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For ‘turning
clock back
on education’

BILL BELL

NORTH Vancouver
teachers have finally
started their offensive

against what they term

the “deterioration of
education.” However,
their words of anger are
not being directed at
local school trustees,
but rather the con-
troversial Minister of
Education Bill Vander
Zalm.

Armed with a recent
public survey, the usually
soft spoken and conservative
executive of the North Van
Teacher's Association
(NVTA) has tambasted
Vander Zalm and joined
other teacher associations tn
calling for the munister's
resignation. “he

“For months we have been
ina state of uncertainty, the |
rules are being changed
constantly,” said a frustrated
NVTA President Bill
Friesen.

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February 27, 1983

HAPPY HUNDREDTH was the message to the grand old father of Lynn
Valley, Walter Draycott, Thursday, delivered on behali of the whole of
North Vancouver Thursday by City Mayor Jack Loncks and District

A ELE ERO Cae

Residents like things just as they are

MOST WEST VANCOUVER residents are well
contented with their lot, thank you, and they
don't want changes, according to a recent citizen

survey.

In fact 9S per cent of those
polled said they were
satishhed with how the
municipality is run

Vad the majonty S4 per

cent said they were
preparcd to pay more taxrcs
in order to) maintain the
standard of services in the
municipality.

These findings, reloasod at
West Van council Monday
are the results of » $3 650

WENDY HAYSOM

survey commissioned by the
municipality to find out
citizen attitudes to taxes and
services

The results wall also help
council establish pnonties in
préparing its 1987 budget

During January the survcy
polled 404 pouple dy
tclephonce reaching
residents = at random

throughout the area. Nincty-
nine people refused to take
part.

In spite of economic hard
times council discovered
that attitudes had changed
very little since the previous
survey in 1980.

Mayor Derrick Hum-
phreys was delighted with
the results: “It proves that
people in West Vancouver
want things to stay as swect
as they arc.” he commented

The 9S per cent of
satistted customers rm “ox
ceHeat” he said and these

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

Mayor Marflyn Baker. They visited Draycott in the home he had built 71
years ago on the street which was named after him — and found he still
had plenty of good stories to tell.

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