NEWS photo Paul McGrath West VANCOUVER model architect Brian Anderson has designed and built a futuristic floating airport, complete with hotels, two control towers and a working harbor, Many of the pieces were built by professional model makers for Anderson, who sees his creation as a workable model for Vancouver's harbor in the 24st Century. NEW DIRECT FROM MEXICO , Terra Cotta ton . Pumpkins $ No.muss, no fuss — never carve # another pumpkin again. Lots of - designs to choose from. | a aw "OTHER GREAT SAVINGS. 7 THE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER * Your REGULAR garbage day, October 16 to October 19 (out by 7:30 am) ¢ Extra household waste and garbage (no volume limit) ¢ Each container, item, bundle to be less than 70 kg (150 !bs.) * Tree limbs bundled and less than 1 metre in length ° Placed at curbside e Large bulky items which could damage the packer truck * Tires, return to most retailers ¢ Car batteries, return to automotive retailers © * Auto oil and filters, return to 4 A\' automotive retailers * Paint, call B.C. Paint Care _Association at 878-8700 for their . next paint collection event e “Clean green" yard waste can be delivered directly to 30 Riverside Dr. (North Vancouver) for composting. The first 200 xg is free. WHY NOT RECYCLE!!! (CALL THE HOT LINE AT 732-9253) 40 f WHERE y NO-NO'S | FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL “LAIDLAW” AT 520-7840 | Ripken’ a AR Pressure-treated lumber benefits the environment IF YOU'VE done any backyard construction lately, or plan to, you may be entitled to a U-ium on the guilt-trip highway. So often, it seems we hear that something We've been doing or eat- ing for years has just been found to damage the environment or harm our health. Here's a switch: you may have used a product that is beneficial to the environment and not even real- ized it. Pressure-treated lumber — the wood commonly used for decks, fences, docks. play sets, and residen- tial landscaping — has typically been purchased because it last out- doors and it's economical. But now this long used building product is getting praise for its newfound envi- ronmental qualities. “Hf you could magically create - the environmentally idedt building material,” asks Mary Anne Kennedy. marketing . coordinator of Hickson Building Products. “what character- istics would you include? “You would want it to be renew- able and, if possible, rapidly replen- ished:.to use recycled materials and be itself recyclable: to require litte energy to produce: to lust a long time: to cause no pollution prob- lems; to be installed with light weight, low-impact construction equipment; and, after all this, to be , comparatively inexpensive. “Well,” Kennedy savs, “this ideal environmental produc: is not some firturistic miracle macerial; it already exists, and it has ‘for 60 years. It's " pressure-treated wood.” | Treated lumber begins: with wood, the only major building mate- rial” thai “is renewable. The trees, mostly pines. used for treated wood * ; are plentiful, fast-growing,. and grown almost entirely on managed -: Uimberlands. not in old growth forests or unregulated tropical r Tain- forests. . Wood requires less energy to pro- duce than alternative building prod- ucts and the preservative treatment =’ incorporates recycled elements that would otherwise be disposed of as Waste, The treating process enables a deck to resist termite and rot dam- age, which extends the life of wood and reduces demands on forests and other resources. “Many .of the applications - for. treated wood are also good for nature.” Kennedy adds. Wolmanized wood has been used for: boardwalk and viewing plat- forms that. allow people to gain -a greater appreciation of the natural world: tert platforms: that minimize .: impacts at popular camping sites; dune crossovers: that. enable.’ sun- bathers to get to a beach without: trampling down vegetation; seawall and retaining walls that limit -soil.’ erosion: highway sound tvalls that. reduce traffic noise, for green hous-’ es and raised bed gardens that pro- duce vegetables and flowers; osprey: platforms that are attracting these® birds back to areas they: had aban- * doned, and for other beneficial applications. - : “Treated wood is’ ‘used i in nation- al parks, botanical gardens, and wildlife : sanctuaries | around - the. : world.” adds Kennedy. So, when you finish building a deck with treated wood, you can sit: back. raise a glass of lemonade, and’ proudly toast yourselt~for -you responsible choice, ‘WEST VAN’ N's tive long-term care ‘acitities will hold a wheelchair inarathon, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2-4 jo.m., at Park Ftoyal North, to raise uiwareness ‘or community care. Slackwise {rom top ‘eft: Myrtle, Reber, Christian McDougall, Gladys Leacn and Hilda Hackman.