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WV Council commended
for fighting war games

Dear Editor:

It might interest your readers
that Mr. Steven Hynes Sr., the fa-
ther of one of the two young men
who were operating their military
survival games on Hollyburn
Mountain, is a director of Cypress
Bowl Recreations Lid., the com-
pany that holds a 50 year operating

Dear Editor:

The serenity of Whytecliff Park
was shattered on Sunday, August
17 by members of a particular
ethnic group who took over the
grounds for a picnic and organized
(complete with loud hailer) games.

They occupied every parking
space and dozens of cars were il-
legally parked on both sides of the
narrow road. Fortunately, as we
were about to leave the area,
sonieone drove away and so we
were eventually able to ;.ark (legal-
ly) and spend an hour or so on the
point with eur Expo visitors.

Returning to our vehicle, we
found that two inconsiderate peo-
ple — members of this group —
had parked their cars immediately
behind ours and so prevented us
from leaving.

This raises two questions: First,
does the municipality grant permits
for this type of activity (and if so,
why?)

And secondly, if, as we suspect,
Incal bylaws expressly forbid
special interest groups from com-
mandeering a public recreational
area, why are the West Van police
not enforcing this ban?

It may be of interest that the on-
ly other grassy area in the park had

also been taken over by yet.

another group of ‘visible
minorities’, One’s point is that this
mass of people could be Fuzzie
Wuzzies or members of the St.
George’s Society for all we care,
but we do object to any organized
gaggle — particularly groups from
outside the municipality — taking
over this rather special place to the
almost total exclusion of local res-
idents.

By all means send us your hud-
died masses, but please Mary Col-
lins, Brian Mulroney, Mayor
Humphries et al, not to Whytecliff
Park on a Sunday afternoon.

Jim White,
West Vancouver

For information
on how the }
YMCAcan
improve your
lifestyle call:
681-0221

permit at Cypress Bowl Park.

In light of the fact that Cypress
Bow! Recreations Ltd. applied for
a licence to offer war games at
Cypress Park and was turned
down by the Department of Parks,
Land and Housing, Mr. Hynes
Sr.’s frustration is understandable.

The Department of Parks and

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the Municipality: of West Van-
couver deserve credit: for their re-
fusal to allow such games on our
local mountains, 1 urge your
readers to support: Mayor Hum-
phreys and his council on this
issue.

M, Rowe

West Vancouver

Contact:
Nicholas Davies

984-9528

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