APPROXIMATELY 100 people met recently at Highlands Com- munity School to share ideas about how to protect North Shore trees at the first general meeting of North Shore Citizens For Trees (NSCFT).

The crowd directed complaints, concerns and suggestions to a panel of four iocal government Tepresentatives: North Vancouver District Ald. Ernie Crist, district forestry technologist Derek Power, West Vancouver assistant superin- tendent Eric Lees, and Tony Barber, superintendent of engineering design: fur the City of North Vancouver. David Blacoe also spoke to the crowd about specific parks policies and tree retention in Lynn Canyon Park.

Concerns ranged from the ex- cavation of trees for large devel-

NORTH VANCOUVER District 44 School Board recently paid tribute to Mr. Roy King, a former longtime local teacher who passed away May 22 at the age of 82.

“He was one of the most popu- lar teachers in the district,’’ recall- ed Trustee Anne Macdonald, one of the board members who attend- ed the May 29 funeral services for

NEWS photo Nell Lucente Mr. King.

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Local residents air tree preservation concerns

opments, such as the Tempe Heights tract, to the felling of a single, but favorite, tree in some- one’s neighborhood.

Said NSCFT’s Lena Warr- ington: ‘“‘On the North Shore, there are virtually no bylaws or policies in place that stress tree retention, and no processes in place to enforce the few well-inten- tioned policies that do exist. We have a lot of work to do if v2 want to protect our priceless heritage for the enjoyment of the whole Lower Mainland and for tourists the world over,’”

Issues raised at the meeting will be addressed in the next few months by the NSCFT executive committee. The next general mecting wil} be held at Highlands Community Schoo! Thursday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Macdonald said Mr. King taught at North Vancouver High School when she was a student there, and remembers that he was also the head of the young people’s AYPA group at St. John’s Church.

King came to North Vancouver when he was six and was educated at Queen Mary School and North Vancouver High School.

He taught for about. 30 years,

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NORTH Shore Citizens For Trees’ Lena Warrington addresses the crowd at the group’s recent first general meeting. The tree conser- vation group is lobbying North Shore councils to develop bylaws which would protect trees from arbitrary urban encroachment.

North Shore loses popular teacher

early on at Ridgeway Elementary and Lonsdale Elementary and later as a mathematics instructor at North Vancouver High and West Vancouver Senior Secondary.

Mr. King retired in 1965.

During the Second World War he served as a weather reporter for the meteorological. section of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Mr. King loved soccer and played goalie with the North Shore United team.

An avid golfer, he also. enjoyed bridge and playing the organ.

Mr. King’s older son, Kendall, was a pilot who went missing years ago in northern B.C.

Mr. King is survived by his sister Elsie, his younger son, Richard, and his wife Leona (Dempsey), widow of former teacher and vice-principal Dan Dempsey.

Mr. King was predeceased by his first wife, Eileen.

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