AD WE October 30, 1992 104 pages Office, Editorial 985-2131 Display Advertising 980-0511 NEWS phote Terry Paters Clownin’ around ON SATURDAY afternoon (Oct. 31) from 7:30 to 5 p.m., William Griffin Recreation Centre will hold its ainth annual Haunted Fun House. Handsworth secondary schoo! students (clockwise ° Calder, Patrick Brealey, Kevin Koch and Jamie Walker) will be on hand for Rob from” spular vent. Tickets are $1 and should be purchased in advance. For more information, phone 987-7529. ERA Fall car care guide special feature: 23 Classifieds 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 Expansion for N. Shore Class A park criticized HUNDREDS OF local and other Cy; -¢ meeting halls Wednesday bikers, Provincial night at Vancouver’s Robson skiers, en Park users packed onmertalists two Square Conference Centre to hear B.C. Parks’ expansion plans for the North Shore’s Cypress Bow! ski area. B.C. Parks officials presented three options for upgrading the Cypress Bowl ski area at the six- hour open house: © Option X: Would expansion outside Cypress Bowl Recreations Ltd.'s (CBRL) ex- isting 600-hectare (1,483-acre) permit area. (A 50-year lease to run Cypress Bowl’s ski and recre- ation facilities was won by CBRL and its principals Wayne Booth and Milan) flich when Cypress Bowl’s operations were privatized by the Social Credit government in 1984.) Option X would include only the upgrading of existing substan- dard buildings and sewerage facil- ities. @ Option Y: Would include par- tial expansion outside the permit area into second-growth forest on Black Mountain in Cypress Pro- vincial Park. @ Option Z: Calls for the Black Mountain expansion and the log- ging of an additional 40 hectares (99° acres} of Hollyburn Ridge old-growth forest outside the permit area. ption Z created most of the controversy at the Wednesday night meeting, where about 56 people pre-registered (to address . Parks director George Trachuk, planner Mel Turner and manager Ray Peterson. Although B.C. Parks staff didn't debate the issues with the speakers, they noted public com- ments for incorporation into a draft master plan for Cypress park that is scheduled to be pres- ented to the public in 1993. Of the three options presented by B.C. Parks, CBRL’s own plan for expanding and improving its operation in Cypress Bowl most closely resemble Option Z, but it would include an additional 60 hectares (148 acres) of Hollyburn involve no By Chery! Ziola Contributing Writer Ridge for more skiing and hiking trails. Booth said Option Z is the only option that is economically viable for his company. “Option unacceptable . tion Y is not feasible as a stand- alone."’ Booth said CBRL could not privately afford ‘to upgrade Cypress Bowl's existing buiidings and sewerage facilities without the addition of Hollyburn Ridge downhill ski runs. The runs, he said, would pro- vide the extra revenue to cover the estimated $40 million upgrading costs. Booth added that unless B.C. Parks planned to fund some of the upgrade, he didn’t know wer CBRL would get the money fo Options X or Y. He said CBRL could fully fund Option Z, and he promised that “this would be a final expansion. We think our plan is the best op- portunity to balance recreation ith conservation values."* But Booth’s statement brought a chorus of heckles and jeers from the audience. Friends of Cypress Provincial Park chairman Katharine Steig said she had collected more than 2,000 names on a petition oppused to any expansion outside CBRL’s permit area. “Of the three options, Option X best represents protection of park values,’’ Steig said. ‘‘We urge B.C. Parks ... to develop a new master plan for the park as a whole, a plan based on overall principles for protection and use of this Class A park.” EE SELLE i SEL ET ee a a ET PET index Si Automotive Classified Ads. @ Ecolnfo. 1. 8 Editorial Page & Home & Garden % Trevor Lautens 3 Mailbox M@ Paul St. Pierre .. @ What's Going On Saturday & Sunday rain High 12°C, low 6°C. cations Mail Sales Proauct Agree nt Number 0087238.