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North Shore News, March 1 & 5, 1978

Two North Shore schools axed:
Due to declining enrolment West Vancouver School Board announced the closure of Inglewood Junior High and the transfer of the school’s remaining 400 students (in Grades 8 and 9) to West Vancouver Secondary would take place in September 1978. North Vancouver Secondary was also facing the end of the road in June 1979. The move, according to the North Vancouver School Board, reflected a drop in the student population from 22,447 to 19,528 between 1973 and 1978. Area students would be redirected to Carson Graham, Hamilton and Sutherland.

Cabin owners persecuted:
19 disgruntled cabin owners signed a petition to West Vancouver council complaining that two zoning bylaw changes would prevent them from developing their properties. Council said the changes were aimed at halting the proliferation of cabins and to keep strict control over tree cutting on the ridge to preserve the wilderness area.

Send-off for seal-savers:
The Jack Lavin Band with Doc Fingers and Ambleside entertained at a send-off party at the Commodore Ballroom for the Greenpeace Save the Seals crew (which included North Shore News staffers). The group planned to spend about $60,000 on a trip to ice floes off the coast of Newfoundland to protest the slaughter of baby seals.

Merge facilities:
A year prior to his first election to North Vancouver District council Ernie Crist wrote a letter to the North Shore News suggesting it was time for municipalities to share services in a move towards amalgamation. He thought it would be best to go through a step by step process saying “the joint use and single administration of municipal services and facilities holds great potential benefits for all North Shore taxpayers.”

Premier soccer this afternoon:
The North Shore’s Pegasus soccer club took on the Whitecaps Reserves in a Sunday afternoon game at Kinsmen Stadium to decide who would finish first in the Pacific North West League. Pegasus, who had a one-point lead in the standings, were facing a team that included Bob and Sam Lenarduzzi, Glen Johnson and Buzz Parsons.