INQUIRING REPORTER

Council COUN. ROD Clark has vowed to try again. with a motion calling for nine-year term limits for North Vancouver City Council members: He failed to find support for the con-

cept at a council meeting held Wednesday, May 5.

His motion asked city staff to look into limiting the mayor and

councillors to three three-year terms.

Clark also called for the issue to be put to referendum on November’s council ballot.

‘In a nine-year term, one can have a familiarization period and a subsequent initiative and realiza-

_tion period. Once one has been on

longer than that, one begins to

election

Georgina Lundie

North Vancouver

Well, | dant. know too ttuch about hockey, but my son is an avid Canucks fan, I'll go with him and say they will beat L.A, :

Bill Hughes

North Vancouver

If Gretzky plays like he did in the second guine, the Canucks don't have a chance. Other- wise, 1 think the Canucks are a better team. Pm a Maple Leaf fan myself so whatever happens to the Canucks doesn’t matter to me.

Dave Burgess

North Vancouver

Absolutely. The Canucks are a better team than the Kings. Period.

Daniel Reeve

North Vancouver

I'n a political science stu- dent, and because of this | can tell you that, without a doubt, the Los Angeles Kings will be beaten by the Canucks, American im- perialism will fall to Cana- dian confidence and ability.

on term limits

By Stephen Wisenthal

Contributing Writer

lose perspective,’ Clark told the News after the meeting.

He said the limit would create “equity between public participa- tion at the council level and public Participation “on boards and commissions.’’

There are’ already three-term limits in place for the recreation

"NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY COUNCIL.

and planning commissions, and

Lions Gate’ Hospital trustees, he added.

Clark said he was shocked that no other councillors had seconded his motion to allow discussion of the issue.

Coun. Bill Bell told Clark after the meeting that term limits for council members could not be changed by the city.

Bell said that. such a move would require changes to the B.C. Municipal Act.

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We are in the midst of a truly Canadian springtime tradition: Playot! Hockey.

As fans and apathetic courttry- men alike know, playoff hockey consumes the nightly ~— that's every night - Canadian televi- sion and radio broadcasts.

The talk in bus shelters, barber

shops and playgrounds.takes on

a grave tone as hockey fans of

all ages debate and question

the moves on and off the ice of

their favorite team. ;

Here in the Lower Mainland, the

Vancouver Canucks - alter

having dominated the regular

season wtih their first-ever plus-

100-point tour of duty ~ ‘are

currently ambroiled with the

Wayne Gretzky-led Los Angeles

Kings. Lotusland North ‘vs.

Lotusland South. :

When we conducted both wut on

(he streat interviews and out tel-

ephone survey, the Lotusland

series was in its early Stages,

The North Shore News survey team began calling North Shore resi- dents last Monday to find out if our hometown ice heroes’ regular season success had Insillled unbridled confidence in their Stanley Cup chances.

Canuck fans will be glad to know that 66.4% of respondents balteved that Vancouver will defeat the Kings. Even more heart- warming for fans of the team, only 1.5% of those polled answered that the Kings would defeat Trevor Linden and the rest of the Canucks.

As impressive ag the majority of support Is, those of you with math oriented minds out there will no doubt be asking what about the other 32.1%, "

Well, It seems not ail of you out there are living and dying ‘every night the Canucks hit the Ice. Translation: 11.6% of those respond- ing to our question didn't care about the Canucks; hockey, or Canadian tradition. The remaining 20.5% fell into the didn't know category, Translation: Make bets with these people. °

Ina further breakdown of our survey, the Capilano, Lower Lonsdale West and Central Lonsdale were the only zones that had no respondents that didn't care about the outcome. Conversely, the highest incidence of blatant apathy was found in Horseshoe Bay, with over 25% begging for the season to end. ;

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