Boy, are we all eavironmentally conscious, or what! If
you are to be believed, 96% of us use the blue box sys-
tem to cut down on solid waste going to the great
incinerator in the sky (well, Burnaby actually). Maybe
we should have asked some tougher questions. Do you
all wash your bottles and cans before taking them to
the curb? Do you take the labels off tin cans, and plas-
tic or metallic wrap off the necks of wine bottles? Yes?
Well, what about taking the bottoms out of cans and
fattening them to save space, or only putting out your
box when it is full. The bortom tine is that we can all
do more. Our opportunity is a little easier this month
with the pick-up of mixed paper products and plastic containers marked with the
#1 and #2 recycling symbols. Read the package that was delivered to your heme
with the yellow bag, Using the service correctly will ultimately save taxes.

INNORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS
; DON'T
KNOW
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* | inquiring
reporter

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/Ambleside

British Properties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands
Lower Lonsdale

Central and Upper Lonsdale
Lynn Vailey

Blueridge/Deep Cove

Yvonne Perreault

North Vancouver

Yes, because if we continue

not caring we are going to

be in big trouble in five, 19,
or 20 years, if. we are not

already.

Tomonori Nakagawa
North Vancouver

Yes I do. Recycling is com-
mon in Japan but there is no
pick-up. We have to take it
toa depot. =). ¢ ve

Linda Feil

North Vancouver
Absolutely, I’m cestatic
about the expanded pick-up.
For the last pve years, as my
husband says, I've been col-
lecting garbage. He had to
take it to the depor, now we
just take it to the curb.

99%
96%

TOTAL. ...cccesssessessecnserccserertsseess 9G%

ouncil starts Westview.

Jolanda Waskito

Contributing Writer we

_ NORTH Vancouver City
council has done an about-.
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Planning Study — _ again.

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much it would cost ro restart and

complete the study.

The decision came after a dclega-
tion of. Westview residents affected
by the provincially-built $32 million
interchange, spoke to council about

lost privacy, peace and quict.

The Westview Arca Planning
Study -— which began with a public
mecting held in January — was to
examine the impacts of the inter-
change on area residents, review

land uses, and propose alternatives
and possible changes to the official
community plan.

Another delegation — consisting
of residents who also suffered
impacts from the new interchange
but were not invited to participate
in the study — told council at an
April 6 meeting it wanted the study
aboried.

Chris Leuchte, who lives in the
400-block of West 24th, was not

study

allowed to be part of the:study even |
though he lived only a block away~
from the study area.

He told council he was con-
cerned that “the study was focusing
on expanding the size of my neigh-
borhood without including me (in
it).”

That night, council — minus —
absent councillors Darrell Mussatto
and Barbara Sharp — unanimousiy

“voted to terminate the study.

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rect tthe cour sald cost the city’s
taxpayers more. moncy that.“ was
budgeted. :

The city had a contract with con;
sultants | David =: Nairne. “and
Associates to complete: the study for
$25,000. : :

But. the’ consultants’ were “no
longer bound to the ‘contract after.

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