SUGGESTIONS | for
improvements of
playing fields in North
Vancouver have met
with lukewarm
response from the
North Vancouver City
engineer.

Alan Phillips says there's
not enough money in the
City budget to pay for some
of the suggestions from the
North Vancouver
Recreation Commission, and
others are unnecessary or
would encourage vandalism.

But Phillips did have some
good news for North
Vancouver soccer players:
his department will consider
constructing two all-weather
soccer fields at Hamilton —
if the money ts available.

City council referred
Phillips’ report to its Parks
and Recreation Committee.

To the suggestion that the
City hire more caretakers,
Phillips says “We consider
we provide adequate
caretgker staff now,” with

full time caretaker and
an additional one for the
summer.

Putting up weather-
protected signboards = for
schedules in City parks and
fields “would merely con-
tribute to the vandalism
problem, as such facilities
are a prime target” for
destruction,” said Phillips in
response to another

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to parks
proposals

suggestion.

The Rec Commission
wants the City to include
changing rooms-~ and
washrooms wherever new
fields are constructed, and
Phillips replied that all
municipalities try to provide
the best possible facilities
consistent with the available
money.

Specifically, the com-
mission asks the City to
provide changing facilities
and washrooms for Nor-
seman and Loutet Parks.

But Phillips said facilities
should be provided in the
Rec Centre for Norseman
Park, as it is immediately
east of the centre. Expansion
of the public toilet in Loutet
Park to provide changing
rooms is not a high priority,
he said.

The main problem is
money, said Phillips. “All of
these requests come back
fundamentally to the
availability of funds for
recreational purposes. in
general, and for playing field
development and ancillary
facilities.”

But previncial cuts in
recreation spending mean
funds are limited for im-
proving playing fields in
North Vancouver City.

The Recreation Com-
mission, in reply to com-
plaints from field users, has
sent suggestions for im
provements to North
Vancouver District and
School District 44 as well

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TENNIS, SOFTBALL, GOLF

| Spring sports

are beginning

SPRING HAS arrived
in earnest on the high
school sporting scene,
with golf, girls softball
and tennis all un-
derway.

In golf, Hillside defeated
Carson Graham 6-0 at
Seymour, and Sentinel beat
Windsor by the same score.

In the Sentinel-Windsor
match, Jochen Beckman had
the lowest score, 80, for
Sentinel, and Barry An-
derson shot 83. Brad White
had low score for Windsor,
85.

Close scores marked the
beginning of the senior girls
softball season. Windsor
defeated Hillside 7-6,
(winning pitcher Kim
Kennedy); Howe Sound over
Carson Graham Red 15-8,
(winning pitcher Krisandra
Lewis, home run by Denis
Mensinger); West Van-
couver 8, Sentnel 7 (winning
pitcher Wendy Foster). In
that game Sentinel scored six
runs in the first inning, but
West Van caught up and

went ahead 8-8 in the bottom
of the fourth.

In other senior games it
was Sutherland 10, Argyle 5
(winning pitcher Karen
Haywood) and Carson
Graham White 5, Hand-
sworth 0. (Winning pitcher
Paula George, one-hitter)

Argyle bombed Hamilton
26-4 in junior girls softball,
and Sutherland beat Hillside
17-7.

Deborah Bowering and
Mike Young were the stars
as Sentinel beat Handsworth
7-4 in senior boys and girls
tennis. Bowering won her
singles match 6-0, and
Young won his 6-2. Together
they took the mixed doubles
6-0.

In other senior tennis
matches: Carson Graham 6,
Sutherland 5; Howe Sound
9, Windsor 2; Carson
Graham 9, Handsworth 2.

Junior tennis: Windsor 8,
Argyle 3; Handsworth 8,
West Van 3; Hillside Blue
10, Balmoral 1; Hillside Red
6, Sutherland 5; Handsworth
6, Argyle 5; Balmoral 6,
Hillside Red 5.

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the return of Gun Odegaard
as diving coach has been
announced by Gerry
Heinrich, president of the
North Vancouver Cruisers

Summer Swim Club.

The Cruisers’ swimming
and diving season begins
May 3 and runs through to
late August. For in-
formation, call the club's
registrar at 987-9217.

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