A8 - Sunday, January 30, 1983 - North Shore News oo

inquiring
reporter

by
Ellsworth
Dickson

Once in a while it is interesting to get the
student’s view of things. For this issue, I
visited Argyle Secondary School to ask:

‘“‘How could your school

etter off in Bangladesh

FROM PAGE A1

Department declared that
the community's existing
water “system” was polluted
— the tanks are situated
close to the road and rail
lines which contaminate
them.

Council extended its water
line to the edge of the
community last year and is
willing to connect the Pasco
Road homes if residents pay
80 per cent of the $70,000
cost — $6-8000 bill for each
householder, which can be
paid off over 10 years.

But that is too much, says

and en behalf of
his neighbours he appealed
to council to allow them to

I think we should have
more field trips and
nature studies. It’s not
expensive and we would
learn a lot. We need more
science equipment. It’s
too bad about the budget
cuts.

Bruce Marion

North Vancouver

We need more teachers
like Mr. Paynter. He
treats us as equals and is
an all-around good guy.

lmrma Killan
North Vancouver
1 would like to see more

studies in drama and
music. It is not man-
datory to take these
subyects, but | think tt
would benefit the

students to know mofe in
these arcas

Mike Laycock

North Vancouver

I feel that the budget cuts
have damaged our school

and the quakty of our

education Also T think
that the proposed year
end tests are not a pood
idea We oo are oon oa
semester system and we

been

the
would be
tested oon for
months

wont cven have
studying some of
subjects we

several

Ross Haney

Noth Vanavourver
Td like
positive

Mrs
Koning ld

More bhaapopry
teachers tohke
Morton and My
Nahe to

and

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more dances more
flunchome = catha curnmeu
lar acOwihtes

Hitchhikers
just couldn’t
be parted

TWO youths hitchhiking on
the Low Level Road in North
Vancouver Monday morning
just couldn't be separated -
except by the RCMP, who
were anxious they should not
be parted.

The two, aged 15 and 16,
had escaped at 1 a.m. from a
prisoner van taking them
from Centre Creek Camp, in
Chilliwack, to Willingdon
Detention Centre, in Bur-
naby.

When the van had made a
stop at Matsqui police
department, the juveniles -
one from WhiteRock and the
other from Vancouver -
kicked open the back door

and took off - still hand-
cuffed together.

RCMP in North Van
received a call from

someone at an automotive
shop on lower Mountain
Highway to say the youths
had called in and asked for
their handcuffs to be cut off.

They were picked up on
the Low Level Road by
RCMP at about 9 p.m...
hitchhiking and sull hand-
cuffed together.

NATIONAL GEOCRALHIC

pay just 40 per cent of the
cost.

The 40/600 per cent cost
sharing formula was
established in a 1977 bylaw
which has since been
overturned by the new user-
pay philosophy which now
requires property owners to
pay 80 per cent.

“Please give us a break,”
said Thackray. “Il am
standing before you in a
western civilization pleading
for pure water. If we lived in
Bangladesh they would be
trucking it to us ... We have
contributed over the years
and we feel we are entitled
to ask West Vancouver to
provide us with pure water at
a Feasonable fate at
reasonable interest.”

Council rejected the

back,” said Alderman Don
Griffiths.

Mayor Derrick Hum-
phreys pointed out that the
residents had chosen to live
in a beautiful but isolated
area: “We have tried to look
after you the best we can byt
it is by choice you are living
there.”

He added that he*-had
visited Pasco Road two years
ago and then urged the
residents to petition for a
new water supply, but they
had failed to do so.

“It seems hard but now the
user-pay philosophy is more
and more part of our society.
We feel the beneficiary
should pay rather than put
the onus of the heavy costs
on other people,” he said.

He suggested, however,

contract some of the work
and council could do the
rest.

Infuriated by council's
refusal to change the cost-
sharing formula, Thackray
pointed out that the
residents had repaired their
own road for $11,000 after
council staff had estimated
that $55,000 was needed to
do the job.

“We are not fools,” said
Thackray. “We are quite
capable of doing these jobs
ourselves.”

Operations Director Don
Walker said that if the
residents chose to do the
water supply job themselves.
provided the work came up
to council standards, council
would be prepared to
maintain it.

—-that the Tesidents and stalf

it had to stand firm on its
user-pay philosophy. “We
simply can't turn the clock

could probably work out a
compromise arrangement
where the residents could

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