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THE VOICE OF NORTH A

:‘D WEST VANCOUVER

Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

BROADSIDE FIRED AT COUNCIL POLICY

JOKER BATTLING

EXPANSION CURBS

WARNINGS of economic ruin threatening North
Vancouver District were voiced Monday by
various groups opposing a move by council to
regulate production of dangerous goods in the

municipality.

Under fire at the public
hearing was a _ proposed
zomng bylaw that would
prohibit local industries
manufacturing dangerous
products (gases, explosives,

flammable liquids,
chlondes, etc.) from = in-
creasing their present

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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS, Lions Gate Hospital staff have started
getting thelr message around all over the place since having it printed up
into bumper stickers. Choice of stickers expresses theirs concern over
Victoria’: decision to undertund the hospital by 33.8 million this ycar,

production capacity or
building additional facilities
for manufacturing hazardous
goods.

Heading the group op
posing council's ratification
of the bylaw was Canadian
Occidental (Hooker
Chemicals) General

By CHARLES MAYER

Manager Brian Thorpe who
criticized District's near-
sightedness in dealing with
the legislation. He told
council members _ their
action could cost the
community “hundreds. of
thousands of dollars” by
reducing the District's tax
base.

“This bylaw may reduce
municipal taxes by up to

$600,000 for the next several
years,” Thorpe said. “It
could exclude many new
opportunities for the District
to expand its industrial tax
base and to benefit from the
spin-off effect of job
creation and encouragement
of small business.”

He pointed out to council
that Hooker paid about
$900,000 in taxes to District
in 1981 and spent a total of
$14.4 million on its plant
operations.

“Can any of us appreciate
the spin-off effect this
spending has on the com-
munity?” Thorpe asked.

Hooker Chemicals,
meanwhile, has been em-
broiled in controversy after
failing to report an explosion
at the plant last June. More
recently District Fire Chief
Bob McDonald complained
that plant officials had
neglected to inform his
department at the time of an

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ON RYE HE

AR YOUR SEATBELT

26-H. MAY NOT HAVE Bens

which will close 5‘ beds and lay off 144 staff, Past president of the
hospitals medical staff, Dr. Frank Sigurdson, cadorses the message by
displaying tt on hb own car (Terry Peters photo)

MAYOR AT ODDS
WITH ALDERMEN

Politics
in the
W. Van
seniors

centre?
Oh, no...!

By NANCY WEATHERLEY

SENIORS CENTRE

usage caused West
Vancouver council to
lose a little of its
customary cool
Monday when
members debated
whether the centre

should be available for
rental to other non-
profit community
groups or = reserved
strictly for seniors.

Alderman Gordon
Rowntree moved that the
centre should be rented out
to non-profit’ recreational
and community groups when
itis Not being used by seniors
who would have pnorty on

the space
But Mayor Derrick
Humphreys immediately

stated his strong opposition
to the resoluvon saying the
semors’ centre shoul be
reserved for the semors for
which at was built

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