Mahe Clirisunits bright for a refurec child... qian any Char bh fen Pre dees ne gery Baty? sod t ee 'S photo Cin3y Goodman Christmas sharing FRANK DATO of North Shore’s Chameleon Studios Inc., Hair Pesign and Tanning Salon, is ask- ing peopie to get into the Chirstmas spirit by dropping off a toy or gift for needy shildren. ‘“"T we can »righten this season for some needy kids, it’s the least we car do," said i:ato. All of the items gathered will be distributed by the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. to immigrant chiidren from two months old to 17 years. Toys can be dropped off at the Chameleon studios, located at 105-260 West Esplanade in North Vancouver. THE FOUR North Shore Social Credit constituency associations are sitting out the grassroots revolt brewing elsewhere against Premier Bill Vander Zalm. While a number of party associations prepare for meetings to vote on whether or not to call for a leadership review, the four North Shore constituency associa- tion presidents are said to support the premier. Bill McCarthy, the Social Credit party regional director responsible for the North Shore and Burnaby associations, recently polled the local association presidents. “It’s been discussed (by North Shore party associations), but there have been no resolutions forthcoming fcr a leadership con- vention,’’ McCarthy said. The North Vancouver-Seymour constituency association, the peo- ple behind Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Jack Davis, held an executive meeting Dec. 4 and passed a unanimous resolution rejecting the move for a leadership review. By Michael Becker News Reporter Said North Vancouver-Seymour constituency association president Ernie Sarsfield, ‘‘Our board is unanimously against calling for a leadership convention. Not all of our board is happy with the premier. But we're too late in our mandate. If we should have done it, it should have been years ago.” The Social Credit party con- stitution stipulates that a mini- mum of J5 constituencies must request a special convention to determine support for a leadership convention. Said Sarsfield, ‘‘It's ridiculous. They (the dissidents) don’t know what they’re doing. The minimum time we could do a leadership review is about 150 days, and that’s if you can get a hall in PREMIER Bill Vander Zalm ... support from ail four North Shore constituencies. time. You would need two con- ventions for possibly 1,500 to 2,000 people. Where are you go- ing to find a place?"’ Ultimately, Sarsfield said, the association supports the govern- Sunday. December 16 1990 - North Shore News ~ 3 Watershed logging debate soes fo NVD Council NORTH VANCOUVER District Council wiil con- sider a motion Monday night to oppose logging in the Capilano and Seymour watersheds. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Notice of the motion was pres- ented Dec. 10 to council by Ald. Ernie Crist in response to the con- tnuing flow of murky drinking water coming from the two North ‘Shore reservoirs. Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) officials have said the dirty water has resulted primarily from record rainfalls in November. But said Crist, ‘‘There has never been so prolonged a discoloring of water at this time. The watershed area is a delicate eco-syiem. It has a vital impor- tance for the citizens in as much as it controls the quality of water, and I think it is irresponsible to tamper with it.”’ If the resolution to stop logging in the watersheds is passed, North Vancouver District Mayor Murray Dykeman said he will relay it to the next Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) board of directors meeting. North Vancouver District is one of 17 Lower Maintand municipalities that buy water from the GVWD. But Dykeman said council and the GVWD have been operating on the assumption that logging in the watershed is good forest management policy for the protec- tion of water quality. He added that he will reserve judgement on the logging issue until January, when the GVRI3 board will receive the results of a GVRD staff report examining the watershed logging policy. Crist’s motion to oppose water- shed logging comes amid an ongo- ing heated debate between GVRD chief engineer John Morse and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee {WCWC) on the merits of logging the GVRD wa- tershed. elr man ment and the premier. According to the constituency president, the leadership issue continues to fester because of the unresolved leadership rancor stemming from the 1986 Whistler convention that orginally crowned Vander Zalm as the Socred leader. Said Sarsfield, ‘‘It (the Whistler leadership convention) was a three-ring circus. Emotions became very high and a lot of money was spent. Millions of dollars were spent on that conven- tion. Some of the candidates must have spent over $1 million, in my opinion. “Some people invested a lot of money on certain candidates, and they would like to see a return on that. F don’t think it’s the can- didates so much as the people around the candidates who are pushing for this. The way the convention was run, it wasn’t a proper convention. It was a three-ring circus with tents and beer, and J think it) was a disgrace. We're still feeling the after-effects of this.”” NORTH Vancouver District Ald. Ernie Crist ... logging ‘‘ir- responsible.”’ Recently that debate has focus- ed on a November mudslide that hit the Seymour watershed’s Jamieson Creek area. WCWC director Randy Stoltmann said that after touring the area by helicopter, the WCWC estimated the slide to be 67S metres in length from where it started to where it entered the creek, The slide. he said, occurred in a clearcut area with a logging road that cuts across it. Stoltmann added that the slide is located in a valley that had been used as an example by the GVRD and a UBC professor to show how road building and logging have had no negative impact on area erosion, But Morse said that although Jamieson Cree). was a ‘‘significant slide’’ in terms of surface area, there vere slides in unlogged areas of the Capilano and Coquitlam watershe¢s that were ‘“‘equally as large or larger.” “The whole thing has to be looked at in perspective,”’ he said. “There is obviously a variety of mechanisms that has to be looked at in treed ard non-trecd areas.”” Morse sai,’ +-2 Slides were ‘‘ob- viously”’ triggered by intense rain- See Murky page 5 Index @ Affluence & Influence .22 @ Gary Bannerman .... @ Classified Ads W Cocktails & Caviar...20 & Comics @ Editcrial Page @ Fashion @ High Tech @ Horoscopes ® Bob Hunter @ Lifestyles BE Mailbox @ Miss Manners 9 Spiritually Speaking ..40 @MSports.............. 13 @ Travel @ Vintage Years @ What's Going On... . 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