_ page 8 -Novémber 30, North Vancouver District - council appears to be on its © way to agreeing to a land swap between. the . District and the 1 North Shore \ Winter | Club. On Monday night. ‘council - ‘passed a moticn to have the present bylaw returned to. council for second -reading.. However,” present | made jit clear. they would defeat the. motion which would see the District sell 0.7 acres to the Winter Club for expansion. At the same time as the — motion to sell the land will _ most likely be defeated, staff members of the = district municipality will be working _ on a new bylaw for a swap of | 0.28 actes of land with: the Winter Club. ‘‘Too many inaccuracies’’ was the way a number of aldermen described the first . efforts to sell the land to the _ ‘club. According to Mayor -. Don Bell, new information _after the public hearing on - _ the proposed sale, as well as . the. suggestion of the land . swap, caused the © change in . plans. | o ‘In: order to , clear the- ‘way for a new bylaw to be introduced’ it will. be neces-— sary for the original bylaw: suggesting ‘the sale of land be brought back. to council to be defeated. The way will then be open for starting | “‘back at square’ one’’ ording to one alderman. acc- swing advertising the con-- venience of the system, and other banks are following suit. Grocery chains are installing computer-cash. ‘registers and coding their products in preparation for the conversion. Department | store catalogues have been’ coded for the changeover. ‘How many. push-button _ ;telephones are already in use in preparation for the con- version? — Someone. in: the Federal Government has decided that... the costof making currency is too high and that currency has to be phased out. That’s. no secret. Who made that decision is another question. It was not long ago that I read that the Federal Gov- ernment discarded a satellite tight into Ma Bell’s lap. Now I've learned that Statistics . Canada is keeping records on anyone. who has asked for - help from:any agency funded _ by the United Way Appeal. The records they keep not’ only | iriclude the subjects | manic, address and phone’ number, but their religion, ethnic = origin, citizenship | - status, legal status, marital status, education, employ- ment, primary: source of income, personal problems, and whatever else they can find out about those in the family. © Add to this all the data they collect from the census. Want to know how: many | Jews live in Lions Bay? Just. press a button. Want to know how many Catholics there “are on welfare between Taylor Way: and Seven-— a vt i yoy , my 1 : vo , ' tient trata ta inetd canta ast Lt h MG aah ada semble de se A a A Mee 1-8 EKA a tH FR rl AOI oy AN a1 HO £ Square. one. will ‘mean. a new public hearing as well as. new bylaw and zoning pertaining to the ‘Suggested dand swap. a af the. swap: goes s through ‘(and it appears as though a “clear majority of council will back | this route), then the ‘most members “municipality will acquire a ‘piece of land on the north | ‘side of the winter club: The | District, in turn, will convey a piece of land at the present south-east corner of the park: to the Club. Council members pointed _ out the swap would not affect the jogging trail in the park | and would leave the park the . same size as it is at the. present time. COMMUNITY PLAN ALMOST READY ‘The outgoing North Van- eouver City council Monday long-delayed | community plan, but could not agree on ‘how to handle redevelop- | ment of. the Hamilton-Fell ‘area. This item was referred “to the 1978 council for” consideration. oe 2 ‘Council ‘also adopted a ecommendation ‘by F.. Mor- ris, director of permits.and -Jicences, called for an acoustical study - of the new ‘grain | elevator. . projects. teenth? The. computer will, ~ even draw you a map. TOTAL CONTROL In Japan, experiments. in two-way _ television underway. ‘While you watch — _T.Y., it watcheés-you.. Just in. case your place catches fire, or burglars break in, you. know. All this through ‘the | discovery that light impulses - through glass fibre can do- the job of electrical impulses - through copper wire in a fraction of the space. Ma Bell again? Are these incidents. un- related? Whether or | not: these events have. occured innocently, the machinery for the total control of eyery individual in our society is ‘in place. How long will it be before someone succumbs to the temptation to use it? Ignorance can. never be ‘more than an illusion of bliss. 'The more we know, the more. ‘choices we have, and the ‘freer we are. The more we are able to depend on: ourselves, the less we need to depend on government services. -As our need for _these services begins to ‘diminish, the size of the’ bureaucracy we've created must also begin to diminish. | It is for these reasons that I've come to believe that the, people need a computer system of their own — a system kept forever free from any political ties ‘or alliances, programmed to help us all to find the alternatives we seek. settled most details of the - are — hid annual: Pacific The Coast ‘Ladies Open Bonspiel - - finished; Sunday «at — the Hollyburn Country Club with _ defending: Canadian : Champ- - | jon Lindsay Sparkes: coming. from behind in the A Event’ to take the’ final over Bernice Mulock: ‘Both rinks are from - the. North: Shore ‘Winter a “Club. re “Heading i into: the fourth: end Sparkes was down five | points but ‘managed to pull. within one point by the end _of the ninth to make it 6-7. ’ She then proceeded to steal | _ three more points and went - ahead 9-7. YMCA have associated ‘ with Hollyburn and the North Shore Family long been Mountain and now the. two have combined. their — ski schools to’ form a single comprehensive school. The — school. . provides C.S.LA; certified instructors, ote ‘with equipment and facilities - adjacent: to. instruction. ‘and ~ ‘touring trails, as. well’as | ‘transportation. between | the. | “YMCA: at 1705 Marine Drive; - “West Vancouver and. the ; - ‘instruction area. | _ ‘The: lessons. are offered 4 Saturdays, Sundays, Monday | Equipment . available at the lodge may be ‘and Tuesdays. ° reserved through the North Shore Family YMCA. Each: session will include films, ski techniques, moun- ‘tain awareness and touring and the selection and care of “Bernice Sctrsenan of | Rich- mond took the B Event in the 11th end, winning 5-4 over -Vancouver’s Lila Watson. North Shore’s Shirley Isfeld scored an 8-3 victory over. Pat MacMillan ‘equipment. Each instructor will be students. For ‘further information please call the North Shore Family YMCA at 926-5541. limited to ten Kz Te -McPherson in the C event J} ~ and: Marcia Madill of Rich- | ‘mond took the D event final]. 10-7>: over . Elva Lentz of! te “Wancouver. ria - Richmond’s Goodyear took the E event ‘for the second year running .. - by defeating North Shore’ Ss ‘Pauline Gardiner 7-6. kt “could | help “1 “us | “under- At “stand our legal rights, help — if us solve business problems, help | us . solve — technical -problems, give us_ product information, provide plans - for ‘‘do-itsyourselfers’’, be a self-teaching aid, help us to . find’ counselling — services, Keep -us up-to-date with the ‘affairs that interest us, and | | ‘most important, help us to: finda way.to cut the red-tape - that ‘ enstiares most of us from time: fo time. _ There are over. twenty-two - ‘million people in Canada. For every problem each of us has, someone in this country ‘has already found a solution. To. be able to pool the ‘collective knowledge of the ‘grass-roots for anyone to use is not an impossible dream. Credit Unions acquired their start-up capital by using the idea of member- ship-shares. 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