Sentember 25, 1994 48 pages Office, Editorial 985-2131 POVERTY HELP The final story of a series on poverty points the way to support agencies. Display Advertising 980-0511 NEWS photo Pau! McGrath TWO YOUNG girls view the wreckage of a two-car accident at 17th Street and Grand Boulevard. The accident, which occurred earlier in the week, resulted in injuries for the driver when his truck flipped over. Gravel barges for island development get a rocky ride THE ISLANDS Trusi has served an injunction against Vancouver develop- er Urban Concepts, ordering it to stop hauling gravel for a controversial development on Bowen Island by way of Tunstall Bay. By Kate Zimmerman News Reporter The mandate of the 20-year-old Trust. which represents 13 major and 500 minor islands, is “to preserve the islands for the peo- ple of B.C. and residents in as natural a state as possible,” according to Bowen Island trustee Claus Spiekermann. Spickermann campaigned for his position on a ticket of orderly development. Residents of Tunstall Bay, he said, moved there in a quest for peave and quiet. “They don't want a Jot of noise.” Naise is what they've been getting et] month, Twelve barges belonging to indepen- dent contractor Jack Cewe Lid. began hauling the 5.000 truck-lowds worth of gravel and asphalt required to complete the first half of an inland development which will eventually be worth $70 million. Spiekermann said the barges rely on tides to get in and out of the bay. That has sometimes meant that unloading on the public beach has started at 4:30 a.m. and ended [2 hours later, when high tide allowed the barges to move out. Earlier this week residents used their own boats to form a barricade against the barges. They object to the noise, to the truck traffic affecting children’s play and to the perceived safety hazard of vehicles lumbering through an area zoned for recreational use and still popu- lar with families during Indian summer. “We're asking (Urban Concepts) to honor our zoning bylaw.” said Spiekermann. Islands Trust has proposed an alternate route through Seymour Bay to the developer. Spickermann said the Trust has told Urban Concepts it would receive temporary use per- mits for that area as quickly as possible, The developer would have to install a landing site. which Spiekermann said condd cost anywhere from $10,000 to $250,000, according to engi- neers he has consulted. Urban Concepts has refused. ft could not be reached for comment. At this point, Spiekermann said. “We're waiting for an answer from the developer.” George Home, vice-president of finance for Jack Cewe Lid., described the situation as “in limbo.” Though Spickermann said the barges are now being kept out of the bay by the tides and the injunction rather than the barricade, Home maintained that residents are still blocking the way. Home said he wasn’t interested in “fighting this out in the press” but admitted that in 25 years of delivering to the islands, this was the first time the company had experienced such resistance. For now, the Bowen Island detachment of the RCMP is staying out of the fray. “We are leaving it to the hands of their respective lawyers.” said Const. Paul Arsenault. He pointed out that residents are not breaking the law by anchoring their boats in the hay. Bowen Island currently supports a popula- tion of 2,500. The Islands Trust hopes to limit growth ta a maximum af 7.500 residents is dhe next 20 vears. “We don't want the island to become like Surrey, where it just disappears into suburbia.” Spiekermann said. BANK CENTRE CIBC announces plans for new $5M banking centre on Lonsdale. 12 Classifieds 986-6222 Caulteild school delayed to 1996 WEST VANCOUVER School District 45 has suffered a set- back in its plans to construct and open the new 750-student Caulfeild middle school by next fall. WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT By Glen Anwick Three bids received for the pro- ject have been rejected by school trustees. The bids were all at least $900,000 over the budgeted amount. The new schoo} will now not be built according to schedule and like- ly won't open until the fall of 1996. Trustee Clive Bird told board members at a Sept. 13 meeting that blasting to prepare the construction site at Caulfeild Plateau was com- pleted at the end of August. He had hoped the tender could have been awarded as planned so the project could proceed. The new middle school will be a two-storey structure constructed of natural building materials and will include a 279 sq. m (3,000 square ft.) recreational facility. Bird said that nine tender infor- mational packages had been given out, but only four were received as bids. One contractor later dropped out because of a sub-trades dispute. He said the board must now “explore other options” with the dis- trict’s management staff and the Ministry of Education. Pulp mill penalized THE SEVENTH environ- mental conviction ir five years for Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Ltd. has netted the company 2 $75,000 fine. The fine was levied foilow- ing a 1991 spill of 350,000 litres (77,000 gallons) of pulp mill effluent into Rainy River, according to the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. The Rainy River flows into Howe Sound. The pollution charge was one of 238 laid between Oct. 1, 1993, and March 31. Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Lid. is described by the ministry as one of several companies which rece' ved “significant fines” for environ- mental infractions during the six-month period.