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at North Vancouver District Council's

NORTH VANCOUVER
‘DISTRICT COUNGIL.
By Martin Millerchip

‘The approval of priorities in capi- ’

‘spending projects for 1995 at times

“ resembled a bingo session as council-
lors took it in tums to call: numbers
-moving preferred budget items-from

an “unfunded” list to the short list of -:

from’a wish- fist that initially stood at

“over $54 million council was still left’.
Included in the short list.
~* Coun. Emie Crist was unsuccess-—

with the: problem of a 6.76 million

Left behind in’ the ‘dust of some a

“hard decisions are 77 items ranging
fron’ $300,000 earmarked for

park |
safety at 13 sites to $38,000 for a new |.

roof at the Mountain Highway fire
-. Station...

- Other big ticket items not rating

consideration for 1995 include:
‘4 $1.18 million in local i improvement

projects; .

- $1 million for lot acquisition neces-
-Sary for the planned Maplewood
Business Park; oo
“$500,000 for affordable housing *
.. Site acquisition; |. *

$700,000: for méthane utilization
and $500,000 for environmental pro-
jects at the Premier Street Jandfill site
and

& $450, 000 for sidewalks (although a

further $362,000 will be considered).

Completion of the Parkgate recre-

“ation, daycare and community facility

to a tune of almost $8.8 million was

ful in attempting to remove $2 millica
of road re-construction from the capi-

_ tal budget, but subsequent debate did

reduce the approved figure to $1 mil-

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“A CENTRAL Florida enterprise

called Pyramids Unlimited, rejected
in October in the town of Bushnell,
plans to approach several other towns
with its venture of a 50-storey-high,
pyramid-shaped tomb to hold

. 300,000 crypts and house a chapel at

the top.
Said Pyramids spokesman Ben
Everidge of the $200 raillion project,

“We're not talking some tacky mall

Smith, 26, was convicted of stran-
gling and stabbing to death a minis-
ter, in. whose house he lived, and the
clergyman’s housekeeper...

- In a videotaped statement to the
police at the time of the murders,
Smith said the mayhem was caused

- by “Chucky”, the murderous doll in’

the movie Child's Play.

lion for 1995,

And that decision had engineering
staff worried. They explained that
waiting for cracks and. potholes to
appear in roads was'a false economy
resulting in road rebuilding at $40 per

_ Metre rather than a simpler procedure 7

at $4 per metre.

_. Five years ago staff asked for $2
million a year for road reconstruction
: based on a complex computer. pro-

gram that predicts the optimum time
for road repairs. But since then the

allocation ‘from’ council has only
ranged from $1.2 to. $1.8 million. ©

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In October, organizers of a pop
music concert at Hong Kong Stadium
announced that they had reached an
accommodation with nearby resi-
dents who fear the loud noise.

Organizers will give out 17,500
pairs of gloves for the audience to
wear so that when they enthusiasti-

caliy applaud their idols, they won't .

make very much noise.

An Associated Press report on the
Pitkin County jail in _Aspen,
Colorado, contained only praise from,
former prisoners.

The jail, which has a library, gym, ©
videocassettes for rent, and luxurious:
views of. Red Mountain, was
applauded by Dewi Sukarno, widow
of the fcrmer Indonesian. dictator,
who once did 24 days for assault: “I
will treasure [memories of the. jail]
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