A NORTH Vancouver businessman is furious with oa Canada Post Corp. plan to cut hours of access to the 987 post office boxes at the main North Vancouver post office. Box access is currently available 24 hours per day seven days per week, but, as of May 1. people who rent post office boxes at the Lonsdale and First Street post of- fice will have co pick up past office box mail between 6:30 a.m. and irror, mirror SOME DAYS it doesn't pay to look at yourself in the mirror. Grade 7 stu- dent Justin Hesselman discovered this recently at an open house at Hillside School in’ West) Van- couver. “Fhe concave niir- ror is used for lessons in the science room. $30 p.m. Monday through Friday. “This has a lot of people an- neyed”* George Spracklin said SEYMOUR PLAN NV rifle range cou shot down for golf course THE TERRAIN in the upper reaches of the Blair rifle range property cast of Blueridge and north of Mount Seymour Parkway could be dotted with golf balls in the next few years. Stage one of a feasibility study — commissioned by Canada Mor- tgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the B.C. Lands and Forests Ministry, current owners of the 671-acre site — has deter- mined the physical layout of the upper portion of the land could accommodate a golf course. Resi- dential deveiopment is also envi- sioned as part of the plan. The property is designated urban reserve in the Seymour Official Community Plan. Beet 2a MEE, . Vancouver federal government funded a con- sultant to work with the North District planning department (o develop the concept plan for the McCartney Woods and Northlands subdivisions to be located on the 106-acre lower por- tion of the property near Mount Seymour Parkway. “—t wasn't that long ago when the thinking was that the property SVN be rey y CSET ERUPT SNES PSE SERS The new subdivisions, on the southernmost 106 acres of the Blair rifle range site, will include a mix of single-family and multi-family homes and a half-acre commercial site. But said Vancouver manager of the CMHC real estate division Robert Mooney, ‘‘Whether it’s the right thing to have up there has yet sto be decided.’” While the plan for the upper portion of the site works its way to the conceptual stage, the planned McCartney Woods and Northlands subdivisions are ready for council consideration. Mooney said the provincial and was undevelopable,”’ he said. Mooney said the CMHC wouldn’t be directly involved in the development of the property. “Ultimately we'd like to dispose of the land. The studies are to show there is some value to the property for development,”’ he said. The new subdivisions, on the southernmost 106 acres of the Blair rifle range site, will include a mix of single-family and mutlti- Vrcstas Ox access Thursday. ‘'Sometines small businesses can’) pet fo the past ot- fice during business hours. But ies not just small businesses, people should be able to pick up mail at any nme, That's the idea of a post office box." Canada Post: spokesman Celine Gaulin said the decision to reduce hours of access to the boxes was made primarily because of increas- id be family homes and a half-acre commercial site, While the feasibility study, prepared by North Vancouver consulting engineers Reid Crowther and Partners Litd., has confirmed that the land above the 492-foot level of Hyannis Drive could accommodate a golf cours and additional residential development, Jim Switzer, Ministry of Lands and Forestry manager of development and mar- keting, Lower Mainland lands operation, said the next step is to draw up a conceptual plan of how it would all fit together. Switzer expects the feasibility study to be complete by the end of May. “After it’s completed we'll be in a position to review if having a golf course and housing makes sense,"” he said. Switzer suid planners are being directed to looking at an [8-hole golf course for the portion of the property above Hyannis Drive. The Blair rifle range property extends beyond a 1,476-foot eleva- dion hydro easement to an upper- most point of just over 1,800 feet. Some of the siopes, where bran- ches of McCartney Creek run through, are characterized by LO to 20 per cent grades. The property was originally ex- propriated from the district by the federal government in the 1920s for use as a shooting range and then later turned over to the CMHC, sd vandalism ain the post office's lock box lobby. “Wei have had a without surveillance Ganlin said Thursday. She said # decision was subse. quently made to have the fock-hax lobby open only during the hours that staff are at the post office. Bat Sprachtin said he has had a box at the post office since 1973 problem there.”* Mayor Don “cautiously op- 8.C. cabinet Maret 28. (ass North shore NORTH Vancouver businessman George Spracklin...“ This has a fot of people annoyed." and has never encountered vandalism problems, any Vancouver Ald. Rod Day...inequities resolved ‘‘over # period of time." to discuss \health funding inequities WEST VANCOUVER District Mayor Don Lanskail says there are grounds for being ‘“cauticusly optimistic’ about assurances that inequities in provincial funding to the North Shore Union Board of Health will be rectified. Lanskail recently met with Mayor Marilyn Baker, Mayor Jack Loucks, health board chairman Ald. Murray Dykeman and Health Minister Peter Dueck, ‘ “Dueck was well prepared.... He recognized the inequality’ and Promised to carry a proposal to cabinet," Lanskail told) West P Vancouver District Council Monday. Ald. Rod Day, West Van- couver’s representalive to the board of health, said Dueek in- dicated the provincial gov- ernment would work to resolve F inequities ‘‘aver oa period of time.” At present the provincial gov- ernment supports other boards of health to a far greater extent than it does the North Shore union, which is made up of the three municipalities and North Van- couver School District 44. Day said that the hoped for in- ereased funding will he used to centralize board of health facifi- ties, which are located next to Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver and neat to the Me- morial Library in’ West Vana- couver. Neteriorating equipment and staff overload are other priocities to be looked at.