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RIPPLING

Alzheimer’s disease is coming under increasing scrutiny from the public and doctors but there’s no core yet.

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PARENTS OF students attending Westcot Elemen-

ENTERTAINING

if it has to do with keeping you entertained, we’ve got the news — from Vera Lynn fo Sharon,

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VOTE TIME

November 19 is drawing near and across the North Shore there are people seeking your vote.

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*““We, the parents of _ the future’’.

strike that is keeping most of

tary School in West Vancouver have passed three

motions expressing support for teachers that have crossed picket lines and demanding that others do

the same.

The motions’ were approv- ed unanimously by about 200 parents at a metting Wednes- day evening in West Vancouver. r,

The three, in the form of petitions, have since been forwarded to the West Van-

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Westcot School, request that all teachers and support staff of Westcot School return to work immediately and cross any and all picket lines,”’ reads the first of the three. The second express ‘‘fuill and on-going’’ support and protection from parents of Westcot students for all teachers who have crossed the picket line at the school and any that ‘‘will do so in

The third motion directs the school board to contact the West Vancouver police department in order that **the police department be re- quested to have officers pre- sent at all schools in West Vancouver to prevent any harassment’’ of anyone crossing a picket line.

The action by the Westcot parents is the latest in grow- ing parent discontent with the

their children out of classrooms.

At other schools in West Vancouver, and other North Shore locations, there have been angry exchanges bet- ween teachers and parents and other parents groups, either already in existence or put together in response to the strike, have called on their teachers to get back into the classroom.

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THE WAY you plan new conds ts to find ont what kind of traffic you can expect. And the way you do that is with automatic traffic counters that nestle by the roadside and are fed in- formation by tong, black hoses. Above Beat Christiansen bolts a cord onto Mather Avenue as part of West Vancouver's continuing road survey program.

BY THE time you read this it may all be over.

EWS STAFF

But as the News went to press Thursday (a day early because of the Remembrance Day holiday) there were few indications that the growing confrontation between the provincial government and a growing number of public sector employees would be settled.

If it is continuing, in fact, the situation will worsen this week as previously scheduled walk-outs take placc.

West Vancouver, however, may escape much of the impact.

West Vancouver Municipal Employees Association members, meeting last weck, voted 2-1 against taking part in the walk-outs and that ap- pears to mean that municipal services will be maintained

That won't be the case in North Vancouver, where municipal workers, who are represented by the ( anadian Umon of Pubhe Employces, are scheduled to leave the job

Monday

Ouhers scheduled to walk out Monday include BC Ferry and B ¢ Rail employees and union represented workers with icgal services

Tuesday, it is utility and transit umions that ate

scheduled to join the protest strikes North Vancouver residents will be without bus service as the Metro Transit system is shut down

In West Vancouver, mean while, tt appears the bus system may still be running

The News was not able to contact an Amalgamatcd Transit Union official prior .to deadline but a dispatcher with the West Van bus system said that as far as he was aware the ATU represented employees would remain on the job