Al2 - Wednesday, August 19, 1981 - North Shore News

GE community roundup

PLEASANT DAY on , the water was more intense for these j young sailorg as they competed in ‘the Under 16
provincial championships on the weekend. The championship was held at the Hollyburn Club. (Eric Eggertson photo)

PNE kicks off with parade

The 67th Annual Pacific
National Exhibition will be
opened by the annual parade
this Saturday, August 22.

This year a total of 93
entries include everything
from military groups and
majorettes to 17 marching
bands, nearly 50 clowns and
more than 50 floats, with
some entries coming from as
far away as Reno, Nevada.

The parade begins at
Georgia and Thurlow Streets

at 10 a.m., following a route
down Burrard Street to
Hastings Street and then
along Hastings Street to the
PNE grounds.

The procession will be
lead by Canadian Forces
Naden Band.

PNE president Erwin

Swangard and his wife Doris
follow the military” unit
leading the VIP section
which this year salutes sports
at the PNE.

Honourary Parade
Marshalls this year will be
Ivan Hlinka and Jiri Bubla,
the two Czechoslovakian
players recently acquired by

the Vancouver Canucks, in
addition to members of the
Vancouver Whitecaps, the
B.C. Lions, the B.C. Jockey
Club and amateur sports
representatives.

The first of the floats will
be the awerd winning 1981.
PNE Float, a train of five
cars more than 50-feet long.
Riding on the float will be
Miss PNE 1981, 18-year-old
Tracy Wheeler of North
Vancouver. The cars will be
pulled by a colorful
animated locomotive engine
with bubbles pouring out of
the smokestack.

Twenty-six former Miss
PNE's will ride the Miss PNE
Queens’ Train float, a first in
the fair’s history.

One of the most exciting
entries is the Chinese
Dragon, a 200-foot long
ceremonial dragon which
must be manned by 200
people, 50 people to
manoeuvre the dragon with
the others continually
relieving those carrying the
dragon.

The dragon ts a showpiece

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of Vancouver's Chinese
community and will be
preceded by 300 waist-drum
dancers.

The bands come from
North Vancouver, Vernon,
Seattle, Kamloops, Whalley,
Simon Fraser University, the

Kiwanis, the Vancouver
Police, the Vancouver
Lionettes, the Hot Jazz

Society and the PNE.
Clowns will abound in the

procession including 35
clowns from the Seattle
Seafair.

Building damage
deposit to rise”

A fivefold increase in the
amount of damage deposits
to cover the costs of damage
done to public works during
construction was approved
Monday ~by North Van-
couver District council.

Meeting as a policy and
planning committee, coungil
adopted a staff recom-
mendation to increase the
$100 deposit per building
permit, in effect since 1973,
to $500.

This increase will be used
‘to meet the rising costs of
‘repair to damaged curbs,
water connections, road
allowances etc. incurred by
building and development.

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Alderman Ernie Crist
questioned at some length
the proposed maximum of
$1500 per applicant on the
grounds that a_ single
developer, building many
structures at once, could
easily cause extensive
damage, far in excess of
$1500.

But he was assured by staff
that there is a low incidence
of damage in such

devolopments.

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