PASSENGERS ON. as B.C,
Transit bus on the Mt.
Seymour Parkway last
Thursday night were treated to
a momentary scare followed by
a-refreshing breeze ‘when a
window was destroyed.

By Bob Mackin
> (Contributing Writer

“An apparently : unidentifiable
projectite™ hit a window on the mid-
die of the driver’s side of a west-
bound No. 211 Seymour. bus near
the Seymour Golf & Country Club
at about 8:30 p.m., according to B.C.
Transit spokesman Trace Acres.
{The window was cracked ‘and
glass went flying in the bus.
Luckily, none of the approximately
half-dozen passengers was injured.

After. a five-minute delay,’ the
bus continued to its terminus ‘at

Phibbs Exchange where it was met .

by B.C.Transit and RCMP officials.
: “It happens occasionally for

whatever reason. people chuck
rocks ata’ bus,” Acres’ said,
“Occasionally we do get a report
people of taking pot shots at buses
with pellet guns.”

Jorgan Lai,. who was: sitting

BE The whole
window shattered
and made a big
noise. All the
passengers got

a shock. 9¥
-- Passenger Jorgan Lai

across the aisle from the -broken
window, said he heard something
hit the window, looked over quickly
and then saw it break: “I believe this
was a shot that hit the window. It
made a hole about 5 mm in diame-
ter. The whole window. shattered
and made a big noise. All the pas-
sengers gota shock.” ~

Lai. who lives in the area. specu-

lated it could have, been some

“naughty teenagers” using .a pellet
gun, “lt may be fun for them for a

moment. but this kind of thing could,

end up hurting or killing People."

Programs get thumbs-up

THE SPECIAL Education and.
English as a Second Language
programs at West Vancouver
Secondary’ School (WVSS)
came through with fying col-
ors according to:a just-com-
_ pleted ,. accreditation. report
done by an outside profession-
al team.

“> Ann Gifford, team chair and’
“principal forspecial education for

‘the Vancouver School District. told
- the District 45 educational commit-
“tee that she was “impressed™. with

the programs: at. WVSS, especially
the course content and work of suff
with students,

WEST VAHCOUVER -
GHOOL BOARD
* By Gien Anwick

She added that the district-based
and schvol-based staff valued the

cooperative, open and caring learn-
sing. environment’ that currently
 exisis among the teachers, teachers
‘and students.

The aereditation team has rec-
ommended that District 45 allocate

funds for the hiring of a full-time,

trained’ councillor/educator — for
high-need students and those-in cri-
sis, a move the Board i is considering
for the fall.

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Cypress
pian open
to public

AN UALL-DAY public forum
on the Cypress Provincial Park
“Master Plan will be held
Saturday, July $. at the new
Vancouver Public Library, 350
West Georgia Si. in the multi-
purpose meeting room.

An open house begins at 8
am. and and a public meeting
will follow at 9:30 am,

Presentations by Cypress
Bow! Recreations Ltd. B.C.
Parks. Friends (of Cypress
Provincial © Park, . and) the
Canadian Parks and
Wilderness Society will be fol-
lowed by consultants’ reports
of recent economic and old-
growth studies for Cypress
Park.

Park user groups.and mem-
bers of the public will be able
to speak in the afternoon.

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