Newsstand Price 25e 5 erry et Mountain of garbage fowers over homes Landfill. Residents of the Hoskins ‘Road area and the side _ streets. leading closer to the creek say their problems have steadily multiplied ever since the CUPE Strike of ~ early this year. In the past few months they have seen the garbage pile reach unprecedented heights. The garbage. they say, coming right to their doorsteps, dropped there by flocks of crows who feast on the waste. Pets have been going down sick. In the past few weeks most of the families in Birchlynn Place have been ill. Some are connecting it with the presence and the sing of the landfill. They complain of smells, flies, raw garbage left un- covered, for wecks on end and the incessant noise of the machinery towering above them. A petition is circulating the area calling the height of the dump unacceptable and asking District to lower it. The petition will likely be outdated before it is even presented to District council since it is anticipated dumping will probably stop there in the coming weck and move to an adjacent October 25, 1981 Ss‘ Teel. 985-2131 SMOUNTAIN of garbage visible from their has reached the: 150: ft. level. area further north. From that point on, the problem will also expand and it will be residents on the streets further up Hoskins who will find themselves looking out on a growing hill of garbage that never used to be there. HIGHER District Engineer John Bremner says that the mountain yet to be created will be even higher than the one already causing the problems since the overall plan for the landfill ts to have it benched off into steadily rising steps. He, together with Mayor Don Bell and other District officials, agree that for residents of homes nearby the situation is “un- desirable”. They also say it’s unavoidable The District 1s sensitive about the dump Mayor Bell is touchy even about the word. It’s a landfill, he in- sists. A dump. he says, “conjures up pictures of mounds of rotung garbage.” And that is cxactly what neighbors complain they are faced with. CONTINUED ON PAGE Al2 Classified 986-6222 ACCUSATIONS are And the her. :the’ mountain grows the lower the locals hig feel abont living just the other side of Lynn Creek opposite North Vancouver's Premier Street LOOKING AT THE PROBLEM from above, Mayor Don Bell and District Manager Doug Welsh stand in the thick of the garbage which towers over the homes of the complaining residents. (Eric Eggertson photo) AT GLENEAGLES Tall Trees being levelled against West Vancouver council. that it has sacrificed the interests of Gleneagles residents by. perinitting the first stages .of a new sub- division without a development permit. Danae’ Dagg, -a neighbor - of the proposed subdivision is maintaining that council is permitting the _ initial development on the assumption that affected neighbors are powerless to stop it. Council received at its Monday meeting a letter from Dagg expressing her concerns about the sub- division planned for 5988 Marine Drive and 6008-18 Gleneagles Drive to be kaown as Tall Trees. In her letter Dagg, who has factiously named her property Short Shrubs, stated: “It appears that you merely compromised the rights of the citizens because they are not easily able to take legal action against you, whereas the developer may be threatening such action... CONTINUED ON PAGE Al0 weather SUNDAY: Sanny, but crisp MONDAY: Little change.