MUTINY IN the county. Education Minister Art
Charbonneau wouldn't stand for it, so he’s making the whole
North Vancouver schoo! board walk the plank. Bob Smith,
CEO of LGH, replaces the board, which refused to submit
a balanced budget to Victoria. The board cites high teachers’
salaries and benefits as a major logjam to balanced books, as
well as costly union contracts and general underfunding by the
provincial government. Charbonneau made an example of the
board, ensuring no other districts weary of education cutbacks

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follow in their rebel footsteps. Bul the move leaves many won-
dering about the democratic process, and whether their vote
counts against a government with the power to dissolve it.

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Horseshoe Bay
Dundarave/Ambleside

British Properties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands
Lower Lonsdale

Central and Upper Lonsdale
Lynn Valley

Blueridge/Deep Cove

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WEST. VANCOUVER's oldest
home will have to wait for offi-
Cial heritage designation.

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

By Maureen Curtis

©" Although ° the municipality . has
- acquired the house at 1768 Argyle
. Avenue, the former owners: have
lifetime tenancy.
. Despite the recommendation of
its advisory heritage commission,
“West Vancouver District Council
Chose Monday. to put off. heritage
designation - until ‘the. municipality
gains fall ‘Possession of the proper-

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North Vancouver

Guy Whitford
North Vancouver

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When you're dealing with $5
million... in this time of fiscal
restraint you can’t expect to
get away with that much of a
cost overrua, Maybe the firing
was out of line but they took
the steps they felt were neces-

Based on the fact they have had
a couple of years to get the bud-
get in order... because they feel
that their hands are tied they
have to overspend doesn’t seem
to cut it when the rest of the
school boards are somehow

31.2% 11.8%

20.1% sary.

Designation awaits possession

Under the lifetime tenancy
agreement, the Navvy Jack house is

“unavailable for public use in the.

foreseeable future,” according to

_ assistant planner Joel Lawson.

The people living there currently
can continue to do so as long as they
wish.

“Navvy” Jack Thomas built the
house in 1873.

It is the oldest existing house in
West Vancouver and perhaps the
oldest to be continually occupied in
the Lower Mainland.

During the same year, Thomas,
who was one of West Vancouver's
earliest white settlers, married Chief
Kiep-i-lan-o’s (Capilano’ Ss) grand-
daughter Row-i-a.

He. owned property located

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between the ocean and Haywood
Avenue, from 22nd Street to 16th
Street.

He eventually had to sell it to pay
taxes.

After the house was bought by
John Lawsca in 1905, it was moved
slightly to the west and closer to the
waterfront.

Since then, numerous additions
and alterations have been made.

For example the original ship-
lap (some of which was reused in
the basement) was replaced with
vertical cedar siding.

The heritage advisory commis-
sion recommends a study to ascer-
tain the condition of the original

doing it.

structure.

The information would help to
determine what use the house
should be put to in the future.

The cost of maintaining the cur-
rent structure would be a lot less
than restoring it for use as a public
building.

“We would not knock it over

unless it was an absolute necessity,”

said Coun. Rod Day.

Council reaffirmed its policy to
designate municipally owned her-
itage resources such as the Navvy
Jack house.

The only two heritage-designat-
ed buildings in West Vancouver are
the ferry building and Gertrude
Lawson House (home to the muse-
um and archives).

Nicki Marshali

North Vancouver

It’s a tough one. Just because
people are elected doesn't
necessarily mean they're
competent. On the other
hand, that’s what a democra-
cy is about. I do have a bit of
a problem with them out-and-
out firing elected officials.

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