Highlights of the top North Shore

THE PAST year was an eventful one for the North Shore
and its residents. In order to provide an overview of 1988,
the North Shere News has produced a two-part series
summarizing the major events chat affected the North Shore

community.

Part one covers January to
September.

JANUARY:

© Ree threatens resignation:
*North Vancouver-Capilano MLA
Angus Ree threatens to consider
tendering his resignation if funds
for the iong-delayed $20 million
overpass at Lonsdale Avenue and
the Upper Levels Highway are not
included in the 1988-89 provincial

budget.
The project was originally an-
nounced in October 1985 with

construction scheduled to begin in
1986.

Funds v.ere not forthcoming (see
May highlights), but Ree decided
to stay on and keep fighting for
the project.
© Residents reject tink plan:

Upper Lonsdale area residents
presented North Vancouver
District with a 700-signature peti-
tion opposing the linkage of East
Braemar and Dempsey roads.
Along with the link, the district
proposed the construction of 282
new homes in the Kilmer Creek
area, In early February, Braemar
Road residents took to the street
with placards to protest the link.
Later ja February the district voted
to proceed with the link. In Oc-
tober a resident challenged the
district in Supreme Court to quash
the subdivsion bylaw on the basis
that the bylaw as adopted was not
the bylaw as presented to residents
in a notification sent prior to a
public hearing. The resident was
unable to attend the hearing. The
district agreed to quash the bylaw
and hus since redrawn the bylaw.

FEBRUARY:

¢NV District wins in-law suite
case:

The B.C. Supreme Court vin-
dicated North Vancouver Districi’s
attempt to create legal in-law suites
in single-family zoned homes. The
legal scrap between barrister and
former North Vancouver District
alderman Peter Faminow and the
municipality ended with the court
ruling that it was reasonable for
the district to extend its zoning
bylaw. The bylaw had earlier been
quashed after Faminow had suc-
cessfully argued that the district
had no right to zone on the basis
of type of occupancy.

MARCH:
© Lucky executive wine cool $3.7
million:

A 33-year-c!d North Shore. ex-
ecutive won $3.7 million after in-
vesting $18 in wre Feb. 27 Lotto
6/49 diaw. The winning numbers
were picked by two lottery booth
operators who {ater received 10 per
cent of the jackpot from the exec-
utive.

By April, North Shore residents
had pocketed more than $6 million
in various lottery wins.

The previous year was also a big
one for locals as North Shore resi-
dents won approximately $7.3 mil-
lion on various lottery draws in
1987.
© Hiker’s stroll turns into a 10-day
battle for survival — Saga reveal-
ed:

A Vancouver man crawled from
the wintry Mount Seymour
wilderness, more dead than alive,
after surviving 10 days without
food and ciad only in a jogging
suit, runners and socks. The sur-
vival of David Wayne Deveau was
the longest on record for any such
ordeal! on local mountains.
© LGH halts burning infectious
wastes:

The North Shore hospital stop-

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MAY:
¢ Abortion issue defused in hespi-
tal board elections:

For the first time in its over 30-
year history, Lions Gate Hospital's

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NWS photo Tom Gurley

UPPER LONSDALE aree residents protesied the linkage of East
Braemar Road and Dempsey Road in Jawusry.

ped burning its potentially infec-
tious biomedical wastes because its
incinerators could not be upgraded
1o meet air emission standards.

In December, facing a 272 per
cent increase in waste disposal
costs incurred from shipping waste
to an incinerator in Washington
State, hospital president Robert
Smith, along with administrators
from iwo other Lower Mainland
hospitals, appealed to the Greater
Vancouver Regional District board
of directors for help in finding a
solution to the biomedical waste
disposal probiem.

Lower Mainland hospitals also
faced interruption of garbage col-
lection services from the
Washington incinerator if
American officials decided it
snould no longer accept Canadian
waste and from operators of local
garbage transfer stations who
could suspend garbage collection if
hospital biomedical waste ac-
cidently made its way into regular
hospital garbage processed at the
stations.

Smith said the hospital would be
forced to cut services in January if
no money was forthcoming from
the provincial government.
© Volunteer-run hatchery releases
first fish:

The community-run Seymour
Salmonid Society, established by
community volunteers to take over
operation of the Seymour River
fish hatchery, released thousands
of two-year-old coho and steelhead
smolts into the river.

It was the first major reiease
from the hatchery under its com-
munity management, which was
initiated following a June 24, 1987
meeting in which the federal fish-
eries department urged community
input to ensure the future opera-
tion of the hatchery.

By the end of June, the SSS had
released 98,500 pink salmon,
87,000 chum, 18,700 steelhead
smolts, 43,600 coho smolts and
100,000 chinook smolts.

APRIL:
© NY mem’s plight gets attention:
The case of Kathlicen  Bell-
Younger captured North Amezican
attention. Bell-Younger faced
possible charges for strapping her
18-year-old daughter to a bed for
almost two days after abducting
her from a Vancouver street corner
where she had been working as a
Prostitute. The daughter disap-
peared after her mother’s unsuc-
cessful bid to ‘‘deprogram “" her.
The daughter was located several
weeks later with her boyfriend in
Edmenton.

North and West Vancouver Hospi-
tal Society approved two pro-life-
endorsed nominees in its slate of
candidates for the annual hospital
board elections.
Traditional

ideological head-

butting over LGH abortion
policies was therefore absent from
the 1988 board elections.

Because the North Shore Pro-
Life Society subsequently decided
that it would field no opposition to
the board’s nominees, all five can-
didates were acclaimed to fill the
available board seats.

On Jan. 28, the Supreme Court
of Canada ruled that the country’s
abortion law was unconstitutional.
© Overpass stailed:

The provincial Transportation
ana Highways Department an-
nounced that no funds would be
available for the $40 million pro-
jects to build overpasses at Lons-
dale Avenue and the Upper Levels
Highway and Westview Drive and
the nighway.

North Vancouver-Capilano
MLA Angus Ree, who threatened
in January to consider resigning if
the funds were not made available
for the project, said he would not
resign, but stay on and continue
fighting for the project.

{In| November the provincial
government announced an $85 mil-
lion project to build a Cassiar
connector between the south end
of the Second Narrows Bridge and
the Trans-Canada Highway.

JUNE:
* Airporter service dropped:

Continued financial losses suf-
fered by the company running the
North Shore airporter service forc-
ed permanent canceilation of the

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news stories of 1988

Operation after almust nine years
of providing the North Shore with
a direct bus link to the Vancouver
airport.

* NV bus depot to close:

B.C. Transit announced plans to
close the bus facility located on
East Third Street by Jan. 2, 1989.
The basing of the depot's 76 buses
at the corporation's Kitchener
Street operations centre in Bur-
naby raised the ire of bus drivers,
local politicians and the genera}
public. The protesters worried that
the move would result in inade-
quate local bus service and a com-
Promised local disaster evacuation
tesponse. In mid-September, faced
with a 22,500-name petition op-
Posing closure of the depot,
Greater Vancouver Transit Com-
mission chairman Don Lanskail
announced the deferral of a deci-
sion to close the depot until a fur-
ther review of the situation had
been completed.

*NVD rejects $35 million
development for Matsumoto Ship-
yard Site:

Plans for a $35 million apart-
ment and marina complex on the
Matsumoto Shipyard site were
dumped after North Vancouver
District council rejected the pro-
posal in a near unanimous vote.
Dollarton area residents had lob-
bied for a park on the property.
The final shipbuilding project at

NEWS photo Nel! Lucente

AMBLESIDE MERCHANTS felt » fiscal pinch in July when Marine
Drive was closed temporarily for revitalization work.

Matsumoto, a $500,000 barge, was
launched late July.

JULY:
© Capilano College launches Ist
evening credit program:

The North Shore community

lege classes.

Introduction of the concept
established Capilano College as the
only post-secondary institution in
B.C. offering full arts and sciences
programs after 3:30 p.m.
*MLA Ree named
general:

After nine years as a Socred
backbencher North Vancouver-
Capilano MLA Angus Ree was
named B.C.’s first solicitor general
following the resignation of then-
attorney-general Brian Smith.

West Vancouver-Howe Sound
MLA John Reynolds was chosen
to stay on as Speaker of the House
in the cabinet shuffle.

Bud Smith was named as the
new provincial attorney-general.
© Deep Cove beach reopens:

Deep Cove’s Panorama Beach
was reopened after being closed 47
days because of high fecal coliform
counts,

Saturation testing of the entire
Deep Cove harbor by the North
Shore health department and
North Vancouver District followed
an exhaustive inspection of area
sewers and sewer pumping sta-
tions, and though high coliform
readings were found in two creeks
and a storm sewer feeding into the
west side of the bay, the source of
the pollution has yet to be con-
clusively pinpointed.

A consultant’s report on pollu-
tion in the harbor was scheduled to
be released in the new year.
© WV road work raises uproar:

Ambieside merchants with
businesses fronting « portion of
Marine Drive, inciuded for
upgrading as part of the $3.3 mil-
lion Ambleside revitalization pro-
gram, felt the fiscal pinch with a
temporary closure of the busy
through-street. Mayor Don Lan-
skail appealed to shoppers to con-
tinue to support the merchants of
Dundarave and Ambleside.
© Naturalists fear mudflats doom-

solicitor

Naturalists and North Shore res-
idents raised the alarm over Van-
couver Port Corporation plans to
develop land near the fast stretch
of untouched estuarine marsh area
lefi on the North Shore. The
mudflats are a rearing ground for
salmon and trout and are home to
185 species of migratory waterfowl
and other water birds. Develop-
ment of a $10 million private Jap-
anese school near the Maplewood
site is already well under way.

Plans for the impending develop-
ment of approximately 88 acres of
land owned by the Crown corpora-
tion are expected to be unveiled
early in the new year.

NEWS photo Tarry Peters

WEST VANCOUVER residents concerned over a proposal to build twin
highrises on Taylor Way remind Marine Drive motorists to come to a
public meeting on the issue in September.

college initiated the first evening
credit college in the province to in-
crease the efficient use of its facili-
ties and decrease the backlog of
North Shore and Lower Mainland
residents looking for available col-

AUGUST:
*® Proposed tower causes concern:
In an effort to secure the fiscal
future of the North Shore Winter
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