Page A8, Tune 24, 1979 - Sunday News

North Vancouver City will
be presenting a resolution to

the 1979 conference of the.

Union of B.C. Municipalities
urging the. provincial
government to regulate
Sunday shopping.

The resolution was
brought up after a letter was
received by council from the
Retail Merchants
Association of Canada,
urging such a move.

Most council members
present agreed with
Alderman Frank Marcino

that ‘it doesn’t seem right to
have one uncontrolled day
of the week.’

Alderman Murray
Colcleugh described the vast
number of stores
opening on Sinday as ‘a kind
of creeping cancer,’ and he
said he was ‘unalterably
opposed to it.’

When the resolution was
changed from ‘control
Sunday
‘regulate Sunday shopping,’
all council members with the
exception of Alderman Gary

shopping,’ to

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_ expected to change when you have a cat acting as cashier. This feline seems quite

~ content. to watch the comings and goings of visitors to-Maplewood farm in North
Vancouver. (Terry Peters photo)

now >

fhe ‘creeping cancer’
of Sunday sho

: !

Payne supported
resolution.

‘Payne said he thought

Sunday shopping was ‘a good
thing.’

‘There should be Sunday .

shopping .if people support
such a thing,’ Payne said,
because, he said, it is the
only time many people have
an opportunity to shop.

This week was the last
chance council had to
forward resolutions to the
U.B.C.M, which is
scheduled to meet from
September 5-7.

Mahon wading pool
to open this summer

North Vancouver City
council has voted to keep
the Mahon Park wading pool |
open this ‘summer, by
providing its parks depart-
ment with the money to
operate the pool.

. Council d the motion
Monday night, after being
notified by the North
Vancouver Recreation
Commission that the
commission, due to
budgetary constraints,
would not be able to keep
the six wading pools in North
Van open for the summer.

The motion passed by
council will provide $1,075
02 to hire a qualified at-
tendant to watch the pool for
the same hours that it was in
use last year.

‘wading pools

Alderman Murray
Colcleugh, who is chairman
of the recreation com-
mission, informed council
that the Mahon Park wading
pool is one of the three
in North
Vancouver that is well used.

City council was also
informed, in a letter from
the commission, that the
Mahon Park swimming pool
will only be closed for one
day a week, rather than two
days as council had been
informed last weck.

The commission said it
would be able to keep the
pool open for an extra day
by reducing by one hour a
day, the time the pool will be
open during the week.

The pool will be closed on
Mondays for necessary
maintenance.

During debate on the
motion, dissatisfaction with
the operation of the
recreation commission was
expressed by some council
members.

And North Vancouver
District council has held
over until June 25 the
question of kecping wading
pools in the District open.

A number of suggestions,
including the possible use of
volunteers was discussed, as
the council learmed of the
recreation commission's
plans for staying within their
budget.

the

. A $30 million refurbishing

'.. program in progress at Lions

Gate. Bridge. will give 60
years’ additional life’ to the
bridge, B.C. Transport
. Minister Alex Fraser says.

The ‘minister has issued a
press. release in reaction to

an article in the June 15

edition of the Vancouver
Express which he says “may
_have. caused some concern
to the users of the Lions

--Gate Bridge.” Se

With a traffic volume of

60,000 vehicles per day, he
. puts Lions Gate as one of the

heaviest used three-lane

in about six months. This

-“will mean the bridge having

to be closed over weekends
for abouta year. . —

suspension towers were
found to have moved a few

. inches where the clamps

wrap over the top. of the
towers were relieved this
year.

The minister also-: says
recent improvement works
to the foundations has
removed additional stresses
created on the cables by the

foundations settling over the

sections in North America. -~~ years.

The heavy use has ac-
celérated the need for major
maintenance, he says, which
is “well. underway.”

Forty years of constant
use have left their toll on the

‘bridge decking from tire
. chains and studs.

The North viaduct deck
was replaced with a lighter
wider deck, separating cars
from pedestrians in 1975 ata
cost of $7 million.

Fraser says the entire
suspended structure will be

“replaced with a wider deck

and wearing surface and the
work will be ready for tender

The minister reassures:

When the current bridge
program started in 1970 it
was decided that the wholé

bridge should be thoroughly -

checked.

The | first work done-was

checking of the cables and:

SELL IT!
— CALLS

critical locations - were
unwrapped by ‘inspection
and found to’ be in ‘good
condition.. The review was

undertaken by Ammann a and 7
Locked in stresses on the

Whitney of New York.

Now we are to. the final

stages of ‘preparation: ‘for — :

rehabilitation .. of. ‘the” ‘Main

the. ent of more

“uptodate

technology.

Since 1970 a: “problem: of
stress corrosion: cracking
was revealed on a bridget in

the United States: - This
phenomenon was not

previously known to occur in
suspension cables. - .

Consequently, last week
critical sections were un-
wrapped for: recheck. ar

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On visual inspection they

‘look good. A’ metallurgist is

due to inspect Monday and a
report is expected im-
minently. - _

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