Library funding reinstated LIBRARY EXPANSION funds totalling $400,000 were in- correctly listed in a May 10 North Shore News article as having been removed from the 1989 West Vancouver District budget. The item had been removed, but was subsequently reinstated in the budget thanks to ‘‘successful par- ing of the budget in other areas,”’ said Ald. Mark Sager. A campaign to raise funds local- ly for, the library expansion project is currently getting underway. ‘The News regrets the error. eae Lite INTERPRETIVE TRAIL OPENS Seymour Demonstration Forest adds new educational feature THE GREATER Vancouver Regional District’s 5,600 hec- tare Seymour Demonstration Forest is demonstrating 4. growing success in its mandate to combine multiple-use forest management with public education. An estimated 150,000 people have visited the forest since it was officially opened Aug. 23, 1987, 1,100 have participated in forest public education programs and over 2,000 have participated in technical and professional tours of the forest. On Monday, the forest’s first in- terpretive trai: was opened to coin- cide with National Forest Week, May 7 to 13. The new loop trail. which runs around Rice Lake. includes descriptive panels that introduce visitors to the forest's integrated resource management concept and leads them through a series of forest management areas. Council of Forest Industries (COFI) president Mike Aspey an- nounced at Monday’s ceremony marking the trail’s opening that COFI will contribute $12,000 towards the budget for a new demonstration forest education coordinator, who will arrange ail public forest tours and programs during the summer. Volunteers will also be provided by the Canadian Institute of For- esters and the Association of B.C. Professional Foresters. Demonstration forest project manager Gordon Joyce said the ceremony was significant in that it opened the first specific public Watch for W. Van By TIMOTHY RENSHAW education feature of the forest. Plans, he said, to create an ecology trail in the forest are now complete. Joyce said the tours and pro- grams organized by the new educa- tion coordinator will initially be run primarily over the summer months to determine public de- mand. “The whole Seymour Valley is a new land-use planning area,’’ Joyce said. ‘‘{t’s not a park and it's not a Jogging camp. We are trying to develop a model of in- tegrated resource use that works for a wide range of people and meets the needs of a wide user group. Being so close to the Lower Mainland is a challenge. We have a fot of eyes on us.”’ Located at the north end of Lillooet Road in the GVRD’s lower Seymour Valley watershed, the area comprising the demonstration forest had been closed to the public since 1927 prior to its 1987 opening. : The Seymour site was originally selected for the unique project to combine different land uses because it is one of the only areas in the Lower Mainland’s three wa- tersheds below active drinking Villager Sunday | THE WEST Vancouver Villager will arrive on readers’ doorsteps this Sunday packed full of local news, columns and special features. Some of the neighborhood newspaper’s featured articles will highlight culture and politics, women of distinction and activities for seniors: e Municipal manager Terry Lester has proposed moving the site of West Vancouver’s planned cultural centre from the West Vancouver Recreation Centre to Municipal Hall; * Five high-profile West Van- couver women have been nominated for the YWCA Women of Distinction awards. Read pro- files on businesswoman Alix ‘Granger, radio show host Fanny Kiefer, columnist Joy Metcalfe, volunteer Ann Sturrock and Science World’s Barbara Brink; © Learn about the courses, ser- vices and activities available for older adults at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre and with the North Shore Keep Well pro- gram. Readers who don’t live in West Vancouver can pick up a copy of the West Vancouver Villager at the North Shore News office at 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 3 - Friday, May 12, 1989 - North Shore News : NEWS photo Mike Wakefield NORTH VANCOUVER District Mayor Marilyn Baker lends 2 hand Monday in a special ‘‘saw-off’’ ceremony at the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s Seymour Demonsiration Forest. The ceremony marked the open- ing of the forest’s first public education interpretive trall. water catchment. In‘ addition, the. forest in the area, which was logged during the 1920s and °30s, contains a full range of timber sizes and growths that makes. it ideal for public demonstration and education. The lower Seymour Valley has been divided into 10 development zones, each with primary and sec- ondary demonstration themes that reflect the existing natural and cul- tural attributes of the area. Development of the forest will he done in stages over the next 10 to 15 years. Funds for the demonstration forest’s budget are provided by the forest industry, the GVRD and Forestry Canada. Since 1987, the GVRD_ has received over $325,000 from For- estry Canada for reforestation, mapping, forest management, in- terpretive, trails, educational kiosks, visitor studies, manage- ment plans and communication needs. The GVRD itself contributes approximately $330,000 annually toward additional demonstration forest development costs and education services. An additional $409,800 has been éontributed to the demonstration forest’s 1989 budget from such organizations. as Forestry Canada, the Outdoor Recreation Founda- tion, the Outdoor Recreation Council and the Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C. through federal and provincial job pro- grams. Auto...........6.6.6..91 Classified Ads..........37 Doug Collins........... 9 Editorial Page.......... 6 Home & Garden.........13 Pailbox... 22.0... cee 7 What's Going On........29 WEATHER Friday, cloudy with aftsmneon | showers. Saturday, mostly cloudy. Highs near 15°C.