A SINGER in her church choir, Dianna loves singing. Our Sunshine Girl, who is originally from Winnipeg and is employed at a North Shore jewellers, also likes roller skating and is happily married. The cost of education in North Vancouver has in- creased by 8.89 per cent for 1980. North Vancouver School Board Tuesday approved a gross budget figure of $48,161,010 — the 1979 figure was $44 228 398. Capilano College funding is not included in the budget figure as all community An assortment of quality used and out of print titles in THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Pacific Books 1135 Lonsdale North Vancouver 980-2121 coHege financing is now a direct’ provincial govern- ment responsibility. The new, approved budget must now be sent to Victoria for approval by the Ministry of Education. During the comparatively short public debate upon the budget only Trustee Ernest Sarshield appeared to be unhappy with the figures. He was particularly in- censed by the almost 50 per cent increase in the costs of musical supplies. The 1979 budget figure for secondary school music supphes was $10,600 and in 1980 it is budgeted at $15,500. Elementary music supply costs also reflect. a con- siderable increase over the 1979 figure. It was explained that sharp rises in the costs of supphes REMEMBER LOSING WEIGHT IS ONLY HALF THE BATTLE! NORTH VANCOUVER 136 E. 14th St. WEST VANCOUVER RAM 104, 585 16th St. At the Diet Center you will not only lose excess weight 171 to 30 Ibs. in just 6 weeks you will learn how to stay thin for the rest Dt CIDE FOR GOOD! ane AT THE ow $/_ DIET Forty-two pounds of high grade Columbian marijuana were seized by police Monday and two men ac- cused of possessing the drugs found themselves high in the sky after being whisked away from North Vancouver by helicopter. RCMP detectives from North Van and Ladysmith arrested Michael Bruce Brown, aged 26, of . . ete eee ae AS- Sunday News, February 10, 1980 MARIJUANA WORTH UP TO $50,000 High as a helicopter Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, and Peter David Carr, of Kingston, Ontario, in Vancouver late Monday after the drugs were seized. © The arrests were made as the result of a lengthy in- vestigation involving RCMP in Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Victoria and North Van. Street value of the drugs alleged seized is put at after 42\b. dope bust $30,000 in one-pound deals and $50,000 in ounces. The two men face charges of conspiracy to traffic in marijuana and possession for the purposes of trafficking. They spent the night in North Van RCMP cells and the following day were flown to Ladysmith by a helicopter which took off from Grand Boulevard at 15th. Street. Seycove agreement conditional to safety Agreement with North policies approved by the Vancouver School Board on __—s*District. the terms by which the municipality will participate in the use of the proposed Seycove Community School was reached Monday when District council accepted a draft agreement to be signed by both the board and the District. But council has made its approval subject to satisfac- tory school board plans to ensure the safety of children on the banks of the creek which runs through the pro- perty. A coodinator will be hired by the school board to super- vise the use of space in the District-owned portion of the school, excluding the library, and to coordinate all matters between the District and the school based upon NV schools budget up 8.89% occur from time to time as equipment is replaced in bulk. Sarsfield was the only trustee to vote against the adoption of the budget. The total budget for teachers’ salaries is up 8.75 per cent to $28,605,770. The total costs of teacher aides has risen from $900,710 in 1979 to $1,029,490 this year — a 14.30 per cent increase. of your lite! TO) BE THIEN LOSING,