THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WE NORTH Vancouver Ald. Bill Bell ««-practice “very archaic." NGRTH Vancouver Braithwaite ...‘‘disappointed in West Vancouver.** EEE AT, & Ald. John NORTH VANCOUVER City Council voted Monday night to ban all outdoor burning in the municipality. The ban covers all ouuidoor fires except for those deemed necessary tor fire department training. Open burning of dry garden refuse had previously been allowed in the city without a special permit on four weekends during the year. Ald. Bill Bell condemned the past practice as ‘*very archaic. I's time we moved ahead for the sake of health reasnns."” The move by the city follows the Dec. I] reiease in West Vancouver of a task force report that recom- mended permitting outdoor = resi- dential burning in that municipali- ty for another three years. The report also recommended increasing the number of burning days allowed residents during that time. Residential outdoor burning in North Vancouver District has been banned since Jan. 6, 1986. Slide hits By CORINNE BIORGE Nows Reporter Ald. John Braithwaite criticized West Vancouver District's decision not to ban outdoor burning. “Em extremely disappointed in West Vancouver — that they're increasing the burning over the nest few years," said Braithwaite. But the North Vancouver City decision might not go far enough, according to one city alderman. Ald. Frank Morris said allowing the fire department to do test burns goes against recommenda- tions by the health department to institute @ total ban on burning. City engineer Chuck Gule also wrote that ‘‘only about one household in 20 actually avail themselves of the opportunity to burn their garden refuse."* highway A ROCK fall, which narrowly missed sending five-foot di- ameter boulders on to the Squamish Highway Wednesday morning, has at least one Lions Bay Village resident con- sidering moving back to town. Boulders rolled down along a stretch of highway approximately one kilometre north of Mon- tizambert Creek at about 6:40 a.m. The fall occurred in an area where crews had scaled back the rock face several hundred feet from the highway. While the farger rock chunks came toa halt at the edge of the highway, numerous one and two- foot diameter rocks littered the highway, causing motorists to cautiously navigate their way through the debris before the road surface was cleared. Said Lions Bay resident Michael Lange, who came upon the rock fail while driving to a job in North Vancouver: “If you came bombing down there at 50 miles per hour 2nd hit even one of those smaller boulders, you'd go off the road. | think I'm moving back to town, I've had enough of that highway. There’s something going on there practically every day.°” December 22, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 84 pages 25¢ orth Vancouver C ans outdoor burn ty ng Ree ey SE NEWS photo Cindy Goodman THE SEYMOUR District Boy Scouts know how to make the season bright. Since 1980, the Seymour group bas been delivering poinsettia arrangements to local hospitals and nursing homes. The plants were grown and donated by Capilano College students and faculty. Approximately 500 boys will be delivering the flowers. Three of them are (left to right) Jason Marley, 10, Harrison Mohr, 532, and Stuart Kirkby, 12.