THE GOOD news is that your weekend will be longer; the bad news is that it will only be an hour fonger. Pacific daylight time gives way to Pacific standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, so don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour Saturday night or Sunday morning — unless, of course, you want to be an hour early for work on Monday morning. el index @ Automotives @ Classified Ads 2.2... 57 @ Ecolnfo B Editorial Page BW Home & Garden 8 Mailbox Paul St. Pierre @ What's Going On... .47 Weather Friday, cloudy with sunny periods and a chance of showers. Saturday, rain. Highs near 13°C. Second Ciass Registration Number 3885 THE WITCHING hour approaches. A Halloween ex- travaganza is being organized at recCentre Griffin in North Vancouver this Saturday afternoon. Volun- teers from the North Vancouver Recreation Com- mission, North Vancouver high schools and local Friday. October 26. 1990 - North Shore News ~ 3 " NEWS pl ato Stuart Davis youth groups have transformed the recreation cen- tre’s gym into a maze of haunted horrors. A Monster Splash at the centre’s pool is being held at the same time. For more information call 986-2255. eveloper threatens pullout Location of gas bar could scuttle $10-million Parkgate mall proposal CONTINUED wrangling over the «'ssign of a gas sta- tion has threatened to sink the the {10-million - dollar Parkgate “hopping Centre in North Vancouver District. By Martin Milierchip Contributing Writer The project manager for the proposed 90,000- square-foot shopping centre informed North Vancouver District Council in an Oct. 17 letter that the developers will pull out of the «greement if they are forced to relocate a gas Station on the centre’s site at Mount Seymour Parkvay and Mount Seymour Road. In the letter, Joe McGovern, project manager for the Bon Street Group stated, ‘If you insist on having the gas station reversed, it will not be feasible for us to build this project and we will not build this shopping centre.”’ Meanwhile, in an Oct. 21 letter, East Seymour Community Association president Fred O’Hagen said, ‘*...the association concurs with Ald. (Bill) Rodgers’ position that a 4,000-square-foot convenience store and gas bar is unwarranted.’’ The Bon Street Group has been negotiating since January with district planning staff and council for a development permit that would allow construction of the shopping centre which would be contained within eight buildings on the Parkgate site. The cornerstone of the devel- opment would be a 35,000- square-foot Safeway store. Adjacent development to the north, which is included in a master plan for the entire site, would include a communi- ty/recreational facility that would incorporate a pubi: library and a major multi-family residential complex. The adjacent development is not inctuded in the development per- mit. At issue is the ‘‘village am- bience’’ that some council members are determined to create and that adjacent residents in the Roche Point complex and the East Seymour Community Association interpret to mean preferably no gas bar and convenience store. If there is a gas bar, the association wants it turned so that it does not front onto Mount Seymour Parkway. But the Bon Street group main- tains that overall resident support for the project as currently designed is high. The group recently commission- ed a telephone opinion po!l of 272 residents within a one-mile radius of the shopping centre site that shows majority support for the project. Those surveyed were told that the shopping centre was to be designed ia ‘‘a village style with extensive landscaping’’ and that in uddition ts 30 retail and service businesses, including a Safeway store ‘‘there is to be a convenience store with a gas bar and gas pumps facing onto Mount Sevmour Parkway.”’ ‘.ccording to the survey results, G3 per cent of the respondents favored the ‘‘proposed reiail de- velopment proceeding at this time,’? while 17 per cent were op- posed. An additonal 17 per cent either did not know or did not answer. BC Rail line te Squamish remains open From psge 1 mud came down on the highway Wednesday night. Cliff scaling and blasting work continued Thursday in an effort to stabilize the area, Neilson said with temporary B.C. Ferry service in place since Tuesday between Horseshoe Bay and Darrell Bay at Shannon Falls, which is south of Squamish, car lineups along the highway cleared up. But he said, **There was a mild rush yesterday with people think- ing that sis c’clock (Wednesday) was the time (to open the high- way). But when it was expiained to them, they were disappointed but there was nobody ou: of order.’” BC Rail opened its rail line through the site Wednesday night. Following Thursday's second stide, which left the rail line unscathed, BC Rail is monitoring the status of the rail line hourly. The first freight train passed through after 9 p.m. Wednesday. And the first passenger train left North Vancouver at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, carrying only 25 pas- sengers. Rail officials expected to serve more passengers on the return trip from Lillooet Thursday night. Meanwhile, a B.C. Ferry Corp. spokesman said the free Horse- shoe Bay to Shannon Falls ferry service will continue until the highway opens. The I6-car M.V. Nicola and 30-car M.V. Vesuvius Queen have been ferrying stranded travellers between Horseshoe Bay and Dar- rell Bay around the clock. Because the ferries are slow, cach = 19- nautical-mile trip to or from Horseshoe Bay takes two hours. But the highway closure has boosted business for the Howe Sound marine industry. William Lord, Horseshoe Bay harbor master and marine services operator, said business has been booming in the West Vancouver community. “Water taxis are busy and a lot of private boats from Squamish are running back and = forth, We've got barges going up with trucks on them from here. It's been a real shot in the arm for local boat people,"’ Lord said. Lord himself has been running a tug and barge between Horse- shoe and Darrell bays since Tues- day. Four times a day he carries supply trucks along the route. “Y's been steadily back and forth, and there’s another guy from Gibsons with a little bigger barge. Everybody has been busy," he said. NORTH Vancouver District Ald. Biil Rodgers ... 4,000 square foot convenience store and gas bar unwarranted. McGovern’s letter to council concludes, ‘‘We don't understand why the concerns of a few resi- dents outweigh the needs and wants of the Seymour community, See Community page & Route costs ® Indian Arm Route: Approxi- mately 65 km; $200 million in 1983 dollars; 55 potential avalanche sites; 33 potential debris torrent creeks; grade climb to 760 metres. ¢ Seymour Route: Approxi- mately 60.5 km; $239 million in 1983 dollars; 45 potential avalanche sites; 31 potential debris rosremt creeks; grade climb to 1,130 metres © Capilano Route: Approxi- mately 35 km; $151 million in 1983 dollars; 12 potential avalanche sites: 29 potential debris torrent creeks; grade climb to 520 metres.