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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND > WEST VANCOUVER

May 25, 1986

GAZING TOWARDS the: sky, children watch balloons drift above at the official opening of the new. ‘playground at: Eastview Etementary School. Parents and the North Vancouver District School Board

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ARAN STR STEL VASA eS

THE PROPOSED $3. 8 million gymnasium for North Van- couver’s Capilano College lias received’ an ther fi nancial

boost, : 7

In‘an interview "Friday, North Vancouver-Capileno MLA Angus

‘Ree said a further $400,000 has

been approved by the provincial government for the new gym- nasium, ”.

. The funding, Ree’ said, will come out of the provincial lottery fund and follows’the $8C9,000 approved '

‘for the gym by the ‘provincial gov-

ernment earlier this week. Ree said: :he monies from the

“Tottery fund were made available -bexause. the planned 28,000 square

foot ‘Vaility will be used by the en- tire’ North Shore community, not just the college.

“ “All three North Shore MLAs

worked hard for this one,’’ Ree ~

said. ‘‘It is going to be a very wor- thwhile project for everybody.”’ *

Cap College’s director of plann- ing Alan Smith echoed the earlier comments of college president Dr. Doug Jardine who said in Wed- nesday’s issue of the News the provincial funding was critical to jaunching the project.

CAMPAIGN IN GEAR

“It has cleared the log jam,” Smith said Friday. ‘‘Now we can put, our public fund-raising cam- paign in gear.’

The college, he said, had been chasing approval of the project for the past two years: ‘‘We could have waited until the government decided to fund the whole thing, but who knows how long that would have oeen?"

By going ahead with plans to raise a percentage of the project's funds, the college showed the ini- tiative that helped speed approvel of partial government funding, Smith said.”

The $400,000 portion makes up the balance of the estimated -2!. million needed from the province.

Locally, the District of North Vancouver has allotted $400,000

for the gym, while Cap College,’ students have committed $700,000:

to the project through a $4-per-

' student-per-term tuition levy.

MUNICIPAL APPEAL

’ Smith said the college would be |

appealing to -both the City of North Vancouver and the. District of West Vancouver for funding. The college’s public fund-raising campaign will be chaired by Phil Barter,.a senior partner at the

Price Waterhouse firm of chartered accountants. ‘With two regulation sized

“basketball courts and a planned

seating capacity of 2,400 for the

gym, Smith said the gym will _pro- vide. the North Shore with the ma- jor-league sporting’ facility it has lacked thus far.

NORTH VANCOUVER-Capifano MLA Angus Ree...the monies are available because the facility will be used by the entire North Shore community.

“Major ‘national and interna- tional indoor sporting events or- ganized by North Shore people can

now be held on the North Shore. “We won't have to travel across

town ‘to host tournaments

_ anymore,"’ Smith said.

He added that other major local sport organizations such as North - Vancouver's Flicka Gym Club vill

“have full use of the gym and con-

sequently be able to host major competitions on the North Shore.

The gym, he said, will also allow the college to expand its physical educaton and recreation cur- riculum. .

Ree “made the official an- nouncement of the additional fun- ding at Saturday's Cap College graduation ceremonies.