N. VAN DISTRICT Upen house slated for municipal hal DISTRICT OF North Vancouver residents who would like to know more about local government are invited to a week-long open house at the municipal hall May 11 to 15 in celebration of Local Governm- ent Awareness Week. Residents are encouraged to drop by to 355 West Queens Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., to watch a continuous video on municipal! activities and to take a tour of the hall, offered daily at 2 p.m. A special open house, one of the Many events scheduled for the week, will be held Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., where the public can meet elected council members, senior staff, RCMP and the fire chief. ‘it’s an informal meeting of senior staff and elected repre- sentatives,’’ said Mayor Marilyn Baker, who ‘s the Union of B.C. Municipalities Government Awareness Week committee chairman. “The door is open,’’ said Baker. “We are here to serve the com- munity.” Sixteen local high school students will get a chance to discover what it is like to sit on district council May 11 when they hold a special meeting. A usual sitting of six aldermen and one mayor will be revamped to include an extra two aldermen. A student mayor was elected by the junior council May 4. “It will be a regular agenda,” explained Baker. ‘‘They’re going to get a hands-on look at the day- to-day running of the municipality. I think hopefully they’re going to come away with the feeling the process works preity well.’’ A land development demonstraton project will be held Thursday, May 14, 9 am. to noon, where participants will be taken through the process of building a new community, which will be followed by a bus tour of the new Indian River vJunior council to debate West Vancouver issues A WEST Vancouver council of high school students May 11 will debate issues such as a teen disco, skateboarding on local sidewalks and a raised driving age. Scheduled as a Local Government Awareness Week event, the junior council will mirror its real life twin and consider various recommendations from staff. “It's a separate agenda,”’ said clerk Doug Allan, ‘fon topics picked partly by the kids and partly by us. We're picking things that are contemporary.”’ Some of the topics set for discussion will hit close to home for a teenaged council — a teen disco, skateboarding restrictions and fires at Ambleside. ‘We've made a fictitious municipality that wants to raise the driving age from 16 to 18,’’ Allan said. “We're wondering if they will support that.’’ Know your gov't Everything will reflect a real counci! meeting as far as possible, including the agenda being posted on the door. Recommendations and staff reports — ‘some are two pages, some are more’’— will be supplied to junior council members. “They’re getting an introduction to local gov- ernment,’’ explained Allan. ‘‘I think more important- ly they are trying to view issues, which may be some very personal’ issues, from the community point of view (necessary for council).’’ Coupled with a junior school board meeting, the junior council meeting marks the feature event of the district’s Locai Government Awareness Week events. A municipal hall open house is planned for the future, with details still to be made final. ‘‘We will . have extended hours before the council meeting.”’ Focus on Thailand GOVERNMENT AWARENESS Week is the ideal time to get in touch with local government. All three North Shore municipalities are organizing events for the week. en Find out all that is happening in the North Shore News Gov- ‘ernment Awareness Week THAILAND WILL be the focus of a slide and video show at the Capilano Library in Edgemont Village. The presentation by traveller Frank Ashdown takes place ~ Thursday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. Asiidown has a strong interest in travel, inistory, archeology and photography. Not content with ly- ing on Pattaya Beach with other sun-worshippers during his recent trip to Thailand, Ashdown travell- ed by boat up the Mekong River and visited the opium-growing region, the Golden Triangle. The show is free. For further in- formation contact Sarah Ellis at 987-4471. special supplement in Wednes- day’s paper. ions gate Nosottal SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL! ADVANCE NOTICE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Note Extended Voting Hours 4:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. — \Wednesday, June 24, 1987 Medical Day Centre at Lions Gate Hospital Candidates will appear on Shaw Cable before the Annual Meeting. Do you want to participate? Join the Hospital Society and support Lions Gate Hospital. May 24, 1987 is the final date to join if you wish to vote at the Annual General meeting. For further information, call 988-3131 (Local 201) 21 - Sunday, May 10, 1987 - North Shore News neighborhood. (Phone 984-4381 to reserve a seat, at no charge.) Firefighting and fire prevention ‘techniques will be highlights of the week at the Fire Training Centre, St. Denis Avenue, with daily demonstrations at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. May 11 through 15. Many residents only realize how municipal government works when some issue strikes close to home and prompts them to attend a council meeting, Baker explained. With Local Government Awareness Week, this attitude will hopefully change, she said. Resi- dents need to realize they ‘“‘get very good service for a very reasonable dollar — it only takes about a shopping ahead, and save more in the a week of work municipal taxes.” In North Vancouver City, City Hall renovations mean there will be no tours of the municipal facili- ties, said city Awareness Week spokesman Ald. Dana Taylor. Noting the poor city voter show- ing during recent elections, Taylor admitted some sort of increased local awareness is necessary. ‘Any sort of thing that heightens the awareness is welcome from my point of view,’’ explained Taylor. to pay your Pointing to the city’s twice-year- ly newsletter, Taylor suggested in- creasing distribution as one way to increase local awareness. 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