12 - Friday, January 26, 1990 - North Shore News

NVD AND SOVIET TOWN

Twin city options explored

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
for North Vancouver, especially
shipbuilding and ship repair. could
be achieved through twinning with
a city in the Soviet Union.

By PAMELA LANG
Contributing Writer

District council decided Jan. 15
to defer a motion to proceed with
a twinning plan, but to instead ini-
tiate a committee to evaluate the
local interest and explore twinning

- goals.

The committee would consist of
representatives from various North
Vancouver groups: the Economic
Development Commission, city
and district councils, the Chamber
of Commerce, the shipbuilding in-
dustry, and the marine and boiler
workers union,

Aid. Craig Clark suggested that
if economics, primarily  ship-
building, is the key reason to pur-
sue twinning, why not channel ef-
forts into marketing our ship-
building industry to the world.

The two ideas can be joined
because while Pacific Rim coun-

School board
receives funds

NORTH VANCOUVER’S School
District #44 has been awarded
$52,250 from the B.C. Lottery
Fund to help convert the unused
gymnasium at the district’s Lucas
Centre, Provincial Secretary
Howard Dirks and North Van-
couver-Capilano MLA, Angus Ree
announced recently.

Dirks, minister responsible for
the fund, said, ‘‘As an adult
eduction facility, the William E.
Lucas Centre serves a broad spec-
trum of the public. The conver-
sion, which will provide a Heritage
Gallery as well as a 550-seat per-
forming arts centre, will be a fur-
ther attraction.”’

Added Ree, ‘‘The new gallery
will create a permanent home for
**The Story of a Community”? — a
highly successful display of 1,500
heritage photographs that toured
the local shopping malls earlier this
year.”

Two further phases of renova-
tion may be undertaken in the
future if significant public
Tesponse warrants such develop-
ment.

The B.C. Lottery Fund uses
proceeds from lotteries operated
by the B.C. Lottery Corporation
to support a wide range of com-
munity initiatives.

Views expressed

B.C. HYDRO and the province
should increase the funds they
contribute toward underground
wiring projects, Greater Vancouver
Regional District directors say.

A report to the regional district
board points out that for a number
of years Hydro has provided only
$I! million for the entire province
in grants toward underground wir-
ing programs.

The Ministry of Municipal Af-
fairs has also been very limited in
funding for these programs, the
report states.

“With the recent anuounce-
ments of a considerable increase in
the profitability of 3.C. Hydro
and the payment of a ‘dividend’ of
$500 million to the province, over
the next three years, (it is felt} that
a substantial portion of these
funds should be reinvested by
Hydro towards underground wir-
ing initiatives,”* says the report.

The GVRD board said that in

view of Hydro’s substantial profits -

both the utility and the province
should make substantial increases
in funds for underground wiring.

tries are building their own ships,
there is a need for ships in the
Soviet Union that the North Shore
could supply, pointed out Ald.
Ernie Crist.

A letter from the Federation of
Canadian Municipalities, which
encourages and assists
municipalities to twin with foreign

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cities, outlined some of the positive
and negative aspects of the pro-
cess.

Along with the prospect of eco-
nomic and cultural steps forward,
the twinning could incur costs of
considerable time and money for
travel to the twin city and hosting
return visits.

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