16 — Sunday, December 8, 1996 — North Shore News

Priest blesses new co

Departing
counciller
praises staff

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer
EMOTIONS over-
flowed in a crowded
North Vancouver
District hall Monday
as, not one, but two
council meetin

marked the changing of
the municipal guard.

Mayor-clect Don Bell
broke with tradition and orga-
nized the evening so that
Mayor Murray Dykeman

FOR DES.

could chair his ast full council
mecting and address the com-
munity as mayor one lest time
before stepping down.

Dvkeman then closed his
council meeting, Judge
William T. Rodgers swore in
the new councii members and
Mayor Don Bell took the
chair 20 years after being
sworn in as mayor for the first
time.

His first words: “I'm ba-
aack.”

The format also gave
councillors Jim Cuthbert and
Pam Goldsmith-Jones one last
chance at the public micro-
phone.

Goldsmith-Jones thanked
Dykeman for a laid-back lead-
ership style that allowed “new
people to try new things.” She
spoke highly of district staff.

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“I will go out into the
community and only speak
highly of the ne. people who
work here,” Goldsmith-
Jones.

Cuthbert said one of his
biggest rewards during six
years on council was finding
out “a great deal about people
and what people have as their

greatest values.”

An emotional Bell stopped
several times to compose him-
self as he struggled to intro-
duce the priest who had
blessed him as mayor 20 years
ago.

Father Ron Barnes got a
big laugh from the friendly
crowd when he prefaced his

uncii

prayer with the instruction “I
want vou to watch carefully
when I bless the new council
and if they don’t dissolve in a
puff of smoke you'll know
they are all nght.”

They didn’t dissolve, but
the district taxpavers may wait
three years before deciding
whether council is “all right.”

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