NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

NICOLE McDONALD (left) and Karen Rumak and a group of
fallow Argyle students recently raised $300 for the Red Cross
Rwanda Relief fund by selling Red Cross ribbons at the North

‘Vancouver high school.

. Cypress a. ‘special, place’

From page 3
sion. in this park,” said Webster,

a ~"CBRL's plans to build downhill ski,

operations on the last readily accessi-
ble mountain, Hollyburn, increase ski

nins on. Black and Strachan, double,

» the population density on the moun-
. tains, vastly increase parking lots and

commercial building complexes, and

build a restaurant’ on Mt. Strachan,

“are totally atodds with the ‘size and
conservation of this park and princi-
ples inherent in the Park Act."

The Conservation: Coalition, rep-

“resented. by Laura Parkinson of the
Friends .of Cypress: Provincial. Park
, “Society and Dan Moore of the: B.C.
* Chapter’ of the Canadian. Parks and
‘Wilderness Committee, stressed that
“expansion of commercial operations
at Cypress should not proceed before

’ the approval of a master plan.
‘Parkinson also. ‘decried the
~ “unseemly - haste”: with,which ‘the

master plancis being -marshatled
ard cabinet;

win uddition,

the president of Silver Stir Mountain
ski resort, in the Cypress Park Special

Planning Process. “There must be an |

appropriate balance, and 1 say for too

long this project has, been dominited .

by ski operation interests 5... °°
~, According ,to Parkinson, CBRL.
should improve. its current facilities

rather than cutting further into. the.”

wouds to expand.’ ;

One. woman in the. audience took
‘issue “with what’ she saw (as
Parkinson’s bias. against downhill
skiers, of which she is one. She asked

-if they were not considered ‘to. be

“valid users” of the park,

“I'm not saying we should deny
access (to downhill skiers),” “said
Parkinson. (But) how dy We daiance
all, the users?” ;

ert

Parkinson criticized
the involvement of adviser Jolin Gow, /

NORTH VANCOUVER
RCMP welcomed last: week's
announcement that the provin-
cial government is seeking ten-
ders to buy 300 photo radar’
units for deployment through-
out the province.

By Bob Mackin

_ Contributing Writer

But they're not even sure if one
will be allotted to the North Shore.

The cameras. will not be avail-
able (and. in operation until some
time in early 1996. And, by that
time, the photo radar program here
could meet the same fate as the pro-
gram in Ontario, Recently elected
Conservative Premier Mike Harris
followed through on a promise. to
voters.that hed abolish photo radar.

“i's: quite possible.”

& & From our

perspective it’s nota
cash grab... If it’s

used just to keep the
speeds down, it's a

good thing. OY
= RCMP Cpl. Brad Marks

A provingial election must be held by fall 1996,
said Cpl Brad Marks of the
Nonh Van ROMP tatfie anit. “h definitely is au issue
that creates a lot of attention.
“TL think saything whose. focus is to keep down.
speeds is probably a pusitive thing, Prom our perspec.

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tive it’s nota cash grab, Although |
certainly apprediate that a lot of -
people have that concern. Uf it's
used just to keep the: speeds down,
it’s a good thing.”

If one is allotted to his jurisdic
tion, Cpl. Marks expects the Mount
Seymour Parkway, .a prime, tocal
spot for speeders, to be a target of
enforcement.

According to provincial govern-
ment figures, speed accounted for
one in five B.C. auto deaths in 1992,
‘second to alcohol, Photo radar cam-
eras are expected to -reduce /the
death toll by 60 in the first year, and -
cut the aceident rate by 9, 000, also
in the first year.

Opponents. predict traffic courts
will be flooded with people disput.

ing the citations. since the repistereds. ©

owner who may not have been
behind the wheel — sill receiv
ticket in the niait ‘and he

penalty. But Cpl. Marks expects: business as usual,

“My. understa

Ontario was tithe process was fairly cle: un, YOU ‘didn’t

ing? or the ¢

get any higher or lower dispute ratio than with normal

enforcement. ! don’t see it as a real burden, or lessening.”
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