Lang Urges Second High School for Sechelt-Selma
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.-. -*,- . - .=_ 7.(.y-7 \ \ • •••• - •;'-" •'"• ":> ' ~£f': ~i'-'K •. £» *»._ ••'*!!•• West Canadtan/Graphic|industrl<sa .' f 204 West; &tn Av«.. -;'. • :y,'; Viucpuveb 10. 34 C. Service m i * i > •%, On split shiits . ••« ENINSULA StivinB the Sunshine Coast, (Howe Sound to Jervls Inlet), Including Port Mellon, Hopkins Landing, Granthams Landing, Gibsons, Roberts Creak, This Issue 16 Pages — 15c Wilson Creek, Selma Park, Sechelt, Halfmagn Bay, Secret Cdve, Pender Hn>„ Madeira Pork, Garden Boy, Irvine's Londing, Earl Cove, Egmont Union __§•_*> Label ALL Elphinstone students should find ilities at Elphinstone and the elementary and retain their course selection sheets annex can be used on a double, basis, LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER ON THE SOUTHERN SUNSHINE COAST. Vol. 10, No. 35 -- WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1973 issued to them during May or June, said greatly reducing the replacement require Don Montgomery, principal, because the ments, Montgomery said. school will open ih September. Students will be able to continue their Four classroom portables will be used course selection made by them during the along with three washroom facilities and spring semester, he continued. Elphin one general office portable. Minimal reno stone WHS nearly destroyed by fire earlier vations will be made to one science lab this month. and preparation room to accommodate the Counsellors will "be available for inter ' home economics department; the annex basement room will be converted to an views the vlast weejt of August It is im portant that students new to the area, art room; the ^arge industrial power shop students whip have failed subjects and will become the resource centre and lib require timetable .changes and students rary.' • " who haveylost their course selection Cleanup, reinstallation and replace sheets see the counsellors. , ment of equipment in the IE, science ahd Due to the fire the school has lost the commercial wings is well underway. names of :the incoming grade 8s who Replacement orders for texts, teaching have selected band instead of art. All supplies, equipment and furniture, has grade 8 students requiring band should been placed with promised August deli phone 886-9226 and leave their name very dates. with the secretary, he said. "As a result, it will be school as usual The school will be on shift so the fac in September," said Montgomery. Protest horn Roberts Creek Bylaw propsed to bun is here ROBERTS Creek Community Association stood that the dance was advertised in would like the Sunshine Coast Re-' various parts of the country "and even giohai. District to pass a bylaw prohibiting in' California." gathering of large groups and they want He gave notice of motion that a bylaw it as soon as possible, Harry Almond, will be introduced at the riext meeting director of Area D, said at the board's of the board. \ meeting last Thursday. He wanted the board to write to the Almond made his request following a public health officer in Powell River to letter from the association protesting the ask him to investigate the store. "There gathering of persons at the Roberts Creek are 10 to 30 people residing in that build General Store on the July 1st (Canada ing which is also used as a grocery store. Day) weekend. ' • ' The sanitary facilities there aire not up Almond said that the present bylaw to scratch." limits gatherings to 1,000 persons with He said that the building .should be a permit. investigated or "else the permit for the The director said that he looked over store should be removed." the situation on July 1 arid said what Aid. Winston Robinson of Gibsons, sit he saw was "shocking" and that ^'the ting in for Mayor Wally Peterson, second police were powerless to act for various ed Ahnond's notice of motion. reasons. Such situations have to be han Mayor Ben Lang of Sechelt said there dled very carefully" because, he added, are similar problems in Sechelt and sug motorcycle gangs roaring up and down gested that no overnight camping be al the highways could develop into "quite a lowed on private property other than that chase. We want to prevent this type of designated as. a campsite either govern thing." ment or private. The letter from the association said WELCOME TO Sechelt, is Hie greet a meeting has been set up with the RCMP Statement to taxpayers ... ing visitors get from Valerie Mc to discuss the matter and letters were Lean, representing Sechelt and Dis sent to the health officer, Coast-Garibaldi Lindal Cedar Homes trict Chamber of Commerce. Vale-: Health Unit, Powell River and to Don Lockstead, MLA. rie's booth is in the bus depot. Visi "In view of the fact?that, about 500 not firm mentioned Lang urges second high school tors to the Sunshine Coast so far SECHELT—Lindal Cedar Homes Ltd., ? people congregated at the Roberts Creek -Ms year,_2wne from Toronto, Texas, General Store/we are askirig* the medical 6257 Kingsway, Burnaby.is not the ;i _4iahit6bar Thunder Bay, Washington health officer to look into the sanitary firm referred to by Sechelt building in state, Wisconsin, Idaho and Kansas. conditions of the building involved and spector Frank Giampa, in a recent report for Sechelt-Selma - BS^Sxeia Also, visitors from England have we would appreciate your interest in the to council. registered. People have expressed in matter and any help you can give in Bill Mitchell, spokesman for Lindal SECHELT-^-Mayor Ben Lang has urged "That our school board consider and the teacher-pupil relationship is more terest in Skookumchuck and Porpoise advising us as to how best to proceed," Cedar Homes Ltd. told The Times that that a Second high school be built in . thoroughly research all possible effects personal in a smaller school. Bay campsite and general informa the letter stated. Giampa was probably referring to another the Sechelt-Selma Park area. of the secondary school educational needs "7. Extra help for students requiring "For your information we give the firm with a similar name. for the whole district before making any it is not possible when bus deadlines have tion on the area. Typical comments "That firm is going to change its In a statement to The Times, Lang include: 'Nice, but rain,' "ispiffy/ following facts: asked that the school board consider sec commitments. It is up to us to provide to be met. "About 500 people attended a dance at name forthwith," Mitchell said. ondary schools at Gibsons and in the these directives and they'must be given "8. Parents would have a much better 'tres beau,' ''best in west,' 'turn on the community hall on Saturday; June Giampa, in his report, said that the Sechelt area. very soon. opportunity to be 'in the know' if the the sun,' and so on. Generally peo 30, at which there was no order of any . village of Sechelt should not allow per Lang's statement to Sechelt residents "I do not attempt to submit statistical school were in close proximity. ple like the area and the helpful kind and so many cars were parked along mits for the firm until they are at least follows: "As your mayor and with full data as these are now under study by "9. Our Indian community would wel service. the road that access to the fire hall was brought up to national building code endorsement of your village council, I authoritative bodies. come a local secondary school now that blocked. standards. integration is well advanced. ask you to consider very seriously a criti "Consider the following: "These people remained in the area for Giampa showed council pieces of wood cal decision to be made shortly by your "10. A shorter day would allow after about three days and following the dance used in the construction of one of the 1. The greater Sechelt area population school work opportunities and the pursuit school board, namely: Should the rebuild is increasing rapidly ahd will continue 88 questionnaires congregated at the General Store at the homes in the village. They were rotten ing of secondary school be confined to the of hobbies, music and the like. bottom of Hall Road where two big bon and sustained "stack rot," he said. to do so. "11. Night time use of school and its Gibsons area or should the board consider "2. Bussing students to and from Gib fires were built in the middle of the yard; "Ninety per cent of (the) homes are two secondary schools—one at Gibsons facilities for all age groups. relurned on health people wandered at will over private like that," he told council. sons is costly; many thousands of dollars "12. Two gymnasiums are now re and one in the Sechelt-Selma Park area? can be saved by having a local secondary ONLY 88 residents returned hospital property and paraded in the nude back He requested council write a letter "You and I, as parents and taxpayers, quired to accommodate the present high questionnaires prepared by Frank and forth to the beach. Lacking any saYii- to the firm and telling it to bring its school. school population so why not have one must give some directives to the board "3. After school sport activities would West, director Area E, Sunshine Coast lary facilities people relieved themselves houses up to national building code on this critical decision. The loss by fire in the Sechelt area so adults and pupils Regional District. along the road or in people's yards, etc. standard or the building inspector will be possible because of no bus deadline. ' could benefit." of a great portion of Elphinstone High "4. The long day, 7 a.m.