A3 - Sunday, July 1, 1984 - North Shore News

Classified........A18

‘Entertainment... ...B4
Real Estate. ......B10
Sports..:.........BI
Hayden Stewart. ..€11
Travel............G6

What’s Going On. . .B7

WEATHER:

Unsetiled weather continues
with clouds, showers, highs
near 20.

BOOZE: Al0

People speak out about
booze and responsibility.

SPORTS: BI
It’s summer and time for-a

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wee

er"

They just keep rolling along

SUCH ARCHITECTURAL features as concrete louvers are aice to look at but a little frustrating when it comes time to re-
paint. For the two painters giving a fresh coat to the North Vancouver RCMP building at 13th and St. George’s its a matter

of just rolling along.

MERCHANTS OF Ambleside

wrt

Village met

Wednesday with planners and government officials
in the first of a series of proposed meetings to
discuss the revitalization and beautification of the
Ambleside business district.

Approximately 40° people
attended the mecting at West
Van Rec Centre and were
treated to an evening of
discussion and shde shows by
Mumepal Affairs represen
tative, Martin Thomas, who
heads the Monistry’s
Downtown Revitalization
Program, planner Patricia
Baldwin; and Jack Hendecr-
son, a representative from
the revitalized Edgemont
Village.

Ambleside Village, com
prising the areca betceeen 13th
and 19th streets, and bound
ed by Clyde Ave south to the
tailway = right of-way, was
designated a revitalization
area by the provincial
government in 1980) This
designation allows for the ap
plicanon of low-cost loans
and grants under the Down

By CATHERI

McG HEE

town Revitalization Pro-
gram

The District of West Van-
couver has received a $5,000
grant to assist in beautifica-
tion/concept planning for in-
itial work, prior to applying
for the loan and storefront
grants

The Program ts based on
merchant/council co.
operation, to. stimulate
business within an cstablish-
ed business arca It en-
courages merchants to think
as an cconomic block, while
allowing the public some in
put into what they would like

See page AS

SAREE

Agreement

reached on

bridge land

IT APPEARS as though the Seymour Bridge

ownership situation has been cleared up.

Chief Joe Mathias of the
Squamish Indian Band said
Friday that a feder-
al-provincial government
impasse over wording of an
order-in-council that
transfers the Seymour River
bridge land to the federal
government appears to have
been solved.

if federal-provincial
agreement has been reached
it clears up the potecntially-
embarrassing situation of the
provincial ministry of
transportation and highways
having constructed § the
Seymour River Bridge and
supporting roadways on land
that it did not have title to.

Title to the almost six
acres of Indian-owned land
was to have gonc to the pro-
vince in return for $1.2 mil-
lion and parcels of land in

~~ “SEW photo Stuart Devie

PATRICIA BALDWIN, who tas been beavily involved with most of B.C."s dowatown
revitlization programs, filled West Vancouver besinessmecn in on what (hey could capect from

the program Wednesday

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the general area, an agree-
ment reached after two years
of négotiations between the
band, the province and the
District of North Vancouver.

Transfer of title for the
lands inyolved and. the pay-
ment of the moncy to the
band were held up, however,
for another two years as the
provincial and federal gov-
emmment got bogged down in
discussions over the wording
of the orders-in-council that
both governments must pass
to close the deal.

Despite the fact the pro-
vince did not have title to the
land, construction of the
bridge went ahead. When
official opening ceremonies
were held for the structure
two weeks ago, the
Squamish Band boycotted
the cvent because of the
unresolved conflict.

Representatives of the
federal department of justice
and B.C.’s deputy attorncy-
gencral Tod Hughes met
Wednesday in Winnipeg to
discuss the situation and, ac-
cording to Chief Joe
Mathias, reached agreement

on the wording of the
orders.

(Hughes, who is one a
10-day vacation, was nol
available for comment.)

Mathias said the band
would be more fully inform.
ed of the outcome of Wed.
nesday’s mecting by its rcp-
resentatives at a band coun
cil meeting that was held
after the deadline for today’s
edition.

Agreement will pave the
way for the transfer of title
of the land to the provincial
government and the reicasr
of the $1.2 millien — moncy
that has been locked in an
intcrest-bearing trust ac
count: for two years thar
is owed the band