Reaching Every Door on the North Shore

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TRYING TO MAKE A SPLASH at the World Cannonball and Bellyflop businessman Butts Giraud outsplashed 17 other contestants to win the
Contest at the Coach House Inn in North Vancouver, this contestant uses

Green Bathtub Award and the 81000 first prize. (Terry Peters photo)
an explosive charge on his back. For the fourth time West Van —

Public use ‘an impossible dream’?

By PAT RICH

Any plans to convert
the Stoker farm
property in North
Vancouver into a
heritage site now rest
with the land agent of
the City of North
Vancouver.

He has been given one
month by council to see how
the City can purchase part or
all of the Stoker farm
property at 29th Street and

Lonsdale Avenue. And if it
he has no luck, any plans to
preserve the site will remain
“an impossible dream.”

City council made the
decision Monday evening
after hearing from the North
Vancouver Community Arts
council which was com-
missioned to undertake a
preliminary report on the
feastbilty of saving Stoker
farm as public property.

Stoker farm 1s currently
privately owned by a family
who want to sell the
property. And on the City’s
official community plan, the

land is earmarked for at-
tached housing.

‘STOKER GARDENS’

On June 6. City council
endorsed the concept of
saving the Stoker farm as a
heritage site and gave the
Arts council $1,000 seed
money and a month to
undertake a preliminary
study.

The report, tabled
Monday, recommended that
a feasibility study of the

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now appear to be
Completely:

_ North Shore munici-

palities who have been |
unable=to. agree on a

unified bylaw :con-
ceming group. homes

powerless

physically * or. “mentally
handicapped or child-
ren in care.

A report detailed to North
Vancouver District Council
Monday pulls the. rug out
from under the feet of all
three North Shore councils
who have recently been
considering just what
controls they should exert
over group homes.

It indicated that the
matter is completely out of

the hands of the
municipalities and _ that
provincial government

legislation overrules existing
bylaws governing such group
homes.

A review of current
legislation and regulations

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