Westview Centre improvements on scheduie

WORK ON the Westview Shopping Centre improvements is

aon schedule and should be comnleted by the end

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of the year

the project developer reported last week.

merchants, the $6-
completion

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SHOPPING CENTA

Over 190 shops including
the Bay, Eatons, Super Vaiu,
Woodward's and
‘Woodward's Food Floor

LEAVING HIGHLANDS AFTER 11 YEARS

~ Preschool forced out

will be welcome.

“We're quite anxious to get into

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AFTER SPENDING the past 11 years in a Highlands

Community School classroom,
preschool in the Capilano area
new home.

Pat Murray, the executive of
orientation for The Village
Preschool, told the Capilano
Chronicle that the parent-financed
and administered preschool was
asked to leave because of space
constraints resulting from an in-
creased enrolment at Highlands
school.

Now, she said, the parents of tne
preschool children have decided to
buy a portable classroom in which
to hold classes, and have been told
that they will be allowed to ereci it
on Highlands School property.

But because the preschool is
totally funded by the parents, this
decision means a lot of fund rais-
ing will be necessary.

While Murray says the
preschool’s normal budget for
fund raising is $3,000 per year, the
cost of the new portable they have
ordered is $25,000. An additional
$5,000 is needed to cover the cost
of transporting, skisting and ser-
vicing the building.

The first step of the preschool

Publisher’s
greetings

munity.. :

munity made it all possible by be-
ing the very first advertisers that
the North Shore News ever had,
and it is a pleasure to welcome so
many of them back in our new
neighborhood newspaper.
Things go full circle in the
world. In the 19 years since we
began publishing, the North Shore
has grown tremendously. It is time
we paid attention to the smaller
communities that. make up the
vibrant whole of the North Shore,
- The Capilano: Chronicle, we think,
will.be a-welcome voice for all of

‘this real place.
"a= Peter Speck, Publisher

I HAVE a special affection’
: for this North Shore “com-

This is where the North Shore
News was born in the spring of
1969. The merchants in this com-

‘us who have. a special affection for ’

the only parent participation
has been faced with finding a

By PEGGY WHITTAKER

board was to apply for and receive
a charitable organization number
which has made them an official
non-profit organization for tax
purposes.

Murray, who also acts as special
projects fund raiser, has applied to
18 organizations across the country
for seed money. So far, she says,
they have been rejected by 15, but
have had tentative response from
some of the local agencies they
have approached. North Shore
companies were also contacted for
donations approximately two
weeks ago.

In addition, the preschool will
be holding its Sale of the Season
on Saturday, June 25 at Highlands
school from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. The
event. will feature toys, baking,
books, ‘‘and much more.”’

“One way or another, we are
going to have a school for our

| By STEVHEN BARRINGTON |
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our new siore,’’ said Rob
Charlton, who has been operating

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children come September,’? Mur-
ray said.

Murray also noted that president
Debbie Couling and vice-president
Wendy Evans had both been ‘‘very
instrumental in doing all the
groundwork for the portable ...
they deserve an awful lot of cred-
it.”*

Highlands Community School
principal John Calder said ‘tit was
anticipated that (the move) would
happen sooner or later.”’

He speculates that lower interest
rates and older people moving out
of the neighborhood are resulting
in young families moving in. That,
coupled with the surging number
of children of the Baby Boom
generation, has resulted in a
steadily growing enrolment at the
elementary school.

Two kindergarten classes have
been enrolled this year instead of
one, he said, and a new teacher
was hired in the fall when 13 other
students “just walked in the door"
unexpectedly.

The Village Preschool, which
holds classes for three and four

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A branch of the North Shore
News, the Capilano Chronicle
was formed to serve the specific
and unique needs of individual
neighborhoods within the North
Shore community.

The thrice-weekly North
Shore News wil! continue to of-
fer readers late-breaking news
coverage from the North
Shore’s three municipalities,
and profiles and listings in its
entertainment, sports, fashion,
lifestyles and community sec-
tions.

But the monthly Capilano
Chronicle will offer a magnified
view of the people and events
within the neighborhoods it
serves; highlighting the efforts
of individuals who make it all
happen —

res
irl hyes

from the school

his video rental store out of a
trailer in the mali parking lor for
almost two years. ‘(Being in a
trailer) has affected business.””

For deli operator Diana
Friedrich, the improvements are

greeted with mixed emotions —
happy to get better premises, but
worried that customers will think

See Merchants
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photo Terry Peters

CHRISTINE JOHNSON, teacher at the Village Preschool for the past
six years, lends a helping hand to one of her four-year-old students. In-
creased enrolment at Highlands school, where the preschool currently
leases a classroom, means the preschool has had to find a new home for

September.

Welcome to the Capilano Chronicle

WELCOME to the first edition of the Capilano
Chronicle — the neighborhood newspaper serving local
residents and businesses
Highlands, Capilano Heights,
Delbrook, Westview and Upper Lonsdale.

in Edgemont, Capilano.

Pemberton Heights,

crossing guard to the young
baton twirler to the local librar-
ian.

The Capilano Chronicle will
focus on the issues and events
that. are important to its
readers, and will therefore de-
pend on readers to keep it
abreast of neighborhood news
and events through submitting
press reieases to the paper or
through calling news tips into
the newsroom.

The Chronicle would like to
keep its finger on the pulse of
the community through an dn-
nouncements section of births,
engagements, weddings, an-
niversaries and obituaries, and
through a Jetters to. the editor
page of residents’ opinions on
issues. going on in their

neighborhood.

News or events press releases
should be addressed to
Neighborhood News, Capilano
Chronicle; letters to the editor
to The Editor, Capilano
Chronicle; and births, weddings
and obituaries to Announce-
ments, Capilano Chronicle.
Submissions can be dropped off
or mailed to 1139 Lonsdale
Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. -
V7M 2H4.

For questions or. news tips,
readers can call the newspaper's
editorial department at 985-
2131.

Those interested in taking out
display advertising in the
Capilano Chronicle can call
Bruce Methven at 980-0511, or
for classified advertising call
Joan Patterson at 986-6222. __

We hope you enjoy our first
edition of the Capilano Chroni-
cle! :

— Barrett Fisher, Managing
Editor