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WITH THE recent warm weather comes the sun worshippers, and with some sun worshippers comes the beer. A West Vancouver Police officer (in-

Set) conducts a roadside check for alcchol at the entrance to Cypress Bowl recreational area, a favorite spot for spring season sunbathers.

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Games bid proposed

BOOSTERS EYE N. SHORE FOR 1995 WESTERN CANADA GAMES

THE NORTH Shore is gearing up to make a bid for the
prestigious 1995 Western Canada Games.

With millions of dollars antici-
pated in economic spin-offs for the
host community, the games would
bring 1,700 elite young athletes
from B.C., Alberta, Saskut-
chewan, Manitoba. the Northwest
Territories and the Yukon to the
North Shore.

A proposal for the games bid is
scheduled to’ go before the three
North Shore municipalities on
April 23.

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By ELIZABETH COLLINGS
: News Repurter

Vat Vopni, a West Vancouver
parks and recreation representative
siting on the games bid commit-
tee, said the games would also
focus widespread media attention
on the North Shore and attract
tourist dotars and good wil ta the
area.

She added that competition for
the games would be hotly con-
tested because of the benefits at
stake.

Running over a 10-day period,
the games would include 19 sports,
tanging from swimming, diving
and sailing to cycling, baseball and
track and field.

The event would also include a
cultural festival.

But the North Shore proposal is
a considerably smalier venture
than the upcoming 1990 Western
Canada Games scheduled to be

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staged this August in Winnipeg.

This year’s games will include 35
sports and 3,000 athletes, said
North Vancouver Reereation
Commission director of recreation
Gary Young.

“They're talking about a $35-
million injection into the (Win-
nipeg) cconomy,”’ Young said.
“We probably wouldn't run it as
big as Winnipeg. The provincial
government: wants it a bit down-
seated.**

Young said a number of North
Shore sites ure already being con-

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sidered for an athletes’ village, and
he said he expects the necessary
sports facilities to be in place by
August 1995,

“Most of the facilities we have
or are on the drawing board,’
Young said.

The bid committee, which con-
sists of sepresentatives from the
West Vancouver parks and recre-
aiion department and the North
Vancouver Recreation Commission
and an additional 10 volunteers,

See Games
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