10 ~- Wednesday, October 19, 1994 — North Shore News

Truck check

fin

is defects

Safety hazards in 12 of 20 vehicles

WHAT ARE the odds that iat
defective commercial (ruck ts
motoring around — North
Vancouver? Apparently, pretty
good,

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter

A road check of 20 commercial
vehictes pulled over on North
Vancouvers Main Sareeton Oct. tl
reverted that 12 of the vehicles had
safety deficiencies.

North Vancouver ROMP Set.
Dwain Wetteland said a tenetor truck
pulling (wo trailers was deemed so
unsafe dhat it had to be towed assay.

Wetteland said the vehicle had
severe braking problems along with
enicked frames.

“The other thing about this was
that it had come down from
Vanderhoof with a load of lumber,”
suid Wetteland, who is the head of
the North Yancouver RCMP's traf-

fie dis iston,

Pwo other veliches were net
allowed to move trom the road
check until their safety problems
were fixed.

Wetteland said a smaller cen
mercial van was found lo have rust-
vd so badly that the weight of the
vehicie’s box was about the only
thing holding it to its frame.

Four of the 20 drivers pulled
over in the road cheek ended up
being charged for having over
weirht loads.

Qne driver was deketed for not
cotupteting his log book,

The ROMP. Ports Caiindis Police
and provincial Motor Vehicle
Branch inspectors took part i the
rowd cheek.

Commercial vehicte mspectons
are dane periodically in North
Vancouver.

North Vancouver ROMP tratlie
division officers who cheek com-
mercial vehicles have taken air-
brake courses.

Enrolment increases
in N. Van District 44

ENROLMENT IN North Vancou-
ver School District 44 is up by 372
students for the 1994-95 schoo] year
for a iotal of 16,519.

NORTH VANCOUVER
SGHOOL BOARD
By Kevin Gillies

The additional 372 full-time stu-
dents represent a 2.3% overall
increase over 1993-94's 16,146 full-
time District 44 students. The largest
enrolment increase was in secondary
students. The number jumped from
6,057 last year to 6.292 this year —
a 3.9% increase.

Elementary school enrolment

jumped 1.4% (from 10.089 to
10,227).

Provincial funding for schoo!
districts is based on their enrolment
figures as of Sept. 30. The ministry
forecasts an enrolment of 16,429 in
District 44. At current enrolment
levels, provincial funding for
District 44 — based on its estimate
of 90 fewer students — is approxi-
mately $500,000 short.

While it was not part of the esti-
mates, superintendent of schools Dr.
Robin Brayne said ESL (English as
a Second Language) enrolment
remained relatively static — around
2,000. District 44 has one of the top
five ESL enrolments (by percentage
of overall enrolment) in B.C.

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