THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NEWS photo Stuart Oevie

SALMON GET A START ON LIFE with help from Gary Small, overlooked by fellow
students from Maplewood Community School as he releases some of the 10,000
saimon the grade six class will steady. Classmates Erin Refd (centre) and Darren Mc-
Queen (right) watch over him, being part of the same salmon cnhbancement program,
which ts partially sponsored by the department of fisheries.

Grave desecration the work

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Wants Highway 99 improved

HOWE SOUND highway’s fatal reputation failed
to persuade North Vancouver District council to
back an alternative route to Squamish through
any of North Shore’s three watershed areas.

Council decided Monday
to deny support to a
Squamish-Howe Sound
Chamber of Commerce pro-
posal seeking a safer
highway route through the
environmentally sensitive
Capilano watershed.

Even though the Howe
Sound route has claimed 11
lives in the past two years,
council felt it was wiser and

more logical to improve the
existing highway than to
gamble and perhaps destroy
the lower mainiand’s water
quality.

Both District and North
Van City have now rejected
the Squamish group's
scheme. City felt that a route

through Capilano would
cause havoc with local traf-
fic flows as well as damage
the watershed area.

Alderman Emie Crist said
even though the Howe
Sound Highway is a
“somewhat contentious
issue,” he supports City’s
position in the matter and
Suggested it would be
“logical to retain the existing
route and upgrade the
highway.”Alderman Joan
Gadsby agreed with Crist
and added: “Everyone
recognizes there is a need for
an alternative (but) at some
other point in time.”

FACILITIES AT LAST FOR VISITORS

600-acre park seen as

By CHRIS LLOYD

A 600-acre park being
created on Bowen
Island is being hailed as
the saving of the island
Not only will it provide
faculties for Bowen's
ever increasing number of
recreational visitors bul
puts paid to the threat of
rapid urbanization
developing

from
eon
dominiums and shopping
malls on the island for the
foresecable future

Acquistion of Che former

Union Steamship property

on Bowen Island by the
(srenter Vancouver
[astract for a
tegional park iw opposed by a
small group of islanders

But, according to Islands

Trust Vace Chairman

Regional

John

Rich the group ts primarily
made up of would-be
developers. as well as
islanders who will not accept
the inevitable fact that the
island populavior ts bound to
continue its rapid growth

According to Rich, the
vast maygority of islanders
welcome the park as the
most likely way to bring
order to the continued
populabon increase facing
Bowen

The property is in a single
block and includes lands at
Snug Cove. where the
Horseshoe Bay Bowen
Isiand ferry docks. and all of
Killarncy Lake The old
Cseneral Store is inctuded tn
the property

All of the park wall be a.
cessible oon the
terry dow k

Purchase price for the on
tire site was $1 milhon or
$2 SOO an acre In approving

foot from

saving of Bowen Island

the purchase, by a
unanimous vote, members of
the GVRD Board of Direc-
tors said the price was very

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