20 ~ Sunday, May 2, 1993 ~ North Shore News Travelling town hall show hits Community policing, Lynn Creek crossing proposal discussed at special meeting — NORTH VANCOUVER District took its travelling tewn hall show to Lynn Valley on Wednesday night. By Martin Miilerchip Contributing Writer Promised as a way of improv- ing access to council during the last municipal election, the . meetings allow the public to view « development plans for their neighborhond and talk to all branches of municipal staff in an informal setting. In addition, representatives from the RCMP, fire department, North and West. Vancouver Emergency Program, North Shore Recycling Program, and the rec- reation commission were all pres- . ent to advertise and answer ques- tions about their programs. A friendly crowd of just under 100 people asked council a variety of questions, but while community policing and .a proposed crossing of Lynn Creek via Rice Lake Road were common concerns, no single issue dominated the meeting i NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL as has happened in meetings in other areas, Lynn Valley Community Association Ron Beesley presented a list of issues provided by the association’s executive. They included policing, the Rice Lake crossing and a concern that the Lynn Valley Official Com- munity Plan be updated before 1998, Beesley suggested that a conti- nuing problem with youth violence and vandalism merited increased policing. He asked for the consideration of police foot patrols and an ad- ditional. police liaison officer to work with the area schools. He also proposed that the RCMP auxiliarics be utilized as volunteer patrols. Other speakers later invited council to spend a weekend at a 7-Eleven store, prompting Mayor Murray Dykeman to praise the re-, cord of the Block Watch program. He told the meeting that while N\ V teacher awarded # ulibright scholarship “WINDSOR ‘SECONDARY technology department ‘head. Chris Bastone has been recognized interna- ‘tionally for his contribu- tions to teaching and devel- oping © technological cur- riculum. ‘By Kevin Gillies . Contributing. Writer’ Bastone was selected as one of 1S people from Canada to win a -Fullbright scholarship. The schol- arship provides him with $15,000 (US) to begin’ doctoral studies at the Ohio State University in Col- -, umbus, Ohio. “Twas kind of blown away by | it,’’, Bastone- told the News. “Is - a wonderful offer.” ““‘This isa unique, opportunity. oe am. interested - in continuing my. education.” ... ‘Bastone said that if he accepts it, the latest he could start his docorate would be January 1994, _, But. he is not sure whether he will take advantage of the schol- arship. ' “It means either leave teaching, or taking a leave-of-absence and suffering loss-of-wage and so forth,”’ he said, “Industrial education is in the transformation to a whole new philosophy,” he said. “It’s called technology educa- tion,” Bastone said. Technology education broadens traditional industrial education beyond the wood, metal or draf- “NORTH VANCOUVER - “SCHOOL BOARD ting shop and into general techno- logy. . Bastone is on the committee responsible for writing B.C.’s new technology education curriculum. ‘Industrial education will be a thing of the past,’’ he said. “Rather than giving kids plans and saying ‘Here, make this,’ the whole philosophy will be to get them to be the designers, the gen- erators, and the inventors of the things we make,’’ he said. Bastone | has.. travelled North America, spreading the new phi- losophy to other teachers of tech- nology. “In 1990 I ran an in-service for all of their industrial arts teachers in Nova Scotia,’’ he said. * Since then he has made pres- entations to international conven- tions of teachers in Indiana, Min- “ neapolis and Dallas. **North. Van has been very sup- portive of me doing this and they’ve been encouraging me,” Bastone added, . The Fullbright scholarship is a : program that is sponsored com- pletely by corporations: The pro-" gram allows people from countries suck as Canada to apply to con- tinue their education in the United States. The scholarships are awarded. in categories such as law, medicine, art and anthropology. Bastone won for the education category. Local cartoonist designing logo for Multiple Sclerosis campaign A NORTH Vancouver cartoonist has designed the logo for the Multiple Sclerosis Society . of B.C.’s annual Carnation Day campaign, part of a national fundraising drive. Local. artist John Mythen,_. il- lustrator of the handbook, Claude’ MSing Around: Meeting the Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis, ' has .emblazoned his popular Claude the dog character on but- tons campaign volunteers will wear May 7 and 8 — the MS. Society’s Annual Carnation Cam- paign. The design depicts the cheeky dog wielding a rose and leaning against the slogan, ‘‘Join the Fight Against MS.” “At first some people didn’t like the idea of tying in humor with such a serious disease,”’ said Mythen, who was diagnosed with MS in 1974. “But I think they’re getting over that now.’ All monies raised this Mother’s Day weekend will go directly to © national research. the district has a very low police- to-population ratio it also has a dectining crime rate, “That's an example of co- operative neighborhood caring. We have one of the best ways there is to say ‘Try some other community,’ *' said Dykeman. He also confirmed storefront. policing for Valley had been epproved. Coun, Jim Cuthbert later told the meeting that one of the five new RCMP officers funded in the 1993 municipal budget is car- marked for community liaison policing. Beesley advocated a Lynn Creck crossing as a means of accessing Capilano College and: removing some of the commuter traffic from the Second Narrows bridgehead, but another speaker argued that it should be closer to the college and not on Rice Lake Road if it was to be effective. Local, environmentalist Paul Hundal told the meeting that his- torically there had been a bridge crossing on Rice Lake Road that was removed in the ‘50s as part of a watershed protection program. that Lynn Council has already sponsored one public meeting on the subject, but area residents complained that not everybody was notified. They listed potential problems with the proposed bridge for pe- destrians, cyclists and horse riders that included: ® parking problems; @ 24-hour access; @ noise; ® crime and vandalism. Dykeman promised a further mecting with area residents before the issue comes to council, Beesley also told council that area playing fields were booked solid and suggested that it might be cost effective for the district to contribute to the maintenance of school playing fields and coor- dinating more community access to them. Beesley also urged council to increase the penalty for littering from $50. ; Said Beesley, ‘‘It may be cheaper to dump in Lynn Canyon park than dispose of it properly.”” Elaine McKey, a teacher at Waldorf school, thanked council for the lengthy public process that accompanied the school’s recently . approved expansion. Penny McDonald alerted coun- cil to a GVRD proposal to use chloramine to disinfect the - regional water supply. McDonaid warned that chloramine released in creeks kill- ed fish instantly and urged the. district to assess the environmental - impact of the proposal. : She told the meeting that the length of water distribution mains requires drinking water in some areas, but. the addition of chloramine rather: © than chlorine would reduce the ~ number of stations required from : 60 to six, “ “it may be cheaper to use than chlorine, but it is deadly to the. « environment,’ she said. . Dykeman concluded the meeting by congratulating the community .on its little league and soccer pro- © grams and described the’ Lynn Valley Legion ‘as: ‘tone’ of the best.” ‘ : “Lynn. Valley. is» a strong; viable, ‘healthy community, You should be proud ‘of ‘it. -We- are proud of it,”” said Dykeman. A friendly feeling...a friendly Place.” Treat Mom Speciai . BONUS with the purchase of 825°? in Cosmetics or fragrance receive a Free Florat pot pourri frame. 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