EST 237d resident Clayton Weller called 9-1-1 to summon help for his neighbor, whose two-ton car ran over

Referendum to finance
IN. Van District projects
set for November voie

iSEiICULD North Vancouver District

aborrow up to $26 million to complete
a range of oft-postponed capital pro-
ects throughout the municipality?

That is the big-dollar question district voters
will be facing in the polling booth Nov. 16,
Repaid over 20 years, such a sum will add
pproximately $78 a year to the tax load of a
em North Vancouver District resident.
7 Coun, Ernie Crist, who proposed the
motion, said council has been considering for
eral years projects which should have been
inanced through land sales

“But they weren't because proceeds from
land sales were diverted to other purposes some
of which can clearly be detined as operating

nses,” charged Crist.

“We have fallen behind and we don’t have
the money,

“The intention is a full range of activities at
a full range of locations for all ages. We should
be able to reinforce for our youth their impor-
tance in our community,” said Coun. Pat
Munroe

Projec ked for borrowed funding
@ Parkgate Community Centre, $8,000,000;
@ Lynn Valley Library, $6,000,000;

B Inter-River Playing Fields, $5,500,000;

B Lower Capilano Community Facilities,

$3,000,000;

& Indoor Tennis Centre, $1,500,000;

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$1,500,000;

@ Karen Magnussen Sports Court, $250,000

@ ongoing trail development, $250,000.
Mayor Murray Dykeman described the fist as

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“saleable” and emphasized that the district
would be seeking authorization to borrow.

“It doesn’t say we have to borrow $20 mil-
lion on Jan. 2 (1997),” said Dykeman.

As previously revealed in the News, staff and
some council members fear that a referendum
to borrow the Parkgate funds alone might not
pass. Hence, the district-wide package.

The original concept for borrowing autho-
rization was pegged at $20 million, but in a
close 4-3 vote Crist was successful in adding $6
million for a new Lynn Valley Library.

While the library building is overcrowded,
under-equipped, incapable of expansion and
seismically unsound, it is not one of the capital
projects that have been postponed due to a lack
of tunds

C . i
Cuthbert were the only two oppos
authorization package

Goldsmith-Jones said she might be “a voice
in the wilderness” bit could not support the

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woman

By tan Noble
News Reporter

A 9-1-1 call from a fast-act-
ing neighbor brought help
to a woman run over by her
own car on Sept. 4.

The woman, still embarrassed
about the incident, thanked her
neighbor Clayton Weller.

“Tam extraordinarily grateful for
him to be so alert and to have acted
so quickiy,” said the West 23rd resi-
dent, who
asked that her “J

name not be
used. 3
The acci- couldn c
dent left atoe believe it
on her right

had run
over me. I
hardly felt

foot dislocated
a thing.”

and her ankle
twisted. Her
— West 23rd
resident

left leg is badly
bruised — and
swollen.

Weller, who
suffers from
spina bifida and
lives in a group
home for physi-
cally and mentally disabled people,
said he heard the woman’s call for
help and went to see what was the
matter.

He called 9-]-1 and stayed with
the woman until the ambulance
arrived.

The woman said she had left her
car to pick up objects left on the dri-
veway by her children.

As she was picking up the
objects, the full-size Grand Prix,
which was in park, began moving,
down the driveway.

She stepped back out of the car’s
path, but fell. At the same time, the
car caught a dip in the driveway,
causing the left rear wheel on the
two-ton Grand Prix to run over her
left leg while her right leg was
pinned beneath ir.

“IT couldn't believe it had run
over me. T hard
said. “Remarkably light.”

She thought the leg may be bro-
ken, so she called out for help,
which prompted Weller’s actions

“He acted very quickly and very
bravely and kep? his head,” she said.

“T feel iv makes me look foolish,”
she said of the incident. “It was just
a comedy of errors.”

The car knocked out the support
pillar between two garage doo