8& - Wednesaay, July 10. 1991 - North Shore News Museum option for curling rink iced \ recent 6-1 vote killed a motion that might have eventually resulted in the North Vancouver curling rink being turned into a museum. By Pamela Lang Contributing Writer Ald. Rod Clark asked North Vancouver City Council to con- sider a motion to close the public curling facilities because the curl- ing club has failed to increase its membership enough to pay for the facility, and because the North Shore Winter Club facilities are available to the public. Although Clark’s motion was defeated, he reczived some sup- port from Ald. Stella Jo Dean. In 1985, Dean was unsuccessful in having council ‘discuss the feasibility of converting the recre- ation centre curling rink to be us- ed as a museum.”’ Clark told council that he tninks the rink would make a good museum. “Curling has had plenty of op- portunity to prove itself,’’ he said, adding that the proof of the curl- ing club’s failure is its inability to reduce its recreation commission subsidy to a reasonable rate. Clark said the subsidy was $260 per curler last year, and new members and fees will reduce that to $159 per person next year. But Ald. Bill Bell, who sits on the recreation commission, said that the $159 figure is the cost to the curlers, not the cost to the Recreation Commissicn. “They have been responsible,’ he said of the curling club. Recreation Director Gary Young later told the News that while the curling club’s member- ship had failed to reached the 350 figure the club was asked to at- tain, the club increased its membership to 314 by the end of the 1990-91 season. The club had 280 regular curlers in the 1989-90 season, he said. At that time the city asked the club to increase its number to 350. Young acknowledged that the recreation commission subsidized the curling club $260 per user for the 1990-91 season, but added that the club is committed to decreas- ing that subsidy through fee in- creases for next year and further BMW Porsche work on increasing membership numbers. “We have decided to support the development of curling.’ he said of the commiession’s decision to allow the club to continue even though it didn’t reach its raember- ship target. “We have to run this as a business.”” Dean said, adding that since the North Shore Winter Club has invited non-members to use its facilities, the recreation NATALIE COLE SINGS THE SONGS OF NAT KING COLE PLUS ENTERTAINMENT ALL DAY LONG FROM 1:00PM. * Tom Keenlyside * Last Wild Sons * Tom Northcott %* Monache High School Concert Ban * Edmonton All Girls Marching Ambassadors * The Natural Theatre Company %& Smokey Robinson & Natalie Cole concert ~7:00 P.M. NORTH VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL club sink isn’t necessary. Ald. John Braithwaite disagreed with the business approach, pomt- ing out that the city subsidizes many forms of public recreation, and should continue to do so. He also expressed doubt about the curling club's use of the North Shore Winter Club, suggesting that they would be given a low Priority because they aren't members, Clark reiterated that the public taxpayer is paving too much so that some North Shore residents can cull, Clark also suggested that the increase in) membership recently experienced by the public curling club has been caused by a disrup- tion of service at the North Shore Winter Club, while their facilities are being upgraded. But Bell said that while winter club members did join the public curlers, they were not included in the count of new members. The increases in curling club membership, as well as increases in the fee schedule has reduced the subsidy that the curling club gets from the Recreation Commission, he added. 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