‘UP FOR GRABS" by. anyone who wants it, the church at 21st and Fulton is
right n now the location of. a recycling’ depot. Residents want the ‘beat-up’.

‘Eyesore’ set to move on again

An. old church on the
bit

Fulton in West Vancouver,
‘which has been described as
an ‘eyesore’, and which.
nobody seems to want, is set
to move again - as soon as
the East “Vancouver “Or-
thodox Church can figure
out a way to move it.

‘The site of the ‘church is

currently being used as a-

recycling collection depot by

SPEC, and” local residents
claim it is lowering t the value
of their: r Property.

‘It’ is being used as an
industrial: site, and the
church can’t be upgraded or

bage.’

used there,’ says Lorne |

area.

‘It is a beat up old wooden
church which is up on stilts,
and is surrounded by. gar-

Ann Ferris, who has been
involved with working-at the
depot, says kids sometimes

‘get into the paper that is
brought there for recycling, -

and mess it up.
‘The site is the ideal place.

tg have the depot because it...
is_on thé “way for people :

going shopping,’ ‘she said,

While she said there had
been some complaints about

Neighbor douses
roof top fire |

A North -Vancouver
woman returned to. her
home at 659 Kerry Place
Tuesday evening and was
greeted by the sight of 10 ft.
high flames leaping from the
shake roof,

But in her absence, a
neighbor had been spurred
into action and was already

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the tidiness of the site, she want it atthe

cRae, a resident of the said the yard is usually kept

reasonably clean.
The church was moved to
the site five or six years ago,
McRae says, and he says ‘it
has been up for grabs for
three or four years.”

McRae says the residents
have informed the

- Municipality they want the

church moved, and he says
the municipality - doesn’t

rem

a

location either.

A spokesman for the
municipality. says the East
Vancouver Greek Orthodox
Church has made ‘a definite
proposal,’ to take the
church.

‘But they are stymied as to
how to move it,’ he said.

MacRae mentioned a cost

of. $8 ,000 ‘to’ move’ ‘the.

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- building off their doorsteps and will be glad if the Greek ‘Orthodox Church —
- jn East Vancouver does the-job for them (Ferry Peters photo).

.
RUFCH, and Perris says she

thinks the moving cost
would be so high because the
building was once wired to
allow someone to live there.

The building is currently
boardered up, and the
spokesman for the
municipality - says: they are
stil negotiating. with. the .

_ Greek Orthodox Church on:

exactly how they are going =
to move it.

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