THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NEWS photo Terry Peters

AN EXCELLENT VINTAGE, stored in the finely stocked wine and liquor cellar at
West Vancouver police detachment, but it's unlikely anyone will ever get to drink It.
Police corporal Les Fox displays one of the many bottles destined for destruction as a
resalt of the frequent liquor selzares tn public parks and beaches throughout the
wunicipality. The hoard behind him has all been accumulated over the past two mon
ths and the only way any of it can be saved bs Many of the people from whom it was
seized contest the matter in coart and win, thereby having lt returned. Last weekend's
fine weather broaght the drinkcr out in large aumbecrs and saw the police making li
qeor setzares throughowi the cntire area from Capilano Road to Whytecliffe Park.

SPECIAL ELECTION EVE

DLLUTE WATER SUPPLY’

‘Dangerous fallacies’ condemned

HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

through the

Capilano watershed area would pollute the lower

mainiand’s water

supply,

North Vancouver

District council was told Monday.

Greater Vancouver Water
District Commissioner Doug
McKay also pointed out to
council that if the Squamish
Chamber of Commerce
group — currently lobbying
for an alternative route to
the Howe Sound highway
through the Capilano
watershed - gets its way then
eventually tons of “salt and
sand” would wind up in the
region's water supply.

McKay said the Squamish

group is spreading
“dangerous fallacies” by
saying a highway through the
ecologically sensitive area
would not cause enormous
problems.

“To suggest it wouldn't
degrade the water quality is
wrong,” he said.

“Runoff from the highway
surface contains many

pollutants such as gasoline
and oil.

“The question is not
whether it will happen, but
when.”

He suggested that a more
feasible route to link the
lower mainland with the
northwestern Highway 99
communities would be by
building a highway from
Harrison to Pemberton.

“We have to work against
any project that threatens to
degrade the water quality,”
he concluded.

Council will consider
McKay's presentation and
debate the issue at a future
policy and planning meeting.

ICE CREAM SALES BANNED

W. Van declares parks

off limits to pediars

THE BELL-RINGING
fleet of ice-cream and
popcorn pedlars who
usually signal the start

of summer will be
harder to find in West
Vancouver this year.

hed up with problems tn
the past, West Van council
decided Monday to clamp
down and declare its parks
off fimits for itinerant: sales
people

“This has been a difficult
dectston because IT believe in
free enterprise and helping
people to have yobs in dif
facule Games. said Alderman
Diana Hutchinson “But we
have had difficulties with

these pediars in the past, so
we plan to try this policy for
a year”

Council ts also tightening
its policy over how long the
pedlars can stay in one spot.
And they will not be allowed
to sell outside a store selling
the same product

One of the first victims of
the new get-tough policy 1s
Shirley Kay, a graduating
Sentinel Sccondary student

She has apphed for but
was refused permission to set
up — 8 popcorn stand in
Horseshoe Bay Park

“lam very disappointed,”
she said after the council

mecting “Horseshoe Bay ts
s big tourist attraction and
(tus would have been a
service

But at the same mecting

council did give the go
ahead to Le Chateau Blanc

Restaurant in Horseshoe Bay
to operate a summer

sidewalk cafe at its premises
on Bay Street.

WEDNESDAY
Cloudy
with showers

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