Al2 - Friday, December 14, 1984 - North Shore News NEWS photo Terry Peters CHARTWELL SCHOOL students Kris Henry and Jennifer Lau put their backs into if as they polish cars for famine relief funds for Ethiopia. The car wash was part of a drive that raised more than $500 for the drought-stricken country. Noise consultant hired to study resident complaints A |LONG-STANDING between and Pemberton tusinesspeople has prompted flact dents North Vancouver District ratory Residents have Council to call for a $6500 targeted the use Howe study investigate crushing machinery ‘‘and its and assess residential com- compliance with Zoning plaints dustrial side Ayvcnue According west over the noise resulting from local light in Operations on the Pemberton a Ddastroct con- staff report, the most recent Norgate resi- complaints occurred due to area the expansion of the Bon busy summer and ths -- dar-Clegg geochemical labo- Bylaw regulations, especially noie from the dust extrac tion machinery and the all the night operation during the was the fall recognized by mon District rock possible abatement latter the most The report said a meeting 17 between res- idents, area businesspeople, staff representatives revealed four solutions. measures, en- practices, practices and However, recommendauion alternative group as meaningful long held October forcement management land use controls term route Lipon noise distributed residents council noise sharing EER ERA EAPAT ANAT AT 4 4 4 4 ; 4 4 4 a Me ‘iyi 2? WVb.el ue. Adult $1 OO $ol ow b Se romaL ay x y results At group ws also discuss ways completion, the study is tO. be the affected and businesspeo- ple, with a followup meeting to be held with the same parties to discuss the study's that time, the scheduled to of implemen ting the study, as well as cost a. A Merry Christmas From Whistler Mountai Ihis Christmas, slip the top of the world into someone's stocking. For a skier it’s the perfect gift idea Job will GREATER VAN- COUVER Regional District analysts are forecasting a gradual improvement in the job growth rate but say it will be the mid-1990s before full employment is achieved in the region again. They also forecast that the commercial services sector (business and personal ser- vices) will overtake the trade sector (wholesale and retail sales) as the largest area of employment The torecasts are contain- ed in the most recent ‘Bulletin’ prepared by the GVRD's Development Ser- vices Department. “Creating jobs will be a challenge to the region's public and private sectors for at least the next decade,’’ the report states, adding “without doubt the number of people waating work will increase, new entrants to the labor market and the tncreas- ing number of working women make this a certainty even in the untikely even that net migration to the-region halts ”° Greater Vancouver s labour force more than doubled between 1961) and 1YR8L, from 300,000 to almost 700 000, tuclled by high) fn oe 2 These certificates can be used anytime and each one comes individually packaged Mountain Lift Ticket Certificates Youth (13> 1/7 incl) $16 00 $46 OO $75 OO Seniors Child (7 12 incl) $b OO each $t OO each $e (Hd eye ty Vnistier Mountain Available at the following Sports Shops SAYUINE SPORTS CEMURE 119 W 16th St N Vancouver 6 ( ALPINE HUI 936 8S Parh Roya: W Vancouver B OW Me Vr oF mee ce Wis SPORTMAUS 1499 B Marine 0: W Vancouver B ( VILLAGE SAL SHOP 1845 Marine Dr W Vancouver & s the Geondels face Whistte, SLOWLY — study mi. q rate rise migration, the baby boom generauion and the growing numbers of women entering the work force This represented an annual growth tate of five per cent during the 1960s and 3.5 per cent during the °70s. Average monthly employment — the number working — peaked at about 640,000 in 1981. The labor force 1s expected tO grow al an average annual rate of about 1.8 per cent during the ‘80s and 1.3 per cent during the ‘90s, the GVRD report says. Little change 1s foreseen in the increasing participation of women in the labor force. ‘*Female participation has risen dramatically over the past two decades from about 30 per cent of the work force in 1961 to 43 per cent in 1981 By the end of the century women will represent nearly half the region’s workers,”’ states the report. In 1961 manufacturing was Greater Vancouver's largest private employment sector but by 1967 had been sur passed by the trade sector By 1978 commercial services had become the second largest private employment sector The GVRD report says that) “service employment, which is less dependent on the province's resources, is expected to dominate increasingdys Gareater Van couver’s: coonomy DESTINATION 3... d 1160 Matine Or N Vancouver BL CARLETON LODGE srunty Whistler Village Whistler B ( Mountain