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RESIDENTS
COME FIRST

Cross
neighbors
win pub
hours
victory

7

By KATHY BRENNAN

North Vancouver
District Council bowed
to the neighborhood
voice Monday and
unanimously refused
the Queen's Cross pub
permission to extend its
hours.

Owners of the  neigh-
borhood pub, at the corner
of Lonsdale Ave. and
Queens St.,. had asked
council to allow them to
imcrease the hours from 11
p-m. tol a.m. ,

Although a petition with
800 to 900 names in favor of
longer hours was given to
council and the neighbors
only gathered 300 names, it

“is the people who live beside

the pub who come “first and
foremost,” said Alderman
Ernie Crist.

“They are the ones that
have to put up with the
‘inconveniences, they are the
ones that come first,” Crist
said.

He said the neighborhood
pub concept would suffer a

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WEDNESDAY:
Sunny with cloudy
periods. Highs 60-64F

(16-18C).

THURSDAY:
Cloudy with showers or

possibly steadier rain.

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By NOEL WRIGHT

Tel. 985-2131.

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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Classified 986-6222

West Vancouver taxpayers had a double dose
of bad news Monday night when both council and
school board brought down final 1980 budgets
calling for tax increases of 10.9 per cent and 12.6

per cent respectively.

The municipal operating
budget of $21,392,000 is up
by 11.9 per cent over last

year's figure of $19,111,800.

The total municipal budget

DEADLY GIFT of 55 pounds of dynamite was
the tow truck on which it was left. The driver opened the box while at the
parking lot of 2554 Whitely Court, in North Van, Sunday morning and

of $26,743,000 includes
$5,351,000 for capital works
projects taken from reserves
from previous years.

Under the Municipal Act

unwanted by the driver of

the latter figure has to be
included in the current
year’s budget even though it

N. V. District
pegs budget
PAGE A2

does not reflect any ad-
ditional current taxation.
Noting the 10.9 per cent

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when he saw what was in it h

tax increase for the 1980
budget, Mayor Derrick
Humphreys pointed out that
the previous year’s increase
(1978-79) had been only 3.4
per cent -- giving a total tax
increase of 14.6 per cent
over the two-year period, or
an average of 7.3 per cent
per annum.

West Van's municipal mill
rate, said Humphreys, will
be 6.63 mills compared to

6.98 mills in 1979, a
reduction due to the in-
crease in total assessments
by the Provincial
Assessment Authority.

The total to be raised by
direct property tax for the
municipality this year is
$25,236,800. .

Introducing the budget for
its first reading, the mayor

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e immediately called the RCMP bomb squad
before driving any further. A bomb squad officer and a local Mounttle are
pictured examining the box. (Peter Waugh photo)