@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "9674355a-1ba0-4bb7-80f0-e3f8c60369b5"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:alternative "[Coast News]"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2012-07-25"@en, "1972-04-12"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xcoastnews/items/1.0175629/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " Provincial Library, Victoria* B. C. The Sunshine Published at Gibsons, B.C. Phone 836 2622 Volume 25 Number 15, April 12, 1972. 10c per copy Sechelt tax rate holdsline With increased revenues and greater expenditure than last year, Mayor Ben Lang expects Sechelt village will continue its 18 mill tax rate for 1927. He anticipates total revenue of $60,528, up from $51,832 of last year with municipal expenses at about $48,000 plus. He regarded the village-as being in a fairly healthy financial condition and could see no reason for a mill rate increase. Major capital budget expense will be on roads with $18,000 along with $10,000 for acquisition of land. The annual provisional budget breakdown on expenditures, not yet final, will include $12;000 for road maintenance and street lights, $2,000 for recreational facilities and $7,000 for Trail Bay seawall. The revenue increase will include $4,000 from�� tax assessments and an increase in the government per capita grant amounting to $2,700. As the result of attending a municipal seminar at Harrison Hot Springs recently Aid. Harold Nelson reported that council should, if involved in land use contracts, spell out all detail^ because in the event of the \"council having to take over the contract at any \"period all specifications should be included with nothing left toJ chance. On another phase of discus- - sion*��_4��Harrison Hot-Springs the mayor agreed that mayors should not become chairmen of Regional boards. Both the mayor and Aid. Nel son -bund Sechelt problems were general among municipalities and that most of the 'questions they intended to ask were all cleared up by other municipalities asking the same questions. Council approved, a $165 grant to the Lions club swimming lesson classes to be held . this summer, and. $250 was 1 granted the Chamber of Commerce for its S-unmer tourist work.\" xx-':\"-���:\"������'. 1 .'������ v:. ���������������-:��� ������. The contract for Cunningham's Ambularice T service;;: was.,, approved for another year at $600. The .annual general meeting of Pender Harbour Credit Union will be held in thie Garden Bay Hotel, Friday, April 21, starting with a supper at 6:30 pm. with the business meeting following at 8 p.m. The busi-. ness involved includes the report of the directors and. officers, consideration of financial statements and the election of oficers. .' /'-. v Tickets for the dinner are available at the Credit Union office. A MINI U. N. The B.C. Forest Service is almost a little United' Nations. Among its personnel - there are peqpe whose original homelands include Turtkey, Get-many, Japan, India, Portugal, China, Hungary, Poland, New Zealand and Australia/to name a few. EDUCATION WORKSHOP School trustees of this district are sponsoring a workshop Friday at Sechelt Elementary school which will be addressed by educators from Vancouver area. The event will open at 9:30 a.m. The workshop vis. for school officials. inn Regional chairman prefers Aid. Hume on committee Late in... 1971 employees, of tion Association Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Howe Sound Pulp Division, achieved 250 days of lost time accident free performance. Because of this achievement, the management of Howe Sound Pulp provided $500 as a donation to any organization chosen by employee ballot. ��� The results qf this ballot determined the popular choice to be the Sunshine Coast Recrea- The official presentation -was made on March 29. Pictured above is Dr. Eric Patekau, representing the Sunshine Coast Recreation Association, receiving the $500 cheque from,Mr. Hux Marshall, union member of the division's plant accident prevention committee. On the 'right is Mr. Bill Booth, management member of the plant accident prevention committee. Gibsons council sets priorities for paving Gibsons paving for this year will have as a priority Gower Point, -Road frorh School to Winn roads, with Franklin Rd as second priority and possibly \"the paving of Park road from Highway 101 to the north end ,. of Brothers Memorial Park. .. Th_s*w^sc_-mqunc^dtpjt_^ues< day night's \"Gibson's'council by the acting mayor, Aid. Charles Mandelkau. Paving should start as soon as weather is suitable. Due -to an attack of laryngitis Mayor' Walter Peterson did not attend the meeting. In his place Aid. Charles Mandelkau took the mayor's chair. Four tenders,'. three - from Vancouver, were received for the library-museum floor covering and' the Ken DeVries tender at $10.64 per yard totalling $1,862 was accepted. The DeVries tender was second lowest; The highest was $10.85 arid the lowest $10.40. The wharf lease with the /federal department of transport was accepted for a three year period. ' 11:.- A request that the tennis- courts be leased to the tennis club was read out including a request that the courts be' put into proper shape. The acting mayor said money was hot available for bringing the courts up to par. As regards leasing the courts this was not regarded feasible until a strong club revealed itself. Council will check its paving program to ��� see what paved courts would cost. Council hopes to have a line-up of - cost for the next meeting. The problem was outlined by a Gibsons Athletic Association delegation. Douglas Smith of the Village Store and owner of the next door hardware store property placed a plan before council which would mean construction pf a five storey section in rear of the hardware store to allow for more space. The shoreline drops sharply to the water. Council decided to turn the problem over to its planner for consideration.. Mr. Smith also brought up the matter of too many dogs affecting his Village Store summer business. He was informed council was working on the problem. A claim for $249 for flood damage occurring last Oct. 26 on the J. S. Metzler property at 1526 Sargent Rd., resulting in erosion of soil and (damage to a domestic oil tank, was not accepted. Council through its insurance company found it was not negligent. There was quite a bit of flooding at other places at the same time., The, claim is however being pressed - by Mr. Metzler's lawyer. t A claim for 75 feet of new - rope, lost when John Shewan had to cut it as his boat sank 1 along with the dock recently, -1-ended with-council,stating tbtat * when federal authorities raise the sunken wharf he will be able to get his 75 feet of rope back. The lone tender f or;painting the fire hall, ifrom. Gunthers Painters, North .Vancouver, was turned down _ts being on the high side. Two special meetings of Gibsons council, one on March 27 and. the other on March 28, ended with the adoption of Bylaw 23,0, the Library-Museum bylaw authorizing borrowing of $40,000 from the Receiver- General.under federal loan approval. Three readings were made March 27 and the final one on March 28. J This loan will cover the cost of construction of the addition to the Municipal Hall to be ..fused as the library and muse- vum. ;������;. Water helps! Annual budget of the Regional District has increased from ���1971 figures by $36,349 making the 1972 budget $381,992. This was revealed when the budget 'bylaw was given three readings at the last monthly meeting.. ���,.'. .'.\"-, Increased use of water has, helped the board increase its budget. The 1971 total water revenue was $135,061 and for this year it is $204,389. Water connection income rose from $4,500 to $9,000 and private users from $40,825 to $45,5,68. . Land charges also increased from $85,775 to $88,500. Last year the water service showed a deficit of $3,961. The $281,992 budget' expenditure on the various board operations reveals that water will be the heaviest with $204,389 allotted this year against $135, 061 last year. Expenditures for fire protection! street lighting, garbage sites, planning and zoning and building and plumbing inspection all show increases. The only drop in expenditure is in garbage collection which has dropped frornr iast year's $26,- 120-to $21,900 this year. -A- desire- to have Aid. Ted Hume appointed as Gibsons representative on the Regional District /, planning board has been .expressed by Chairman' Harry Almond. . He has-done so in a letter to: all directors, in w^hich- he put^ lines his ��� bb j ectiyes V as chairman /of the: Regional board. A copy of his letter.'follows; To All Directors:'.. In view of the recent argute merits about representation oh ���'-' the planning committee, I have / decided to make some changes \"~t in the comrnittee set-up. .- In niaking these changes I have been guided by numerous -j facts, some of these being the - claim of Gibsons council that V they lack representation, the J need for better co-operation ,* between the;board. and the'vil- ��� lages, the suggestion of;������; Direc-J . tor Wolverton that all board _. members be onthe committee, ^ and also the feeling that plan- \\ rmg^ business hais been so hea- j vjyl recently with small items ./ which/ though irriportant, have excluded the discussion on the overall development plan due to lack of time. The changes will be as folr lows: The main; planning committee will; consist of all board memibers. This committee will deal with all iterias/bf planning which affect they area as a whole and thei^ma^y^yetraTl',.. development plaru^his/ coni- mitfee/wiUlrneet at ie_-jt every second .ripri^, xri^ ^^if requir^feThe^ be the Chairman of the Board. There will/^so' 00