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‘* Council passed the matter
»to the Recreation Advisory
Commission and at that
stage the prawns got into the
picture.

Two weeks later the
‘commission cdme up with a
- recommendation which

~~... council formally endorsed. —

namely, to declare’ the.
waters off Copper Cove an
extension of the Whytecliff
“underwater park.” This
designation protécts  un-
derwater flora and fauna,
and, in particular, prohibits.
divers from taking prawns.

PRAWNS THE PROBLEM

... Prawns, council was told,
were at the root of the
' problem.. Dr. Bob Collier,
municipal director of
_development, said . divers
apparently went down to the
Cove at night: to. catch

residents say the first they

The tlong-suffering
heard about the underwater
park recommendation based
on the prawn theory was
when they. read _ the
newspaper report —' at
which point they hit the fan.

In an indignant letter to’

council, signed by 24
members of the Copper
Cove Community
Association, |
vehemently protested
council's failure to meet with
them and discuss the whole
night diving situation, which
they think has nothing at all
to do with prawns.

“How dare the Parks and
Recreation Advisory

- Committee presume to make

decisions which affect us and

‘our properties without the

courtesy of any com-
munication or consultation
with us?” asks the letter, a
copy of which has been sent

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prawns and that was why
they finished up with prawn
and beer parties on the
beach. :

Prohibition _of night
diving, he added, was not
recommended because at
night divers can see sea life
they cannot see at any other
time.

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“You are our. elected.

representatives and we feel
that you have not looked
after our interests,” it
concludes. We demand that
no further action be taken by
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underwater park extension
without discussion and
approval by us.” .

PANDERING?

' Spokesman’ for the
community association say
the prawn story is a red
herring, so to speak, and
maintain that the
designation of the Cove as an
underwater park, so far from
solving the problem, may
well attract even more

divers. They accuse council’

of pandering to “commercial
and other” scuba diving
interests not even located in
West Vancouver.

Valerie Maynard, a long-

time Cove resident and
herself a licensed scuba
diver, says the only ac-

ceptable solution is a night-
time ban on diving from
perhaps 10 p.m. to7 a.m.

‘The residents, she added,
are reconciled to daytime
diving “but this is an carly-

....to-bed community and it's ; oe ”
—potright-thatcwe-stoukt-be INPUT PUTINVITED —--;
.£obbed of sleep. night after

night for six or seven months
each year.”

The worst months, she
explained, are March
through June and again from
September through = carly
November. Divers generally
avoid July and = August
because the water is too
murky in those months.

She and other residents
are particularly incensed by
the aggressive attitude! of
many of the divers when
protests are made about
their noise.

“Less than ‘10 per cent of ;

them come from West
Vancouver,” she declared,
“yet they have the cheek to
say to me ‘Lady, if you don’t
like it why don’t you move?”

ITS THEIR YEAR and
these 37 children’ are
pictured preparing to leave.
for an ecumenical con-
ference on the Year of the
Child, following thelr
Saturday morning mass at
the Child of Jesus Church
on Burrard Reserve at
Dollarton Highway. The
conference was held on the
Morley Reserve, near
Edmonton. (Terry Peters

photo)

Meanwhile, municipal
hall had evidently been
alerted to the rumblings of
revolt from the west. Before
adjourning last weck for its
August recess council in-
vited community reaction to
the extended underwater
park proposal.

Comments from interested
parties, in the form of
written submissions, must be
delivered to ‘the municipal
clerk's office before Sep-
tember 6 and cvuuncil is
expected to discuss the
matter further at its Sep-
tember 10 meeting.

Copper Cove — residents
however, are still seething.
They regard themselves as
the only interested party —
and in much greater need of
council protection than the
prawns.

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