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OLD AND young vied for
municipal funding at the Sept.
1] meeting of West Vancouver
District Council,

WEST VANCOUVER

‘DISTRICT COUNCIL .

By Maureen Curtis

After council had agreed to aflo-
cate matching funding to a new
lawn bowling club building, which
is mostly. utilized. by. the white-
haired set, teenager Christie Cave of
West Vancouver's youth advisory
committee demanded to know what
had become of a proposed skate
boarding park for Ambleside.

“You have © just allocated
$100,000 to a lawn bowling club
building that I've never been near.”
she said.

Varks and Recreation Director
Kevin Pike explained that an antici-
pated donation of about $50,000, °
which was to be added to the
338.000 allocated by the municipal-
ity for a skate boarding facility, had
“evaporated.” :

— “Butitis likely by this fill that
we will begin on the initial stage of
the. project with existing funding.”
said Pike.

While council has been under
pressure to provide more youth ori-
ented facilities. such as a skate
boarding facility, there has been fob-
bying from those on the other end of
the age spectrum. for the replace-
ment of the deteriorating: lawn
bowling club, which is located. on
municipal kand at Marine Drive and
21st Street.

Coun, Diana Hutchinson empha-
sized that the days when West
Vancouver lawn bowling’ was only
associated with. wien (it was male:

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ly, are fong gone,

Club president Diana Cox
assured council that the lawn bow!

Jing group is trying to open up the

sport 10 people of all ages.
Some clab members are in their
20s and some nine- to 12-year-old

participants in summer recreation.

centre programming have given
fawn bowling a try.

Younger players are appearing in
clubs elsewhere in Canada and he
West Vancouver club wants to
approuch the school beard to find
out how to get children involved
through school programming.

The $100,000 in 1996 funding that

West Vancouver: promised the lawn. ,

bowling club had) several. provisos
alached. including “confirmation of
$100,000 in matching funding from
the B.C. 21 government program as
well as $100,000 already raised by the
club,

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