“All. three North Shore _
councils held their inaugural
1978 meetings Monday night

following the November
municipal elections with the

- swearing-in of. new and.

re-elected. members and
formal ‘‘throne speeches’’ by ©
the mayors—all of whom”
promised to. ‘Took. after our
dollars. —_

At Nortih. Vancouver Dis-
trict, where two. scarlet-uni-
formed Mounties added a

splash of pageantry to the

proceedings, ‘the three re-

‘ elected Aldermen Marilyn

Baker, John Lakes and
Gordon Rose were sworn in’
by Hon. Mr. Justice Kenneth
Fawcus of the B. Cc. Supreme
Court.

Mayor Don Bell noted that
the new council was unique

in the fact that, for the first

time in 12 years, it contained
no new faces—all three
vacant seats at the election

having been filled by their.

previous incumbents. A
council ‘‘rich with exper-
ience”’ ready to deal with the

problems of the coming: year

was how Mayor Bell put it.
The Mayor reviewed. the

highlights of ‘the past. year |

giving pride of place to the
finalization .of.::the .
awaited policy statement on
the future development of
Seymour (to be released this

month) and ‘also claimed |

credit on behalf of council for.
holding ‘the average tax.

increase to only 3.8 per cent .
. during 1977, compared with.
18 and 12 per. cent tax hikes
in the two Preceding } years. =

an acceptance by our readers
and advetisers far .in excess
of our original expectations.

’ That acceptance. certainly

doesn’t make us feel smug.
On the contrary, ti makes us |

feel rather humble...and
determined to work harder
than ever at producing a

paper that gets better and
better for our Sunday read-

ers.

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Sunday: December 25, 1977

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~ overnight accomodation rate,
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Looking to. ‘the | future,
Mayor Bell. called’ for the

reconstruction of Main Street
and Capilano - Road, and

- would. inc

stressed the need for a new .

Jow level road. in‘the. ‘western :

-part of the District."He also

expressed the hope that the

District would be’ selected to |

host the 1979 Provincial
‘Winter Games...

At.North Vancouver City a
“radically new council, where
only three:of the seven 1977
council members were back

to serve for the next two
years, was sworn in by Judge

Wallace’ Craig, again with
‘Mounties in attendance.

‘In his inaugural speech the
Jack .

City’s new Mayor,
Loucks, asked council to hold
next -year’s increase in
" expenditures over 1977 to a

maximum of five to. six per.

‘cent.

‘He noted that the official
community plan was, ‘with
one -or two exceptions,”’ at
long last ready for consider-

ation for’ adoption—which
necessary:

would ‘provide
guidelines: for the orderly

growth and development of

the City.
Priorities outlined by the

Mayor for the ‘immediate

future included revitalization
of the Lower Lonsdale. core

area; the acquisition of a-

waterfront park; and negot-
iations with Victoria, neigh-
boring municipalities and the

‘Squamish Indian Band for a
start on the urgently needed.

low ‘level road.

In West Vancouver Mayor .
Peter Jones, i in his ‘inaugural

li also. ‘proves. vs all

doubt something we believed |
_ from the start: Vancouver,

like the rest of the western
world, wants a Sunday news- |
paper....mdaybe even two or.

three. And for the past seven

-months we have been quietly

‘demonstrating here on the
North Shore that it can be
done. .

So what’ Ss all ‘the fuss
about down in Toronto?

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Dancing |

- Minimize ~ 7
maximize the _ undeveloped

; address, promised | that taxes ay
increase . beyond. ~
the rate of inflation in the .

coming year, but warned that.

this might mean a hard look.
at -cany aequest: for .an-.
. expansio of Present servic-

cs.

"Reminding the ‘public gal 7
lery that".West “Vancouver ©

had kept tax increases below

the inflation rate-for the past _
two years, Mayor Jones said:

“The objective i in stopping

- this spiralling increase in the
percentage of wealth ‘that .

goes to taxes cannot be

‘ achieved if governments give.

in to each group that wants
some increase in service.
“If we are to maintain our
objective, . any increase in
service can only be establish-
ed where there is a corres-
ponding | increase in effic-
iency or reduction in service
somewhere else.” >
The citizen survey to be
held in January, he added,

. will. tell council ‘which ser-
_ vices citizens think should be

improved, ‘which ones made
more efficient and which
ones reduced to keep taxes at

today’ s level.

On ‘the hot “question. of

future - residential .develop-
ment Mayor Jones spoke out |
- strongly against the standard

sub-division approach and

recommended, instead, . the
land usé contract method of ©

development “‘which would

roadways — and

"open space.” =

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an historic structure in North |
“Wanicouver, the First. Church .
‘of St. John the: Evangelist
originally built in 1899, will.
take. on a ‘‘new. life’’ . for
British Columbians when itis

o officially opened | ‘by. the a
“Lieutenant- . é

province’s .
Governor, Walter Owen. 7

Featured at ‘the: opening {
will be the dedication of a-

-stained glass window. espec-

designed and constructed the
“unique stained glass window
commissioned over. a year

ago when the church struc-
_ ture was moved to the site of

. Presentation House in North

Vancouver.

Lieutenant-Governor

Owen will name the project.

‘the Anne Macdonald Hall
after'the founder of the North

Vancouver Community Arts |

Council, the gzoup respons-

future development over the
next 30 years will be in the
form of standard subdivis-
ions or -whether the devel-
opment. will be the innova-
_ tive, imaginative, sensitive
development that our. truly
unique hillside calls for,’’
- declared the Mayor.

“Council must make impor- -

tant decisions this year that.
will

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