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City plans for seaside skating put on ice
Council nixes temporary rink at Shipyards this winter JUSTIN BEDDALL newsroom@nsnews.com
Skating by the seashore in the City of North Van? Not this winter. On Monday council voted unanimously to reject a staff proposal to further explore the feasibility of creating a
temporary seaside skating rink that would operate from December 2015 to February 2016 at Lot 5 at the Shipyards. Building and operating the temporary rink would cost $275,000. “I applaud staff… bringing this forward and looking at something that
would be something that the community would quite like for the season but I was a little taken aback at the cost,” said Coun. Linda Buchanan. “I think that this is something that we as a council have already incorporated into our vision for the Shipyards so I would prefer to see this money spent towards the actual rink moving forward.” According to a staff report, the rationale
behind building a temporary rink was twofold: Firstly, it would provide a chance to see if there’s an appetite for public skating at the Shipyards. Secondly, an interim rink would enable CNV staff to gather information on ice making and other technical requirements needed for operating a skating sheet close to the Burrard Inlet. The report noted that Whistler
followed the same twostep sequence, creating a temporary rink before installing a permanent one, which enabled operational issues to be fixed and tweaks made to the final design plans for a permanent rink. Coun. Craig Keating said he was “a little bit perturbed that at one point in the report that there is a line that suggests that we want to test out an ice rink to see if the public wants
one.” “We’ve considered an ice rink and it’s coming,” he noted. “And so that’s it… too late, done. So I think it gets down to the fundamental issue here, (which) is probably $275,000 is too much to pay on something like this. I’d rather see the money go to the final product.” Keating said he believes an ice rink at See Shipyards page 3
Historic Binning House sold
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
After years spent decaying in a legal tug-of-war, West Vancouver’s historic Binning House has been sold. Heritage advocates who have been fighting for years to preserve the home built in 1941 on Mathers Crescent by famed artist Bertram Charles Binning are breathing a sigh of relief. The new owner is Jesse Saniuk, a secondgeneration West Vancouver Realtor who happened to grow up in the Altamont neighbourhood. “I saw it and thought, ‘That’s the kind of house I could live in forever,’” said Saniuk, 28. “My dream for the property is to basically restore it and, if I can, add some square footage to it, like a master bedroom or See Heritage page 9
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AFTER THE FIRE River Woods fire victim Leila Gonzalez, 6, received some tokens of thanks from firefighters Craig Stevenson (left) and Brent Shepheard at the Seymour/Deep Cove detachment after she donated her birthday money to the District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society. See our story page 5. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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