Concealed weapon

AN 18-YEAR-old Vancouver man faces a charge of car-
rying a concealed weapon following the search of several
vehicles at Ambleside Park by West Vancouver Police.

According to a police spokesman, five vehicles were
observed to be ‘‘racing’ in the 900-block of Marine
Drive. The cars gathered at the park and police moved in
to check the vehicles.

The occupant of one vehicle was found to be carrying
@ 13-inch kitchen knife tucked into the back of his pants.
Police aiso recovered a t4-inch knife found under a pas-
senger seat.

Chung Tien Wang was arrested and released on a
promise to appear in West Vancouver provincial court
on July 22 to face the weapons charge.

Suspect tracked

A 19-YEAR-old North Vancouver man was arrested by
North Vancouver RCMP after a home in the 100-block
of East Fourth Street was burgiarized on June 17.

The West Vancouver Police dog squad was called in to
assist.

Police dog Razz tracked from a bedroom in the
apartment suite to a point where a suspect hid been de-
tained by police.

Razz was returned to the bedroom for 4 secono track
and subsequently found $800 worth of jewels hidden in
some nearby shrubs.

Kuwait discussed

THE ENVIRONMENTAL disaster caused by burning oil
wells in Kuwait, a result of the Gulf War, will be the
subject of a public meeting Thursday at West Vancouver
Secondary School.

The meeting, sponsored by the World-wide Home En-
vironmentalists’ Network (WHEN) and the Gulf En-
vironmental Emergency Response Team (GEERT), will
feature environmentalist and documentary film-maker
Randy Thomas and children’s entertainer Raffi.

Both WHEN and GEERT maintain irrevocable en-
vironmental damage will result unless world governments
devote the resources and commitment ‘that they dem-
onstrated to fight the war in the Gulf’ to battling the oi!

well biazes.

seen in Canada.

The meeting will present dramatic footage never before

The meeting starts al 7 p.m. West Vancouver Second-
ary School is located at 1750 Mathers Avenue.

Resident perplexed by
push for ‘uniformity’

THE ISSUE of legislating
good architectural design
was raised recently at West
Vancouver District Council.

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

In a recent letter, Dr. A.J.
Mallinson urged council to do
something about the general
uniformity of some of the new
homes being built in the
municipality.

‘Do you plan to do anything to
put a halt to it before the whole
community consists of row-hous-
ing for the rich, and a garden
community is turned into an ur-
ban ghetto?’’ Mallinson wrote in
his letter.

West Vancouver has taken a
leading role in trying to prevent or
control some of the more obvious-
ly distasteful developments in the
design and construction of build-
ings.

Several ‘‘bulk housing’’ bylaws
have been formulated ts restrict
floor area ratios, the closeness of
buildings to the lot lines and other
aspects of overbuilding that have
led to the term ‘‘monster houses’’
being applied to some of the
newer homes.

More recently, laws have been
proposed to further reduce bulk
with building height regulations
and to control the amount of
blasting and soil removal that is
done.

But because architectural attrac-
tiveness is generally a matter of
personal taste, it is difficult to

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DISTRICT COUNCIL

tackle some of the attributes of
new construction that some people
find the most alarming.

Where variances are requested
by a developer, however, com-
mercial and multiple family dwell-
ings can be routed through the
advisory design panel for their in-
put.

Dr. Mallinson wants more
bylaws passed to improve the
design of houses, such as legisla-
tion that would insist on some
diversity of design.

‘*...why should the nature of
our community be changed in
ways that are offensive to those of
us who have lived here for some
time, and pleasing only to those
who wish to make money? The
dwellings designed and con-
structed by such persons are
scarcely recognizable as human
dwelling places,’’ wrote Mallin-
son.

Dr. Mallinson also decried the
denuding and ravishing of old
gardens and trees, so that three
new ‘‘monstrous structures’’ could
be put up to replace the old struc-
tures in his neighborhood.

While he conceded that it is
generally cheaper to build a group
of similarly-designed homes,
Mallinson questioned why ‘‘cost-
cutting’’ and the builder’s desire
to make money should be allowed
to determine the appearance of
new houses built in West Van-
couver,

Council recently approved the
sending of ‘‘strongly worded”’ let-
ters to federal and provincial gov-
ernment officials questioning the
decreased funding for English as a
second language (ESL) programs
on the North Shore.

ESL programs are expected to
be cut by the North Vancouver
school district if adequate funding
is not received from the provincial
government.

“‘We need these programs, but
they can’t put them on the back
of the municipalities,’ said Ald.
Stella Jo Dean.

Although council does not want

to see the programs cancelled,
several aldermen echoed the
comment that expecting the

municipality to take over the ESL
funding would be another example
of the federal government starting
a program and then ‘‘dumping’’
the responsibility on the
municipalities.

The school board’s statement
that they will cancel the programs
is a case of “‘playing chicken with
the federal government,’’ said
Ald. Bill Bell.

The losers, he said, will be the

people who can’t speak English, °

those who have come to Canada
because of federal government
programs that encourage immigra-
tion.

The fact that the Canadian
government is increasing immigra-
tion quotas and reducing ESL
funding was a shared concern on
council,

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Concern expressed over ESL funding

NORTH VANCOUVER City Council will conduct a let-
ter-writing campaign to express concern over ‘federal
dumping”’ of programs on municipalities.

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

“This is some kind of tunacy,”
added Ald. Barbara Perrault.

“When these people arrive in
Canada, they will have no pro-
grams to teach them English, and
so won't be able to write cheques,
fill out an unemployment in-
surance form, or even shop for
their families,’’ she said.

Ald. John Braithwaite said that

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