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BAT expert Brock Fenton has a firm grip cn a brown bat shown to Ridgeview elementary students during a recent pre- gentation about the nocturnal mammets in West Vancouver. The event promoted the Masters of the Night bat exhibit showing this summer at Science World in Vancouver.

BY ANNA MARIE DANGELO News Reporter

MORE than $60,000 worth of high-end men’s clothing was stolen on Wednesday night after a brazen burglary less than a block from the West Vancouver Police station.

The thieves got into The Mensroom store at 1403 Bellevue Ave. by smashing a front window between midnight and 6:30 a.m,

“The world scems to be changing around here,” said store owner John Clark.

Clark said that it appears no one heard or saw anything.

The thieves took the time to clean out the smashed store glass right up to the frame.

They used a bolt cutter to snap a chain ona door.

West Vancouver Police Const. Paul Skelton said police have no suspeet infor mation,

Police were checking for fingerprints on Thursday.

Skelton specultes that a vehicle must have been used to hiul out the suits, shirts

See Ambleside page 5

NEWS photo Miko Waketield

THE Mensroom owner John Clark cleans up after a $60,000 burglary.

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Monday: Cloudy, chance of showers High 19-22°C, tow 12°C.

District 44 seeks cash from abroad

BY 1AN NOBLE Hews Reporter

NORTH Vancouver District 44’s school board will follow the lucrative West Vancouver example of charging foreign students to attend its schools.

The program, which added $2.4 million to West Vancouver District 45’s coffers in 1995-96, will begin as a trial next year in District 44 with 10 to 20 overseas students paying $12,000 each.

“There’s room, and at $12,000 a pop it gives us an opportunity to hire additional staff,” government-appointed trustee Bob Smith told the News.

The program was approved at a June ! i board meeting by Smith, the only member of the school board since seven elected trustees were fired in January.

Foreign students entering = Noith Vancouver will be required to meet certain conditions. They must be able to maintain high standards in English-taught subjects at the Grade 10, 11 aad 12 level and “function effectively in a Canadian cultural’ environ- ment without the direct supervision of their parents.”

The district's superintendent of schools, currently Robin Brayne, or his designate will decide the school and educational program of the foreign students,

Véest Vancouver District 45 superinten- dent of schools Doug Player said 43 school districts in B.C. have a forcign student pro- gram. He believes District 44 has made the right move-in bringing in the overseas stu:

‘dents.

Player said his own district wrings a $1.2 million annual profit from 197 foreign stu- dents. The money goes to extra staffing in the schools and technology.

Local students don't suffer, he said. For example. the ratio of students to teachers is 22 to 1. Schools enrolling the foreign stu- dents will get $5,000 per student. If [00 for- eign students attend a school, that's $500,000, said Player.

Using the above ratio, five teachers at $42,000 per teacher for 100 foreign students works out lo about $200,000, leaving $300,000 for the school to hire mare staff or invest in supplement programs.

The school board pockets $7,000 per for- eign student, and uses it to hire stuf and improve technology.

“Tt really is benefi around,” Player said.

Most of the students come from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapare, and Hong Kong.

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