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Canagan Fubucauons Mad Sales Procuct Agreement No 06236

April 23, 1997

W. Van

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By Susan Pohorski
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver
rn District has agreed to
ae pay $400,000 to set-
": tle a suit over the
ae proposed develop-
_ ment of a golf course
on the slopes of
4 Hollyburn Mountain.

Stephen) Hynes and Frank
Be Sojonky of Cypress Ridge Golf
coe Limited claimed breach of con-
tract and damages against the
ee municipality.
° Ina report received by coun-
cilon Monday, municipal manag-
er Doug Allan stated thar if the
eo, claim for breach of contract was
oe successful, “Cypress Ridge could
me, potentially be awarded damages
. in excess of S75 million plus
legal costs.”
pa Hynes and Sujonky sued West
eye, Vancouver in May 199) after the
me council decided in: November
1990 not to proceed with the
golf course development. Some

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LESS than 6% of North Vancouver’s voters

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Remembering North Van's
three-line streetcar service

. no showed up Saturday to reject a school

Des board request for $2 million.

7 A plan to put more computer technology into) North
Vancouver classrooms was deteated 2,599 to 1.890. The result
appears te support the warnings made by trustee Marg Jessup and
a, some residents, who said taxpayers are fecling tapped-our.

Disappointed board chairman Guy Heywood said the resules
a reveal that parents who professed support for the motion didn’t

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A bridge for the birds

PIPES for bridges to the birds are welcomed by Wild Bird Trust president Dick Beard and member Adrian Joseph. The project will

Few vote in $2 million
NV school referendum

bother to show up to vote.

“This would relieve the pressure on them and they couldn’r
see their way clear te come out and vote for it.” said: Heywood.
“It blows me away.”

With the reterendum’s defeat, the addition of computers, suft-
ware and support in che technology-starved district will continue
to rely on parent fundraising,

“The progress is going to be very siow and very uneven,”
Heywood said, adding it’s now not possible to meet the govern:

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see the pipes welded together and built into a bridge walkway at the bird sanctuary near Dollarton Highway.

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ment-mandated technology requirements in the district.

The school district figures it will cost $1! million over five
years to meet the government's rargets.

Heywood, a firm backer of the referendum, said most of the
funds raised for technology go to elementary schools.

“The kids that are cast adrift are the ones in high school,” said
Hevwoud.

Earlier, Heywood said the referendum was a chance for school
boards to re-establish themselves as a legitimate level of govern-
ment. On Monday, he said local governance is important to the
educational system, but it is in transition.

“Tr will either have to get built back up or abolished. It’s gcing
to be interesting to see where it goes,” said Heywood, who

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