FRIDAY
October 25, 1996

urgiars
make off
with birds

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

YOU can keep my
VCR, TV and

microwave, just give me
back my birds.

That is the message that
Kathryn Newton wants to give to
the burglars who ransacked her
home on Tuesday in the Westview
area.

“I don’t even want to think
what they could be doing to
them,” said Newton.

The law firm receptionist said
that her birds were free in a room
in the house during the day when
burglars broke in through a win-
dow.

The birds were likely scooped
up and placed in one cage before

See Reward page 2

KATHRYN Newton has one
cage left after thieves broke
into her North Van home and
Stole her pet cockatiels.

About $2,000 per voter
over 20-year term of
loan for new projects

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer
IT will cost the average North
Vancouver District voter just
under $2,000 if a $26 million
loan is approved by referendum
at the Nov. 16 municipal elec-
tion.

It took questions from Edgemont resident

Corrie Kost to elicit that information clearly ata
public forun: Tuesday to publicize information on

the upcoming referendum.

Director of finance Michael Hoskin and
municipal clerk Dennis Back repeatedly empha-
sized that:

@ all funds will be borrowed fora term of 20
years;

@ funds may only be used for
the identified projects and may
not be increased;

M referendum approval does not
legally bind subsequent councils
to implement the projects nor to
borrow funds for them;

@ other sources of funding will
be investigated, including part-
nerships with private enterprise.

But a graphic accompanying a recent district
advertisement of the referendum in the News
pats the “Foral $Tax impact per household” at
$94.97,

Neither the graphic nor the text clarifies that

November 16

that amount of money will be paid for fifteen
years before diminishing.

Director of Recreation Gary Young later
emphasized to the News that the loan repayment
was for a finite period, “unlike a tax hike that goes
on forever.”

“$100 may seem like alot but
it's less than $2 a week for all
that stuff,” said Young.

The referendum question in
November's — election — seeks
authority tor the municipality to
borrow up to $26 million to
fund:

@ Parkgate Community Centre
($8 million);

@ Inter River Plaving Fields ($5.5 million),

B& Lynn Valley Main Library ($6 million);

B Lower Capilano Community Facilities ($3 mil-

See Fields page 2

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WEATHER

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Hieh (OC. low 4C.

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‘NEWS photo Terry Peters
AMALGAMATION

Candidates
argue value
of single

municipality

By Martin Miflerchip

Contributing Writer

ONE North Shore com-
munity of 29,000
hectares with 85,000 res-
idents served by seven
politicians.

Would such a political com-
munity serve its voters more efti-
ciently than the current three
municipalities?

A few of the council candi-
dates in the upcoming election
think so, but they're not holding
their breath.

“There’s big savings to be
realized from one integrated
organization. T mean five work
yards (two are school board) in
three municipalities, come on!”

See Amalgamation page 3

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