THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

March 5, 1986

News 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

Circulation 986-1337 40 pages

| RV park given okay: 5

THE SAVE the Cypress Bowl Committee (SCBC) has vow-
ed to regroup following Saturday’s arrest of committee

spokesman John Beltz.

The West Vancouver lawyer was
stopped by Cypress Bowl Recre-
ations Ltd. (CBRL) management
near the Hollyburn warming hut
on Cypress Mountain, while
leading approximately 150 area
snowshoers and wilderness hikers
in a weekend ski-in protest against
the user-pay policies of the com-
pany.

The provincial government
awarded CBRL the licence to
operate the mountain's ski facili-

's Reporter

ties in 1984,

Beltz said Monday his arrest
“twas outrageous. The officer ar-
rested me but he wouldn’t act on
my complaint against management
of the mountain.”’

Following Beltz’s arrest and a

See Charges
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~ hEwS ‘photo Mike Wakefield

TWO PROTESTERS carry themselves and their concerns for free park
access up a Cypress Bowl downhill ski run. The two were part of the
estimated 150 concerned wilderness hikers who turned out to Saturday’s
ski-in on the mountain, organized by the Save the Cypress Bowl Com-
mittee. The demonstration was aimed at the user-pay policies of the
private company that currently operates the mountain’s ski facilities.

‘NORTH. ‘Vancouver residents will bé r paying ‘at’ least six. per
cent more in school taxes for 1986 than they didi in 1985,

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW ,
News Reporter: |

“Ina North Vancouver School
‘Board meeting Monday night,
- District. 44 secretary-treasurer Len
“Berg told trustees that’ a $2.7 mil-

‘lion increase. in the district’s
‘budget, coupled with an $800,090).

decrease in its allotment under. the
provincial government’s fiscal
framework, would push residential
taxes up an estimated six per cent,

The 1986-87 draft budget pres-
ented by Berg totalled $55.9 mil-
lion compared with the district's
1985-86 budget of $53.2 million. |
“Trustee Dorothy Lyrias reacted
with. disappointment to what -she

~ load being Sump e on local tax-

payers. Sen,
“Starements. ‘(io improve educa:

tion: funding) made by the. ministry .

border: on’ fraud,’ ’ Lynas “said:
“People might. be thinking that we.
are in clover here,. but. we’re ‘not.
We have been granted nothing but
the right to. say .a. the. taxpayer,
here itis, you can pay up.”?”
See North
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