—— ee. Kae feos. x EWS photo Cindy Goodman YOUNG CANOE enthusiasts at the North Shore Canoe Club prepare for another outing to perfect their technique. The club is entering upcoming races in southern B.C. and narthwestern Washington and is fooking for volunteers. Anyone interested in joining or supporting them should contact Michae! Billy at 980-1190. Mark Wareing was criti- cizing an assessment by Thurber Engineering Ltd. of 35 Jandslides in the Seymour, Capilano and Coquitlam wa- tersheds that occurred during severe rainstorms in November and December 1990 and last April. Commissioned by the Greater Vancouver Water District, the report states that the six landslides that occurred in clearcut areas do not ‘‘ap- pear to be related to failure of road fill or culverts on the log- ging road systems." The slides may have occurred even if the sites were still forested, the report said. Five of the clearcut slides were small, while the sixth, the Jamieson Creek slide, ac- Watershed report slammed as disservice to public Link between clearcut logging and water quality dismissed A REPORT that dismisses a direct link between clearcut fogging and recent landslides in the watershed region does a “profound disservice to the people of Greater Vancouver,’’ according to the forester for the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter counted for 5% of the total slide debris volume. Each of the clearcut slide areas was ‘‘hydrogeologically stressed’’ before the forest was harvested, the report said. The report pinpoints the ma- jor cause of last fall’s chronically high leveis of tur- bidity in the GVWD drinking water to be ‘‘landslides along the Capilano or Seymour shorelines or stream erosion of fine-grained soil along the lower reservoir tributaries."’ But Wareing said the study does not consider the connec- tion between soil erosion and clearcut logging and road building. Debris from logging and in- creased runoff from logging roads tend to scour stream channels and exacerbate bank erosion, Wareing said. The result, he said, is increased turbidity. Wareing added that the report also did not indicate any connection between slides and old roads built in the old- growth or mature reforested areas where the remaining 29 slides occurred. The GVRD water and en- vironment committee received the report Thursday and ap- proved a staff recommendation that staff proceed with the se- cond phase of geotechnical assessment of the watersheds. Estimated to cost $70,000, the program includes a historical review of mass slides of debris, surface mapping along major streams and reservoir shorelines to identify sediment sources, and the development of a remedial! program for erosion contro} works. The GVRD board will con- sider the second phase of the geotechnical program at its June 26 meeting. Gadsby defeated in Hospital Board bid Incumbent Wolfgang Felix retains seat at annual general meeting WOLFGANG FELIX was returned to his seat on the Lions Gate Hospital board of directors after scoring a lopsided win over North Vancouver District Joan Gadsby on Wednesday night. The election for the North Van- couver District position on the board was held during the annual general meeting of the North and West. Vancouver Hospital Society. Felix won the seat with a decisive 61-9 victory over Gadsby. The remaining four candidates — Sue Lumb and John Tanton for West Vancouver and Victor Bennington and Frank Morris for North Vancouver City — won their seats by acclamation. Morris will complete the last of a three-year term for a director who resigned; the other four will serve three-year terms, By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Bennington was elected as board chairman, replacing outgo- ing chairman Rod Clark, a North Vancouver City alderman. West Vancouver representative Len Kelsey was elected first vice- chairman, while North Vancouver District representative Grant Spitz was elected as the board’s second vice-chairman. Felix, who has served on the board for the past two years, is the director of planning, construc- tion and space utilization for the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Also at the meeting, the hospi- tal society approved a bylaw amendment that allows for three of the 12 elected board seats to be heid by ‘‘directors at large,’ who are not elected from a particular municipality. According tc the current bylaw, each municipality has four elected tepresentatives on the board; the amendment would reduce that number to three. The remaining three directors could reside in any of the three North Shore municipalities. LGH president Bob Smith said the amendment will give the board greater flexibility to elect can- didates who have the necessary qualities but who may not reside in a municipality where a seat is vacant. The amendment must still be approved by the provincial ministry of health. a A rN Sunday, June 16, 1991 - North Shore News - 3 | Reynolds says universal vote call growing WV-Howe Sound MLA considers seeking party leadership WEST VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA John Reynolds said Thursday that his call for a universal voting system to select a new leader of the Social Credit party is picking up support. And Reynolds, who ran against former Socred leader Bill Vander Zalm at the 1986 Socred Jead- ership convention, said he is still considering whether to seek the party leadership at this year's convention. Under the present system, only selected delegates from each Social Credit riding in B.C. can vote in the leadership convention to be held July 18, 19 and 20 in Van- couver. But Reynolds said the party should adopt a universal voting system in which each membez of the party would be allowed to cast a vote for a new leader. “I must have had 300 phone, calls on it,’ Reynolds said in an interview Thursday. ‘‘Our caucus is thinking seriously about it. | know the president of the party is opposed to it but I know it’s not too late.”’ He added that the Social Credit caucus will likely discuss the issue early next week. Reynolds said he was happy with the number of people who turned out Tuesday night for a delegate selection meeting in West Vancouver. Twenty-five delegates were selected to attend the lead- ership convention. Reynolds said about 160 party members turned out for the meeting. “7 think it was an excellent tur- nout, In that type of thing, where none of the candidates were there, I think it was a very good tur- nout,”* Reynolds said. He added that he is still con- sidering whether he will enter the race for the leadership, which was called after former premier Bill Vander Zalm resigned. “I haven't made a decision yet. There’s still lots of time, I have until June 27.”’ Immediately after Vander Zalm 44] haven't made a decision yet. There's still lots of time, I have until June 27.99 — MLA John Reynolds resigned as party leader, Reynolds said he would not seek the job. Reynolds ran unsuccessfully for the leadership in 1986 after former premier Bill Bennett retired from politics; Reynolds finished fifth out of 12 candidates. In a May 27, 1990 News story, Reynolds, a former Progressive Conservative MP, said he decided to run for the ieadership in 1986 because he felt the Ottawa press did not feature B.C. politicians enough on national news reports. “When Mr. Bennett decided to step down, I decided to run, and coming in fifth out of 12 is not bad for the first time around. 1 met a lot of nice people,’’ Reynolds said at the time. Current Premier Rita Johnston, former finance minister Mel Couvelier, back-bencher Duane By Surj Rattan and Michael Becker Crandall and Barrey Biow, a party member from the Vancouver [sland community of Duncan, are the current candidates seeking the party leadership. Meanwhile, members of the North Vancouver-Lonsdale Social Credit constituency association met June 6 at Cheers Restaurant to select 25 delegates for the up- coming leadership convention. According tc constituency president Bill Crompton, delegates were not chosen on the basis of which leadership hopeful they will support. Said Crompton, ‘We will make MLA JOHN REYNOLDS... party should adopt universal voting system. those decisions individually. We will be meeting with the can- didates for the leadership prior to the convention. We aidn’t select on the basis of who they were supporting. We don’t frel that is correct procedure at all. That would get away from the grassroots and the democratic process.’’ Members of the North Van- couver-Seymour Socred consti- tuency association are scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. on June 25 at the Coach House Inn to choose leadership convention delegates. The 1,600-member West Van- couver-Garibaldi Social Credit constituency association will meet to choose 30 leadership conven- tion delegates at 8 p.m., June 25 at West Vancouver Secondary. Constituency president Dale Klatt said when rumor was ram- pant in May that Reynolds would run for the party leadership, his phone was ‘‘ringing off the hook” with calls from constituency members interested in becoming delegates. “And then all at once we went into a complacency period,’’ he said, adding, ‘‘I guess we’re in a holding pattern. We don’t know whether or not our MLA John Reynolds will be putting his hat in the ring or not. | guess he’s sort of fishing out there. That’s one of the things about the process that I've often wondered about. We were given guidelines to hold the delegate selection meetings from June 3 to 27. And they gave the candidates (time) to declare to the 27th.”