The year in review

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OCTOBER:

© Watering banned in West Van-
couver — Extreme water shortages
from a record dry summer and
carly fall forced West Vancouver
District Council to ban ali outdoor
watcring in the municipality. The
North Shore's Capilano and
Seymour water reservoirs reached
record lows, The water shortage
was not fully over until late
November.

© World stock markets crash —
Stock markets around the world
crashed and many investors expe-
rienced heavy losses. Locally,
chamber of commerce officials and
stockbrokers predicted that local
small businesses would remain
unaffected.

© Seymour community services
squeezed —- Residents rallied under
the banner of the Deep Cove,
Dollarton and Indian River Com-
munity Association to lobby for a
new dual-track French immersion
and English language elementary
school at Indian River; the
upgrade or replacement of Burrard
View Community School; and ex-
panded community centre space.
The assocation and a delegation of
political and ‘education repre-
sentatives met with Education
Minister Tony Brummett in mid-
December to present the case for
new school facilities. Lack of fun-
ding remains the issue and Sher-
wood Park Elementary School, the
only public French immersion fa-

cility in’ North Vancouver, con-
tinues to take the overflow fram
new homes constructed in Indian
River. .

NOVEMBER:

> International Plaza Hotel closes
-— The 152-room hotel closed
permanently Nov. 2, throwing 136
full and part-time employees out
of work. Opened in 1974, the hotel
helped put the North Shore on the
itinerary of international travellers
and big name entertainers, who
performed in the Plaza’s Plazazz
Show Lounge. Hote! management
announced the Plaza’s closure in
September, citing mounting finan-
cial losses and bleak occupancy
forecasts.

The property's ownership said
the hotel would be converted into
rental units similar to the 368
apartments already in the complex.
©North Shore Economic
Development strategy unveiled —
The North Shore Economic
Development Advisory Commit-
tee, spearheaded by Capilano Col-
lege, released its report mapping
out an economic plan to market
the North Shore and its various
industries as a united single entity.
The 88-page report was produced
by 60 community and business
leaders representing the three
North Shore municipalities, the
two North Shore Indian bands and
four major North Shore economic
areas: industry, marine-related in-
dustry, tourism and commercial-
professional,
© Municipalities agree in principle

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with 911 — All three North Shore
municipalities agreed in principle
with the Greater Vancouver
Regional District's plan to install
an enhanced 911 eme:gency phone
service in 23) municipalities and
electoral areas in the Vancouver
toll-free zone. Estimated cost of
the plan is $1.7 million. It could be
in place by the end of 1988.

The system would be coordi-

nated through B.C. Tel and the
North Shore‘s new electronic tele-
phone switching technology. In Ju-
ly, Deep Cove became the last
North Shore area to be plugged in-
to an electronic telephone swit-
ching system when B.C. Tel in-
stalled a $4 million Remote Swit-
ching Unit in its main Leep Cove
switching station.
* Seymour hatchery future looks
bright — In March, Fisheries and
Oceans Canada announced it was
re-evaluating the Seymour River
hatchery, which had been
established by BCIT in 1977, but
needed a major overhaul if it was
(o reverse its increasing fish mor-
tality rate and expand its produe-
tion.

Fisheries officials committed
$183,000 to a three-phase overhaul
of the hatchery, but urged the
community to take responsibility
for the hatchery’s direction. The
Fisheries Enhancement Society on
the North Shore was subsequently

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