Ye LS a WS photo Terry Peters THEY JUST have to pack their bags and they're off. Peter Streed and daughter Karen Streed of North Vancouver are off to Hong Kong as first place winners in the North Shore News Win Your Way Across the Pacific contest. Second draw prize winner, Leona Yee of North Vancouver, and a friend will be off to New Zealand. Left to right, North Shore News publisher Peter Speck, Cathay Pacific's Gary Powell, Dominique Dowding from Guthreys New Zealand Tours, and Air New Zealand’s Patti Smolen display the winning en- tries drawn at Capilano Mall. An estimated 80,000 entries were deposited in entry boxes at 142 local businesses during the six-week contest. Watch for detaiis in Wednesday's North Shore News. NEWS photo Nell Lucente WEST VANCOUVER Mayor Derrick Humphreys reviewed his past eight years in office during a civic report to more than 200 members of the public at West Vancouver High School Wednesday. The question and answer session covered a wide range of issues including municipal taxes. Humphreys gives municipal report INCUMBENT West Vancouver Mayor Derrick Humphreys, seeking his fifth-two year term, announced Wednesday that an arts centre would be built in West Vancouver. Humphreys made the an- nouncement to 200 people who came to hear him give a civic report, organized by the Re-clect Mayor Humphreys Committee. Humphreys spoke for one hour and answered questions later from the audience. One issue that drew the most debate from audience members was the municipality’s handling of the Caulfeild Plateau shopping centre proposal. Members of the audience said they were upset that a regional shopping centre is being developed on commercial Caulfeild land. But Humphreys maintained council had done everything it could to soften the impact of the mall on local residents. Some of the other topics discussed in Humphreys’ civic report included the Ambleside by the Sea proposal, Ambleside Village revitalization, the municipality’s relationship with the Squamish Indian Band, creck flooding protection, district taxes, seniors housing, tree-height control and police and fire protection. Humphreys said a recent study showed that nearly 95 per cent of West Vancouver residents were satistied with council's perfor- mance. The meeting was chaired by Ron Wood and Humphreys was in- troduced by Harry Weatherley. It was held in West Vancouver Senior Secondary School's theatre. WV candidates re 3+ Friday, October 31, 1986 - North Shore News CAULFEILD PLATEAU Mall court | case decision reserved _ B.C. SUPREME Court Justice Reginald Gibbs reserved decision in the first Caulfeild Plateau shopping centre petition. In a hearing last Friday West Vancouver Ratepayers’ Associa- lion argued that West Vancouver District municipality was wrong to use a minor bylaw amendment and not a major amendment when in- creasing Caulfeild commercial land. Association members said coun- cil’s decision to increase the land from 3.5 acres to 5.3 acres allowed the developers to proceed with WV CITIZENS FOR GOOD GOV'T Lanskail gets endorsed NINE: ofthe 12 municipal can- didates who sought endorsement by West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government Committee received if at) Wednesday's meeting. A spokesman for WVCGG said about 150 people attended the endorsement meeting, but on- ly 84 were eligible voters. Mayoral candidate Don Lan- skail unanimously won the group’s endorsement, Aldermanic candidates endors- ed include incumbent and management consultant Alex Brokenshire, manager Andy Danyliu, university professor Rod Day, incumbent and lawyer Dave Finlay and incumbent and businessman Mark Sager. Retail merchant Bil}: Howard, homemaker Val Vopni and businessman Thomas Wardell sought endorsement, but did not win. Voters could vote aldermanic candidates, six not for but FIVE WEST Vancouver municipal candidates refused to seek the endorsement of West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government (WVCGG), calling it an interference in the democratic process. But WVCGG chairman Tom Marshall said the group is good for democracy, because it encourages people to run as candidates. Incumbent Mayor Derrick Humphreys said he has never sought the endorsement of WVCGG, which he said was formerly known as the West Van- couver Electors Association. But Marshall said WVCGG, although it has many former members of the WVEA, is a new organization. Other candidates not seeking WVCGG endorsement are alder- manic incumbent Don Griffiths, aldermanic candidate Pat Boname and incumbent school trustees Margot Furk and Hugh Stark. ‘4 believe the election is held on election day and a small group By KIM PEMBERTON News Reporter does not have the right to endorse candidates,’ said Humphreys. ‘4t should be left to the public at large.” Stark said he believes endorsing a slate of candidates is an “‘inter- ference in the democratic pro- cess.”* Referring to Vancouver's two parties with candidates vying for election, Griffiths said, “If any one group becomes sufficiently strong they become a party and you end up with a COPE or an NPA.” “T believe it’s a wrong direction for city councils, because they're so small,"’ Griffiths said. ‘There's less than four. Candidates needed 51 per cent of tig vote. All four school trustees who sought endorsement received the necessary 51 per cent vote of confidence. Voters could choose three or four school trustee can- , ] their proposal for a $10 million shopping centre, which the ratepayers’ association members were against. British Pacific Properties, owners of the land, tras also filed a petition against West Vancouver District, The company’s fawyer is arguing that commercial Caufeild land was already 5.3 acres, and no amend- ment to the bylaw was required by council, : The date for the second hearing regarding the British Pacific Prop- erly petition has not yet been set. didates. . Endorsed are homemaker Jean Ferguson, incumbent and homemaker Barbara’ Howard, incumbent and businessman Michael Smith and university vice-president George Suart. "NEWS. photo Stuart Davis WEST VANCOUVER School Board candidate Jean Ferguson ad- dresses approximately 150 members of the public at Wednesday's West Vancouver Citizens for Good Government endorsement meeting. use endorsement WVYCGG could best serve the community by listing all the candidates, and what they stand for, on its brochure — not just a select few. She noted many candidates can- only six of us on council and quite often if the vote is split you’re the deciding factor. An alderman has to maintain a degree of in- dependence.”’ “And I’m not sure why 80 peo- ple should tell 17,000 people how to vote,’” he said. Marshall said it’s not. WVYCGG's intention to act as a political party and try to persuade aldermen on its slate to vote in a certain way if they get in. He said all endorsed candidates are independent can- didates. “In our group we've got everyone of (different) political stripes. We've been trying to find people who would run when we started last July, because we knew it would be an important year with all these seats up for grabs,’’ he said. Boname said she took out a membership for WVCGG earlier in the year, before it decided to en- dorse a slate of candidates. Furk said she feels not afford publishing and distributing a brochure, which she estimates would cost $2,500. Both Griffiths and Boname said they were also concerned party memberships could be bought as late as Monday — two days before the slate was elected. They noted a candidate could in effect buy a WVCGG endorsement by en- couraging his friends to take out memberships. Marshall explained in previous years the West Vancouver Electors Association had sold mentbetships, in good faith, up until the day of the election. Hut, he said that wasn’t the case with WVCGG. “We wanted to avoid any sug- gestion of packing a meeting so we allowed a 48-hr. cooling-off period.”’