Wednesday, August 19, 1992 - North Shore News - 3

Air exercise
A MAJOR North American Aerospace Defence
(NORAD) training exercise — Fabric Brave — will take
place over parts of Vancouver Island and the maintand
detween Aug. 24 and Aug. 28.

Canadian participants based st CFB Comox include
CF-13 and T-33 jets. A Canadian Forces Boeing 707 in-
flight refuelling aircraft will also operate out of CFB
Comox to support tae fighters and extend their airborne
time.

The United States Navy and Air Force will participate
in the exercise with Flying AG Prowierr, EAGB Intruders,
E3A Airborne Warning and Control Aircraft (AWACS)
and a KCi0 tanker fram US Naval Air Station Whidby .their fitness program.

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thing you need for less.

- Bushes burn WHY PAY wag

~ Everyone waits until after Labour Day
* Weekend to get started or get back to

BUSHES WERE burning in West Vancouver on Aug.

According to a West Vancouver Fire Department
spokesman, childrer playing with fireworks caused an
estimated $5,900 to $8,009 worth of damage to or-
namental hedges in the 800 block of 8th Street at ap-
proximately £0 p.m.

Tae fire burned through about 50 feet of hedge near a
home.

Fivefighters managed to extinguish the fire before it
reached » nearby house, just 10 feet away.

The fire department spokesman advised residents to
keep their trees and hedges trimmed to reduce the risk of

fire damuge to property.

Mian arrested

THE NG2TH Vancouver RCMP are considering laying
charges against a fone male after a break-and-enter was

reported in the 11€0-block of Willingdon Crescent at 12
p.m. on Aug. 5.

A golice spokesman said a witness to the burglary had
managed to give police a description of the suspect, the
vehicle he was driving and the vehicle’s licence plate
number.

An RCMP. member subsequently speitted the vehicle
and pulled it over and arrested the driver.

The police also recovered stolen sterco equipment.

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Social housing funds

slated for landscaping
. Margaret Height development

NORTH .VANCOUVER City
Council recently took to third
teading a bylaw to permit the use
of about $16,000 of its $457,000
Social Housing Reserve Fund
towards landscaping of the
Margaret Height development in
the 1800-block of Rufus Drive.

CE a EE
NORTH VANCOUVER
CiTY COUNCIL.

By Maureen Curtis -
Contributing Writer

The Aug. 10 decision was made
over the objections of Coun. Rod
Clark, who said it was ‘‘bloody
ridiculous” that. the collective
taxpayers be asked to subsidize
the landscaping, which will consist
of a tall cedar fence.

_ Due to some cost cutting, the
project has suffered from a land-

scaping point of view,” said .
Clark, who suggested that some of COUN. STELLA Jo Dean...

the ‘“‘wonderful community spirit’’

that was supposed to come out of

the development be put to work to
’ put up the fence.

Coun. Stella Jo Dean agreed
that the $16,000 expenditure was
unwarranted.

She suggested that planting
some greenery around the proper-
ty might be a better idea.

Coun. Barbara Sharp said that
it was important for the Margaret
Height development to succeed.
She argued that it should not suf-

$16,000 expenditure unwar-
ranted.

fer from a “slight conceptual
failure.”’ ‘

“We put this money inea fund
for social housing and everything
that goes with it,” Sharp said.

Coun. John Braithwaite also
said the city should help bring the
development up to standards.

City Mayor Jack Loucks said
paying for the fence would be the
responsible thing to do. -

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