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MARATHON MAN Neil Wakelin of North Vancouver wears number 15 to mark the Vancouver Inter-

national Marathon as his 15th marathon. Wakelin and runners make their way scross the Lions Gate |

Bridge 10 Perk Royal where a water and medical station awaited the 1,500 entries. The runners then
headed east to the Secund Narrows. Japanese competitors Yostikazu Tanase and Reiko Hirosawa made a
clean sweep of first place in the men and women divisions respectively. Prominent North Shore racers in
the 26-mile course include Janet Kectley cf North Vancouver in 15th place and Mark Shorter of North
Vancouver in 16th. In the 12-kilometre road race, West Vancouver's Sarah Ballazin came in fourth. More

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COMPLETE WEEK’S TV LISTINGS:

PMR head Dianne Hartwick
«Separate from ‘‘the boys.’’

ENVIRONMENT Minister John
Reynolds ...charged with hindering
development.

VICTORIA CALLS FOR NEW
POWDER MTN. DEVELOPMENT
PROPOSALS; WEST VAN
CONSORTIUM OUTRAGED

THE PROVINCIAL government has announced an ‘‘open
and fair’’ call for new proposals to develop the Powder
Mountain/Callaghan Valley ski area near Whistler.

But a West Vancouver consor-
tium has branded any new call for
Powder Mountain development
proposals *‘immoral...and illegal.”

In a press release today Crown
Lands Minister Dave Parker said
the government had scught input
from municipalities and agencies in
the area in preparing the proposal
call.

**We will continue to be guided
by the inter-ministry committee
which will ensure that the oro-
posal-call process is an open and
fair one,’’ Parker said.

The process is expected to take
up to a year, and will involve two
key phases: a _ pre-qualification

stage and a more detailed proposal.

plan.

The initial phase ‘‘will establish
a proponent’s financial, technical
and management capability,’’ said
Parker.

“If the government is not
satisfied with the viability of any
or all of the proposals at the end
of either stage, we will not pro-
ceed.

“With an area such as this, of
such value and recreational poten-
tial, we must ensure the best use
and highest return,’ the minister
added.

Guidelines and criteria for the
proposal call will be publicly
released within the sext month.

The new proposal call is based
on a task foree report on the
valley's future, conducted by
Squamish Regional District chair-
man Don Cumming, Whistler
Mayor Drew Meredith and Crown

By JOHN PIFER
From Victoria

Lands deputy minister Ed
McGregor.

In March, the government said
the proposal call would be made
public in mid-April.

But the decision to restart the
entire process outraged a consor-
fium headed by West Van-
couverites Nan and Dianne Hart-
wick, who maintain that their
Powder Mountain Resorts Ltd.
(PMR) legally won the right in
1985 to develop the area, which is
about 12 kilometres southwest of
Whistler.

In March, Nan Hartwick,
Dianne's mother, said any new call
for development proposals *‘would
be immoral, irrelevant and _ il-
legal.**

PMR investors have spent more
than $2 million over eight years
through four proposal calls, in
their bid to develop a $2 billion,
year-round glacier skiing resort,
according to the mother-daughter
team.

Now Dianne Hartwick has of-
ficially announced that she will
seek to wrest the Social Credit
nomination from Environment
Minister John Reynolds in the new
riding of West Van-
couver-Capilano.

The Hartwicks maintain that
Reynolds hindered rather than
helped their efforts to get final

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