TWO SISTERS from North Vancouver are about to become a part of history.

Dominique and Jacqueline Fishers’ names were both drawn in the lottery draw to determine the 80 runners needed to carry the Queen’s Baton from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay. The baton is being carried across Canada to

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NORTH VANCOUVER sisters Jacqueline (left) and Dominique Fisher were selected through a lottery draw to carry the Queen's Baton. .

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open the Commonwealth Games on Aug. 18 in Victoria.

Dominique, 8, won the privi- lege of being the first runner, scheduled to take the baton fol- lowing a brief ceremony in Deep Cove on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. Her six-year-old sister Jacqueline will carry the baton tater in the day.

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cient recreational space, residents pointed out.

West Vancouver District Council looked at legistation and zoning changes that might slow down or block BCR’s attempts to pursue subdivision proposals to their furthest potential.

But BCR Properties, the arm of the Crown corporation that deals with real estate, objected to a reduction of their development rights without some kind of com- pensation.

The community objected to the development of land that was origi- nally intended to help BCR assist in the growth of the province and in later years was used for public recreational purposes.

Residents were still in an uproar at the Feb. 28 public hearing, when BCR proposed a4 25-lot configura- tion and compensation in the form of title to municipal lands above the Upper Levels Highway.

The municipality was willing to start talking.

The new development arrange- ment the parties have come up with creates 13 lots north of Eagleridge Drive and five to the south.

Of the 13 to the north, five would be north of proposed recre- ation lands and eight are situated

_ between these lands and Eagleridge

Drive.

The five to the south would be between Eagleridge Drive and a tunnel portal.

The municipality gaius owner- ship of virtually all of the 15 acres (6 hectares) south of Eagleridge to ensure the permanent use of Seaview Walk.

BCR is giving the municipality the option of buying 3.7 acres (1.5 hectares) of flat land across from the golf course at $12 per square foot.

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Another option would see coun- cil acquiring the property through a land exchange, using municipal property above the Upper Levels highway.

BCR has an option to purchase 60,000 square feet of purchased BC Hydro land. If acquired by West Vancouver, the municipality would be able to retain an existing playing field and overflow parking, and perhaps build a western recreation centre.

The Caulfeild Middle School site, which is also being looked at for a recreation centre, is more restricted in terms of future expan- sion, planning director Steve

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Nicholls said in his report to coun- cil.

BCR will sell about 2.8 acres (1 hectare) at the north of the property to the BC Ferry Corp for use as parking, but the corporation has only shown an interest in a portion of it.

“ ..BCR forfeits a significant portion of its projected develop- ment profits...” according to Jim Cox, BCR Properties’ general man- ager.

The new plans will be on dis- play at an open house at Gleneagles Golf Course, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., June 29. The issue goes before a public hearing on July !1.

A FOREST firefighter used an axe to save the life of a West Vancouver man who was being savaged by a 350-pound (159 kg) black bear in northern Alberta. .

By Greg Heakes Contributing Writer

“I didn’t want to see him get eaten,” said the five-foot-six (168 cm), 125-pound (57 kg) Konrad Nygaard, who dug the axe into the bear’s back as the angry bruin tightened its death grip on Jan Matheson. “I just started slicing.”

The two recalled Monday how Matheson was attacked by a male bear early Sunday in a remote wooded aiea about 170 km (106 miles) north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

“I thought I was toast for sure,” said Matheson, 30. “Usually when a bear starts attacking he doesn’t stop until you are dead.”

And the six-foot-tall (183 cm), 180-pound

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(82 kg) Matheson figures that would have been his fate if he hadn’t had Nygaard there. The drama began at about 6 a.m., five hours

_after the pair had crawled into their sleeping

bags after a shift battling a forest fire in the area.

“T.was woken up by a hot breath on my face,” said Matheson. “It turned out to be a beur sniff- ing me.

“I tied to wriggle out from underneath him and that’s when he started chomping.

“He took his first bite on my lower back and bit me several times, but | managed to get to my feet. At that point he grabbed me around my hips with his claws.

“When I saw he was going for my neck I swung my head to the left and he missed and got me on the shoulder.”

Matheson, who’s been a forest-firefighter for nine years, said he yelled to Nygaard to get the fire axe.

Nygaard, of Faust, Alberta, swung hard, missing the first time. But the second blow

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pushed the axe deep into the bear’s spine, allow- ing Matheson to escape.

“He didn’t hesitate,” said Matheson of Nygaard, a rookie forest firefighter on his first overnight trip. “He only had one shot and if he got it anywhere but in the spine it probably would have just made the bear madder.”

“I was afraid, but it was an adrenaline rush,” said Nygaard, who radioed for a helicopter which took them to hospital in Fort McMurray, 437 km (272 miles) northeast of Edmontan.

But first Nygaard had to cut a helicopter Jand- ing pad out of the forest with a chain saw while Matheson stood guard with the axe in case the bear returned. Matheson was treated for multiple cuts, including four large bite marks on his back and shoulder.

After being hit with the axe, the partially dis- abled bear dragged itself off about 100 metres (328 feet) into the bush where it was located Monday still alive but unable to move. It was killed by Alberta Fish and Wildlife officials.

THE NOTION of charging tolls to cross a new First Narrows bridge has been tossed around with proposals of a new structure. The Lions Gate - Bridge used to be a toll bridge in years past. Tolls, some bridge builders say, are fair because they get bridge users to help pay for a new structure.

Ross Regan North Vancouver District

Yes. I don’t think a loonie each way costs much.

We certainly don’t want any tolls. It’s unfair to North Van. Tolls are an inefficient way to collect money.

No. They’ ve built new bridges else- where in the province and didn’t charge tolls on them.

My husband and I vote no.

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