1984. Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

' a” NEWS phate Terry Peters
THERE WERE a couple of: days ‘just right for Sunday
driving this week and even if they weren’t Sunday, there
were drivers going every which way to enjoy the weather.
This shot, by News photographer Terry. Peters, is of the .
21st Street exit on the Upper Levels Highway.

“SUNDA
“cloudy. with showers

MONDAY
cloudy, witt showers.

Band wants

title

to land in hand

A WEST VANCOUVER committee struck to
nea tiate with the Squamish Indian band over the
future of a 25.9 acre portion of Ambleside Park
will have to wait a while yet.

Dave Jacobs, chairman of
the Squamish Band council,
this week ‘he has learned

” the federal. legislation. _
g the transfer of: land

to:the band official won’t be
eturned to the House of
iti 24.

f° land agreement,

reached last fall, received

‘first reading last week.

Jacobs says he understands
the legislation has received
all-party support in Ottawa.

Once the federal legistation
has received Senate approval
and royal assent, Jacobs add-
ed, there will be a 30-day
period within which the pro-
vince of B.C. must transfer
the cut-off lands to the band.

After that, says Jacobs,
**the mectings with West
Vancouver are on."’

Jacobs adds that the band
has not been directly ap-
proached by the special com-
mittee established by West
Vancouver municipality, but
they have heard through the

Attorney-General’s depart-
t-that the committee is re-

"questing. meetings.

The: Squamish: and has

settlement: ‘tha ‘discussions
with West Vaticouver ‘won't
take place until’ the band

‘holds title to the ‘land in.

question..

At the centre of discussions
between West Vancouver of-.
ficials and the ‘Squamish
Band will be the fate.of the
eastern-most 25.9 acres of
Ambleside Park which was
returned to the band.

West Vancouver has spent
a considerable amount of
money on improvements to
that portion of the park,
which it has been leasing
from the provincial
government.

As well as the return of the
Ambleside Park land, other
land in the area was given to
the band along with $1.5
million in compensation for
land that cannot be returned.

ON AGENDA BUT...

Two-week delay
in smoking bylaw

NON-SMOKERS and
smokers in West Vancouver
will have to wait another two
weeks to see the final shape
of the municipality's con-
troversial new smoking con-
trol bylaw

Following a publ hearing
February 6, passage of the
bylaw by council was
scheduled for tomorrow
(February 20) However,
staff reports and the final

legal drafting could not be
completed in ume

As a result, council dect-
sion has been deferred until
the March 5 mecting.

Meanwhile, duc to a legal
technicality, the smoking
control bylaw item will still
appear on tomorrow’s coun-
cil agenda. But there will be
no further discussion at that
time and the item will merely
be tabled unul March 5.