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THE Voice oF NORTH AND. WEST VANCOUVER

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restraint for next year.

School trustees ordered administration to present future facility requirements with recommendations for school consolidation | by January 24, in time. for. the 1983, budget. “

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SMILE OF RELIEF was the reaction of MMF rances Barrtecale alter the black bear which had been making visits to her home over a two-week

Reaching Every Door on the North Shore

SCHOOL closures became ‘the number one of the West. Vancouver School Board onday night in its effort to meet budgetary

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what consolidation means,” "

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Trustee Margot Furk was more to the point, saying, “It’s the board's number one

said chairman Mark Sager, saying just a. nicer way of

priority and these decisions have to be made for 1983.”

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closed next year, followed by another two elementary and one high school over the next two or three years, says Furk.

Furk warned that’ if the board-decided to back down from closing schools that it “will not have demonstrated the responsibility expected of it by the taxpayers and parents of this district.”

Any closure would have to fit into the long range: plans of, the, district ‘

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being worked on by the administration.

No schools have been named yet, but the board will look at schools which are close to each other and then look at the age of such schools.

The trustees also ‘asked the administration to look at the requirements for French immersion and. recom- mended levels of service, as OF ex- panding, French | exposure.

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period was finally nabbed in a live bear trap Thursday. See page AS for

CITY SAYS ‘NO’ ON FULLERTON Fit

should be. a. | pepe place and. not. a: bulk lumber loading facility, North yamconver City

“western ‘cage ofthe: “City, “council ‘declared’ its “op- position to the draft Port of Vancouver Master Plan, which advocates a loading facility for lumber and forest products at Fullerton Fill.

Council voted to prepare amendments to the Official Community Plan that would encourage the use of Fullerton Fill for such purposes as multiple housing projects, light industrial uses, shopping and other retail uses, tourist and entertainment uses and public open space and in- stitutional uses.

If the amendments pass, the Community Plan will

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