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CLEVELAND DAM CARETAKER Bill Toms points out the route to Britannia Beach over the
mountains, passable for vehicles this month for the first time in 16 years [Rex Weyler photo]

One of the warmest, driest
winters on record continues:
to frustrate thousands of
Lower Mainland skiers and is
now posing a major threat to
the future of the North
Shore’s multi-million dollar

commercial. ski
Grouse Mountain.

resort on

Snow fell there on only
three days during December,
to a thickness of about one

inch—compared to the prev-.

ious

minimum of 10 days
with daily accumulations up
to 12 inches.

‘ jt’s the same siory
Cypress Provincial’ Park,

Lie detector
hypnosis. of three survivors
failed to provide RCMP
investigators with evidence
as to who was driving the car
that crashed into a tree and
rock wall at 80 miles an hour,

tests and

killing Erika Diane Losier,
21, of 157 East 2nd St., N.V.

Ai the hearing RCMP Csi.
Robert Harrison _ testified
that the three surviving men,

who suffered loss of memory,

Up to-100 residents from
the eastern edge of British
Properties are expected to
attend a meeting with West
Vancouver officials tonight
(Wednesday, January 26) to
find out more about a
proposed new road, bridge,
parking lot and campsite in
Capilano Park.

The development, planned
by the Greater Vancouver
Regional District, shows the
new road starting from the
junction of Rabbit Lane and
Moyne Drive. It would open
up the eastern portion of the
park to a ‘‘playground’’ type
of operation and, ‘with the
bridge, provide an alternate
access route to Grouse
Mountain.

Local residents are worried
about the destruction of the
park’s natural beauty, row-

dyism, and fire and police

protection.

Tonight’s meeting at West
Van municipal hall starts at
7:30 p.m.

which, like Grouse, remains
virtually shut down at what is
normally the peak of the
season. Only Seymour’ has
managed, so far, to keep
operating.

West Van Recreation Cen-
tre has organized Sunday bus
expeditions to Manning "Park
for local skiers.

Bill’: Toms, resident care-
taker at the Cleveland Dam
for 16 years has
it like this.’’ For the first
time ever in January, he
says, it’s possible to drive
from the dam io Britannia
Beach over the logging roads

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took the tests and the
hypnosis sessions voluntar-
ily.

A North Vancouver coro-
ner’s jury, which met Friday,
was able only to determine
that the accident about 2
a.m. Nov. 18, 1976 was
partly eaused by liquor and
poor lighting on the road,
when the vehicle, in which
the victim was riding, hit a

normal

traversing
range.

the mountain

Daily revenue at Grouse is
currently running at only
about 10 per cent. of the
January figure.
Grouse Mountain Resorts
president John Hoegg, inter-

viewed last week by Mike

Grenby of The Vancouver

Sun,‘ admitted that’ the
company was in_ serious
financial _difficulties—with

no. immediate relief visible
on the weather horizon.

He quoted a forecaster
who had told him ‘‘there
isn’t a snowfiake between
here and Guam.”

tree and spun into a rock

wall.

‘In ‘the accident one was

thrown from the vehicle and
two others were — found
unconscious in the front of
the battered car.
Coroner B. Nash was told
that on the night of the
icidEent all Lour haa beech
drinking at the Lynnwood
Hotel cabaret in North
Vancouver.

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