10 - Sunday, April 28, 1985 - North Shore News inquiring reporter

by Barrett Fisher

AS EXPO '86 draws closer, some peopte’s enthusiasm grows. with the project, while others question its the project's worth. To- day's question is:

| Will Expo help B.C. out of a recession?

Marilyn Campbell

‘North Vancouver

Yes, ‘definitely, because it

will bring more people to .C., more

. money.

"Frances Rive

No. way, because .they’re pending too much. money to get it going “with ‘all the building and construction going on “now, .

Gos

Neil Davies » .North Vancouver | "Yes, because it’s creating "jobs, bringing in foreign |

hey maintain ‘ail. “that, ‘they. he. vente

it will -

., tourists and en-

Paul Mark North Vancouver .

No. They're putting ‘a lot :

of money: ‘into ‘it so. 1

. don’t think.it’s going to -. get. them, anywhere, . It: provide . jobs for:

may. awhile, but { don’t think anything will come of it.

tourists, © which means more’

'. referenda are

Would be thief flees

A MISFIRED gun flustered an armed man into fleeing from the scene of an attempted robbery Tuesday.

North Vancouver RCMP are looking for the man who

Relief unlikely

million..of that was to go towards a 2.5 per cent in- crease. for teachers. But (Fi- nance Minister Hugh) Curtis announced there would be no increase: for teachers, | don't, think they will be get- ling any more money this year.’

Jessup said her request in Victoria ' was that Vancouver School Board keep the same budget they. had in 1984, which would be

asking the taxpayers to pay

what they did last year.

“If “we- were. given the same budget this year as the 1984 school budget, it wouldn’t make one scrap of difference to local tax- payers,’’ Jessup said. “That’s the pitch we were trying to make.”’

But Ree said due to reduced assessments in property, taxpayers will save an average of $68 this year.

“The government is trying to hold down taxation,’’ Ree said. ‘In these economic times of restraint, we're try-

-ing- to keep taxes down. The

trustees knew this before the referenda: deadline, but they didn't think they would be supported.”’

But Jessup said she thinks irrelevant. “Referenda have the effect of asking people to pay .as

* though it’s an extra, and it's: |

not an extra. Referendum is

an expensive process taking °

up staff time. What we real- ly need is a return to ‘local autonomy,"’ she said.

Jessup said she did feel positive about the meeting, though, because North Van- couver-Capilano MLA Jack

Davis and Ree recognized : ff. the problem “‘that- North, : paying’ the #

he

Vancouver is highest taxes at.a time when

. the; level of services is 5 going : down.’

. rth

attempted to rob a 7-11 store clerk in Lynn Valley Tues- day.

The store clerk was walk- ing to Lynn Valley Centre at about !! a.m. when ap- proached by a male who was carrying what appeared to be a small automatic handgun, RCMP Cst. Alison Irons

reported,

The male demanded the clerk to hand over money, but the clerk refused to comply with the man.

The robber then fired the gun at the ground, Irons ex- plained. However, the gun misfired, and the flustered assailant fled.

The man is believed to be atout 5'8" to 59", approx- imately 20 years in age, and has a slight moustache. He was said to be wearing a blue ski jacket with the hood up and sunglasses,

He has not been located to date and the investigation continues.

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