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White's
stance

Andrew McCredie

Editor andrew@nsnews.com

TWO days after
announcing he would
not opt-in to the MP
pension plan, Ted
White says he’s
received “surprisingly
little” feedback from
his constituents.

“Bur ve
been inun-
dated wich
e-mail from
across the
country,”
the North
Vancouver
Reform AP
said yester
day. He stat-
ed that “
tually every-
one” he had
reccived
messages from was surprised
thathe had decided to remain
opted out of the MP pension
plan, and that an equal nuntber
were supportive of his decine WwW.

Closer ta home, White
received praise tram wo polit
cal rivals for his stance

“Fethink it was the rght dec
sion for him) to make,” sad
Martin Stuible, the NDP candi
date who ran against the
Reform MP in last year’s federal
election, “ET applaud him tor it”

Stuible added that during
the course of last spring’s cam
paign he gained respect: tor
White.

“Thad the sense he believed
in what he was saying, and even
though 1 didn’t agree wath it f

ds” said Stuible,
inished third in last year’s

NDOP's Martin
Stuible
applauds MP

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TENNIS enthusiasts (ieft to right) Frank Gartner, Elmer Helm, Bab Abernathy, Ruth Doole and John Williams will not be able to play their
game at a proposed indoor tennis facility at Third Street and Lioyd Avenue until next winter, pending cleanup of the contaminated site.

Tennis p

Robert Galster
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

NORTH Shore tennis enthusi-
asts must endure yet another
winter of discontent.

A long promised indoor tennis falith’s com
pletion date has bean put off again — this time
nnd next spring

Although the detas constitutes a dif
only several months, it makes a World of difference
to the North Shore's tennis community, which

{to believe a new faciity would be ready

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B.C. environmental
process brings more
delay for NVD project

Shore Endoor Tennis Centre Association (NSTT

), said focal plivers made do last winter because
they Were able to continue using a tennis bubble
atthe now definer Cap West Country Clib at
2 Fullerton. Sates and ftsbility conceras on

the part of its landlord Larco, led to the closure of

thai chub, butit tennis budble was deemed usable

As a result, Gartner and the NSEPUCA signed on
as users anriliast May. But with the summer com
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“We expect to be running that (Cap West)
facility until this one is ready,” said Gartner.

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Vancouver District council and more recently with
regulatory problems stemming trom the provin-
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