THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

May 15 deadline for private proposals

WINTER WORKERS at the Cypress Bow! and
Hollyburn ski facilities are ending their fast season

as government workers.

As the provincial govern

ment tssucs notice to the
workers that their services
won't be required for

whatever remains of winter,
it has begun advertising for
proposals from private firms
to take over operation of the
ski facilities starting with
next year's scason

Advertisements
peared in the

that) ap
weekend

By MARK HAMIL FON

papers, call for proposals
from the private sector for
the “acquisition of the ski
and recreation facilities’’ in
Cypress Provincial Park.
While the fand involved
isn’t for saic, the government
will be selling a long-term

Park Use Permit for a lump

sum and payment of two per
cent of gross revenuc cach
year

Among the operations be-
ing sold are the downhill ski
facilites at Cypress Bow! and
cross-country facilities at
Hollyburn The Hollyburn
lodge 1s) included

A spokesman for the
Ministry of Lands, Parks and
Housing says the successful
bidders for the winter
facilities will not be allowed
to expand = ski
development will

runs and
be pro

hibited in the Nelson Creck
Dix Lake watershed area

The deadline for proposals
to be submitted is May 15
Interested parties have until
April 6 to pick up a $300 pro-
posal package, which
outhines what the government
is offering for sale and in-
cludes technical analyses of
the operation and a skicr de-
mand survey.

The firm conducting the
sale for the government is
Thorne Stevenson and
Kellogg of Vancouver.

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Three escape
blaze that
gutted home

THREE PEOPLE escaped a blaze that extensively
damaged a West Vancouver house early Monday

morning.

The homcowner, his wife
and ther 16-month-old child
were not injured as they Med
the blaze at 218 Lawa on the
Capilano reserve

Art) Ridley of the West
Vancouver fire department
said the blaze appears to have
Started in the areca where a
smoke pipe from a wood
stove entered a masonry
chimney.

The fire caused extensive
damage to the main floor of
the house and then spread
through an open stairway to

the upper floor The second
storey of the house was gut-
ted by the fire

The blaze was fought by
both West Vancouver and the
Distnet of North Vancouver
forces.

The original alarm went in
to the District firefighters
who also responded after

relaying the call to West
Vancouver

No estimate of the amount
of damage caused was
available to press time.