6 - North Shore News - Friday, June 23, 2000

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QUSTROLAS WMNIGRATION DEPT. DISCOURAGES POTENTIAL ILLEGAL

Hoi tro

S sure as summer smog,

weekend Lions Gate Bridge

‘closures in July and August
are just around the bend.

The story so far: scheduled bridge
closures have dropped by the way-
side. Commuters and North Shore

. businesses dependent upon relative-
ly unfettered traffic movement must
now contend with ad hoc traffic
management. A promise once made

by. the . B.C, .- Transportation
Financing Authority (BCTFA) to
the North. Shore: community that

. there would be no weekend closures

in July and August i is fast evaporat-
ing.

 BCTFA: spokesman John Doyle is

reported to have said this week that

a‘ weekend Closure: pegged for. an.

ermined weekend this month

3 sie counters

h¢ fare increase instituted oy ‘TransLink should i not.come
‘When the iteni came before. North: Vancouver
cil; against it, knowing that such a move

terproductive.:

th ing the Greater Vancouver Regional
{TransLink puts on the table, no matter
: to get and stay on that

councillor. wi place ‘did, of. course,
id to make sure sure the would be no glitch, coun: *
"AC ‘ {Transportation ‘Advisory
itizens committee that | initi-

ated ‘she: f
ce). TPAC isd district

of engineering concerns with the
deck replacement process. If the
bridge project is to be completed by
the end of this year, weekend clo-
sures are necessary in the summer.

The summer months are a partic-
ularly sensitive period for tourist
and holiday traffic. Summer week-
end closure will hurt.

Last year we were told that the
bridge deck replacement would

‘begin in January 2000,-there wouid

be fewer than 40. night-time clo-
sures, and the new deck would be in
place by August 2000.

We know that 54 bridge sections
must be removed and replaced. Each
one will take 10 hours of work.

The BCTFA now expects about
60 closures. When? We still don’t
know but the summer is beginning
to look like hot trouble on the road.

DON’T touch that dial!
As they used to say in Radioland.

Because 94.5 FM — already. well-
known “station” for North Shoreans —~

will have a life after its
Present role ends. _
‘Perhaps its most -
exciting prospect: Ifa
West Vancouverite’s
-application gets CRTC’s
nod, it willbe
Vancouver's first’ com-
_, mercial classical music
_ Station, : “ ;
ca” Not.to dismiss ‘the.
“elotit of another West
. Varicouverite i in the
race: Jim Pattison,”

al

. dial.

"Oddly, 94.5 EM i is getting a ‘alot of free
Shore sign-.
sts as the Lions Gate Bridge station.
- With its updates on restrictions and °

¢ bridge; it can honestly.
he North Shore’s most lis-

- ~ publicity these days on Nor!

-dosurés on.
“claim to, be
* tened-to station.”

Mind you, it’s also the North Shore’s

only station. "2.
. But its potential i is s real: After the
patching up. of the bridge is finished,

Investors tune inio.

_ whose Jim Pattison Industries already
operates 1 The Bridge, 600 on the AM

MIGRANTS WITH ifh@605 OF INDIGENGUS HORRORS, Like CROCODILES.

AND VENOMOUS SNAKES.

FO IME TO BRIS COMBI
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had gone off on a heavy metal station at .
4:30 a.m. - .
That’s the CRIC’s application form |
“Sof $0-odd pages. Only those with real
structure in place — a saleable vision, a

. business plan, strong -

- legal help, technical
backing, and real
moncy -— move on to |
the next step. ~
But look at these big-

name broadcasters who

are serious about 94.5:
CHUM Limited, ©
Global Television --

~ Network, and Standard —

- Radio, all of Toronto:
. Craig Broadcasting
Systems, Edmonton;
“and, as mentioned. Pattison Industries:
Two first-step applicants had North -
Shore addresses. «©

strong advocate of public radio, support-
er of the CBC, and author of a book on.
» the CRTC.

But Hardin Associates has dropped”

ment. ’ But he ran out of time.:

The other.North Shore applicant was ' WE,

“94.5 — the last “wl bees on the FM dial _ _Denegvi Enterprises, whose principal is”

“in this region —
-.. erty,

794.5
‘with letters of intent, by the May 23 -

deadline — includes some of the heavies

hitters in Canadian broadcas' ing

become ; a hot prop: ;

A list of the. éarly’ prospective suitors -
= 15 of them who responded:

” Denis Kizin; North Vancouver.

’ Unsurprisingly, the CRTC hasn't”

! of inte! have moved on to the second »

step.»

But I m mo: fascinated. by the appli
-- cation of Classic FM 594539 " Ce Lt
«This group has inipressive credentials:
Reti hile Vancouverite’ Robert

AS TG THE EDITOR ast inctce youn

 hame, full address’ and : telephone numba
fronshaw@nsnews.coni

Selssit via o-arail to:
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‘tion: To my tin ear th:

One was Herschel Hardin Associates,
“West Vancouver, Hardin is well known as *
‘a writer, sometime political candidate,

: out. Hardin told me he had hoped to get
_ financial backing from the union move- ~ -.:

divulged w which of the 15 that filed letters”

ocal station

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‘Radio Music and head of musi for the.

8 Ontario Arts Council, and -Va

music critic in the- 1960s;
‘Blackwood, with a long fi

., Radio executive jobs, includin

‘head of drama and featur
ming; and Catherine Robértso:

-. with’ CBC experience and for:

man of VanCity Cr dir: ‘Uniot
director of the Insurance

Their pitch is for.
unds ae

such formats have b jancly forged dyes

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- School Board tristees

offer all-day, extra-cost kinderg:
on deaf cars last weck: ap
“Clive Bird Rick Francis and chairman:

: David Stevenso

opposed by every i
es the West: Van Te

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