“LIONS Bay reakdent Alex Brigota would like to build a tali ship, the Captain George Vanceuver, as a millenni- um project. Brigots shows a photo of one he built in North Vancouver in the 1960s.

oppox a hip on the North Store for the a millennium. The Captain George Vancouver Society has just the project in mind: 2_180-foot_ schooner named in honour of George * Vancouver; the man who accompanied Captain James Cook on | his voyage around the world between 1772 and.1774. .. Vancouver eventually conimanded the ship Discovery in 1790. In 1791 he was sent on a mission to accept the surrender of the post at- Nootka Sound in present-day B.C. He was also nr the task of surveying the coast of the American Northwest. ancouver.was equipped with the best navigational iistruments his time. He spent three years years surveying the coast. Susan Rowntree, a West Vancouver woman who has spent half f ker career with Environment Canada 2s a scientist, would like to bring Vancouver's spirit of maritime discovery 80 the ship that would carry. his name:

“Ina invirested in’ training. young people to take on the sci-

ness te protest our environment. ‘Thar’s what I want it for (the ip). versities, colleges and ‘high schools in B.C.’ “She's going to ap to, be a heritage ship, mbed in her state- fe e-art green technslogy.

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research going on in Vancouver right now to clean up our cars and our diesel trucks. We also need it for our shipping industry,” Rowntree said.

The Captain George Vancouver Socizty is in the carly stages of building a membership base and spreading the word on the pro- ject. Rowntree has becn looking for a site to build the ship since ia January of this year.

“There are lands with the port authority under federal juris- diction that [ have to pursue on the North Shore. I¢ docsn’t have to be immediately on the waterfront,” she said.

The ship construction project w ould re aire 2 plot of land 100 ft. by 200 ft. (9.3x18.6 sq, m) for the working area.

The society is also secking the funding necessary to bring the plan to fruition. It would need to raise about $2 million to ger the job done.

Lions Bay resident Capt. Alex Brigola, 66, would lead the con-

smrection of the tall ship. The Capt. George Vancouver would be based ana schooner design from 1802.

“She may be a litde bit faster than the original ship Capt. George Vancouver sailed on,” sant Brigola.

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Fraser joins race

Katharine Hamer News Reporter

THE race for the West Vancouver mayor’s chair is getting crowded,

Along with incumbent Mayor Par Boname, incumbent council- for Ron Wood, and former coun- cillor Andy Danyliu, incumbent councillor Russ Fraser is entering the fray.

Fraser is “delighted” by the response he’s drummed up recently with his rallying cry to widen the fanes in the Stanley Park causeway, and says that if elected hz would be “a full- -time mayor.

“We need a strong hand to guide the new council and rivati- agement staff,” he said, “I intend to do that so well thar we restore confidence in the administration. I obviously think Pm the best candidate, otherwise I wouldn’t be running.”

Fraser said public confidence in West Vancouver council had been waning recently, especially after the release of the Cuff report — suggesting incompetent management — last year.

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