4 ~ Friday, May 4, 1990 - North Shore News NV City backs Western Games THE NORTH Shore's bid for the 1990 Western Canada Games has the backing of all three local municipalities after North Van- couver City Council voted recently to support the application. City council was the last of the three local municipalities to vote on the application. As reported in the Apri! 25 News, North and West Vancouver District Councils both unanimously endorsed the application April 23. Presented to city council by Gary Young, director of recreation at North Vancouver Recreation Commission, the motion passed 5 to 2 with Ald. Bill Bell and Ald. Frank Morris voting against it. NORTH. VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL : » The application to host the games will be considered by a bid selection committece of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture. The committee will visit the various sites in May and announce the chosen site in early June. If the North Shore bid is suc- cessful, approximately 1,500 elite young athletes from the four western provinces and two nor- thern territories will compete in 20 events during the eight-day games. NEWS photo Mike Waketield CHIP, A squirrel with feline ways, has been living with a litter of kittens since he became orphaned about a month ago. The fitile fellow has been nursed by mother cat Oreo for the entire time. Nutty cat treats squirrel! like kitten CHIP THE squirrel lives like a kit- ten. By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter The West Vancouver squirrel was adopted by a North Van- couver cat after it was recently brought into the Capilano Pet Hospital with an injured tail. Tree toppers found Chip when he fell from a tree and was buried under a pile of cut wood and branches. The baby black squirrel received a tail splint, and pet hos- pital receptionist Maureen Phelan took it home. The squirrel and three kittens have been nursed by Phelan’s cat Oreo for the past month. Said Phelan: **Oreo still tries to clean him. And she still treats it as one of her kittens. But, of course, now the squirrel is into jumping all over her head and running after her. The squirrel doesn’t like being cleaned. He whistles and makes all kinds of noise and she just sort of cocks her head from side to side, trying to figure out, ‘What the heck is this?’”’ The squirrel-cat-creature has of late brought new visitors to Phelan’s front porch. On Monday she returned home to find her cat sitting beside a grey squirrel. “He was sitting within two in- ches of her. She was just looking at him and pawing at him gently.”” she said. The visiting rodent darted into the hallway, around a room and up and away through a chimney. Meanwhile Chip maintains his feline ways. But said, Phelan, ‘‘I’ll have to let him go soon because he’s get- ting too big. 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Despite our strong conviction that the spending ceiling imposed by the Province on our school district is insufficient to continue programs at present (1989-90) levels, the Board will not go to referendum on May 5 for the additional funds needed for 1990-91. The primary reasons for our decision are: * the referendum wording deems that additional funds must be for *‘extras’’ or “improvements” to current programs rather than for funding existing program shortfalls. * extra funding, if approved by referendum, will be a direct tax on local residential taxpayers only; and will not be eligible for Homeowner Grant Assistance. « the piece-meal nature of the legislative changes and the time given to prepare for a referendum did not permit North Vancouver residents opportunity to study and understand the basis of the Board’s requirement for additional funds and the impact of additional funding on the iecal residential taxpayer. The Board, acting in the best long-term interests of students and taxpayers. believes that the Provincial allocation should be adjusted to at least provide for a continuation of 1989-90 levels cf service to students and that it should not. through referendum, place additional burden on local residential taxpayers to achieve this minimum requirement.