HEWS phcaio Mike Wakefield Bank robbed NORTH Vancouver Mounties continue to investigate a June 16 robbery by a fone male at the Scotiabank, 1500 Marine Dr. Call 985-131 1 and refer to case: 2060-18659. Weekend LGB closures Michael Becker News Editor mbeckcr@nsnews.com A promise made to avoid weekend closures of the Lions Gate Bridge during July and August seems to be crumbling. “If we want to finish by the end of the »we might have to look at that possibiliny,” said Lions Gate Project spokesman Pam Ryan. Last year project officials advised that the bridge deck replace- ment would bein in January 2000, there would be fewer than 40 night-tinte closures, and the new deck would be in place by August 2000. Fifty-four bridge sections must be removed and replaced by American Bridge: -Surespan. Fach one will take 10 hours of work. The process is in imbo due to engineering concerns. As recently as June 15 the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce was advised in a letter fron project director Geon that “the con- tract dogs nor allow for full weekend closur Said West Vancouver-Capilano MILA Je there are inconsistencies coming out of the Lions Gate Project office.” Freer goes on to point out in his letter to North Vancouver chamber chairman David Moulton that the bridge rehabilitation contract allows for partial weekend clo: fter June 30 and thar the contractor will absorb extra costs if full weekend closures occur after this month. Meanwhile th kend, work to replace and repair concrete slabs on the cast curb lane of the Stanley Park causeway will cause detours and single-lane closures: @ 10 p.m. Friday, June 23, to 10 a.m. Saturday, June 24, causeway Soccer tourney date corrected IN the sports sidelines that ran in the June 21 News, a co-ed soccer tourney was mistakenly identified as taking place on Saturday afternoon at Wiiliam Grifiin Park in North Vancouver. The event will take place on Sunday, June 25, starting at 1 p-m. For more information, call Sid Mirhashemy at 987-9175 or 735-6005. Victory Ship value questioned . Bureaucrats in the local HRDC office recommended the. application: for funding. “Ir’s the building up of the tourism » infrastructure,” Waters said. 2" - But” White doesn’c think the® project “would” be a money-maker. “I have seen no business breakdown that con- vinced me that this wouldn’t be: a sinkhole for taxpayers’ “money,” he said. Waters also said the appli- cation for funding the 12 tem- porary jobs might be granted : in the next few weeks, in time to help out with the prepara- tions for sinking the ship.-The sinking is scheduled for Sept. 30;’and_almost.250_tickets at.. $500 each have already been sold for ‘a VIP. look at the : wreck. White also questions the‘ - historical value of the Victory Ship to the.North Shore. He . he has information that it “was actually built on the south e@ Secr Children’ s. Quality Consignment office . of shore, not in North Vancouver. “Certainly. the ship was built here in North Vancouver,” ‘said Robin Inglis, director of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. Inglis said the Victory ‘Ships’ hulls were built on either south or North Shore sites, but all of the engines were installed, and the fittings and the woodwork. done on the North Shore. Inglis said the former name of the ship, the Flamborough Head, is ona board that used to hang i in the the = Burrard Shipyard. But White said rhat, in the end, his views didn’t influence the -amount.-of. Millennium . money flowing to the North Shore. “I’ve never seen us deprived of a cent, bur in the end, I don’t make the deci- sions,” White said. Local North Shore Projects that have received funding through the Canada Millennium Partnership Program, Phase IV, according to Heritage Canada Web site: W Heritage Restoration of Historic Christie | House (North Vancouver District), $62,050; Making our Payground a Park in the New Millennium (Norgate Community School Parent Advisory Council), $6,375; 8 Visions of the North Shore (North Vancouver Community Arts Council, in partnership with regional and municipal governments, arts organizations, niuseums, the Squamish Nation and the pri- vate sector), $288,575; i Video on Impact of Trade Unions (Capilano College and -the. Industrial-Wood and Allied Workers of Canada), $32,725; & Hollyburn Mountain-Top Muscum (Cypress Bow! 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