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Council
scraps
survey

April 13, 1983

saga of Sager’s neighbourhood pub plan for
Dundarave took a sudden new twist Monday

night.

Hank Sager resubmitted
his application to turn his
Sagers’ Maple Shop at 2423
Marine Drive into a
neighbourhood pub.

As a result, West Van-
couver council scrapped its
previous decision to hold a

DELIGHTED TO BE OPENING the next campus multipurpose building,
BM Vander Zaim was at Capilano College Tuesday for among the last of
his public engagements as education minister. Vander Zalm, notorious
for his cuts in education fanding, said he was pleased such expansion of
the college was going ahead. He added that he was glad aupporters of
North Van Socred candidates Jack Davis and Angus Ree did not turn out

survey to discover if Dun-
darave residents ever want a
pub in their neighbourhood

It voted instead to
establish a two-member
committee, consisting of

Alderman Doreen Black-
burn and Alderman Alex

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Rush treatment for new application

ONCE MORE into the breach ... the ongoing

By WENDY HA YSOM

Brokenshire, to study the
reapplication with council
staff and report back as soon
as possible.

“l don’t know if we can
make our report within a
week but we will certainly
deal with it as fast as we
can,” said Alderman
Blackburn after the meeting.

Council has been

a

as he did not want ft to

receiving a steady stream of
protest letters ever since it
turned down the Sagers’
original application after a
public meeting three weeks
ago.

The latest stack of mail
brought 59 letters in favour
and six against the pub plan.
Many urged council to
reconsider its decision.

(Many of the letters were
sent in response to an ad-
vertisement placed in the

North Shore News by the
“concerned majority
committee” which urged
people to write to council
expressing their support for
the pub.)

Hank Sager is over-
whelmed by the community
backing he has received.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said
after the meeting. But he felt
“rewarded” for the efforts he
and his family had put into

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NEWS phote Terry Peters

a political event. However, banner-carrying,
heckling supponers of NDP candidate for North Vancouver Capilano
Olga Kempo censured he did not get his wish. Pictured with Vander Zalm
opening the ballding are (left} Robert McKee, president of the college
staf? unton, and college board chairman HOda Rizan.

By TERRY LAVENDER

ALL IN-CAMERA
items other than those
demanding immediate
action must be made
public at the next
council meeting, a
North Vancouver City
council committee
decided Monday.

Council’s. policy com-
mittee voted to recommend
to council that the
procedure bylaw be
changed, allowing council to
bring an item back that same
night only if it is “of the
greatest expediency “

The decision ended a
month-long controversy
over charges by Alderman
Stella Jo Dean that council
was in effect making im-
portant decisions in secret
by discussing them in-
camera and then coming
back into the public council
chamber and announcing

them to an empty gallery.
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WEDNESDAY
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