- Sunday, March 18, 1990 ~ North Shore News

MLA pushes creek diversion preposal

A PROPOSAL to divert a section of Myrtle Creek at the Cove Cliff
School site in Deep Cove may be the compromise move needed to br-
ing the new elementary school on-stream this year, according to North
Vancouver-Seymour MLA and Energy Mines
Resources Minister Jack Davis.

Davis plans to meet mid-week
with — provincial

Environment

and Petroleum

By MICHAEL BECKER

News Reporter

Minister John Reynolds,
Vancouver schuol board chair-
man Rev. Roy Dunegey,
North Vancouver

Mayor Marilyn Baker.

for

Nerth

and
District

“The funding is there now

the school,”’ Davis
“For a few more days there will

Davis plans to run again

said.

be this uncertainty whether en-
vironment and the school
district. will agree to this. We
just get in one room here in the
area and just resolve it. I’m re-
ally optimistic, but 1 can’t say
it's final until it’s final. { don’t
see why it can’t be resolved."’
The creek diversion proposal,
which Davis said is a modified
version of a proposal consid-
ered and rejected a year ago,
would put ‘ta bit of a dog leg in

Davis retiring from the political that has to do with when the
scene nave been rife over the election is or who the can-
past several weeks.

But said Davis, ‘I was away
for a week or so and | gather
the call was around about iny
resigning and also resigning on
time for the next election will be grounds of ill health. There’s
in the fall of this year or spring no truth to that at all. None
1991. whatsoever. I’ve been losing

But co cover Davis’s bases, some weight and taking some
the North Vancouver-Seymour naturalist approach to nutrition.
Socreds plan to hold a but I've never missed a day or
nominating convention as early hour of work. I’m in good
as April. shape.’’

Said Davis, ‘‘Under the Davis underwent colonic
Social Credit constitution surgery last year. But he said
there’s a 12-month sunset the trouble area was found to
clause, so you don’t want to get be not malignant.
nominated too soon. That “I haven't been having
would cover off the possibility chemotherapy or any of those
of a fall election or a spring kinds of treatments," he said,
election next year.”’ adding, ‘‘We’re within a year or

Rumors of the 73-year-old so of the election and anything

NORTH VANCOUVER-
Seymour MLA and Energy
Mines And Petroleum
Resources Minister Jack Davis
plans to run again in the North
Shore riding he presently holds.

Davis said the most likely

more term."”

modified diversion.

ahead,’’ Davis said.

NORTH Vancouver-Seymour
MLA Jack Davis ...'I'm in
good shape.’’

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the creek’’ and alter the course
of the creek for about 100 feet
didates might be is a little bit within the school site.
newsy. I’ll go for at least one said the federal environment
department supports

*(Provincial) environment is
now saying that a modified
diversion can be constructed
and the overall cost of the play-
ing field would be no more and
could be less than culverting it.
It involves some modest move-
ment of the field towards the
school, but the opinion at least
in environment and in educa-
tion is that this diversion will
solve the problem. | really don’t
see how the project can’t go

The new creek diversion plan
was proposed in a March 12 let-
ter from Reynolds to Dungey.

Drivers
guilty of
drinking

RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
in fines and penalties for drinking
and driving related offences:
NORTH VANCOUVER: James
Robinson, 49, 202-130 West 12th
St., North Vancouver {over .08,
$400 fine); Michae} Andre Antone,
21, 462 Chief Jimmy Henry Drive
(over .08, $500 fine).

WEST VANCOUVER: Martin
Eric Petersen, 24, 2110 West 37th
Ave., Vancouver (breathalsyer re-
fusal, $500 fine, one-year driving
suspension); Michael Albert Stone,
26, 1108-235 Keith Rd., West
Vancouver (breathalyser refusal,
14 days jail, one-year driving
suspension).

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