JULY 8, 1998 Business Bright Lights Classifieds Crossword Food + North Shore Alen Sports Table le Hopping Judy Smith Contributing Writer VANCOUVER Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry and North Vancouver Reform MP Ted White are squaring off for battle over student employ- ment funding. fra fetter sent to the North Shore News, Fry alleyes White denicd access to 72 North Vanceuver students appiving for the Sunioer Coree r Placement Program, a federally financed emplovment project LIBERAL MP Hedy Fry... says students denied jobs. See Studvat page 3 Burning issue p3 Pacific Reach 023 West Van firefighters’ flyer rattles council Special 4-page feature inside today's paper Caulfeild area business profile Commercial Avenues p15 $1.00 NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Ismaili community grieves THE Ismaili Muslim funeral for Sameer and Alim Kurji drew about 3,000 sespic on Monday to the tions Gate Mosque. The Kurji brothers, ages 14 and 9, were killed in a Vancouver car crash on July 1. The funeral was held at the Nerth Van Mosque because it could handle the large number of expected mourners. m plan concerns David Taylor Contributing Writer TWO major construction projects slated to begin next summer at Capilano Lake’s Cleveland Dam raised the concern of North Vancouver District Council Monday. The projects, totalling nearly $100 million, will create a new gone treatment plant and help control water seepage under the dam. Council wants to be sure the projects won't make residents miserable of ruin a sceme focauon in the process. Cleveland Dam supplies 40% of the region's drinking water Currently, that water NV District councillors fret over construction impact on Capilano neighborhood is disinfected with chlorine. Doug Neden of the GVRD water department told council that ozone is a better disinfectant and is more effective at killing organisms like giardia and cryptosporidium. Chlorine will still be added to the water to prevent bacteria trom growing as it travels through pipes to homes. Soda ash will also be added to the water to prevent copper igaching in homes, which causes green stains to form in sinks and bathtubs. Neden said construction of the ozone treatment plant: should begin next vear and will finish in 2001. Meanwhile, work will also begin to control water seepage under rhe dam. Frank Uuber of the GVRD water department says that currently about 2,000 litres of water per minute seeps through a layer of permeable soil. Fixing the problem will involve excavating some 300,000 cubic metres of earth and installing a clay or concrete blanket five metres thick {project is also expected to start next year and should be cor d by either 2001 or 2003, depending on how many hours a day work can be done without grea’ isturbing neighbors. But the prospect of having trucks rumble through the qiuet neighborhood didn’t thrill some — councillors. “Construction equipment as pretty loud.” said Coun. Glenys See Dam page $