Society of B.C.

The’ camp provides a * popular
wilderness. retreat for’ over 3,000
school children and™ community
groups every year. “

For-the past 24 years,. resident

director Jack Way has acted as a
“five-in caretaker for the. facility

and has provided: environmental
study programs at the camp since.
1969.

The move to lease the camp to
the Elks over a 10-year period
would have seen the Elks operating
the facility as of July 1 with the
GVRD providing group program-
‘ming at .an estimated cost of
$10,000 to $20,000 per year.

The GVRD' annual estimated

. budget witha resident caretaker in

place and the camp operated by
the Vancouver Parks. Board would -

; come to $44,000.

Critics of the leasing arrange-.
weg

GETTING SET for the big night, Salvation

0 39 vote Wednesday. a 'GVRD staff recommendation that’
i. Camp ‘Capilano, located in the Capilano River Regional
: Park, be leased out to the Elks Recreation Children’ s Camp

iy MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter |

ment, ted by the Hastings Com-.,

munity “Association, had argued
that an Elks-run. operation would

have meant the loss of the camp's

current B.C. Camping Association

accreditation. The camp is current-

ly inspected every three years. The
association reviews health, safety,

facility, program, administration *

and staffing standards.

Way said the change would also
have meant. the replacement of a
resident camp ‘director with a resi-
dent caretaker; Groups using the
camp would ‘have had to ‘provide

their own staff to service camp

users.
West Vancouver mayor’ and
chairman’ of the GVRD Park

‘

NORTH Vancouver District
Mayor Marilyn Baker...‘‘l wasn’t
convinced it was the best move to
lease out the facilities.’’

Committee Don Lanskail voted in*

favor of the Elks leasing proposal.
North Vancouver City Mayor Jack
Loucks, Bowen ‘Island director
Gail Taylor and Lions Bay Ald. °

SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS OF AMERICA. AWARDS

THE NORTH Shore News has again come up a winner in a
recent Suburban Newspapers of America newspaper adver-

tising and promotion awards. contest.

Taking top spot in the best sales

‘ promotion materials. category and

third spot in| the -best. in-paper
promotion, the News beat out the
competition in the. 1,100-member

papers in Canada and the U. s.
The winning materials — a

compreherisive display advertising —

rate card and an’‘in- “paper promo-
tion for News carriers — were

‘lauded by the judges for effective,

any sales promo takes top spot

straightforward use of limited *
space, top design and quality pres-
entation.

‘*it" was challenging ‘to jget
everything on one {rate card),”’
noted News marketing director
Tim Francis, who put together the
winning materials. ‘

“1's all-in’ one piece, atiation-

D compelling,’ , he said of the rate

Scamp without a cam

‘army Red Shield Appeal supporters prepare for the hig fund- raising blitz to be held Monda), May 2. Nine thousand canvassers will be

taking to the streets in hopes of raising $550,000 for 45 Salvation Army services. Pictured are: (front, I-r) Salvation Army: Capt. Wally Simpsou and Major Samuei Fame; (centre row,
is) North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker, North Van City Mayor Jack Loucks, West Vancouver deputy Mayor Alex Brokenstiire; (back row, }-r) Barbara Perault, Paula
. j ;

Gagnon, Frede. Golborn,: Kelth Bower and Nancy Thordarson.

Rilla Buckley also supported the. ;
proposal.
” District Mayor Marilyn Baker re...
jected the proposal.

North Vancouver.

Said Baker: ‘‘l wasn’ Leconvinced

i ‘was the best move fo lease out

“the facilities. The B.C. Camping

Association will not! accredit the
Pecos

But said Loucks:

in-favor of it because I felt’ the
Elks proposal) was plausible.”

But ‘Way believes the fact that
the camp had been given in trust to
the people of Vancouver in 1946
by the Vancouver Board of Trade
carried-a lot of weight with GVRD
directors. ‘When the word trust is
used, you can’t fool around with
that,”’ he said.

Said Betty Greenwell, chairman
of the Camp Capilano committee
of the Hastings, Community
Association: “We? re all very hap-
py with the decision. It means the
camp is going! to remain ‘public,
with public input and versatile ar-
rangements. It means the schools

a '

’ card.
For. the in-papet Promotion _

to find new newspaper, carriers’ — .

Francis used actual News carriers
and highlighted their real-life suc-
cess stories.
“They were pictured with their
skateboards and, skis that. they
bought’. with. their own money
earned from a News paper ‘route,’

h

‘I found it a

. difficult decision to make. I voted “pay for Science World,’

oprumtereag

group, which represents “suburban

7
News holo Mike Wakatleld

will t use se/it and the ¢ GYRD will be
obliged’ to have. a’ ‘resident camp
director."* :

Greenwell said the GvRD’ move
to pass the camp on to the, Efks
was part. of a program’ of
budgeting ‘cutbacks to” redirect
funds to a- morse high-profile pro-.
ject. ‘As far as we're concerned,’
this' was all part of the cutbacks to
*'she said.

But said Loucks: “'l think that's
completely ridiculous.’ It ' didn't,
have anything todo with it.’

As matters stand, the GVRD has
not allocated a budget to cover a
full year of camp operation... The
district has only approved a
$20,000 allotment for programm-
ing, operating ;costs and minor
repairs. | :

. Funding for Way’ s job as resi-
dent director is in place unti! ‘the
end jof June. To cover the net
camp’ operating costs for 1988 the

GVRD board has to amend the ,

1988 parks operating budget.

NEWS marketing director. ° Tim
‘ Francis..-put together. winning me-

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