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WEST VANCOUVER Police Constable B.C, Bal! inspects the Willy-Emn, moored at the Thunderbird Marina. Police con-
fiscated drugs and weapon paraphernalia from the boat in a raid early Thursday morning, as reported in the Friday News.

warm up for election

ALL IS apparently well
in West Vancouver.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

In .a_ Wednesday’ night

: stewardship -meeting held at
“West Vancouver Senior Sec- . -.
ondary school,
‘couver . District: .. council

West Van-

members filled the silent air

-' of the school’s theatre with

highlights of the past year’s

~ accomplishments.

A’ sparse’ turnout of ap-

-proximately .40 West Van-
- “couverites listened as Mayor
‘Derrick. Humphreys. ‘in-
“troduced members of council
‘to give their individual ad-

dresses on the state: of: the

district, in’ anticipation of ©
rthe November .16 municipal
i election. .

Humphreys ‘told the au-

‘dience that West Vancouver,
- which will be ‘celebrating its
75th birthday in 1987, was in
“extremely: good hands and
- pointed to a recent survey of
“379 residents in which 95.3

per cent of those’ residents

“nounced,

indicated they were satisfied
or very satisfied with their
community.

“No other community in

- Canada has the pride that we

have,’? Humphreys an-

. West Vancouver taxes re-
main one of the lowest per

.1,000 people in Canada, ac-

cording to Humphreys,
“despite West Vancouver’s
jack of industry and small
tax base."’

‘Ald. David Finlay, the |

alderman responsible for
planning and development,
said the municipality "was
working towards streamlin-
ing rezoning procedures to
accommodate. West Van-
couver’s aging population

“and its shifting commercial

and residential needs in the
community. |

Future developments in
‘West Vancouver, he said,
included the revitalization of
Horseshoe Bay. and the
Ambleside area.

The alderman responsible
for West Vancouver’s public
works and sanitation, Don

Griffiths, told the audience
that garbage and its
disposal, with North Van-
couver District’s Premier
Street dump scheduled to be
closed within two years, was
a major problem facing the
district.

Griffiths said his challenge
for 1986 was to remove the
flood hazard from West
Vancouver presented by the
municipality’s myriad
creeks.

According to Ald. Diana
Hutchinson, who holds West
Vancouver’s Parks and Rec-
reation Portfolio, the
municipality was continuing
negotiations with the
Squamish Indian Band over
the future of Ambleside
Park and had approached
the federal government to
have the management .of
Lighthouse Park transferred
to West Vancouver.

Despite the overall posi-
tive backslapping of the oc-
casion, murmurs of discon-
tent arose. :

Paul Sykes, a
the Gleneagles

member of
Ratepayers

CANADIAN Takahasha Ltd. at 1156 West 3rd was. hit by fire Thursday but a quick response by the District of North
Vancouver firefighters prevented fire from damaging the building. A machine used to coat cheesecloth with paraffin wax
caught fire and was severely damaged. The cheesecloth product is used to wrap meat hefore it is sealed and frozen.

Association, told council he
was upset over what he saw
as their plan to expropriate
without compensation -the
properties of Cypress Creek
residents to make way for a
Proposed debris catch basin
on that creek.

DISCONTENT AROSE

Humphreys
construction, of the catch

basin .had been temporarily .

put on hold because of a
shortfall in federal funding,
but added the construction
ot the basin was needed: ‘‘If
expropriation has to be, it
has to be.”’
‘Cypress Creek
Doug Quance, who in-
troduced himself as one of

those whose land was sched-

uled to be ‘‘stolen’”? by the
municipality, questioned

‘ council’s lack of notification
_to residents when such major

projects were being consid-

ered.
“We are,’? Humphreys

conceded, ‘*imperfect.”’

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“returned home

told Sykes

resident

3 - Sunday, October 27, 1985 - North Shore News

News
_Brief_|

Daring ©
“daylight BRE

A DARING daylight
robbery has North Van-
couver RCMP looking
for help.

Residents of a house in
the 1800 ‘block Berkley
around
3:30 p.m. Thursday’ to
discover their home had

been. ransacked and items °°
had‘. been.” stolen“ from. -

every room of the house. .
Missing ‘items included

video, Stereo and ‘ camera ~
equipment” .

as” well-”
quantities of. liquor, glass

~The: sales. of
1 ae I is allowed from

“October 25 until October
Bh

In the ‘District of North

‘ Vancouver, fireworks are
on sale from October 24

but ‘came’ up «blank © ‘in!

: who was in the area at the
time: ceo if “they, may

~ age 18° or over: Lies
- public display. The per.

the display «must:

wear, tools, simall ap: :
pliances and jewelry.’ .
Police speculate ’ the
thief or thieves forced en- |
try into the house. Police :
conducted a search of the ;

“Meighborhood and ‘talked: +

to surrounding residents ;

their search for, clues.

North Vane ut ert
RCMP. dre. asking anyone

son discharging fireworks :
must have. the. ‘written: .

* permission - of: the . fire -

office.and > ,
be
supervised. by. someone’
qualified as a fireworks’ |.
supervisor under the. EX. i.
plosives Act. 0" L

Any, questions: cant.“be-.,
directed ; to. local : fire: ;
departments i

commission