VICTORIA —. Attorney
General Brian Smith is
refusing to say much
about a $440,000 budget
item for a ‘‘security
program’’.

Smith denied that the

money, allocated in the re-
cent provincial govern-

Woods

$440,000 for
‘security’

4- Friday, March 2, 1984 - North Shore News

ment for an unspecified
security program, was for
a ‘‘secret police force’’
under questioning the
legislature from NDP
MLA Rosemary Brown
this week.

Smith said he would say
what the money is intend-
ed for later this week.

unions

squaring off

VANCOUVER — As
B.C. Federation of Labor
leader Art Kube attemp-
ted to calm frayed tempers
in the dispute between
pulp and wood workers,
the IWA and pulp unions
continued to square off.
IWA pickets showed up

__,gutside Belkin Packaging

in Burnaby Thursday

where Canadian Pulp
Union represented
workers who are not in-
volved in the pulp mill
lock-outs are employed.
Kube called for a cool-
ing down of the conflict as
fears of picket line
violence are increasing in
several areas of the
Province.. -

Uniform will
lead to fine

VANCOUVER — A

-— SeaBus_ worker who-con- -

tinued to wear his uniform

workers has
threatened with $100 a
day fines by his union.

Zoltan Strigan, a
marine attendant on the
SeaBus, says he was
notified of the possible
union action after he ar-
rived for work wearing his

Newfoundland

uniform Thursday.

OF the Indepen-
dent Canadian -Transit
Union's efforts to reach:a
new contract with ‘the

«Metro Transit Operating

Company, drivers con-
tinue to report for work
Gut are not in uniform.

Colin Kelly, president
of the transit union, has
said drivers who wear
uniforms on the job will
be considered strike-
breakers.

freezes pay

St. JOHN’S, Nfld. — The
Newfoundland provincial
government has ordered a
two-year freeze on salary

increases for civil
servants.
Newfoundland, facing

a slower recovery from the
recession than most Cana.
dian provinces, an-
ticipates a $68 million
deficit at the end of its
fiscal year

The deficit is expected

iraq,
trade

NICOSIA The three-
year-old war between lran
and Iraq ts growing tn-
creasingly heated, with at-
tacks this week that
resulted in heavy
casualities for both sides

Tuesday an traqie an
raid on the braman borde:
wity of Bakhtaran killed 31
cnihans and injured as
many as SOO others

to hit $100 million by the
end of the 1984-85 fiscal
year, leading to the freeze
on salary increases, new

programs and discre
tionary spending
Alternatives to the
salary freeze that’ were
considered and then re-
jected) included an_ in-

crease in the sales tax to 14
per cent from 12 per cent
and laying off about 1,000
workers

Jran
raids

In retahation,
jets struck Iraqi infantry

lraman

and = armoured — forces
Wednesday deep in Iraq

Increased fighting over
the past several weeks has
raised fears that continued
fighting between the two
countries could lead vo an
arms enforced stopping of
world ob supplics
the mud cast

from

ment, in the lobby of the B.C. Rail Building. The project, he says, is on target.

NEWLY-APPOINTED
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Development Board
chairman Gary Payne
has trouble concealing
his excitement::over the
redevelopment....of the
waterfront areas of the
City of North
Vancouver.

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For Payne, the project is
the realization of a long-uume
push for the development of
the area. His appointment as
chairman makes tt possible
for him to see the project
through.

It was, Payne says, his in-
terest in the development of
the area that first attracted
him to municipal politics. As
an alderman, he represented
the city on the board of direc.
tors for the Lonsdale Quay
project.

Payne decided not to seck
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‘*It would appear,’’ Payne
said this week, ‘‘that the
development of Lonsdale
Quay is right on target.”

GARY PAYNE — looking
beyond the Quay.

Payne spoke to the News in
the lobby of the B.C. Rail
building, one of the most im-
pressive components of the
Quay project and one of the
catalysts for getting the pro-
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of a tremendous dynamic,’’
he says. ‘‘When it’s com-
pleted there will between 700
and 800 residents here, 2,800
to 3,000 jobs, 300 students
and staff at an educational
facility and thousands of

commuters passing through

the area every hour.’’

That dynamic, he says, will
also fuel the redevelopment
of areas of the city adjacent
to Lonsdale Quay.

“There’s a tremendous
potential here for the mer-
chants of Lower Lonsdale,’’
Payne says. ‘‘Prudent mer-
chants are going to find a
way to take advantage of
that.’”’

While the l.onsdale Quay
Development Board is not
directly involved in the pro-
cess of revitalizing the Lower
Lonsdale area, its efforts on
the Quay project will be

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complementary.

‘“We are involved only in
so much as the board wants
Lonsdale Quay to interface
with the rest of the communi-
ty and become an integral
part of North Vancouver ci-
ty,’’ Payne says.

Payne, who emphasizes
that his comments are his
own and not made on behalf
of the board, feels the
redevelopment of the area
around the Quay is as impor-
tant as the development now
under way.

He says a revitalization
project now before mer-
chants in the lower Lonsdale
area is vital and not only in
terms of the Quay.

“If that one fails, the
lower few blocks of Lonsdale
will continue to decay. We'll
lose businesses and part of
our history,’’ he says.

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