Business Classified Ads.......... Lifestyles... 2. .......4- Mailbox TV Listings............ What's Going On. WEATHER W Wednesday, sunny with cloudy periods. Thursday, chance of rain. Highs near 72°. Second Class Registration Number 3885S ‘E . previous three. New boundaries, as set by Judge Thomas K. Fisher in a royal commission on elecioral boundaries, replace those defin- ing the ridings of North Van- couver-Capilano, North Van- couver-Seymour and West Van- couver-Howe Sound. And, as of March !, the new constituency associations official- ly replace the old associations. The new districts, which will be in effect for any general provin- cial election called after March 1, are based on a province-wide population standard stipulating that no constituency population vary more than 25 per cent from the provincial average of 38,523 per riding. As a result, the North Shore will now be divided into the new West Vancouver-Garibaldi riding to the far west, and, continuing to the east, the ridings of West Vancouver-Capilano, North Vancouver-Lonsdale and North Vancouver-Seymour. While NDP and Socred consti- tuency associations are in place for the new ridings, the NDP association for North Van- Alwest VANCOUVER: GARIBACDI KAREN MAGNUSSEN SPORTS CENTRE EXPANSION Wave pool bid shot down TENDERS FOR the $5- million Karen Magnussen sports centre expansion pro- ject were rejected Monday night by North Vancouver District Council. By PAMELA LANG Contributing Writer And a 1990 Tax Sale Lands Reserve Fund appropriation bylaw that would have permitted accep- tance of the $5-million low bid for the project was also rejected. The bid, from Gamma Con- struction, was for $5,020,000. The current budget allotment for the expansion is $4.5 million, in- cluding a $! million GO B.C. grant. Ald. Craig Clark urged council to accept Gamma’s bid so that the expansion project could proceed. Further delays, he said, would result in council paying ‘tmore for a much lesser facility.’’ While the project was first envi- sioned a decade ago, with an orig- inal projected budget of $2.4 miil- lion, Clark said inflation and the addition of extras to the expansion had combined to drive its price up. He added that the expanded fa- cility was desperately needed in Lynn Valley and was more than f Jf WHEN PREMIER Bill Vander Zalm calls the next pro- vincial election, North Shore voters will have repre- sentation from four electoral districts rather than the By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter couver-Lonsdale is first out of the gute with a confirmed can- didate for the next provincial election. On Sunday, David Schreck, in- terim head of the B.C. Nurses Union, beat out Olga Kempo and North Vancouver City Ald. Bill Bell at a North Vancouver nomination meeting. Schreck received 124 of 248 possible votes on the first ballot. Bell dropped out after the first ballot, and Schreck won the nomination on the second. Prior to his North Van- couver-Lonsdale nomination, Schreck ran unsuccessfully against Jack Davis in North Vancouver-Seymour in 1983 and 1986. The North Van- couver-Lonsdale electoral district is small in area but dense in pop- ulation. The district encompasses roughly the area below the Upper Levels Highway from Lions Gate NORTH Vancouver District Ald. Joan Gadsby ...price ‘‘too rich.”’ just an aquatic centre. “It is a total community facili- ty,”’ Clark said. And he added that other major district capital expenditures such as a new police administration build- ing and an expansion to the municipal hall should take a back-seat to the aquatic centre because they are newer projects. “This is tO years overdue al- ready,"* he said. But other members of council registered serious concerns over the skyrocketing cost of the project. Included in the proposal is a wave pool, whirlpool, exercise rooms, facilities for handicapped ly ‘WEST VANCOUVER - » CAPILANO its Bridge to the Second Narrows Bridge. Schreck will be running against Social Credit MLA Angus Ree, should Ree decide to run in the next provincial election. But said Ree, ‘I’m not too sure what I’m going to do. I’m doing a iot of soul searching. I’ve worked hard for the community for 11 years and it’s gotten awful expensive. I used to make $100,000 a year as a lawyer. I went from that to $39,000 as an MLA. It’s new up to around $47,000. It’s probably cost me a million dollars to be an MLA. Financially I don’t know if I can even keep my (West Vancouver waterfront) house.” The electoral redistribution has meant a loss of voters Ree once had north of the Upper Levels Highway. The present population of Ree’s North Vancouver-Capilano riding is about 50,000 people. The new riding is home to about 40,000 people. Said Ree, ‘It’s (the new ridings) more representation in Victoria, but maybe the MLA becomes a smaller fish in a bigger pond. I don’t like the way it was redistributed. We’re historically nerth and south on the North Shore, up and down the hill. This SS 7 “a Lee | — VANCOUVER 4,58 SS | - LONSDALE u people, and lounges for teens and seniors. Ald. Ernie Crist, who was also in favor of proceeding with the project, said the decision for a Lynn Valley recreation facility is ‘*now or never."” He said the project’s increased cost should not cause council to reject the tenders, because the money would come from land sales, and the municipality will benefit from ‘‘soaring land prices.”’ Crist said he supported the $5- million expenditure because Lynn Valley has the largest population of any area in the district, yet it has no facility adequate for the population. He added that the area has had consistent youth problems, and the facility would help to redirect the negative energies behind those problems. Ald. Murray Dykeman aiso voted to proceed with the project. But despite an agreement over the need for an expanded Karen Magnussen sports centre, four council members Aldermen Rick Buchols, Bill Rodgers, Joan Gadsby and Mayor Marilyn Baker — voted against the appropriation bylaw and for rejecting all tenders. Buchols agreed that the needs of the community must de met, but -cost him $1 MLA Angus Ree .. million to be MLA. was split across the centre cast and west. I don’t know if it gives the same mix of representation. Lonsdale is mostly tenants.”’ Ree’s soul searching over the ‘future of his ll-year provincial political career has him exploring a number of options, “I might go back to practising law but I don’t anticipate it,’’ he said. ‘‘I haven't done it for 11 years. Who knows, I used to jok- ingly say | would take a small- motors course and open up a Mr. Fix-It shop. That would be fun. 3 - Wednesday, February 28, 1990 - North Shore News said ‘‘a wave pool is not necessari- ly one of them."’ He added that the 1990 dernands on the capital budge: will be greater than the budget. “This project, at this time, is not a necessary project,’” he said. Buchols added that the wishes of the community have to be weighed against the municipality’s ability to fund those wishes. Gadsby agreed that the facility was needed, but said the price was “too rich,’’ adding that she would support a scaled-down version of the project. Gadsby also expressed concern over the project’s tendering pro- cess, which she said was ‘‘flawed’’ because the low bid from Gamma Construction did not follow the tendering guidelines. Baker was also concerned over the project’s cost, and she pointed to a study showing that, on a per- capita basis, the district's pools are adequate. Baker said that the recre- ation commission had recom- mended acceptance of the Gamma bid or no bids because the second lowest tender of over $5.5 million was above their acceptable limit. But the mayor said she would support additional! funding for the project if a second tender package came before council this year. NORTH Vancouver- Lonsdale NDP candidate David Schreck ...new ridings ‘‘a good thing.”’ You could take all the time you want, talk to people and take alli the business you want. I enjoy people. Or maybe | could sell real estate.”” Meanwhile Schreck sees the new North Shore ridings as a gocd thing. “We're more fairly repre- sented,’’ he said. ‘‘Redistribution counted the folks on the North Shore rather than the mountains. We've got more people on the North Shore and they deserve representation.’’