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Auction to raise legacy funds

TUNE IN to some great fun Thursday te raise funds for a great cause with the
West Vancouver 75th Anniversary TY Auction.
North Shore celebrities -- including News’ editor-in-chief Noel Wright and
managing editor Barrett Fisher — will be on hand to help raise funds for the West
Vancouver legacy project, a proposed performing stage at Ambleside Perk. The
auction airs June 4, from 7 to 11 p.m. on Shaw Cable. Details: pages 11, 14.
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TEMPE HEIGHTS SUSPECTED AS SOURCE OF SLICKS

DOWNSTREAM residents along North Vancouver’s Keith
Creek are screaming for their upstream counterparts to

stop polluting the waterway.

“Either people have no
awareness of what they are doing
or they have forgotten that what
they pour down storm drains goes
right into the creek,’’ suid resident
Joyce Mathieson. ‘‘We live in a
unique area in the world, but once
the creeks are gone they are gone
for good.”’

Mathieson said the small creek,
which feeds in to Lynn Creek, is
regularly coated with slicks of
detergent and paint. The pollution,
she said, increased dramatically
when construction on the 240-lot
Tempe Heights subdivision began
in late 1984.

The 42-acre project, which is
over 50 per cent completed, is
scheduled to be completed within a
year. |

The section of Keith Creek that
runs through the subdivision was
covered by a culvert when work on
Tempe Heights began in an at-
tempt tu prevent silt and other
pollutants from construction from
damaging the creek.

But Ministry of Environment en-
forcement coordinator Mark
Hayden said there have been con-

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

tinuing problems with spills into
Keith Creek since people began
moving into the subdivision.

The ministry’s biggest problem
in combating the pollution, he
said, is trying to trace the source of
those spills. :

“Ninety-nine per cent of storm
drains on the North Shore run into
area creeks,’? Hayden said. ‘‘So it
is extremely difficult to police.’’

He added that silt from ‘Tempe
Heights subdivision construction
initially threatened the Keith Creek
environment, but the problem had
been remedied with the installation
of the culvert.

“The (creek’s) environment has
been degraded by the urban en-
vironment,’’ Hayden said, ‘‘but it
is still usable.’”

In the past, Keith Creek has
supported mainly cutthroat trout.
The creek’s lower waters are used

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NEWS photos Tery Peters

| WEST VANCOUVER sign painter. Kate Clifford,'left, ap-

plies the finishing touches to the colorful West Vancouver
coat of arms newly adorning one of the overpasses at Park
Royal. The coat of arms and West Vancouver-colors were |
recently added to the overpass, above,.to commemorate the §
municipality’s 75th anniversary. : Vp