2 - North Shore News ~— Wednesday, September 6, 2000

City OKs non-crofit project

Steven Pelton
Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver City coun-
cil voted 5-1 Aug. 28 to make
funds available for the Quay
View apartment building, a
proposed non-profit housing
development for the North
Shore Association for the
Mentally Handicapped.

Last year council endorsed the site for
a potential affordable housing project
and provided funds that could be
required in support of the project.

The city’s advisory design panel is

seeking improvements to the exterior of

the Quay View development to enhance
its attractiveness and ensure a good fit
with future neighboring residential build-
ings. These improvements were not
included in the initial budget and staff is
recommending that an additional

“This is an appropriate use of che
Money Occause you don’t want to have
housing stick out a sore thumb,” said
Coun. Darrell Muosatto. “D think it will
work in well with the rest o7 the devel-
opment in lower Lonsdale.”

Coun. Bob tearnley did not support
the recomme vdation. “1 think this is
the wrong location for this building, tt
could have been done much better
some place cise 02a lot that’s not near-
ly as expensive as this,” he said.

Coun. Bill Bell said he was surprised
by Fearnicy’s stance. “Two months ago
he was moaning and groaning that it
didn’t have a suitable finish on the out-
side. 1 guess one’s able to speak out of
botn sides of his mouth,” he said.

Bell recommended consideration of
less expensive locations for social hous-
ing as an option for the future. “We're
going to have to take into consideration
other land in the community that isn’t
quite so expensive,” he said.

Coun. Craig Keating expressed con-

fess expensive neighborhood. “There is
no sense of adding to the social and
economic marginalization of people
who cannot afford housing in this area
by putting social housing off some-
where cheaper,” he said.

Coun. Barbara Perrault, who admit-
ted to being initially opposed to the
location of Quay View agreed with
Coun. Keating. “Marginalizing them is
never a good thing. I think they need to
be in the mainstream of society.

This helps to get them through some
of the difficulties they have,” she said.

Fearnley, who believes that the same
money could provide more housing
units in a less expensive location,
requested that he be given an opportu-
nity to debate the issue. He was over-
ruled by Mayor Barbara Sharp.

Asked Fearnley, “So you're limiting
debate. Is that what [’m_ hearing?”
Sharp responded, “lam. 1 don’t want a
fight.”

Coun. John Braithwaite was absent
for the vote.

MacPhail defends
85-cent wage hike

From previous page

Ainsworth said the muini-
mum wage hike may even
ativer the chamber directly.

Each summer the NVCC
hires a group of students to
work out of its visitor informa-
tion centre, but the wage hike
may force administration to
reassess how many students
they can afford to employ.

B.C. Deputy Premier and
Minister of Labour Joy
MacPhail defended the wage
hike, however, calling it a
much-needed boost in take-
home pay for low-income carn-
ers.

She pointed to the fact that
each time the government has
raised the minimum wage, the
total provincial unemployment
rate has fallen.

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The sale starts at twelve o'clock noon on Saturday,
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During that time, 100 new memberships will be
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Auilding for the Future_

Last year, we celebrated one
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Our Club has produced an
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class athletes. They range

from world champion
figure skater Karen
Magnussen to world tennis
doubles champion Grant
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played in our minor hockey programs. And dozens of
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‘moming of Saturday, September oth ‘from

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“The only — correlation
berveen an increase in mini-
mum wage (and unemploy-
ment) has been that unem-
ployment has fallen,” she said.
“Ifwe were to look at that, we
could leap to the conclusion
that a minimum wage increase
is employment.”

She also said that bankrupr-
cies have not increased along
with the minimum wage.

The last time the govern-
ment boosted the minimum
wage was April of 1998, when
the rate was increased from $7
to $7.15. Over the past eight
years the wage has been
increased over 37% from. its
February 1992 level of $5.

Currently, British
Columbia has the second-
highest minimum wage in
Canada and the United States,
behind only the Yukon’s $7.20
hourly rate.

MacPhail said the extra
take-home pay may actually
benefit the North Shore. “It
makes common sense that
people who ... get niore dis- .
posable income are probably
still fooking to spend. that
extra income in their own
community.”

senior |
swindled

POLICE are searching
for a con artist who
defrauded an elderly
North Vancouver

woman out of $675.-
The man approached the
89-year-old woman at the
door of her apartment on July
30, He convinced her he was

a relative in need of money. ©.

The two went together to.
the Royal Bank of Canada at.
18th and Lonsdale, where the:
money. was ‘withdrawn from’
the senior’s account.

A © surveillance *. tap
obtained by North Varcouver,
RCMP shows the man to be’
Caucasian, in his ea.y to mid
30s, with brown hair and
moustache. He was wearing a!
white T-shirt and jeans..°~

Anyone with information,
about this incident is asked to
contact RCMP Const. Barto
at 985-1311, ‘quoting: file’
number 2000-24091.

~~Katharine Hamer

Plaques
defaced

TWO naval mem: rial
plaques at Lonsdale’.
Quay’s Waterfront...
Park have been defaced
by vandals. Se

The damage took: plac
sometime on Aug. 28 or 29.:

Black paint was sprayed on
the memorial and one plaqu
was torn from its mount.

. Anyone with: information

. is asked ‘to contact Const.

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29054.

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ing the ve
tigation seriously. . >
-) Katharine Hamer,