ALL WET

it was rugby weather — cold
and wet — but they played
football anyway, wrapping up

the season.
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OLDE TYMES

NEWS photo Eric Eggertson
ALAN REBER of Westside Glass pulls broken glass from one of 48 windows destroyed

by vandals during a weckend sprec

One woman on the North Shore
looked to her roots — and found
they stretched back 350 years.

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FOUR MEN have been ar
rested

mischief after cock throwing
vandats

dary School carly Sunday

A3 - Wednesday, October 26, 1983 - North Shore News

DRESSY

The fashion scene is going down
hill, which is okay because in
this case it’s skiing fashions.

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Automotive .
Business ...
Classified ........ A19
Entertainment ..... . B9
Fashion...........(C4
Food.............@8
Mailbox .......... A7
Sports............Bl
Hayden Stewart... .C1]
Travel............©0
TV Time......... .BI5
What’s Going On. .B13

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Decision on Ambleside can be
changed says MLA Reynolds

Mayor fears it’s ‘fait accompli’

WEST VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA John
Reynolds says he is ‘100 per cent confident’’ that a
West Vancouver committee will be able to have the
decision to award about half of Ambleside Park to
the Squamish Indian band overturned.

Reynolds made the com.
ment Monday after the
meeting of West Vancouver
municipal council at) which
the decision to form the com-
mittee was announced.

The committee, which will
include Reynolds, MP Ron
Huntington, West Van
Mayor Dernck Humphreys
and former alderman Don
Lanskail, was struck to find a
**reasonable route’’
ing Ambleside Park

to retain

While the decision to turn
over about 26 acres of the
park at its eastern end to the
band ts only a small part ot
the total package announced
Monday (see details, page
AS), it has produced the most
reaction in West Vancouver

Humpbreys told council he
was astonished by the agree
ment signed Monday While
lease agreements lor a sewage
treatment plant anda
Ministry of Transportation

By NEWS STAFF

and Highways works yard
have been struck with the
band, no such agreement was
negotiated for the park land.

‘*lt would seem to me, that
for a sum of money, that
land could have been retained
for the use of West Van-
couver,’ Humphreys said.

The municipality has
developed the park over the
past 30 years on land that has
been leased trom the provin
cial government

Humphreys said the
munitpahty has spent $1
milton over that) pericd of

time to develop a pitch and
putt golf course, a harbor sea

wall, am exercise circett and
canine cxercise area and
other facthties

Humphreys also charged

that he had been informed of
the press conterence only a
short

hour’ before the sign

and charged with

smashed an fourth was arrested tater in
estimated $45,000 worth of the day
windows at Sentine! Secon Two of the accused are

Police aabbed three of the the other two from Nan
men oacar the scene of the couver None were students
crime after the ncighbors = at the school

reported the sound of break
ing glass

down by w poltce dog

from West

ing of the agreement
announced.

That charge is disputed by
Bob Exell, the provincial co-
ordinator of Indian pro-
grams, which has been in-
volved in negotiations over
the lands since 1977.

‘‘Mayor Humphreys has
been kept fully informed
throughout the process,’’ Ex-
ell, a member of the provin-

was

cial Attorney-General’s
department, said Tuesday.
**We wrote Mayor Hum-

phreys telling him that the
recommendations for the
settlement had been accepted
by the government and the
agreement would be signed
imminently °

Exell says the mayor was
telephoned at 9am. Monday
and informed of the 12:15
pm press conference

Humphreys suggested
Monday that despite the for
mation of the committee, he
NS NOt OPLImMshic

The actual bill before the
House of  ¢

They were tracked
ihe

Nanacouver aad

ommons must
first receive royal assent. ""
said Humphreys “But with
this signing. it already seems
fail accompl to me

See Also

Squamish
response

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Land,
cash

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