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3 - Sanday, December 25, 1988 - Lynn Valley Echo

P&T Gardens shine through the holidays

TO THE delight of a crowd of 700 people, the traditional
Christmas light display at the Park and Tilford Gardens
returned with a flourish this year at a Dec. 4 opening cere-

mony.

North Vancouver City Mayor
Jack Loucks and Jack Poole,
chairman and: chief executive of-
ficer of BCE Development Corp.,
the company that owns the proper-
ty, together pulled the switch that
fired up the 13,644 lamps
throughout the gardens.

The extensive lighting display
was designed and installed by
North Vancouver’s ., Westsun
Lighting Ltd.. Westsun | was also
responsible for lighting the “‘sails’”
for Christmas at the Vancouver
Trade and Convention Centre, and
had a number of projects at Expo

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the arena at B.C. Place to a full-
scale opera house for the perfor-
mance of La Scala

Paul Flanagan of Westsun says
that the total number of hours ze-
quired to install and remove the
lights — which draw 137,650 watts
and require the use of 500 elec-

’ trical power cables — will total

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1,500. He also notes that according
to B.C. Hydro, ‘“‘the amount of
electricity used in the month-long
display would operate the average
Vancouver home for 2.5 years.” :
Work on restoring the gardens
to their former splendor began two

years ago. Landscape architect

Jane Durante, who designed the .

restoration, says approximately 80
per cent of the plant material re-
mained from the original garden,
and her biggest challenge was fin-
ding interesting plants to replace
the ones that had died or been
removed. While all of the plants
she gathered were from within
North America, some, she says,
came from as far away as Florida.
On-site manager of the gardens
Renna McCready says she is get-
ting “good feedback from the

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Development Corp., together fit the 13,644 lamps that will decorate the Park and Tilford Gardens until Jan. 6.

visitors she sees daily. ‘‘They’re
saying ‘we’re so glad that the
gardens are still here,’”’ she said.
“I’ve. got one wedding booked
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Lights are’ ‘tumed on between 4
p.m. and 4:30 p.m. and are swit-
ched off for the night at 9 p.m.
The last night of the Christmas
display is Jan. 6.

Sidewalks approved

THREE NEW sidewalks have been
approved for the Lynn Valley ares

‘by the North Vancouver District

Traffic and Safety Committee and
referred to the 1989 council budget
Seliberations.

At the request of Boundary
Community School, a sidewalk is
planned for the east side of
William Avenue from 21st Street
to 26th Street.

The portion from 21st to Lynn
Valley Road will be budgeted for

"$65,000, while the remainder will

be considered part of the overall
silewalk program.

Children attending Fromme
Elementary School have been mak-
ing dangerous random crossings
that led to the recent approval by
the North. Vancouver District
Traffic: aid Safety. Committee of
two new sidewalks.
| One will be constructed on the
east side of Fromme Road from

Frederick Road to Wellington
Drive at an estimated cost of
$45,000.

The other, at a cost of about
$33,000, is to be constructed. on
the west side of Fromme Road
from Wellington Drive to Doran
Road.

Both items will be included in
the 1989 budget.

In addition, a° marked school

crosswalk is proposed for Fromme ©.

Road at Croft Road with a ‘‘No
stopping anytime’’ zone planned
for the northbound approach to it.

Fromme Road will be marked
with a double yellow centreline be-
tween Wellington Drive and
Frederick Road. :

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3 photo Cindy Bellamy
ON DEC. 4, North Vancouver City Mayor Jack Loucks (eft) and Jack Poole, chairman and CEO of BCE