12 - Wednesday, December 12, 1990 —- North Shore News

Anna Marie D’Angelo

INQUIRING REPORTER

NORTH VANCOUVER teachers voted 87 per cent in favor of strike action last Wednesday to back contract demands. Negotiations between the North Vancouver District 44 School Board and the 1,200-member North

Vancouver Teachers’ Association (NVTA) have been

continuing since May.,One day after the vote, the NVTA issued a 72-hour strike notice bul announced that

Should North Van teachers go on strike?

Andrea Robertson

North Vancouver

No, they shouldn't. It feels like they go on strike every other year. On one hand, they deserve to be paid a lot to educate children.

Nancy Moir

North Vancouver

I don’t think they should, but I also want them ro get a fair deal. | feel teachers work hard and I am very pleased with my daughter's teacher.

Tony Menard

North Vancouver

It’s a complicated thing. Since everyone else can go on strike, ‘teachers work just as hard for their money so they should be able to go on strike too.

Elsa Cuadra

North Vancouver

No, 1 don't think so because we'll have to catch up on the time missed and maybe lose out on other holidays coming up.

no immediate schoo) closures were planned. Earlier, NVTA president Linda Watson said wages were a key issue in any negotiations. Annus salaries for District 44 teachers currently range from $21,170 up to $53,295 West Van teachers also are negotiating a new contract but no strike vote has been taken.

Elizabeth Kershaw

North Vancouver

I think they should get more money. If they could find another way of making their point, it would be better. A strike will especially hurt Grade

scheme

Multi-family residences join

NEARLY 200 multi-family residential complexes are now

participating in the North Shore Recycling Program.

International Paper Industries (IPI), the firm contracted to col- lect and market the North Shore’s recyclables, is now delivering wheeled carts or blue boxes to the 640 multi-family complexes located in the three muncipalities.

North Shore recycling coor- dinator Al Lynch expects that res-

By Peggy Trencell-Whittaker News Reporter

idents of multi-unit dwellings will divert up to 200 tonnes of recyclables per month from the waste stream.

The multi-unit blue box pro-

gram is based on a pilot project that tock place in three complexes over the summertime.

During the three-month pilot project, participation rose from an average of 6.4 kg of recyclables per month per unit to 8.33 kg per month per unit.

While some townhouse units that are accessible to IPI trucks will receive individual blue boxes, most multi-family complexes will

recycling

recycle their goods in centrally located, 96-gallon wheeled carts.

Unlike those people using regu- lar curbside blue boxes, apartment residents using the carts must sep- arate their recyclables into the categories of clear glass bottles or jars, colored glass bottles or jars, plastic milk jugs and plastic pop bottles, tin and aluminum food and beverage containers, and newspapers.

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to become an of goodwill.

ffi On Sunday, December 16, at 1:00 p.m.and 2:30 p.m., members of the

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will be appearing at special fund- raiser concerts at Lonsdale Quay Market. The proceeds from these concerts, which will be co-produced by the North Shore Credit Union and the North Shore News, will go to the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau and the

West Vancouver Santa Claus Fund.

North Shore families in need this Christmas.

“Contamination may be a problem with the apartments,”’ Lynch said. ‘‘It’s vital that people are careful about sorting their recyclables.’’

Lynch expects that, by Christmas, all 22,000 multi-family units across the North Shore will be able to participate in the pro- gram.

So bring along a cash donation, non-perishable food item or a new (or nearly new) toy. Then, during the con- certs, hand them over to the volunteers from the North Shore Credit Union staff associ- ation. You'll help bring goodwill to many

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