>: LOOKING SOUTH from the Seventh Heaven run on Blackcomb Mountain. Spr- ing skiing is at its best right now with all areas reporting good bases. NEWS photo Stuart Davis Snowfall extends spring ski season Base keeps building on local mountains SPRING MAY be in the air, but Vancouver’s favorite winter sport — ski- ing — is still thriving on at least one North Shore mountain. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Cypress Bowl marketing coor- dinator Mark Gascoigne said Tuesday the mountain now has a407-centimetre base and received 30 centimetres of new snow on Monday night. “tt looks like it’s going into Ju- ly. We’ve got the highest base we've had all year now,”” he said. All runs and chairs in the @ Budget Beaters......... 44 @ Business ...........0.. 45 ER Comics ............... 42 Wi EcoUpdate............ 47 Cypress Bowl recreation area are in operation and night skiing is still available. Cypress is open for skiing from 8:30 a.m. to 1} p.m. And Gascoigne said Cypress will stay open as long as skiers keep coming to the hill, which largely depends on the weather. “We could stay open indefinite- Jy. It’s just a matter of the interest of skiers. This time of year they only seem to come up when it’s sunny,” he said, adding that the mountain will be open for at least a few weeks longer. Meanwhile, despite the recent snowfall, Grouse Mountain is winding down its ski season. The mountain has a 275- centimetre base and received 20 centimetres of fresh snow on Monday night. Grouse is operating daily from 9 am. to 4:30 p.m. But after Aprii 14, Grouse will be open only on weekends, weather permitting. index WB Lifestyles... 0.00.00 000. 39 @ North Shore Now... ..24 MM Sports... 0.02... 13 @ What's Going On ...... 17 Second Class Registration Nurmber 3885 “We're not short of snow though,’’ said Rob Wallace, ski director at Grouse. ‘‘It’s just that interest tends to wane at this time of year.”’ Over the past four days, Grouse has received up to 70 centimetres of snow, he said. Although only the inferno chairlift. and the Paradise rope tow were operating Tuesday, all the mountain’s chairlifts will be operating during the weekends. Mount Seymour's ski season is also drawing to a finish. The mountain is closed until the weekend, when it will operate from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur- day and Sunday. Cypress, in conjunction with CFOX, is honoring any valid ski passes for B.C. mountains for night skiing. For a $3.99 donation to the Vancouver Food Bank, pass holders can ski ac Cypress from 5 p.m. to PE! p.m. Weather Thursday mostly sunny, high 12°C, low 3°C. Friday. mostly cloudy with showers, high 14°C, low 5°C. H. Bay Wednesday, April 10, 1991 - North Shore News - 3 summer ferry service facing cutbacks BC. Ferry Corp. to move extra sailings to ‘Tsawwassen THE B.C. Ferry Corp. (BCFC) has decided against scheduling extra sailings for its Horseshoe Bay-to- Nanaimo route this sum- mer, a BCFC spokesman said Tuesday. By Surj Rattan News Reporter Erin Caldwell said the extra sailings normally added to the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route will instead be put on the Tsawwassen-Nunaimo Mid-tstand Express route. In the past, the BCFC increased the number of ferries servicing the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route from two to four during the summer months to handle the seasonal increase in tourist traffic. But Caldwell said the BCFC now wants to divert some of the ferry traffic away from the Van- couver area and the congested Horseshoe Bay terminal to the larger Tsawwassen terminal, Caldwell said the Horseshoe Bay terminal gets especially con- gested during the summer months. ‘Just to process traffic through there for the three routes is pretty A NORTH Vancouver real fallout from spicy company a hot $2,000. North Shore Realty Ltd. has been ordered by the B.C. Council of Human Rights to pay a total of $2,060 in com- pensation to two Indo-Cana- dians who were rejected as renters. In a decision made public on Friday, Eric Powell, who chaired the BCHR hearing into the case, ordered J&M Apart- ments Lid. and North Shore Realty Ltd. to pay Khursheed Fancy and Shamsudin Fancy $500 each for the offence and an additional $500 each ‘‘as some compensation for the in- convenience, humiliation and injury to feelings of self- respect."” The hearing dated back to late 1988, when the Fancys viewed apartments at 133 West 13th St. in North Vancouver, and after seeing the units, were told by tie realty company’s property manager, Tage Elgaard, that the suites were rented. Chairman Powell said that from testimony, it appeared that Elgaard and realty presi- dent and part-owner Douglas Black, ‘‘were concerned with the possibiliry (that) the Fan- cys’ use of curry in cooking would upset other tenants.”’ There had been no com- plaints about the Fancys’ culi- nary practices, ‘but Black and Elgaard had relied on this reason as a pretext for discrimination,’’ said Powell. But in fact, the chairman Compensation ordered in cooking odors case Indian cooking has cost the chaotic,”’ said Caldwell. But) West) Vancouver District Mayor Mark Sager said Tuesday that his council will have to monitor ‘very clasely’’ how the shifting of extra ferries from the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route will affect Horseshoe Bay traffic. “Hf it will remove traffic, then that will be a good thing. But if the current service develops bot- tlenecks along the freeway (Upper Levels Highway), we will be quite concerned,’ Sager said. He added that he hopes the reduction in summer-time service along the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route is only an experiment. Last March, the provincial gov- ernment announced a $34-miilion face-lift. for the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal so that it can meet the demands of ferry passengers for the next 20 years. The expansion, which was to begin in January, would have in- creased terminal parking capacity from the present 225 vehicles to 750 vehicles and expanded vehicle-holding capacity at the terminal from 820 vehicles to 1,500 vehicles. It would also have increased the number of ticket booths at the terminal from seven to 10. The entire project was to be completed in the fall of 1992. But the provincial government put the terminal expansion on hold earlier this year to ‘‘recon- sider’? the multi-million dollar project. But Sager said the BCFC still has an obligation to address the pressing problem of parking in and around the Horseshoe Bay terminal. estate firm’s bosses’ fear of By John Pifer Contributing Writer added, ‘‘the more probable in- ference to be drawn... is that the Fancys’ race, color, ancestry and place of origin was a factor in the decision not to lease them an apartment.”’ He allowed that J&M Apartments Ltd., the proper- ty’s Management company, was unaware of North Shore Real- ty’s rental practices, but as managers of the property, J&M was responsible for the actions of those within its employ. Powell described racial discrimination as being ‘‘of an insidious and concealed nature."’ Elgaard told the hearing he knew the Fancys were Indo- Canadians, and he stated: ‘They cook differently. Caucasians don’t use spices to the extent they do.”’ Mrs. Fancy, who was born in Bombay, India, is 62; her husband, who was born in Mombasa, Kenya, is 70. Asked by her counsel, Lesiey Stalker, how the event affected her, Mrs. Fancy replied: “Well, it made me feel that maybe we made a_ mistake coming to Canada. We just left everything behind in other countries, and came here with alrnost nothing, hoping without everything. that we would have a place where we have equal rights with everybody else.”