3 - Sunday, November 2, 1986 - North Shore News

NEWS photo Terry Peters

CAPILANO COLLEGE students took to the streets Wednesday morning on Second Narrows Bridge. The students paraded their support for the 270 full and part-time teachers on strike since Tuesday at the college, The ROMP arrived on the scene after the information pickets went up, and told the students (a move along.

Cap factions will meet

THE LOWEST Capilano River water levels in recorded his- tory have prevented all but two dozen chinook salmon from

to solve college strike

THE CAPILANO COLLEGE Board of Directors will attempt to meet with repre- sentatives of the college’s 270 striking facul- ty members over the weekend to try and resolve the dispute that has halted all classes for about 4,100 college students.

By TIMOTHY R News Report

Board chairinan Hilda Rizun said Friday she would try to contact all board members in order to arrange the weekend meeting between the Capilano College Faculty Association (CCFA) and the board.

“But J can’t guarantee anything. All J can say is that we will make every effort to meet, possibly over the weekend or early next week.”

The college’s 270 full and part-time teachers went on strike Tuesday morning after a last-minute attempt to settle the dispute failed.

With ali financial matters in contract negotiations resolved, the two sides remain firmly entrenched on either side of the teacher work-load issue.

In May, 1985, the CCFA signed an interim agree- ment with the college board that required faculty to

teach nine instead of eight sections, or courses, an- nually,

The agreement, which was signed to help the college absorb continuing provincial funding cuts, increased full-time teacher work-load by 12 per cent, while cut- ting salary for part-time teachers by the same per- centage.

A number of temporary teachers were also laid off.

Capilano College president Dr. Doug Jardine has said that in order fot the college to maintain its cur- rent level of service under present funding, the normal teacher work-load must remain at nine sections per year.

Teachers, he said, could choose to work eight sec- tions, but would be paid eight-ninths of a full-time salary.

CCFA chief negotiator Ed Lavalle has said college faculty never considered the interim agreement to be permdnent and maintains that eight sections are the norma! college work-load and instructors should not be penalized financially for teaching eight instead of nine sections.

The last board offer to the CCFA called for a raise in the top teacher salary from $41,408 to $46,000 by Aug. I, 1987.

One-ninth of that top salary would be deducted from a teacher’s salary for every course below nine not taught.

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returning to the river's hatchery.

By the second week of September, none of the expected 2,000 chinook had returned to the hatchery and ‘damn fitthe has happened since," hatchery manag- er Eldon Stone said Thursday.

Though water levels in the Capilano reservoir have risen with recent rains, Stone said it was ‘‘too little, too late.”

Unseasonably dry fall weather had resulted in the North Shore's Capilano and Seymour reservoir water levels dropping to their lowest point since records started being kept.

WATER LOW

Last week, the Capilano reser- voir was 40 feet below normal, while the Seymour was 30 feet below normal levels.

Greater Vancouver Regional District spokesman Hans Krause said Friday the Capilano reservoir has since risen by 21 feet and the Seymour reservoir has risen by 17 feet, ‘so we are more than half- way (to top water levels). We should be back to normal within a

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

ris Reporter

month, depending on the weather.”"

Stone said the Capilano reser- voir wus about six feet below spillover, but he said the rising waters had arrived too fate in the salmon spawning cycle to save the chinook run,

“By this time last year, 95 per cent of the (chinook) run had spawned,'’ Stone said.

EGGS NEEDED

He added that the hatchery needed a minimum of 1,000 chinook to supply the two million eggs needed for the run.

With few fish returning to the hatchery, Stone said the required chinook eggs would be attained from Vancouver Island’s Big Qualicum River on Monday.

“So we are not defeated. In fact, our expectations for next year’s chinook run will be greater than our expectations for this year.”’

NEWS photo Terry Peters

Jack-o’-lantern search

GETTING TO the meat of the matter, left, Nerth Shore News reporter Timothy Renshaw puts in time on the pumpkin beat. Renshaw joined a group of celebrity carvers at Capilano Mall Thursday to help raise awareness and funds for the annual UNICEF Halloween donation drive. Assessing the entries Thursday at Lonsdale Quay’s pumpkin carving contest, top left photo, are, left to right, David Hornblow, Rete McKay, and News managing editor Barrett Fisher. Pumpkin power contest winner for the six and under category was Tyler Evans, North Vancouver, with an honorable mention going to Matthew Greenwood, North Vancouver. Dana Fawcett, Vancouver, won the seven to 10-year-old category, with honorable mentions to Aaron Wong, North Vancouver, and Sean Patoc, North Vancouver. Alex Walker, Deep Cove, won the 11 to 13-year-old category, with honor- able mention to John Fuller, West Vancouver. Above, celebrity pumpkin carvers at Capilano Mall display their jack-o’-faniern creations. Standing, left to right, are North Van City Mayor Jack Loucks, North Van District Mayor Marilyn Baker, MLA Angus Ree, and RCMP Supt. Stewart Thompson. Left to right in front are B.C. Lions’ John Blain, daughter Hayley, and North Van City Fire Chief Larry Barker.

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