WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10 2016
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Day of Discovery
West Vancouver United Church hosts Women’s Retreat TASTE 23
The Village Taphouse
Ambience adds to flavour of ‘pub grub’ in Park Royal South SPORTS 27
Hockey
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Lynn Valley legion abruptly closes MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
Questions are being raised after the Lynn Valley Legion Branch 114 unexpectedly shut its doors late last week amid allegations of “financial irregularities” within the club.
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX Peter Creed from Wales loads up a forehand shot against New Zealand’s Martin Knight during the final of the Paul Marley Memorial Open professional squash tournament played Sunday at Evergreen Squash Club. Knight claimed the title with a 3-0 win. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
On Thursday night the Royal Canadian Legion’s oversight body, B.C./Yukon Command and Foundation, called a mandatory meeting with the Lynn Valley legion’s executive to inform them the branch would be put into “receivership.” This information was part of a message posted on the Lynn Valley Legion’s Facebook page by Dave McKay, who is listed as the executive’s second vice-president. The North Shore News obtained a copy of a letter dated Feb. 3 and sent to Lynn Valley Legion executive members from B.C./Yukon Command president Marc Tremblay that reads: “This course of action comes following a series of complaints and financial irregularities reported within your
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School-based child care gets the squeeze
JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
The North Vancouver School District will apply for a half-million dollar grant from the province to expand the number of licensed child-care spaces available to local families, at a time when those spaces are in jeopardy. The move comes at a time when space available within schools for child care has been shrinking, putting a squeeze on existing child-care providers.
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Increased enrolment puts preschool, after-school care spaces in jeopardy
Introduction of the full-day kindergarten program, plus increased enrolment in elementary schools means there are now fewer classrooms available for uses like child care and preschools. Top Drawer Daycare, which operates at Brooksbank elementary in North Vancouver, knows that only too well. The
child care used to offer a program for three- to five-year-olds as well as before and after school care. But two years ago, the school needed two classrooms back, so owner Lorraine van der Poel said she had to close the program for preschoolers. The school district has extended her current lease until July, but van der Poel said she’s been given notice that the before and after school child-care program will also have to move.
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