N THIS second instalment of the North Shore News’

two-part Year In Review feature, the newspaper pres-
ents a summary of the major news events that occur-
red on the North Shore from July to December, 1990.

The first Year in Review in-
stalment, which appeared in the
Dec. 30 News, covered the months
from January to June.

JULY:
¢ Runaway truck kills 2:

Two people were killed and
seven others were injured ina
tragic accident at the Horseshoe
Bay ferry terminal when a
runaway truck loaded with hot
asphalt crashed into a van of
holiday travellers.

The truck apparently fost its
brakes while travelling down the
steep hill leading to the ferry ter-
minal and crashed into a Ford van
in one of the terminal’s waiting
lanes. Cn impact, the van was
partially covered with the truck’s
hot asphalt.

JULY:
© 9-1-1 service starts today:

The nationally recognized
emergency phane number 9-1-1
kicked in for North Shore and
Lower Mainland residents on July
15.

9-1-1 replaced the hodge-podge
of emergency phone numbers used
in the various Lower Mainland
municipalities. The three-digit
number routes all emergency calls
to a dispatch centre which then
dispatches the calls to the nearest
appropriate agency.

The capital cost of the central
control system is $2.5 million with
an annual operating budget of
$2.5 million. The service is ex-
pected to handle one million calls
in its first year of operation.
AUGUST:
© Blue boxes make debut:

Curbside recycling became a re-
ality as International Paper In-
dustries Ltd. (IPI) began delivery
of the 12-gallon recycling bluc
boxes to single-family homes
across the North Shore.

Local residents soon became
avid recyclers. By Octobe, they
were diverting over 700 tonnes of
material from the waste stream
each month.

In November, multi-family
complexes on the North Shore
started receiving the 96-gallon
carts that would allow apartmeni
and condominium dwellers to
recycle. It marked the first time in
Canada that all multi-unit resi-
dences were included in a mun-
cipal recycling program.
SEPTEMBER:
© Versatile Shipyards awarded
$120 miltion superferry contract:

North Vancouver-based Ver-
satile Pacific Shipyards Inc. won a
$120-million government contract
to build a 470-car, 2,000 passenger
superferry and negotiations were
initiated with the company for
delivery of a second vessel.

The first vessel is to be com-
pleted for delivery in 1993 and
will initiafly be used on the
Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay run.

Delivery of a second superferry
was scheduled for 1994.

Versatile’s bid of $119.2 milion
was one af the fighest bids
received lor fitding the vessel,
but the comps 6 ability to
deliver the vessel promptly Upped
les its way, according to
provincial government officials.
SEPTEMBFI
° Water qualits fails:

The quality of drinking water
EET EY AES

from the North Shore's Capilano
and Seymour reservoirs and the
Coquitlam reservoir was given a
failing grade in a Greater Van-
couver Water District (GVWD)
report.

Released Sept. 17, the report
recommended that $478.5 million
be spent on the regional water
supply system to bring local water
quality up to national standards.

The report outlined a three-
phase plan to upgrade the GVWD
system. The plan calls for the
construction of filtration plants at
the Capilano and Seymour reser-
voirs to reduce chronic water tur-
bidity, or cloudiness, by preven-

: }
NEWS photo Terry Peters
A GREATER Vancouver Water
District report released in
September gave focal water a
failing grade.

ting sediment from entering the
system.

The plan also includes the in-
stallation of large chlorine contact
tanks at the Capilano and Ce.
guitiam reservoirs and the con-
struction of a facility to transter
water from Coquitlam westward
when water from the other sources
has high turbidity levels.

Following heavy rains in
November, water turbidity in the
Capilano and Seymour reservoirs
was up to 40 times higher than
those recommended under na-
tional water quality guidelines.
© Youth gangs and drugs a North
Shore problem:

Gang and drug-related incidents
of violence were highlighted in a
controversial series of News arti-
cles. Police attributed local trou-
ble to a small core group of peo-
ple. Incidents of Mace attacks and
beatings with bats alarmed many.
The issues were subesequently ad-
dressed by the community ata
number of public meetings.
OCTOBER:
© Squamish Highway stide rekin-
dies bighway debate:

Two B.C. cabinet ministers said
a new highway link bypassing the
North Shere and running from the
east side of Indian Arin through
to the Squamish area was the
route favored as an aiternative to
the slide-plagued Squamish High-
way.

A rock slide blocked the hinh-
way and the BC Raib mainline
after an estimated BS.060 cubic
metres of rock and tamber came
tumbling down about ie

he. Year in Review

A TRAGIC accident at the
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
in July saw two people kiiled,
seven injured.

kilometres north of Lions Bay on
Oct. 20. A second slide struck in
the same area days fater as
workers atempted Lo secure rock
in the area.

NOVEMBER:

¢ Trauma centre eyed:

A report commissioned by the
B.C. government recommended
that the North Shore's Lions Gate
Hospital be upgraded and ex-
panded to become one of six main
medical centres in the province.

The recommendation was one
of 48 made in the Trauma Care
Report for B.C.

{1 the provincial ministry of
health, which commis-ioned the
report, approves the steering
committee's recommendation to
turn LGH into a trauma centre, a
number of add‘tions would have
to be made to LGH, including
building a helicopter landing pad
atthe hospital.

*Dykeman, Sager win mayoral
caces in municipal elections:

West Vancouver's Mark Si
easily exchanged his aldermanic
seat for the mayor's chair atter
defeating three candidates in the
Nov. 17 municipal elections.

Outgoing West Vancouver
maror Don Lanskail had an-
nounced prior to The eleetion his
intention io retire after serving!
two tens as the municipality's
mayor.

fn North Vancouver District
Murray Dykemian. a veteran
alderman, alsa beat three

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WEWS photo Mike Wakefield

IN NOVEMBER, Murray
Dykeman and Mark Sager were
elected the mayors of North
Vancouver District and West
Vancouver, respectively.

challengers to capture the mayar’s
chair.

Long-time North Vancouver
District Mayor Marilyn Baker an-
nounced earlier in the year her in-
tention to enter the provineial po-
litical arena. In mid-September
she was acclaimed as the Socred
candidate in the newly-created
riding of North Van-
couver- Lonsdale.

North Vancouver City Mayor
Jack Loucks. meanwhile, was
returned to office for his seventh
term, the siarh by acclamation.

Ina herfy contested reteren-
tHMOULOE LOTCTS Tee

Wednesday. January 2. 1991 g#Nonth Shore News -

A HUGE rock slide blocked the
Squamish Highway for days in
October.

jected a proposed golf course in
the Cypress Ridge area of West
Vancouver. Fifty-seven per cent of
those who participated in the ref-
erendum rejected the develop-
ment.

Environmentalists had lobbied
intensively to maintain old-growth
forest in the mountainside area.
® Referendum demanded; bate
brewing over Northlands golf
course:

Approvimately 200 people
crowded into the gym at North
Vancouver District’s Plymouth
Elementary School to debate an
amendment to the Seymour Of-
ficial Community Plan that would
allow for a golf course and resi-
dential housing to be built in an
area that is designated as ‘an area
under review.”*

Speakers in favor of the Nor-
thlands golf course outnumbered
opponents three to two, but rep-
resentatives of various communily
groups demanded a public refer-
endum be called to decide the
Northlands issue.

DECEMBER —
© Reynolds resigns post:

West Vancouver-Howe Sound
MLA John Reynolds resigned
suddenly as provincial Environ-
ment Minister after Premier Bill
Vander Zatm decided to delay
implementation of tougher pulp
mili pollution regulations that had
been formulated by Reynolds and
his ministry.

Reynolds said he no longer had
the support or confidence of the
premier.

* 30,000 without power:

A wicked wind storm hit the
Lower Mainland and knocked out .
power to approximately 60,000
B.C. Hydro customers. Over
30,000 Hydro customers 09 the
North Shore lost power for
periods ranging over 16 hours,

The winds brought with it a
frigid mass of arctic air.
¢ Kidnap suspects remanded:

The daughter of West Van-
couver millionaire Jim Patdison
was kidnapped and held for
$200,000 in rinsoin. Police subse-
quently arrested seven suspects
following a weekend shopping
spree that involyed limousine tides
and pre-Christinas purchases at
various Power Mitinland shopping
malls.