eoreneccigmne satin ‘ nrolled at Cay North Vancouver City council has been soaked into paying $2,000 more to keep North Van's six wading pools open this summer, qand ‘they’re not very happy about it. At Monday night's City council mecting, ° a motion rhe Swasepage oka the six wading-pools in North Vancouver, but not before a lot of criticisms were directed at District council, and the arrangement concerning the North Vancouver Recreation Commission. Earlicr this year the Recreation Commission informed the councils that because of budget cutbacks requested by the District, the six wading pools in North Van would not be opencd this summer. When informed of this, City council voted to provide the sum of $1,075 to keep the Mahon Park pool, which is the only wading pool within City limits, open. However a few wecks later the District voted to open all , apri. ‘North: Shore Capri. enjoys contemporary jazz dancing: and roller skating. pilano College in the retail fashion and. merchandising course, she ould like a career in fashion. (Terry Peters ‘phows) > in wading | aoe issue the wading pools for the summer. This . meant present terms of the North Van Recreation Commission agreement, the obliged to pay just over 33 per cent of the cost of . aperating_ anys (3 sy “Ys When informed of this, Monday counchH members agreement, Alderman Frank Marcino accused the District council before,’ Recreation without council).’ West Vancouver firemen _are. still having to respond ~ regularly: ‘to’ complaints -of ~ iHegal beach. bonfires: And ~ the incidents ‘are becoming ‘so. frequent that there. are fears that:.one. of these .: bonfires may sooner or later prevent - firefighters from answering a genuine emergency: a Fire inspector Gerry - Harrington says: “It ties up a ,complete fire truck to put outa beach fire. -* “If they get a call for a “house “fire” while™: they're _. putting out a°beach fire they “have to coil up their hoses and ‘everything before they ‘can got to the house fire.” ~ Harrington puts the -Situation on. par with false “4 . alarms, recalling that a - pumper. was delayed in {— at aschool- - dry, the house i is still standing by the time the department” : arrives. hy and he pointed out that the City would have to pay the money because it was set down in the agreement. Alderman Murray Colcleugh, who is the chairman of the Recreation Commission, said the District went about cutting the commission's budget in the wrong way. under the The majority of council agreed with Warne's statement and council voted to approve the expenditure. City was But Colcleugh said the City had better be ‘a little councils involved,’ the commission’s budget Alderman Marcino said. without telling the District. night, several were outraged and t Ide said they’ were not willing to Rivier Ga Swimming reconsi th li motion in order to enter into & Fitness Centre proper cost sharing tatreductery Otter . 2 month membership $50 w Whirl Pool = «& Swimming Pool w Complete Fitness Facilities NORTH VANCOUVER of ‘playing this trick on us VANCOUVER 1 block West of and one alderman 327-0408 Lonsdale on 14th said the District was, ‘trying . 4 Vat & raser 960-9358 to run the budget for the Commission telling us (City ‘reaching a. housé fire last’ - . year because of a false alarm He points out that with . wood-frame: houses, five minutes can mean. the’ n-whether-or-not— on Ang aA nil cain pil, the pools, a. ‘We myst never. again-let. careful about. Seg TOMES Taye nt * the Dittiordicmte“to “us “at” te’ Distriot= because “in _ : ~ =a whoa, aeons ‘ “without consulting the other 1 the past the City has changed , ‘We are not getting the. short end of the stick - any more than we usually do,’ Alderman Jim Warne said, _Bonfires are illegal on. all “West Vancouver _ beaches except on;.a quarter-mile section east of Ambleside swimming pool to the tur- ‘around. department ‘asks: poeple to | put-