foes stand fl r Horseshoe Bay upgrade delay fails to placate Bob Mackin News Reporter OPPONENTS of BC Ferries’ Horseshoe Bay expansion plans don’t want to be called NIMBYs, says their spokesman. You could call them NIH Bays. Citizens Against Ferry Traffic Expansion (CAETE) met Monday night ar Gleneagles Golf Club to say Not In Horseshoe Bay to the provincial Crown corporation. Members of the ad hoc group don’t want a new terminal main- tenance faciliey, parkade or administration building in their community. In a pre-emptive strike fast Friday, provin- cial ferries’ minister Gordon Wilson put the terminal maintenance fivility on hold pending president Bob Lingwoad’s review. The parkade and administration building were shelved, bur not quashed, earlier this vear. CAFTE’s Mar Wilkox said 168) people showed up at the meeting — a sign thar Wilson’s ploy backfired, “There was an overwhelming message that BC Ferries has outgrown not only Horseshoe Bay, but West Vancouver as well,” said Wilcox, a Horseshoe Bay resident and partner in a Vancouver public relations firm. “It’s nor a case of Not In My Backyard. It is a case of BC Ferries better look fong-term.” She said BC Ferries is suggesting a $40-mil- fion “band-aid solution” which doesn’t reflect the community’s needs, The terry corporation hasn't conducted any environmental or trans- portation impact studies to justify the expan- sion and isn’t bound by municipal zoning reg- ulations. Wilson was invited to the meeting, but sent BC Ferries’ Victoria-based communications director Clay Suddaby instead. Suddaby said some residents would like to see BC Ferries leave the bay entirely. The money-losing Crown corporation has operated the terminal there since 1961 and has no plans to leave. Suddaby said the infrastructure improvements would help BC Ferries’ bottom NV Brady Fotheringham Contributing Writer THE North Vancouver Curling Club is without its home after North Vancouver District coun- cil voted Monday against allowing the club to remain at the Lonsdale recreation cen- tre. Amidst curling brooms taped with signs stating “evic- tion” and “public recreation should stay in public facili- ties,” over 100 angry curlers packed the district meeting in the hopes councillors would change their collective minds. Only Mayor Don Bell and councillors Pat Munroe and Ernie Crist voted to keep the curling club at the Lonsdale centre. The curlers, who number NICKOLUAS Knit, foreground left to right, Kris Fjoser, Jonathan Norrish, Stephen hacks eject line and relations with area residents, Auditor gcneral George Morfitt recommended centrai- iving terminal maintenance staff for BC Ferries’ Langdale, Bowen Island and Horseshoe Bay routes for a $250,000 annual saving. “By doing those things we would nuke traf: fic less congested, the flow of vehicles more efficient and put less pressure on Horseshoe Bay,” he said. Horseshoe Bay, he said, would then become 3 more esthetically pleasing area where people could spend more time patroniz- NEWS photo Brad Leawidge TERMINAL expansion opponents John Mocnen (left) and Samantha Macintyre. ing businesses. Wilcox doesn’t buy that. “No one crusts BC Fernzs. They say one thing to one group and thes turn around to the next group and say something completely different.” Suddaby said the corporation doesn’t want to be portraved as “the bad guy” and wants to work with area residents and tne municipality to find a solution. “We're going to be togetacr for a long time,” he said. Wilcox said the volunteer-t.an CAFTE is encouraging residents to lobby Wilson, local Liberal MLAs Ted Nebbeling and Jeremy Dalton and West Vancouver’s municipal coun- cil to stop the expansion. The group is also try- ing to scheduie a meeting with Wilson. on of curl et ar myo ri Pedhten oY ee Spokes people Ers cient rink time for their senior and junior curling programs and that the social aspect they enjoyed at the Lonsdale centre will be lost at the North Shore Winter Club. “It's a social sport and now that we don’t have a home where are the junior curlers going to go?” said Ryon Wexler, a young curler who uses the Lonsdale centre several times a weck, Shayne Dunlop, vice president and league represen- tative for the curling club said the North Vancouver Recreation Commission has basically sold them out. Dunlop maintains council has pushed a public club ouc of a public facility and furthermore the skateboarders who used the curling rink in the summer have no organiza- * tion co speak for them. They NEWS phote Brad Ledwidge too are out of a facility. “This is a prime exam- over 400 strong, now have to Bailey, Amy Amantea, Kathryn Vondette and Ryon Wexler (back) were among ple of why democracy is need- choose between moving tothe curlers protesting at North Van District hall on Monday. North Shore Winter Club (NSWC) or going across the bridge to the Vancouver Curling Club or Coquitlam recreation centre. The dual-purpose indoor curling and skateboard park facility could be closed down immediately or in the fall pending further decisions. Curlers say their former rink will be turned into a new gym for the Flicka Gym Club, a non-profit gym- nastic organization that is looking to replace its pre- sent facility at che Memorial Recreation Centre. Sandy Fleming of the sports advisory council left the district hall without answering many of the curlers” questions. “We are literally evicting the curlers,” said Coun. Ernie Crist. “What irks me is that the (the North Vancouver Recreation Commission) is out of control and are using their position to drive public recreation into the arms of private facilities.” Crist maintains that the four councillors who voted against the curlers — Glenys Deering-Robb, Lisa Muri, Trevor Carotan and Janice Harris — are doing so to curry favour with the recreation commis- sion so they will increase their votes at the Noventber elections. The ousted curlers maintain that there is insuffi- ed in North Vancouver,” said Liz James, a North Shore res- ident. “It’s not curlers versus gymnasts, it’s public recreation versus private recreation.” Janis Ross, one of the curlers at the meeting said that many curlers would rather give up curling than go to the NSWC. “You can’t set up leagues and the winter club can't accommodate our needs,” Russ said. But NSWC general manasr Bruce Marks said Tuesday that the club car accommodate 800 to 1,000 curlers on the club's eight sheets of ice. “We are continuing to do ». nat we've always done. As long as they participate, they will have input,” he said. NEWS photo Brad Lechidge CYCLISTS took to the Lions Gate Bridge on Sunday to draw attention to their need for wider sidewalks on the bridge. Hundreds participated. Traffic ruckus raised Brady Fotheringham Contributing Writer IF you’re a hard- core mountain biker and regularly use the trails north of | Mountain Highway, get ready to start riding your bike a little further. North Vancouver District council approved a two-month tnal plan Monday to limit parking _ on Mountain Highway to 50% resident parking only after many neighbours . complained about unde- sirable social behaviour and heavy traffic in the area. Parking will be limired from juiy 1 to the end of August while district staff further study one of three parking options chosen by a resident’s steering committee in April. With the popularity of mountain biking on North Shore trails, resi- dents have complained that a busy weekend fills See Bikers page §