFRIENDS —
Batman, Robin and Spider-
man — will be on duty Hal-
Joween night, keeping the
streets safe from The Rid-
dler, The Penguin and other
evil-doers who will be out in
full force Oct. 31 in search
of the annual trick or treat.
Join in the fun at some of
the following North Shore
Halloween events happening
Saturday:

e Firework displays, spon-
sored by the North Van-
couver fire departments, will
be held at 8 p.m. at Norgate
and Seylynn parks.

¢ A Halloween Hoe-down
will be at the Eagle Harbour
Community Centre, 7:30-10
p.m. Fireworks and family
dancing. Call 921-7425.

¢ A Fright Nite dance at the
Mickey McDougal! Hall at 8
p.m, is being sponsored by
the Canadian Progress Club
Vancouver Evergreen. Live
band, prizes, midnight buf-
fet, cash bar. Proceeds to
Cystic Fibrosis, Call 984-
7116,

For more Halloween ac-
tivities planned across the
North Shore for young and
old alike, check the What’s
Going On column on page
ib.

inthe ministry's 1987 expenditures
budvet

N site for the proposed school
has been desivmated, a playing
Held is ino place, but said Bell,
“heen oat the ureen fight is given
now, one is looking at two to three
sears before occupancy.”

The overcrowding at Sherwood
threatens ta spill over into nearby
Burrard View Elementary School
by next vear, according to school
principal Lois Hosein.

“EP owould expeer that
numbers will be up in the

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