egg ee ae nit mth ane get CON WEATHER: Friday and Saturday, mainly sunny. Highs near 24°C, HOMES: 11 Featured this week is a home that sets the standard for comfort and elegance. ADVENTURE: 51 Thrill seekers abound at the World Hang Gliding Championship this weekend. COMPUTERS BLAMED | LYNN VALLEY residents were previded with a brief opportunity Wednesday to cool off. A resident th- sprinkler without realising the road and not his parched lawn was Lyon Valley Road and Christopher turned «:- benefitting from the water. QUAY CONTROVERSY CONTINUES cu "A PROPOSED deadline given to North Van- couver Arts Council to raise its share of money for the Lonsdale Quay Waterfront Park sculpture was defeated by council Monday. By BARRETT FISHER North Vancouver City Council voted against Ald. Rod Clark’s motion to have the Arts Council come up with its $50,000 share for the sculpture by the end of July or else the City would pull out its promised $50,000. Originally the arts coun- cil’s goal was $75,000, with the City matching that amount, but the arts council could not reach the original objective, so council agreed to meet whatever the organization could raise. Referring to himself as a ‘Yowly, artistic slob,’’ Clark said: ‘‘Two years has been enough time to raise $75,000. | think that shows ipture dea the community’s lack of in- terest and opposition. The soil-grading (at Waterfront Park) is now complete. The time-frame should be the end of the month. If they can’t satisfy their financial obligation, we must back off.” Ald. Ralph Hall replied, ‘Why the vehemence? Ar- _ tists are not like us normal people — they go their own Strange way sometimes. Thank God they do. ! prob- ably won’t like this structure — I don’t like to admit that publicly. But I believe we Friday NEWS photo lan Smith ALD. ROD CLARK on the corner of Saturday 27 Sunday 28 3 - Friday, July 26, 1985 - North Shore News For Pt. Atkinson Time HtjFe. 0740 1510 1900 0040 0835 1630 2040 0125 0930 1730 2200 Entertainment ....... Food ........e.006- Homes.. Mailbox ..... Travel....... otto foul-ups admitted A B.C. LOTTERY official has admitted Lotto Canada’s five regional! 13 computer systems that verify winning ticket numbers have caused _pro- blems for customers, because winning tickets bought in one regio another. : By BARRETT FISHER But vice-president Vic Poleschuk from the B.C. Lottery Corporation said having a nation-wide com- puter system would be too complex and too costly, Speaking from the lottery corporation’s Kamloops of- fice, Poleschuk said tickets bought within a region must. be cashed. within the same region for the computer to verify it as a winner. “If a ticket is bought in Alberta and validated in B.C., our system has no re- cord of that ticket ever being sold,’’ Poleschuk said. ‘‘The computer only searches the winners file of all B.C. tick- ets.” A Vancouver businessman who travels frequenty be- tween Alberta and B.C. brought the Lotto problem to the News’ attention after a B.C. computer rejected an Alberta ticket he knew to be a winner. The man, who by chance checked the published win- defe made a commitment.” Ald. Stella Jo Dean, who voted in favor of a deadline, but suggested a September 30 deadline be more ap- propriate, said, ‘‘This is one of the toughest things I’ve had to say publicly, because I have an alliance with the arts council. But I can’t buy it. | have to live with my conscience. | can’t pay $75,000 of taxpayers’ money. If berms are being created to house the sculpture, then we have to have some sort of a time fimit.”’ Said Ald. John cannot be verified in ners in a newspaper, said he wonders how many thou- sands of doilars he may have missed in winnings ‘by using the computer. ° Poleschuk said the lottery foundation has had to deal with similar incidents over the past three years, where clients have run into pro- blems with cashing tickets in different regions. “We try to deal with it,” he said. ‘We recognize it as an inconvenience and pro- blem, but it’s inherent in the whole Canadian jurisdiction. it’s not unique to B.C.”” Poleschuk said his com- pany has discussed amalgamating the computer systems, but said, “technically it would be very expensive and very complex to have a national system. It’s not by any means a new problem.”’ Poleschuk added: ‘It says very clearly on the back of each. ticket and selection slip that tickets can only be cashed in the province they are bought from.”’ See East Page 4 ated Braithwaite: ‘I'm concerned about the introduction of a new proposition to get this project defeated.’’ Mayor Jack Loucks, who was against setting a deadline, said: ‘*We made a commitment. We can't say at this late stage you have to have the money by a certain time.” But Loucks told the News he thought the sculpture issue would be back on the council agenda. “We will have to see how much money they have in hand,’ Loucks said. “We should find out."