Boy, are we all eavironmentally conscious, or what! If you are to be believed, 96% of us use the blue box sys- tem to cut down on solid waste going to the great incinerator in the sky (well, Burnaby actually). Maybe we should have asked some tougher questions. Do you all wash your bottles and cans before taking them to the curb? Do you take the labels off tin cans, and plas- tic or metallic wrap off the necks of wine bottles? Yes? Well, what about taking the bottoms out of cans and fattening them to save space, or only putting out your box when it is full. The bortom tine is that we can all do more. Our opportunity is a little easier this month with the pick-up of mixed paper products and plastic containers marked with the #1 and #2 recycling symbols. Read the package that was delivered to your heme with the yellow bag, Using the service correctly will ultimately save taxes.

INNORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS ; DON'T KNOW 0%

* | inquiring reporter

Horseshoe Bay Dundarave/Ambleside

British Properties Norgate/Pemberton Heights Capilano/Delbrook Highlands Lower Lonsdale

Central and Upper Lonsdale Lynn Vailey

Blueridge/Deep Cove

Yvonne Perreault

North Vancouver

Yes, because if we continue

not caring we are going to

be in big trouble in five, 19, or 20 years, if. we are not

already.

Tomonori Nakagawa North Vancouver

Yes I do. Recycling is com- mon in Japan but there is no pick-up. We have to take it toa depot. =). ¢ ve

Linda Feil

North Vancouver Absolutely, I’m cestatic about the expanded pick-up. For the last pve years, as my husband says, I've been col- lecting garbage. He had to take it to the depor, now we just take it to the curb.

99% 96%

TOTAL. ...cccesssessessecnserccserertsseess 9G%

ouncil starts Westview.

Jolanda Waskito

Contributing Writer we

_ NORTH Vancouver City council has done an about-. - = face < on the Westview Area Planning Study — _ again.

*-. One month’ after: voting to cut = short’ the “study, “about qwo- -thirds complete, council voted 5 2 Monday to ask staff how

conversion by ensuring . i}

that y

rates

ourget th “ach and every } day.of the year! °

_ US Cash Sell: Rate

Royal Bank

HERITAGE. [DUTY FREE 1.444.

which was then =

4%

much it would cost ro restart and

complete the study.

The decision came after a dclega- tion of. Westview residents affected by the provincially-built $32 million interchange, spoke to council about

lost privacy, peace and quict.

The Westview Arca Planning Study -— which began with a public mecting held in January — was to examine the impacts of the inter- change on area residents, review

land uses, and propose alternatives and possible changes to the official community plan.

Another delegation — consisting of residents who also suffered impacts from the new interchange but were not invited to participate in the study — told council at an April 6 meeting it wanted the study aboried.

Chris Leuchte, who lives in the 400-block of West 24th, was not

study

allowed to be part of the:study even | though he lived only a block away~ from the study area.

He told council he was con- cerned that “the study was focusing on expanding the size of my neigh- borhood without including me (in it).”

That night, council — minus — absent councillors Darrell Mussatto and Barbara Sharp — unanimousiy

“voted to terminate the study.

miller@nsnews.com: .

rect tthe cour sald cost the city’s taxpayers more. moncy that.“ was budgeted. :

The city had a contract with con; sultants | David =: Nairne. “and Associates to complete: the study for $25,000. : :

But. the’ consultants’ were “no longer bound to the ‘contract after.

‘See N Van page 18