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SEVERAL STUDENTS from the Van Leena School of Dancing will be spending a month with
the Royal Winnipeg Ballet this summer. Katharine Horsman (in left front), along with (right to
ieft in mirror) Amy Wright, Lindsay Nevison, Tara Mauro, Karen Lee and (not in photo) Laura
Zaplatynsky have been accepted to attend the summer session.

Deep Cove beautification project
raises ire of local merchant

A DEEP Cove woman is calling for the resignation of
North Vancouver District director of engineering John
Bremner over a $600,000 street beautification project that

she claims ‘‘has been 2 joke"’
numerous area businesses.
Margie Goodman, who operates

Goodman Studios Ltd., at 4355
Gallant Ave., said the district's
engineering department has con-

sistently bungled the project dur-
ing the last 18 months thar it has
been under construction.

And Goodman said she will not
pay her property taxes, which, she
claimed, ‘tare higher than) any
place else.""

and has forced the closure of

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

beautifica-
Deep Core

The district’. street
Hom project an the
Road and Gallant Avente area
has been under was for the last
sear and a half while the crovin-
cial highways minisirs has been

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working on a §7-million  im-
provement project along Dollarton
Highway.

The street beautification project
included putting in new sidewalks,
lanip-posts and trees. But Good-
tan said the project has taken far
too Jong and that Gallant Avenue
area construction has foreed at
least six businesses to close.

She added that the lamp-post>
are Now starting too rust and the
teves are beginning io die.

“We just sit here and eat a
» one is able to
Fiss oor six: mer-
under.” said

bunch of dust. N
make a fiving,
pone

chants have

Goodman. “‘They’ve ripped up
the curbs mo ar three times.
They've put lamp-pasts, the kind

we didn’t want, in the middle of
the sidewalks and they bought
maple trees from Oregon and now
they're dying.

“The district should be shot
and Bremner should resign.”’

Goodman said the district has
now told Gallant Avenue mer-
chants to remove their sandwich
boards from the sidewalks or face
fines.

“We're just so frustrated. The
merchants here are really suf-
fering. Trying to vet down the
sidewalk is just a jokes’ said
Goodman. **Thes’re (district) a
bench of jerks who can't do any-
thing. [C's just criminal."

She added that the day before
North Vancouver District, Mayor
Murray Dykeman was to come to

Gallant Avenue to preside over
the official removal of the last
B.C. Hydro pole, a district street
cleaner was dispatched to remove
all debris in the area.

“Three hours after he left, it
was all dust again. [I'm not paying
my property taxes, the hell with
Murray,’* Goodman said.

While Dykeman was at the fast
pole removal ceremony, Goodman
attached her property tax bill to
several helium balloons the mayor
was holding.

“The district couldn't plan their
way out of a@ paper bag,’ said
Goodman.

Dykeman admitted the con-
struction project has been
frustrating for the merchants of
the area, but he said that some of
the blame les with the provincial

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