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Windsor school hosting April 20 session on mammoth NVD development

THE NORTHLANDS area includes 300 acres of prime
real estate situated in the middle of the Seymour area. It is
designated as the site for a 133-acre municipal golf course.

Five years of staff planning,
public debate, consultant studies
and polarized opinion will culmi-
nate in a public hearing, at Wind-
sor Secondary School, 931 Broad-
view Drive on Tuesday, April 20.

The 18-hole golf course will in-
clude a driving range, clubhouse
and pro shop, restaurant, coffee
shop and lounge.

Other components of the plan
include:
© a secondary school;
® an elementary school;
© acommunity park;
© other trails, buffer strips, and
lookouts;
© 27 single-family housing units;
¢100 multiple-family ‘housing
units.

Development on adjacent lands
owned by Cressey Development
Corporation and. United Proper-
ties will generate over 500 housing
units. The development is not part
of the Northlands hearing.

Planning for a somewhat larger

‘ Northlands neighborhood - was

PARK ROYAL

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

first tabled for public debate in
1988 when district planning staff
unveiled the Northlands Com-
munity Concept.

But in 1988 a federal-provincial
study of a portion of the Blair ri-
fle range property cotitrolled by
the Canada Mortgage and Hous-
ing Corporation (CMHC) and
B.C. Ministry of Crown Lands
concluded that a combined golf
course and housing development
would be a feasible use of the
land.

Subsequently a group of North
Shore golfers frustrated by a lack
of access to local golf courses
formed the North Shore Public
Golf Course Society (NSPGCS)
with the intent of lobbying for a
new municipal golf course on the
Blair site. .

With a large membership (pres-

Layoffs loom in wake
of merger agreement

‘THE HUDSON’s Bay Co.

and the Park Royal Shopping

Centre are exploring several options for the future of the
retail giant at the West Vancouver shopping centre.

-, .Last week, Woodward’s Ltd.
announced that it reached a merg-
er agreement with the Hudson’s
‘Bay Co.

Both the Bay and Woodward's
have outlets at Park Royal.

- Meanwhile, a Woodward’s of-
ficial said this week that the
merger of the two stores will
probably result in the layoff of ei-
‘ther Bay or. Woodward’s
employees working at Park Royal.

The Hudson’s Bay Co. also

. owns the Zellers department store
chain. >."

: Park | ‘Royal director Rick
Amantéa said one option being
explored is to turn the existing
Bay store at Park Royal into a

" Zellers outlet and open a new Bay
store at the existing. Woodward’s
location on. the north side. of the
. shopping centre, ..

’“Those are two. options avail-
, ableto us-right: now and we're
working ~ with the: Bay on it,”
Amantea said Wednesday. |

“‘We do have’ an agreement in
_place that the Bay: will move out

' of, that existing: store and move
across: the street to Woodward's.
That agreement is in Place, subject

‘Amantea.

By Sur] Rattan
News Reporter

to some conditions.”?

He added that a final decision
on what will happen with the Bay
and Woodward’s at Park Koyal
should be made in about: two
months. ,

“Y would think that in the next
two months the Bay should have
its house in. order,’’ said

Woodward’s entered into the
merger with the Hudson’s Bay
Co. due. to finaacial reasons.
Woodward’s had been facing
bankruptcy and liquidation.

A_ .Woodward’s — official
Wednesday that the Hudson’s Bay
Co. has listed three centres, in-
cluding Park Royal, where layoffs
will likely occur as a result of the
merger of the two department
store chains.

He added that employees of ei-
ther the Bay or Woodward’s at
Park Royal will likely be laid off,

although no other . details about”
the impending layoffs were made

available to press time.

‘Shooting | scene ‘was not secured’

From page f
was physically exhausted,”’ said
King.

» Asked by Len Doust, the lawyer
representing Pollitt, what he did
after he was questioned at the
police station, King replied: ‘I
_ was crying.”

King ‘said when a police officer
“ drove him_ back -to his house in the

. early hours'of May 13, the officer

, told King that the. police were to
blame for Possee’s death.

_. ''King said the: police had not
‘secured the scene of the shooting
_when: he was‘taken. back to his
house to gather some belongings.
King also. said that he had moved
several objects around in the liv-
‘ing room of the house while he

“was there.

: “We were in the house by

‘ourselves after the. police left. I
know for sure there were no
policemen there. 1 was in my
room. I moved things around. It

(the basement suite) was not
secured. I thought it was bizzare.

“I was pretty traumatized, but I
do know | was in there without
any‘ police offi cer there,” said
King.

He added that he moved a
chair, a towel, a pizza box and
some beer cans around while he
was in the house.

“The last thing I wanted to do
is look at all the blood. I moved
the towel. Does it matter if I
moved the chair?’”’ said King
under questioning by Doust.

King said when he heard a loud
bang and walkie talkies in the liv-
ing room, he assumed the police
were in the house. He remained in
his bedroom.

“YT was not trying to escape,”
King told Doust.

He added that the blood he saw
on the living room floor’was the
“‘grossest thing’’ he had ever seen.

said .

‘NORTH VANCOUVER.
DISTRICT COUNCIL

ently over 2,200) as well as politi-
cal connections and professional
expertise that included engineers,
a provincial parks planner and a
golf course designer, the society
presented council with three
course concepts by June 1989.

In response, council created the
first version of its Golf Course
Review Committee and hired the
first of its consultants (for
$20,000) to review the need and
potential for a golf course in the
Northlands area.

The consultant’s report sug-
gested that a 125-acre golf course
would take $32 million out of the
district’s land bank and create
pressures for more housing
elsewhere. :

Council directed staff to
prepare a new Northlands Con-
cept Plan to incorporate a golf
course with housing densities to
minimize the financial impact of
the (then) predicted $7 million
construction costs.

But planning staff, the Advisory
Planning Commission (APC), the
recCommission (who favored the
Premier site) and many ratepayers
groups all subsequently went on
record with various objections to
the proposed changes to the

-Northlands Plan.

However, then-mayor Marilyn
Baker’s suggestions that staff
revisit the issue and plan for a
consultant to draw up ‘tan ap-
propriate plan for the area’’ was
adopted by council in Nov., 1989.

One year and two consultant
reports later 200 people crowded
the gym at Plymouth Elementary
School to debate an amendment
to the Seymour Official Com-
munity Plan (OCP) that would
allow for a golf course and resi-
dential housing to be built in an
area designated as
review.”*

Following adoption of the
amended Seymour OCP, a new
council establisted terms of refer-
ence in Jan., {991 for an expand-
ed Northlands Golf Course
Review Committee.

Eighteen months later the Golf

“under -

Corp. proposal called for the de-
velopment of a  $14.5-million
18-hole municipal golf course
with a state-of-the-art ‘driving
range.

Three years after the first pro-
nosal the costs had more than
doubled.

Total development costs to the
district for the Northlands neigh-
borhood were estimated at $24.8
million.

The capital cost of the golf
course is now predicted at $9.5
million, partly because of reduc-
tions in size to both the course
and the driving range.

The latest staff report notes a
variety of funding options for the
district, 4

These include:
® private enterprise involvement in
al! or part of the go!f course;

* electorate-approved © debenture
financing;

® borrowing from. the Heritage
Reserve in expectation of repay-

- ment from an operational profit;

® borrowing from the Tax Sale
Land Reserve at the possible ex-
pense of other capital projects.

Family friends set up trust
fund for cancer-stricken tot

NV child diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer

JUST AFTER Christmas
last year, Lisa Tudor
noticed that her 2 /%-
year-old daughter Sydney
was cranky and _ listless.
Sydney was also having
difficulty walking. She
wasn’t sleeping properly.

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

The North Vancouver resident
took her daughter to the family’s
local doctor, who prescribed an-
tibiotics and sleeping pills.

Early last month, Tudor, a
25-year-old single parent, gave
up on her doctor and took her
ailing daughter to the Lions Gate
Hosnital emergency ward.-

Tudor criticized. LGH after,
she said, Sydney had to wait five
-hours. fer someone to draw
blood from the child.

Sydney was diagnosed at
Children’s Hospital as suffering
from the most severe stage of
‘neuroblastoma cancer.

Most children die at this stage
of neuroblastoma. The cancer
had spread: to Sydney’s bone
marrow. Children diagnosed ear-
ly usually survive the disease.

“My doctor always made me

. feel like I was a neurotic mother.

He made me feel like 1 was
overreacting to everything which
1 know now that I wasn’t,’’ said
Tudor.

Tudor spoke to the News from —

Children’s Hospital where
Sydney was staying after ex-
periencing chemotherapy com-
plications. ’

The child’s ‘‘central line,’’ an
intravenous tube to her heart,
became infected following cancer

treatment. The central line is us-_

ed to give medications or take
blood out for testing.

Sydney reacted to the antibiot-
ic used to fight the infection.
And she was being treated with
still another drug to combat the
antibiotic reaction.

“She is doing very well. It’s

_ Susprising because it’s a really
strong set of chemotherapy they

are giving. her because of -the —

severity of the cancer,” said

Tudor.

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EWS photo Paul McGrath

SYDNEY TUDOR is “tolerating - -aggressive" chemotherapy.

treatment for neuroblastoma cancer that she. is recelving at.
Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. The North Vancouver

youngster Is shown with her mother, Lisa. .

This is the second of probably
nine chemotherapy sessions
Sydney will receive. Sydney lost
all her hair one night, two weeks
after chemotherapy started.

“When she is having a good
day, I’m having a good day. It’s
a good thing you didn’t phone
me last- week because it was -
bad,”’ said Tudor.

Tudor is on. social assistance
and her study plans to become a
graphic artist have been put .on.
hold while her daughter’ is
severely ill. ‘ ,

Because of Sydney’s depressed
immune system and low-
resistance to infection, she. re-
quires new clothes and other new
items. On top of this, Sydney
needs to eat high caloric foods °
including butter and cream along
with expensive food supplements
to keep her weight up while bat-

.and then. won’t want

tling cancer.

“She'll take a bit of one thing
it any
more. And then she'll take a bit

‘of something else. Of course,
‘you want them to eat anything,’
' said Tudor.

Tudor doesn’t have family in
B.C. Her friends ‘have helped
out with some expenses. -

Sydney’s ‘father lives in Ter-

‘race and visits the ‘ youngster
‘once: a: month, Tudor said he

loves his daughter, but he is cur-
rently in the midst of marriage :
plans.

Tudor is aware that Sydney’s
prognosis is not good. .

‘Tudor’s friends. have recently
established a trust ..fund : for
Sydney to help with expenses. |
The trust fund is. set up at the.’
Toronto Dominion Bank, 1504:
Lonsdale Ave.) -