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page 10, March 30, 1977 = North Shore News”

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MOUNT SEYMOUR reports excellent downhill ski-ing, as 10-year-old Michael
Nekupil can testify. Cross-country trails, however, remain poor and there’s a danger of
avalanches beyond Mystery Peak chair. Warning signs are posted, but some skiers are

ignoring them [Rex Weyler photo].

North Vancouver
council took the first cautious
steps Monday towards an

City

out-and-out confrontation
with North Vancouver grain
companies seeking to expand
their elevator facilities—and_

potentially with the National.

Harbours Board as well.

Following. vigorous - pro-
tests by residents in the
Ridgeway area, council ord-.
ered staff to prepare a bylaw
amendment that would sub-
ject grain elevators to city
height restrictions. Since
1950 they have been exempt
from a 40 foot restriction in
the heavily industrial area
along the North Van water-
. front.

This could theoretically
thwart the plans of. Pioneer
Grain Company to build a
$30 million replacement for
Burrard Terminals, destroy-
ed by fire in 1975, and also a
planned expansion of Sas-
katchewan Wheat Pool. The
Pioneer project calls for silos
161 feet highand a 258 foot
high workhouse. The height
of the proposed Saskat-
chewan Wheat Pool structure
would be 213 feet.

However, a motion by Ald.
Stella Jo Dean to withhold
building permits until the
new bylaw amendment was

processed went down to
defeat.

Ald. Jim Warne opposed
both the bylaw amendment
motion and Ald. Dean’s
permit motion, warning
council that the city would
have little hope of upholding
the amendment in court. The
two companies, he said,

Schools

nel Secondary School in West
Van and Argyle Secondary in
North Van are taking part in
a computer business game
designed to interest young
people in business.

Sponsored by the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of
British Columbia in conjunc-
tion with Capilano College,
the game may be expanded
next year to all interested
high schools in the province
if it is successful.

Institute spokesman
Robert Paterson says the
students making up each
team will get first-hand
experience in the manage-
ment of a reasonably simple
manufacturing business by
making production, advertis-

could sue the city for costs (a

figure of $1 million has been —
mentioned) if the projects are

held up.

Ald. Dean. described ‘the
two proposed “elevator *pro-.

‘jects as being. equivalent to
_*fa- half-mile of a 130-foot

high. prison -wall.’? They

_ would block the view, she -

said, from. as far. north | as 6th
Street.

A further problem facing
council is that the land in
question belongs to the
National Harbours Board.
Legally, it is understood, the
NHB can, if it wishes, ignore
all municipal zoning regula-
tions and all building codes,
and does not even ‘need to:
apply for building permits. -

Earlier during its Monday |
_ session council also passed a —
byiaw amendment prohibit-

ing Pioneer from any future
expansion westward ‘into the
city beyond a line between
St. Andrews and St. Davids.

SCHOOL PLAN OPPOSED

North Vancouver District
council Monday called for a
staff report on a planned new
secondary school and recrea-
tion centre in the Myrtle Park
area, following strong op-
position from local residents
who fear that their property
values might be affected.

Residents also expressed
concern that the main access
to the school for some 600
students would be via the
steep and winding Strath-
cona Road—which has heavy
traffic and no sidewalks.

run |

ing .and selling decisions in
competition with other stu-
dent ‘businessmen’.

A realistic and reasonably
complex computer program
creates a simulated market-
place in which = students
compete for customers.

At the moment 108 teams
are participating in the
game.

Ten other schools in the
province are also taking part
in the game, which is played
in ten segments, each

representing a portion of the.

business year.

Following each period
detailed reports are provided
for each company, along with

In other business council
rescinded a motion passed
last fall which approved in
principle the idea of neigh-
borhood pubs. Council mem-
bers decided to wait and see
what emerges from a current
-study by the _ provincial

government into all aspects —

of liquor licensing.

‘REALTORS’ SIGNS.
FLAYED

West Vancouver councii
Monday granted a two-week
reprieve to residents and
companies-——notably real
estate companies—who ill-
egally post signs on public
property. A staff recommen-
dation for a crackdown on

offenders was postponed to.
April 12 in order to give

Mayor: Peter Jones and
aldermen a chance to talk
with the main culprits.

Strong © condemnation of
clusters of real:.éstate signs
advertising homes for sale
and open houses. came from
the British Properties Home-
owners Association,
complained. of ‘‘visual pol-
lution.’’” One ratepayers’
spokesman told council:
“You take a tour of the
British Properties on asunny
day...and you can’t see the
houses for the signs—it’s a
polluted area.’’

The spokesman said local
real estate companies had
told him they were willing to
comply with municipal reg-
ulations—but that competing
companies from _ outside
West Vancouver insist on
“‘four or six’” signs on each

corner, causing local com-

panies to follow suit.

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by computer

Students attending Senti- .

a schedule setting out the
cumulative results of the
competitors.

The top team in the first
three industries accumula-
ting the largest asset total
after ten periods will be
eligible for the playoff at
Capilano College in May.

The winner will receive a
trophy donated by the
Institute.

The project was developed
through the individual high
schools directly, and the
education department in not
involved in the project.

Paterson says a_ similar
competition is played in
Ontario involving nearly
5,000 students in 160 high
schools.

which '

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