Residents organize to fight all-night sailings H. Bay meeting By Surj Rattan News Reporter HORSESHOE BAY resi- dents are joining together in a bid to sink the B.C. Ferry ““Corp.’s (BCFC) pian to run ~ all-night sailings this sum- mer between Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo. About 150 area residents pack- ed a Horseshoe Bay church Thursday night to develop a plan of action aimed at stopping the 24-hour sailings. The BCFC has said it will run the all-night sailings this summer on a trial basis to determine if it reduces ferry line-ups. Ferries will arrive at Horseshoe Bay during the summer at 1 a.m., 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Opponents of the plan have argued the move will result in increased noise and truck traffic during the early morning hours and that police patrols will-also have to increase as there will be foot passengers walking in the Horseshoe Bay area during those hours. At the Thursday night meeting, hosted by the Horseshoe Bay Business and Community Associa- tion (HBBCA), several committees were formed to lobby the provin- cial government to reverse its all-night sailing decision. Members of the group’s cor- respondence committee have been asked to tie up the BCFC’s fax lines and to send messages of pro- test as often as possible while the group’s media committee has been told to keep ‘‘in the media’s fave’’ with issues and findings that come to light. . Jeff Ehrlich, one of the group organizers, said he was confident that the planned lobbying effort will pay off. But he added that the group has to work fast. **Some of us, who spent time in San Francisco in the late 1960s, remember what a group like this can accomplish if it is dedicated, We're going to fight this,’’ said Ehrlich. fan Dailly, HBBCA co-chair- man, said the group plans to mail out 3,000 flyers to area house- holds urging people to join the all-night ferry sailing protest. “*I think we really have to dig our feet in and prepare for. a bat- tle. The B.C. Ferry Corp. is under - siege within,’”’ said Dailly, refer- ring to a recent report prepared by a BCFC chief officer in which he accused the BCFC of risking safe- ty in order to save money. index @ High Profiles Ei Cocktails & Caviar... & Lifestyles @ Travel @ Vintage Years @ What's Going On... . Weather Monday and Tuesday, sunny, Highs 21°C, Lows 11°C. Second Class Registration Number 3865 NEWS photo Mike W: BURRARD CHIEF Leonard George on the site of the band’s latest project - a golf driving range scheduled for completion in August. Land develops jobs for Burrard Band THE PRESENT push to develop land at the Burrard (Tsleil’waututh). Indian Band reserve in North Van- couver is driven by a pressing need to create jobs for the Burrard people. Earlier this year, Burrard Chief Leonard George and Asian development partner Abbey Woods Developments Ltd. president Lim Loong Keng announced plans to de- velop close to a third of the 262-acre Reserve No. 3 located on the Burrard Inlet waterfront near North Vancouver District. George said approximately 30% of band members are employed. By Michael Becker News Reporter “It’s the same as everyone else, we’ve got a higher per- centage unemployed than there is employed,’” said George. It's important for George that development creates jobs for his people, ‘‘especially jobs that create thinking and challenges and alternatives.”’ Plans call for: @ a golf driving range (already under development); @approximately 109 townhouses; @a gas station and conve- nience store; @a marina and a high-tech industrial park. George said the industrial park and marina may be de- veloped simultaneously. “Each project will move ahead on its own value. Before we move ahead each project will be sanctioned by the band members. We're not developing for the sake of money, we're looking at the future and train- ‘Confrontation never ing for our people,’’ he said. George praised the coopera- tion of tke municipality in supporting its development plans. “I owe a great deal of thanks to the mayor and coun- cil of the District of North Van. We’ve received nothing but support from them. “As chief and council we've tried to develop an atmosphere of, ‘We’re here to work together with our neighbors.’ solved anything. The imagery of us being separated for all these years is nothing but that — imagery,’ he said. Sentinel presents report on funding Pilot project estimates gross revenues of $450,000 in first year CITING AN anticipated gross revenue of $1,750,000 over the next three years, Sentinel Secondary principal Peter Lefaivre presented West Vancouver District 45 school trustees with a year-end report of the Sentinel Develop- ment Fund Initiative. The one-year pilot project, which included a_ school-based development office and a paid fundraiser, was approved by District 45 superintendent Doug Piayer last July. Lefaivre said the initiative was established to raise funds to upgrade and augment the school’s resources ‘‘in order to improve the environment in which the student population is educated.’’ But he added that it was not “the intention of the development counci] to assume the govern- ment’s responsibility for funding education.” The fund’s creation sparked heated debate across the country earlier this year in the media, though Lefaivre said that ‘recent media coverage has been extreme- ly positive.”’ He added that he has received inquiries about the initiative from By A.P. McCredie Contributing Writer Ontario, Alberta, Minnesota, and that he was recently interviewed by the British press on the issue. The fund has thus far raised approximately $125,000 from fi- nancial donations to the Major Gifts Committee, from parent donations, and from two special- event activities: a fundraiser and a Grandparent’s Day at the school. Lefaivre noted that ‘‘these fi- nancial results came only two weeks after the official program launch.”’ Over $30,000 in equipment and printing services has also been donated to the fund. Lefaivre, whose master of education thesis dealt with private fundraising for capital projects in De rr WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD public institutions, estimates that with a 30% participation rate of Sentinel families in the first year, the fund will gross approximately $450,000. This participation rate is based on rates experienced by other de- velopment projects, although none of these are secondary school- based programs. *‘Over a three-year period, it is hoped that the participation rate will increase to 60%,”’ the report states. Estimated anticipated gross rev- enues would be $1,750,000. The estimated operating cost of the initiative is 21% of total reve- nue, leaving $1.4 million for Sen- tinel Secondary. The fund’s present priorities in- clude updating science labs, creating a 250-seat drama facility, and adding computers throughout the school. When asked by a member of the audience if the development fund would work on a district- wide basis, Lefaivre said parents were not as willing to donate money to the district as they were to their children’s school. ‘“*All the research I have seen on district development projects in- dicates that they do not work very well,’ said Lefaivre. Another member of the au- dience asked why a Sentinel secre- tary. was answering phones at the development office as ‘‘the Sen- tinel development office secre- tary,’’ when a condition of creating the development office was that its business would remain autonomous from regular school business. . Lefaivre said he had no knowl- edge that inquiries to the devel- opment office were being handled as such, and he promised to look into the matter. The board will respond to Lefaivre’s request that the Sentinel development office project be ex- tended for a second year before the end of the school year.